Comment by Waterluvian | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Waterluvian | Hacker News Reader

This reminds me of a drinking game my friends played in high school.

System32 Roulette is a drinking game where you get a fresh install of Windows 98 on some crappy Pentium 2 in your friend's mom's basement. Each player takes a turn deleting a random file out of System32 (we disabled protections, I forget how), then reboots and tries to play a game of minesweeper. If you can, everyone else takes a drink. If you can't, you finish your drink and the game starts over with a clean install.

I really ought to formalize it and make a container based version of the game. But it's far more fun to do on a real computer from the era.

That sounds like a wonderfully well-paced drinking game.

Kids today would get wasted with an SSD :)

It's true. It was uncanny just how balanced the game was. And there was a meta-layer where the drunker you get, the more awful it was to reinstall Windows 98. We had two computers going to cut down on install time.

I think once we mapped a Thrustmaster snowboard to the mouse and had to use that to navigate. It was awful.

This reminds me of that time I decided to clean up my computer and organized everything inside System32 into neat little folders. Then my computer stopped working and had to be taken in for service.

Fun times.

Reminds me of lose/lose

http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/

see also: suicide linux [https://qntm.org/suicide]

woah

You inspired me to write a random poison script.

  #!/bin/bash
  
  VICTIM=$(find * -type f -writable  | shuf | head -n 1)
  CONTENTS=$(head -c 10000 /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0- 
  9~!@#$%^&*_-')
  echo $CONTENTS > $VICTIM
  echo $VICTIM was poisoned.

Only Me and later had SFP/FP.

I know because people used Back Orifice to clean out these folders and brick relatives’ machines :)

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