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by Zyx
Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:04
Forum: General Gaming Discussion
Topic: Cheating in games
Replies: 58
Views: 71025

Re: Cheating in games

Actually, it was MI2 and I thought I needed a stick. I can't remember if on second try I realized I didn't actually need a stick.
by Zyx
Thu Jan 25, 2018 21:43
Forum: General Gaming Discussion
Topic: Cheating in games
Replies: 58
Views: 71025

Re: Cheating in games

That is patience. I remember getting stuck on the first Monkey Island, if I remember correctly I wasn't able to find a stick or something, and it took years before I continued the game.
by Zyx
Mon Dec 18, 2017 19:35
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The little Inn by the wayside
Replies: 3746
Views: 2410708

Re: The little Inn by the wayside

I have to say that throughout the years I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your updates, Railwaymodeler.
by Zyx
Thu Sep 14, 2017 22:02
Forum: Tech help & discussion
Topic: What is the purpose of a compiler?
Replies: 22
Views: 30123

Re: What is the purpose of a compiler?

I think this insane thing of doing Tetris on Conway's Game of Life has some ideas about abstractions.
by Zyx
Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:55
Forum: Tech help & discussion
Topic: What is the purpose of a compiler?
Replies: 22
Views: 30123

Re: What is the purpose of a compiler?

What's the link between formal logic and chaotic, irrational human behaviour, Zyx? Do we know more now? The never-ending fight against entropy and chaos. Computers and logic systems are created by humans and have certain assumptions about their existence that set limits but also mean that everythin...
by Zyx
Sat Sep 02, 2017 17:00
Forum: Freeware games
Topic: The Breakdown
Replies: 13
Views: 14372

Re: The Breakdown

Sites like OG and CWF has been created by certain online civilisation(s) which died, but later come new generations who feel it is in fashion to leave something on this column, like "Johnny kissed Mary here", you know. Bots do the fine job. They come, unaware of what CWF (or any other) si...
by Zyx
Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:55
Forum: Freeware games
Topic: The Breakdown
Replies: 13
Views: 14372

Re: The Breakdown

True, not sure where the places for heavily anarchist, individualist and elitist people are on the internet anymore except these derelict phpbb boards.
by Zyx
Fri Aug 04, 2017 13:16
Forum: Freeware games
Topic: The Breakdown
Replies: 13
Views: 14372

Re: The Breakdown

Some kind of preservation site for forgotten or impossible to find games may become necessary to establish sooner than I expected.
Yeah, I think the Archive.org guys are doing that. We probably could still hunt for those games and periodically send them over to them with metadata.
by Zyx
Sun Jul 30, 2017 22:33
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: School - was it worth it?
Replies: 2
Views: 8014

Re: School - was it worth it?

I think it's just one tiny aspect of school that we learn whatever the powers that be have determined is the baseline about the surrounding world. The bigger thing are the tools and mindset to continue that on our own and solve whatever problems we might face. Yet, with the ability of accessing all ...
by Zyx
Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:17
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The little Inn by the wayside
Replies: 3746
Views: 2410708

Re: The little Inn by the wayside

Nowadays, with faster internet connections and faster computers, pages don't have to be built to load over slow dialup connections. Then smartphones and the developing world getting internet on their phones happened. The Google front page is optimized to fit on a lower level to as few TCP/IP packet...
by Zyx
Thu May 11, 2017 21:37
Forum: General Gaming Discussion
Topic: Steam Codes
Replies: 14
Views: 23828

Re: Steam Codes

That would be awesome! I did enjoy Limbo quite a lot.
by Zyx
Thu May 11, 2017 8:16
Forum: General Gaming Discussion
Topic: Steam Codes
Replies: 14
Views: 23828

Re: Steam Codes

I might be interested in Inside... I too have a list of games, if someone is interested in any of them let me know. Day of the Tentacle Guacamelee! x2 No Time to Explain Ocotodad: Dadliest Catch World of Goo Super Hexagon VVVVVV The Swapper QUBE Director's Cut Limbo Broken Age Company of Heroes Psyc...
by Zyx
Thu Feb 23, 2017 21:33
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The little Inn by the wayside
Replies: 3746
Views: 2410708

Re: The little Inn by the wayside

All these posts, in vain.
The discussions are ephemeral. That they happened, was important, not that they are stored.
by Zyx
Sat Feb 18, 2017 1:12
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The little Inn by the wayside
Replies: 3746
Views: 2410708

Re: The little Inn by the wayside

This forum is now over 11 years old! :Birthday:

Fun fact: This board was started on a Friday.
by Zyx
Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:21
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The little Inn by the wayside
Replies: 3746
Views: 2410708

Re: The little Inn by the wayside

The browsers started recently to warn if the user was filling a form on a non-secure page. This whole forum is now HTTPS secured always so you should not see any warnings - let me know if you do. The certificate-something-something isn't something is probably due to the site using Cloudflare's share...
by Zyx
Fri Jan 27, 2017 20:32
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The little Inn by the wayside
Replies: 3746
Views: 2410708

Re: The little Inn by the wayside

I hope the email didn't feel like spam. I noticed the old domain was gone and didn't want to lose people because of that. I sent it to all people who had ever posted something on this forum (~300 people in total). The digital decay had had its toll and almost one in four addresses didn't work anymor...
by Zyx
Sun Jan 15, 2017 18:01
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: Everyone hates changes
Replies: 3
Views: 9730

Re: Everyone hates changes

In other news, it seems like the old domain was grabbed by some domain company.
by Zyx
Thu Jan 12, 2017 21:17
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The little Inn by the wayside
Replies: 3746
Views: 2410708

Re: The little Inn by the wayside

Ohai. New year and new version of phpBB. This time it's 3.2 . The top-right logo will be updated soon-ish back to normal. We hopefully should see less spambots, the forum is running on the fastest and latest PHP 7.0, and the YouTube embeds are now HTML5 for your viewing pleasure. Also, the site now ...
by Zyx
Sun Dec 25, 2016 21:31
Forum: The Village Square
Topic: The little Inn by the wayside
Replies: 3746
Views: 2410708

Re: The little Inn by the wayside

It is truly a Christmas miracle.