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You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive? (leminal.space)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them.

After that I'd probably bring Star Trek TOS and a MOBI copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson combined with a portable install of VLC and Calibre in case the computer didn't have applications that support the file format.

What about you?

I wanted to phrase this in a way where it isn't a prolonged or desert island style question where the responsible idea would be to bring Wikipedia ZIMs and educational PDFs. It's just an awkward amount of time to kill. The mid 2000s office desktop stipulation is just an additional challenge so you can't just bring in a copy of Baldur's Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077.

Edit: By mid 2000s I meant around 2005; the XP or Vista.

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[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?

Nothing, because I won't have an internet connection...

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Part of the reason I posted it here specifically is because you wouldn't need to worry about the limitations of online DRM.

If you wanted to you could read a book, watch a TV show, or play a game. A lack of internet doesn't need to be all that limiting.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

A few movies on the drive and I'll take a nap to waste some time

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 7 months ago

Probably be time to sit down and run through Xenogears again...

[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

FastTracker II and a bunch of samples.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any good tutorials? I wanted to get into tracking.

[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Can't recommend any, I learned by trial and error on the Amiga circa 1989 :D

Renoise does come with a bunch of tutorial modules and surely there is some good learning material on Youtube.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 7 months ago

Nerf arena blast.

Honestly not sure if it will run on the PC because man that game was a resource hog but should feel just like my childhood trying to get it to run if it doesn't.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

If I have enough space, a copy of RCT3 platinum edition (the only one I've ever played), and a bunch of music. May not get me completely through the 12 hours, but I at least get a lot of time to see park guests "dying" to getting hit by runaway coasters and get to keep designing a bunch of insane coasters that couldn't be built today for monetary and legal reasons.

[–] Capitao_Duarte@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The brother bear game

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Without an Internet connection? Nothing.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You'd rather spend the 12 hours just using whatever is on the computer than bring in some of your ill-gotten gains for some guaranteed entertainment?

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