• MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    That caption reads a children’s book

    Mr. Newell wants to distribute games over the internet.

    Mr. Jobs wants to distribute music over the internet.

    Mr. Ballmer wants DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!

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    3 months ago

    When my parents bought me the physical edition of Half-Life 2 when I was a kid, I was absolutely gutted that I needed an internet connection to play the game because it wanted to install Steam. We lived in a rural area without Internet so I simply just couldn’t play it at all :(

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      3 months ago

      I had the same experience. Real OGs hated steam and slowly came to accept it as the default distribution platform. It’s good now, but my account was created on December 25, 2004 and I remember how it was

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        3 months ago

        I installed the first version of Steam directly to my C drive instead of putting it in a folder named Steam.

        So I uninstalled it with the plan to reinstall.

        After a curiously long time I realized the uninstaller was working its way through deleting my entire C drive. All my bookmarks, m t mp3s, my winamp skins… everything not on a zip drive… I tried to stop the uninstaller but it was clear I would have to do a full format and dig out the FCKGW XP key.

        Ah Steam. Fuck you. You came around for the most part, but fuck you for that.