October 2011
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mcribs
dreamghost: mcribs are awesome even though each one u eat takes 8 days off your lifespan
dreamghost: thats why mcdonalds is only allowed to sell them for like 3 weeks
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Ultima II
eddietor: Did I mention the time I tried playing Ultima ][ on a 486?
eddietor: starved to death
eddietor: this was when I went to Underdogs to try and recreate that in my college physics computer lab
eddietor: if you leave the game idle, eventually it rolls the turn forward
eddietor: so you effectively [P]ass
eddietor: spacebar will do the same
eddietor: you often need to do this to speed up waiting
eddietor: for a monster to spawn, for a certain time to arrive
eddietor: but it counted in CPU ticks, not in clock ticks
eddietor: So the 486 was going SO MUCH FASTER than the original PC that just leaving it alone meant that game turns were screaming along
eddietor: [N]orth
eddietor: [P]ass
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eddietor: [N]orth
eddietor: [P]ass
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eddietor: [P]ass
eddietor: that was me trying to move as fast as I could
eddietor: and every turn consumes food
eddietor: and every turn you go without food you lose a hit point
eddietor: so it was like, start game, 60 seconds later, dead of starvation
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