Wasn’t “That’s Incredible!” more of a lower-tier show?
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Is more tabloid-y and sensationalistic “lower-tier”?
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You could only watch one of the two shows?
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Weren’t they on at the same time in my house? Weren’t they broadcast before the general availability of VCRs? Or were my parents just not keen on technology back then?
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Holy cats, you guys ever play Firewatch? You totally should, got it?
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What is it?
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A staggeringly beautiful game?
An amazing package of mystery and curiosity?
A five hour experience that is an astonishing example of what video games are capable of and why they cannot be easily dismissed as a genre?
Can I just say that I spent a few hours thinking more about who I am as a person and what I find important in what some would dismiss as a waste of time in some imaginary past?
Easily the best $12 you’ll spend on Steam right now?
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Wouldn’t I have bought it ages ago if my computer had the requisite specs?
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Can I urge you to give it a shot anyway and turn down the options or something? I’ve got a three year old graphics card and didn’t have any hiccups.
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A graphics card? Isn’t the lack of that the issue?
Maybe I could just watch a Let’s Play?
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Can’t you get up to speed with an investment of $20 then and make everything on your computer run better? Wait, are you a laptopper?
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What if I was?
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Do people still use desktops outside of the corporate environment?
Isn’t my office desktop there a PITA, since I can’t take it to meetings for notes, etc.?
Isn’t that THE WORST?!?!??
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Doesn’t everyone just use a cute aluminum ATX case and mod it so it looks like a NASA spacecraft with analog dials?
You don’t have a pad of paper? Oh, wait, does everyone else code here for a living? Isn’t that the worst?
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Then you’d have to just get used to playing Minesweeper and Solitaire?
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What about Nethack?
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Isn’t that what your phone is used for? Don’t you know that some of us are busy running space operations for Kerbals at home instead?
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Have you even TRIED to play Nethack on a phone? Or do you just try it every year or so, in the hopes that a bazillion modifier-key keyboard-based operations will have automagically become feasible to enter without using up the entire screen-space, and end up weeping softly into a bowl of cheesey-popcorn while watching Netflix instead?
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Unless it’s Zork is it really worth my trouble?
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What about LARN?
Or - gasp! - Telengard?
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