thomas @trappleton@wandering.shop

I am astonished that the team behind D&D 5e, under WotC, came up with the advantage/disadvantage mechanic. It's just about the only example I know of a market leader *actually* bringing an innovation to the table. Surely they took the idea from some poor unknown publisher who languishes in a basement, right? But I've never heard such accusations.

@68km ohhhhh man I *didn't*, but now, YES! And now I'm falling down this Wikipedia hole... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_CD

@hache back then I never appreciated what vestiges remained of a mechanical aesthetic in computing

Oh wow. The rest of these are unlabeled.... But clearly not blank. I don't even have a single optical drive in the house. Maybe that's for the best???

Do you guys remember these dinky little CDs? They would absolutely tear up any slot-load drives they found, it was like a huge prank

ohhhh shiiiiii thanks for the serial, bro!! Hope I don't get kicked off of battle.net XD gl hf ka dd

Whoa, this is a throwback. For all the history and chemistry and journalism classes and all the cashed tuition checks, this $14 book (with accompanying CD-ROM!) was the single biggest influence upon my career.

It's not a very prestigious career.

Ah. So that's how I saw that movie, i guess.

Okay, this is pretty wild. "YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME, A TALE TOLD BY HUMANS, A GAME DESIGNED BY HUMANS. ***THINK AGAIN***"

So this was the closest thing I had to "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," I guess.

I think I also might have "borrowed" this from Steve Painter. Sorry buddy.

What a bunch of garbage. Oof that's a terrible stay to a eulogy, sorry. Uh I played the demo disc of tomb raider/Jedi Knight a whole lot. Tomb raider had no textures so everything was just grey. Jedi Knight had some appropriately cheesy FMV clips. I think I needed the BASIC software for some boring bad class?

I've got some twenty-year-old CDs here that I can't really justify keeping around anymore, but it feels wrong to just trash them. So gang, get ready for... #CDFuneral

the way you act around your pets when no one else is home is your truest performance of the self

my intro toot is sincere but i sure do sound like a big eager dork lol

@Bashabez This is powerful. Thank you for sharing it.

When you receive a magazine in the mail -- especially if it's for a very niche interest -- do you wonder what the mail carrier could have thought of you, if they happened to see it?

@ND3JR ahh, that sounds like a ton of fun, though! Very nice.

@ND3JR does it have an old OS on it, too? That would really complete the picture for me.

@hummingrain exactly! I really miss it. But at least now I can connect with people who know the same feeling :]