Trying to explain to someone how bad I was at interactive-fiction computer games and it comes out sounding like me doing a bit exaggerating how bad I was at interactive-fiction computer games.

Like, "I'm not sure I ever got Arthur Dent out of his bedroom, never mind to the Vogon Ship" is also exactly what I would say if I were trying to make you laugh at my incompetence but it's the literal truth.

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@Austin_Dern I mean, I failed at it WITH THE INVISICLUES and never got off the damned Heart of Gold because I apparently made a trivial prepositional era with the dangly bit. At like age 12. Hardly fair. -_-

@zebratron2084 Oooh, agonizing. I imagine.

Gads we did some appalling things to our psyches playing video games in the 80s. Grown-ups thought it was violence but it was the bonkers arbitrary rules nobody explained were there.

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