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New curse just dropped (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not a new curse, but very rare.

It's an homage to the days of floppy diskettes. Usually, when there was an unrecoverable disk read fail the system would make a characteristic grind-buzz-kachunk noise as the drive tried a hi-low track seek before stopping. Then it threw the dreaded error, "Problem reading disk. Abort (A)? Retry (R)? Fail (F)?"

It meant your game was cooked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

In fact, it looks like it's almost a decade old.

shattered-pixel-dungeon$ git log -S "CURSED WAND ERROR"
commit f1f68163ada4f3e57006fac31d97e6b88c5a5e74
Author: Evan Debenham <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat May 23 03:40:31 2015 -0400

    v0.3.0: improved game crash cursed wand effect
shattered-pixel-dungeon$

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Wait, this was built in? I thought it was a bug, having lived through the A R F era.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice, learned something new. I’m not a fan of the curse wand artifact, or really half of them. Too many negative effects..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

...it's called a curse for a reason. And I will note, at range a decent number are still usable attacks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but that doesn’t make it fun to spend half of the run on fire because the other 2 artifacts were sundial and mimic tooth..