These games, although I was utterly fascinated by them, I had no clue what I was doing or where I was supposed to go. I couldnt even tell if I was progressing or what. I think I was just too young for it.
Rest assured, you weren’t. These games were made back in the day before the internet got huge. When games could have legitimately hard puzzles for their own sake. There was no handholding back in the day.
Yes and no. A lot of games had hint books you could buy, either from the company or third party. Infocom used to put out hint books which could reveal things to you one clue at a time with a special marker that came with it. But then Infocom was always a very innovative company.
I wonder how all that’s going. I don’t care enough to check, but last I heard all the ugly monkey pictures were worth zero and the entire market had finally imploded, but these things do limp on and on, trying to turn your driver’s license into some horrible new kind of shackle.
The only winners of the debacle were the two women who managed to turn the memes about them into fuck you money, and they were never seen on the blockchain again. Sometimes I wish I was actually good at capitalism, you really don’t need a job if you are, money just kinda falls from the sky for you. Sigh.
It’s a “grab money from naive people scheme” that allows transforming strong advertisement into money. If you have an initial supply of cash or are a big influencer in the public space, you can get money from a lot of people.
Turns out, after a while, the amount of idiots that are willing to give you their money dwindle, so the whole “market” kinda dies. Give it a bit of time and it will start pumping again.
Im a nobody and I always put up the fake background, even if its absolutely fake as hell. If I’m in the office theres potentially private information up on the whiteboards behind me. If I’m at home thats my private space and thats my business.
Greenscreening yourself is like one of the least weird thing about Zuck.
“So in order to solve the dependeny issue, I think we should contact the…OMG those readings suggest an artificial quantum singularity, it must be a cloaked D’deridex-class Romulan warbird!! Red alert!”
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