Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

@daylight @maidofclay@snouts.online So how did it actually work, if its design was based on something unphysical?

Quite a few people don't seem to understand that IQ isn't really a measurement any more than any other test score is.

@daylight Wait, what?

@Motodrachen I was hoping for a solution that doesn't require patience, because we don't have all that much of that sometimes.

Hm. I tried to repair a crack in our laptop case with superglue last night, and managed to superglue shut the laptop. I got it open, but now there's a big blob of hardened superglue on it that we probably ought to get rid of. Anyone know how to do that? A solvent that dissolves polymerized cyanoacrylate but not whatever plastic this laptop is made of would be ideal.

@cozykaffe@snouts.online You're younger than we'd thought!

@cozykaffe@snouts.online It depends on the game, I'm sure. A three-year-old could play educational software with fun characters, but you'd probably need to be at least five or six to hope to play simple games like Space Invaders reasonably competently, and while you could probably stumble through RPGs at similar ages, how well you do at them would depend on your reading comprehension skill, which varies from person to person.

@cozykaffe@snouts.online Halo came out in 2001, so your age at that time might be a good indicator of when the earliest you could have played it would be.

@dodec Perhaps making such a box would be an interesting project at some point.

@dodec I'm impressed by the legibility of some of the more intricate characters in there.

@cozykaffe@snouts.online It looks like it's trying to install the correct version of directx for the game you're installing, and needs admin permission to do so. The programmers must have had a sense of humor with the warning message.

@Critter This gave me entirely the wrong mental image, since we know Hitachi as a brand of hard drives.

@monorail Your best bet might be to find a single-user instance.

@Austin_Dern Most of what I'm wondering has no real importance, it's merely curiosity. The game has a surprisingly intricate lottery system, and I'm curious how exactly it works.

@Austin_Dern Suikoden 3.

It's strange playing a game from this time period. Much of the information I can find about some of the more obscure details about how it works is forum posts from 2002 or 2003.

Exactly how Canadian is canadian bacon, anyway?

@cozykaffe@snouts.online It does go rancid, yes. It takes a while, so I wouldn't be surprised if you tend to use it up before it goes bad.