Rickrolling in 2023: Video is initially paused with a full title card visible, If you attempt to play it, you get 5 seconds of an AD playing before you can manually click a Skip button, then finally the synth music comes in...
Yeah, it just doesn't work anymore.
My mobile setup is damn near as good as my desktop is. I got that all too familiar fill intro to groove we love to loathe same as it always was intended.
Side note: Dungeons and Dragons role play is a meaningful part of our culture in ways I am sometimes amazed by. I think back in wonder to campaigns run on my bed, music playing in the background on my home assembled and built, custom for my room, sound system; people imagining, sharing, interacting with a quiet fire in their eyes, all of us holding onto a shared fantasy state for all it is worth.
Who knew?
I am sure some did, but I didn't. It was counter culture back then. And it was amazing! Text adventure games hold a little of the feel and at that time were kind of a bridge between normies and our scene with magic, fantastical creatures, artifacts, stories of love, evil, conquest, treasure, discovery and all of it intoxicating.
Hell yeah!