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I think another part of it is that gaming as a kid and gaming as an adult are for entirely different purposes a lot of the time. I still game for entertainment, but also as a way to unwind. It’s just relaxing to me and if I can get into a strongly written storyline, the stresses of my day fade away.

But as a kid, I gamed because gaming was flashy and fun and challenging, and then I wanted to talk to my friends about it after I beat yet another game.

But get a prenup.

Parents, man. Wish they’d be more concerned with dressing their kids appropriately for the season and less about the colors they wear because of perceived meaning behind those colors. Self expression and all that.

Many years ago I realized that I had mostly blue shirts for work and wanted to mix it up a bit. Went to the store, tried on everything I was buying, and came home with all blue shirts. Lol now I purposely buy at least a couple vibrant, non-blue shirts as my first picks every time I shop for clothing just to make sure there’s some variation. Yes, it’s still mostly blue.

Holy shit, that brought back so many memories.

Just don’t bleed while drowning so you don’t die.

Can confirm, I’m on my second one now and it’s so good. Some traps back the water up and others don’t trap enough of the hair to be worth using, but these are perfect.

… everything reminds me of her??

I like how you upset two different people for entirely different reasons. One for it being so old that their mortality comes into question, one for it being the origin.

I find podcasts funny in that when they first came out, my boss as the time wouldn’t stfu about the latest one he found that I should definitely buy and iPod for and binge it all. But now? I listen to podcasts more than music when driving. Just hundreds and hundreds of hours of listening to them.

To clarify, websites can’t capture keyboard events that were typed into a different website like you’re thinking. Think of going to a web game that let’s you use WASD for controlling your character. It’s able to capture those events on that page because its in focus. When a site goes out of focus (such as switching tabs or switching to another window that’s not the browser), it loses that ability. Overall, it’s very secure.

I was more wondering how you thought capturing the mouse movements would lead to security issues.

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It was arson.

Maniac Mansion along with Zak McKracken on my cousin’s C64 when I was about 7 or 8.

Yeah I basically ignored my teacher’s suggestions and bought an HP instead because I really liked the Reverse Polish Notation it defaults to. I could do everything the TI could do and in fewer key presses. Took some learning though. Had the side benefit that no one would ever want to borrow it because they couldn’t even do 1 + 1 in RPN.

Living costs money. Biggest reason for people to work.

Lol my exact words before jumping to the comments. There’s no mysteries to be had here.

Lol hell I’m sober and already lost. Sounds fun though once I figured out the order you gave.

This ain’t it.

!Remindme in 62 years

Not exactly the same thing, but when I got my first VR HMD, for about two weeks afterwards I had to fight the urge that my real hands were the fake ones rather than the ones I would see in VR. Supposedly it’s something like 25% of first time VR users who get a similar feeling, but it didn’t make me feel any better about it. Never happened again, even with how rare I play VR games, but it was rather off-putting.

Oh just thought of another one: when I was playing WoW back in 2005, I got so into it that it was effecting everything. My social life died and it was effecting work enough that my boss had to have a long convo with me to get my shit together. But what really made me realize how bad it had gotten was having dreams where dialog with people I knew IRL was all in text and I would have to type responses to people when face to face with them.