Meme transcription: A table comparing the steps to start a game ‘then’ vs. ‘now’.
Content of the “Then” column:
- Double-click GAME.exe
- Play game
Content of the “Now” column:
- Launch Steam
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Steam updates
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Steam opens
- Close Steam’s ad window
- Select Game
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Game launcher starts
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Game launcher launches Game launcher updater
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Ok
-
Would you like to sign up for our newsletter?
- No
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Our EULAs have changed. Please review them before continuing
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes, sell my soul
- Start game
- Skip vendor intro
- Skip vendor intro #2
- Skip vendor intro #3
- Sit through nVidia The way it’s meant to be played
- Skip opening cutscene
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Main menu opens
-
Would you like to connect your Steam account to account?
- No
- Press play.
- Play game.
Back in the day:
"Please insert disc into drive D:/"
You alt-tabbed ? Then fuck you and your unsaved progress
Set up soundblaster irq dma bzzz bzz
"NOT ENOUGH CONVENTIONAL MEMORY"
Ok. Time to set and launch a specific autoexec.bat.
X-COM: UFO Defense has joined the chat.
wasnt there a XCOM knockoff game that deleted your tire C drive if you uninstalled it?
Oh my god I both do no don’t want this to be true
Theres been a couple games that had this issue.
I know Myth 2 had it if you installed it into the wrong directory or something.
There was some not-mainstream MMO that had the issue too at one point.
but I cant remember the name of the xcom knockoff that had it.
and I cant find anything about it cause I keep finding 5000 pages of results about recovering uninstalled games.
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor was one of them.
One big game installed itself as a boot option
Turn PC on
Want to play or open windows?
O_o
I'm full l having flashbacks to Fantasy Empires. I don't know if I ever had the manual. I think I just got a list of words from someone.