Off-topic: Happy things

[retrophrenologist]

I know I talk about my nieces a lot (the irc crew know this especially), but this... this has to be shared.

So yesterday the nieces came to visit so I could give the youngest one her birthday present. They brought their stepsister who was down visiting, also, who I haven't seen in a long while due to family drama issues etc etc. She was pretty quiet and shy, until she saw my copy of Modern Warfare 3 sitting on a shelf and her eyes lit up, and she asked me if she could play it. I was wary, because she's only nine, but she swore that her parents let her play it all the time on her older brother's xbox, and knowing them how I do I decided that was probably likely (these are the parents who nicknamed their youngest "Hookie-La" after a song that Satan sang in an episode of South Park). It couldn't hurt to let her play it for a few minutes, and if it looked like something that her young mind couldn't handle I'd turn it off and put on Skate 2 for her. So I put the game in and handed her the controller, and she started up Survival Mode.

Never in my life have I seen such wanton, gleeful murder from a nine year old child. It was obvious that they did let her play it often because she was three times as good at it as I was. I sat there and watched her run around and take down enemy soldiers like a sharpshooter on meth with her Desert Eagle. She never missed a shot, and every round went into a head or other vital body organ, all while yelling at the top of her little lungs, "You want some!? Come get it! Think you can hide over there EAT A GRENADE!" It was surreal to watch.

I have never been prouder to be her step-uncle.

Horrify her with stories about how you used to play Wolfenstein 3D on a 486 with 640k of RAM and liked it, dammit!

If you did, I mean.

Also, get off my lawn you crazy kids, etc.

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

I know I talk about my nieces a lot (the irc crew know this especially), but this... this has to be shared.

So yesterday the nieces came to visit so I could give the youngest one her birthday present. They brought their stepsister who was down visiting, also, who I haven't seen in a long while due to family drama issues etc etc. She was pretty quiet and shy, until she saw my copy of Modern Warfare 3 sitting on a shelf and her eyes lit up, and she asked me if she could play it. I was wary, because she's only nine, but she swore that her parents let her play it all the time on her older brother's xbox, and knowing them how I do I decided that was probably likely (these are the parents who nicknamed their youngest "Hookie-La" after a song that Satan sang in an episode of South Park). It couldn't hurt to let her play it for a few minutes, and if it looked like something that her young mind couldn't handle I'd turn it off and put on Skate 2 for her. So I put the game in and handed her the controller, and she started up Survival Mode.

Never in my life have I seen such wanton, gleeful murder from a nine year old child. It was obvious that they did let her play it often because she was three times as good at it as I was. I sat there and watched her run around and take down enemy soldiers like a sharpshooter on meth with her Desert Eagle. She never missed a shot, and every round went into a head or other vital body organ, all while yelling at the top of her little lungs, "You want some!? Come get it! Think you can hide over there EAT A GRENADE!" It was surreal to watch.

I have never been prouder to be her step-uncle.

Horrify her with stories about how you used to play Wolfenstein 3D on a 486 with 640k of RAM and liked it, dammit!

If you did, I mean.

Also, get off my lawn you crazy kids, etc.

Why back in my day, we were lucky if our game system had more than 4 colors at a time! We only had one button and the joystick, and we loved it, consarnit! You kids don't know what it was like when we... didn't have any of you. And the bread was stale!

[Pink Freud]

Horrify her with stories about how you used to play Wolfenstein 3D on a 486 with 640k of RAM and liked it, dammit!

If you did, I mean.

Also, get off my lawn you crazy kids, etc.

Wolfenstein 3D? Try Castle Wolfenstein.

[retrophrenologist]

Wolfenstein 3D? Try Castle Wolfenstein.

On the Commodore 64? Dang, all I ever played on that was Hangman. It was 'educational'.

[NobodySpecial]

Used to own a Commie 64. Later on in life, found an emulator for it, ran a few games. Nothing spectacular.

After I got it, though, my sister used to borrow my computer for extended periods to play Heroes of Might and Magic, particularly while I was at work so I'd come home to my sister on my comp. Got irritating after a while, so I decided to fix her.

I started up the emulator, fullscreened it, and turned off the monitor. Then I went to work.

She was practically in tears when I got home. It was three days before I let her know that she hadn't broken the computer. After that, though, her computer time lessened quite a bit.

[Otaking]

Castle Wolfenstein?

Try Temple of Asphai

[Lia S]

[Muttley]

"You are in a maze of little twisty passages, all different"

Help! I'm back at work!

[sgtrock]

I know I talk about my nieces a lot (the irc crew know this especially), but this... this has to be shared.

So yesterday the nieces came to visit so I could give the youngest one her birthday present. They brought their stepsister who was down visiting, also, who I haven't seen in a long while due to family drama issues etc etc. She was pretty quiet and shy, until she saw my copy of Modern Warfare 3 sitting on a shelf and her eyes lit up, and she asked me if she could play it. I was wary, because she's only nine, but she swore that her parents let her play it all the time on her older brother's xbox, and knowing them how I do I decided that was probably likely (these are the parents who nicknamed their youngest "Hookie-La" after a song that Satan sang in an episode of South Park). It couldn't hurt to let her play it for a few minutes, and if it looked like something that her young mind couldn't handle I'd turn it off and put on Skate 2 for her. So I put the game in and handed her the controller, and she started up Survival Mode.

Never in my life have I seen such wanton, gleeful murder from a nine year old child. It was obvious that they did let her play it often because she was three times as good at it as I was. I sat there and watched her run around and take down enemy soldiers like a sharpshooter on meth with her Desert Eagle. She never missed a shot, and every round went into a head or other vital body organ, all while yelling at the top of her little lungs, "You want some!? Come get it! Think you can hide over there EAT A GRENADE!" It was surreal to watch.

I have never been prouder to be her step-uncle.

Horrify her with stories about how you used to play Wolfenstein 3D on a 486 with 640k of RAM and liked it, dammit!

If you did, I mean.

Also, get off my lawn you crazy kids, etc.

Nothing, I say NOTHING has terrified me more than hearing theCyberdemon for the first time. At 3:00 AM. With the lights out. You ever see a grown man whimper?



As for GOML, how about playing Doom ][ over the Internet using iFrag? On a 9600 baud dialup phone line because I was too far out in the country for a 14.4 link to hold? Kids these days...

BTW, ever play Lunar Lander on a teletype?

[NobodySpecial]

>Go East
>Check Mail

[Otaking]

As for GOML, how about playing Doom ][ over the Internet using iFrag? On a 9600 baud dialup phone line because I was too far out in the country for a 14.4 link to hold? Kids these days...

Played with a buddy via serial connection over a null modem cable because what Internet?


also GOML with your fancy Zork parser

[Pink Freud]

I win.



Yes, I actually did play this game when I was a kid. I am that old

[Captain LeBubbles]

Well hell, I'm only 23 and I played Pong as a kid. Do you possibly mean you played it new when you were a kid?

[LookingIn]

I win.



Yes, I actually did play this game when I was a kid. I am that old

I played it as a kid too, not because I am old but because we were too poor to afford a Nintendo or Sega

The good news is it is still the only videogame that I have ever been the best in the family at

[Pink Freud]

Well hell, I'm only 23 and I played Pong as a kid. Do you possibly mean you played it new when you were a kid?

Yes.