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Alt Text6-panel Loading Artist comic. 1: “The world just ended. And I couldn’t be happier!” Blue shirt guy grins at a nuclear blast outside his bunker. 2: “Fuel? Plenty.” He admires his fuel barrels. 3: “Snacks? Stocked.” He opens a soda beside shelves of junk food. 4: “Responsibilities? None.” He relaxes into a beanbag with headphones. 5: “Finally! The perfect gaming session begins now!” 6: Screen says: “Failed to authenticate. Check your Internet connection.”

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[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 147 points 4 months ago
[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I made my own doomsday gaming stick. A one terabyte HP 911 pro stick filled with all sorts of games that are plug and play, all neatly categorized. I had an idea to start making copies and selling them on dark web markets, but honestly not worth the risk.

[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 months ago

Make a torrent

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[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 4 months ago

That's why you verify your setup without a network connection before declaring the project complete. Amateurs.

[-] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Lots of things will work, until a week or 2 later then it asks for online authentication.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 85 points 4 months ago

It's fine, he's got the generator inside, he'll die from carbon monoxide in like an hour.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ooh, I like it. It's a modern version of the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last. Which might be more familiar to modern audiences by its Futurama parody via an episode of "The Scary Door."

Interestingly, somebody made a short video showing key moments of the two stories side-by-side. Futurama - Scary Door, Twilight Zone

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Youre staring at a rectangle, reading a post left by another human being, or perhaps a robot. Some of the text is blue. You find yourself drawn towards it. If your thumb makes contact you might find yourself watching a clip of...The Scary Door.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

This is a masterful post. No notes.

Well, one note. Apparently that link triggered a "we detected unusual activity from your computer" page that I had to click through. But honestly, that makes it even funnier.

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Twilight Zone spoilerWell played, Sir/Madam/Honourable Shitposter. Well played.

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[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 4 months ago

Genny just running in an enclosed space?

Won't have to worry about no internet for that long then

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago

The gaming session was gonna get real intense for a while

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago

Maybe he's running an absolutely stupid overbuilt ventilation system

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[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 51 points 4 months ago

Carbon monoxide sends its regard. Don‘t run a fuel emergency generator indoors.

[-] hayvan@piefed.world 21 points 4 months ago

Nah it's a good way to go before you run out of water.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 months ago

Nothing like a good nap after a gaming session

[-] hark@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

Piracy is a matter of survival.

[-] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 36 points 4 months ago

All this doomsday prep and he couldn't be bothered to buy games from GOG before the nukes fell? Oh well, deserves it for trusting DRM launchers HA

[-] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 months ago

Jokes on you my singleplayer games will run fine with no Internet!

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

*laughs in DRM*

Just because a game is single player doesn't mean squat these days. If your computer cannot connect to server to authenticate the license at least periodically then you're fucked.

Unless you pirate or get it from GOG or other DRM-free sources. Steam DRM is at least indefinite so long as you have launched the game at least once though.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Anyone who hoards for a doomsday event would pirate every piece of digital media.

[-] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah i wouldn't know i dont play any games that require login to play singleplayer, if i buy one without realizing on steam it's an instant refund and uninstall

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[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 25 points 4 months ago

Burning a gas generator inside a bomb shelter? At least he won't have to live with his disappointment for long.

Why not opt for a solar panel and power bank combo?

[-] bampop@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Might be a cloudy nuclear winter

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

Supplement it with a wind turbine...

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Maybe that way he'll die before the back pain from the beanbag chair gets him.

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[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Could be diesel or propane either way wouldn't have been hard to design a box for it to sit in so that the fumes could still go outside.

After an apocalypse like that it's unlikely that solar or wind would be very viable it would most likely be nuclear winter so that would stop both as solar is not going to get any sunlight and a windmill is going to require excessive maintenance to stay functional in that.

The better bet would still be battery bank but battery bank with generator that way you're not just wasting electricity since a generator is a demand-based response but still uses a set amount of fuel no matter what just to run you use the generator to charge up the battery Bank and then use the batteries only turning on the generator when they need to recharge

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Laughing in thousands of retro games

[-] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 months ago
[-] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

Meh, it expires as far as it's not good for your car anymore and gets the engine dirty, but in this case you just steal another car nobody around who cares if the car breaks down in 1,000 miles

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Harder to find a generator I'd say

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

But there was time now!

[-] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

That's why as a paranoid I downloaded Wikipedia and have ollama to run locally

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

You could download all of wikipedia before ai was a thing, what does ollama do for it?

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[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

That's where the classics come in. Original FF7, the Metal Gear series, Burnout, Republic Commando. Hoard classics and you'll never be bored.

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[-] Bananskal@nord.pub 13 points 4 months ago

Love the Windows XP detail lol

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

And the code is "loading artist" in l337.

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[-] citizensongbird@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Black Mirror version of the Twilight Zone classic, "Time Enough At Last."

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[-] nroth@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

You must also remember to download Ghidra and debugging tools haha

[-] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tap for SpiderThird panel, upper right, on the shelf with the bags of chips.

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 8 points 4 months ago
[-] Senseless@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's just a KDE reskin

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 points 4 months ago

Luckily, I have a fuckton already.

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