• @PapstJL4U
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    108 hours ago

    I think a friend of mine would be delighted to have his children play video games.

    They are only consuming [tiktock, yt, other social media].

    I think he rather wants his children beating Red Alert campaign, than cpnsum 10s tiktocks.

    Modding your first game, opening condigs ans inis, because key-remapping wasn’t a thing…all the gateways to interact with file system.

    • J'Pol
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      5 hours ago

      Learning how to edit config.sys to get sound working without internet help was a rite of passage for many.

      • socsa
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        22 hours ago

        The first time I knew I wanted to hack the planet was when I figured out how to edit a config file in Castles II: Siege and Conquest which let me start with max gold and resources so I could finally conquer the entire map and make that smug fucking pope eat my entire ass.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      38 hours ago

      I’m hooking mine up on games as soon as they can hold a mouse and a keyboard, airgap the PC.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 hours ago

        My oldest is about ready for her first computer, so I have an ewaste laptop earmarked for Christmas that I’ll have to tweak the configuration a bit more on before then.

        She’s been getting better at better playing Minecraft and learning how to ask us how to spell the names of things so she can search for them in Minecraft, and getting pretty good with the mouse and keyboard too