Anything clearly expensive = fucking idiot

For those like me that don’t know HyperCard, it’s a visual programming tool for Apple II. Ars Technica has a good rundown with more technical and historical details

Chuck’s Challenge 3D is a spiritual sequel of Chip’s Challenge, with the same puzzle designer

Most of the stuff was whatever demos came with those magazine CDs. Half wouldn’t run on the family computer - none of LucasArts’ adventure games did. Some that did run and I remember playing were:

• Diablo (only the 1st level of the dungeon available, the Butcher would also show up and kill you after you cleared it, got out and went back)
• Age of Empires (3 small scenario maps, which I played to death)
• Stargunner (only 3 levels and most of the equipment wasn’t available)
  
• Raptor (some weapons were locked but, weirdly enough, one time the game “registered itself” and all weapons were unlocked. No idea wtf happened)
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• (EDIT) Capture the flag (yes, the game’s name was just that. A turn based capture the flag that really left me wanting that level editor! Also, that’s a link for the developer’s site, he’s still selling his games)

One of the few things we had was Lion King’s Activity Center (Brazilian version, Centro de Atividades). I distinctly remember that, for whatever reason, the VA for Rafiki was different from the movie

At my dad, I played a lot of Lemmings and some of those Arthur interactive books. To my then non-english-speaking ass, the story reading was mostly pointless, but most scenes would let you click around to see what happened, characters would either say something or do something funny (I personally loved one where you clicked DW and she’d ride her bike over a small hill, crashing then coming back)

Also this one, which I don’t think I enjoyed as much as Arthur for whatever reason

(That picture immediately made me “smell” crayons. Is there a word for when a picture reminds you of a smell?)

Nowadays, Microsoft Fury is just copilot being thrown at everyone’s faces

I actually have time, but I often spend it doing other stuff. Once in a while, I will play some of my videogames, but I also play boardgames, which are great for my needs to socialize and interact with people

Until someone can come up with a decent alternative to Active Directory, the vast majority of office computers will remain under Microsoft control

Hypocrisy is their specialty

It’s an extremely unfortunate quote especially when you consider the context of Paulo Freire’s work: he was an educator that understood that teaching should not be an assembly line even back in 1960s, when the adult illiterate population was very large. One of his feats was coming with with a method that successfully meshed adults’ livelihoods and work as means to teach them how to read and write in record time. To the country’s despair, the 1964 coup killed any chance of his method being applied nationwide. He was jailed for a bit over 2 months as “traitor” then had to exile himself.

Yet, to this day, he’s demonized by the political right as a subversive communist and the main “culprit”, according to them, for the failures of our education system (“they only teach ideology at schools and universities!!!”), despite his methods only ever being applied in very limited places and times.

Unfortunately, quality content is hard to find on youtube, especially because the algorithm will focus more on already established creators and channels. Videos under 20k views and creators under 1k subs almost never appear, even if they’re better related to what you’re watching than what’s being shown on the sidebar.

One thing you can try is to check the related videos while browsing incognito, or with Piped/NewPipe or Invidious, as these will ensure the recommendations are as “plain new account” as possible.

My personal experience, whenever I watch anything game related while logged in, YT will throw dozens of Brazilian Roblox/Minecraft videos as related, even if I’m watching english videos. I block them, refresh the site and another batch of similar shit shows up. I check the same video on Invidious and a different set of videos show as related.

“When education isn’t liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor” - Paulo Freire

I hate this centralization of “all games in one”, it’s eerily similar to the centralization of the internet into the big social media sites.

You could argue the same for any game engine (Unity) or game with a big modding community (Garry’s Mod). The big difference here is that Roblox aimed straight at children right from the start and also offers a no friction hosting of those creations

I tried getting a 10yo kid playing the emulated version of Fire Red on his tablet. He thought it was too slow and just went back to Roblox

Given how easily you can steal/fake other people’s voices with current tech, that sounds like a lost cause

Back in mah day, internet time was super limited (dial up). Having a hard restriction on daily internet use, like 2 hours tops, would be a good starting point, in my opinion.

As others mentioned, no phones or tablets, not before 14y. I’d also completely block Roblox, TikTok, Instagram, xitter and Facebook. The kid can learn about those things from friends, but at home those things will be off limits and explained as mind control programs (a bit hyperbolical, but not entirely untrue)

For games, I’d create a small (~10), initial catalogue of curated games and let the kid play. After some months, give old magazines or show some screenshots of older stuff, or let them use their internet time to check for interesting looking titles, and let them choose one or two to add to their collection. If the game sucks, well, too bad, lesson hopefully learned.

Having access to the entire digital world at all times can really mess up our senses of “how much that’s worth”, because there’s just so fucking much everywhere

Changed the title, by offline I meant “not digital”. Still, that game looks weirdly fun

Somewhat related, I recall Michael Bell talking about his experience with Soul Reaver, shortly after release. The voice of Raziel couldn’t get past the jump part of the tutorial and just gave up

• STR 10
• DEX 10
• CON 8
• INT 12
• WIS 8
• CHA 8

I roll to seduce the assassin. If that fails, I’ll barrel roll instead