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)?"
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solidgrue@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
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
tal@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 2y
In fact, it looks like it's almost a decade old.
cevn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Nice, learned something new. I’m not a fan of the curse wand artifact, or really half of them. Too many negative effects..
MrRedstoner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
...it's called a curse for a reason. And I will note, at range a decent number are still usable attacks
cevn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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..
mrsemi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
cevn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Brilliant, probably will start doing that.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
Wait, this was built in? I thought it was a bug, having lived through the A R F era.
The_Snail@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Classic. I haven't seen that one in ages.