Thorry84

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it's so dumb, like we have amazing technology, yet the software is fucking terrible.

For example with most keyboard you can have a heat map of where you hit each button. So you can clearly see where the buttons should most comfortable be. However I've never seen any keyboard that could ever make use of that data to morph the shape of the buttons to my patterns. It seems so obvious, otherwise why collect that data?

Instead we keep making the same shitty keyboard over and over again. And big companies monitor all our keypresses because number must go up. And put dumb ass AI powered autocorrect that are trained on all data ever instead of my personal data. I swear that thing "corrects" the right word into the wrong word more often than the other way around.

Somehow touchscreens and keyboard have also gotten worse. I remember my old IPhone 4 I could type so fast without errors. And that screen was fucking tiny. Maybe I'm just too old but modern phones make my hands hurt and I still have errors all the damn time.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 27 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And Trump wears those weird lift shoes all the time as well

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 18 hours ago

We are so cooked

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for helping anyways!

Its been driving me nuts not knowing what that game was called. Because I can still remember the sound clip so well.

And you'd think I was just insane and imagined the whole thing, but I played it with my brother and he remembers it as well.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No it was definitely for DOS, it was on one of those shareware/freeware CDs.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Interesting, did not know that. I don't think it's the right game, but it might be. I can't find the exact sound effect, but there is little to find on this game.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

Nope, that's not it. It looked a lot better than that game, possibly SVGA? Or VGA at the least.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 19 points 4 days ago

I bet it was the jacket that sealed the deal

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 12 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Have you ever seen the amount of security at a modern data center like this? No way you are getting in there with any kinds of beans.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the suggestion.

Ignition does have multiple paths and jumps, but no pickups. It also doesn't have the dark atmosphere or lighting effects I remember. And it doesn't include the "Booster" sound clip, so I don't think this one is it.

 

I've played a demo of this game or a Shareware version, I never had the full game. It was on one of those 1000 shareware games CDs. It's a top down racing game with a gritty sort of vibe, a bit dark. As you raced there were pickups and bonus items and I'm pretty sure you could fire weapons at other racers. It was a single player game. It was top down in that semi 3D kind of way, but I think the cars were meant as full sized cars, not a micro machines kind of thing.

The one unique feature that never let me pinpoint exactly what game it was, was this very specific sound effect when getting a certain pick up. A voice would say "Booster", but it was pronounced more like "Boostah".

There were jumps on the game and one way to kill other racers was to jump on top of them. I think the track had multiple routes you could take.

I think because of the shareware version I had I only had one track, which was kinda dark, like maybe a cave. And the surroundings were rocks. I think there were also thinks like oil barrels with fire in them and pretty lighting effects for the time.

Very similar to Death Rally, but maybe a game inspired by Death Rally? Because that game was earlier I think and doesn't have the distinct "Boostah" audio clip.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 88 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is blatant market manipulation, he and his cohort are laughing their asses off getting richer than ever

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