You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?

I’ve got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them.

After that I’d probably bring Star Trek TOS and a MOBI copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson combined with a portable install of VLC and Calibre in case the computer didn’t have applications that support the file format.

What about you?

I wanted to phrase this in a way where it isn’t a prolonged or desert island style question where the responsible idea would be to bring Wikipedia ZIMs and educational PDFs. It’s just an awkward amount of time to kill. The mid 2000s office desktop stipulation is just an additional challenge so you can’t just bring in a copy of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077.

Edit: By mid 2000s I meant around 2005; the XP or Vista.

freshlemon,

I would only need a copy of Gothic 1

Gooey0210,

Damn, I forgot to mention this one

CorrodedCranium,
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I could probably look this up but can’t you play Gothic with just a keyboard?

freshlemon,

Yes, you can :) But with community patches, you can get a more modern mouse/keyboard control.

Secret300,

A few movies on the drive and I’ll take a nap to waste some time

Kit,

Depends. Are we in the 2000s or is it present day stuck with a 2000s desktop? If the former, I’d grab Final Fantasy XI and relive my childhood. If the latter, I’d download a few seasons of Buffy and Xena and chill out with some popcorn.

samus12345,
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Present day with 2005 desktop.

Kit,

Yeah definitely watching some classic TV and anime on CCCP. The CRT will do great justice to older shows. If I had to game, I’d boot up Zeus: Masters of Olympus, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and Dungeon Keeper II.

arran4,

Not sure 12 hours is enough time for me to grab much. Perhaps my backlog.

CorrodedCranium,
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You don’t have 12 hours to grab anything. You’re stuck in the room for 12 hours

arran4,

That part was understood. I don’t think I could complete 1 game in that period of time.

CorrodedCranium,
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Fair enough. I’m not sure what’s in your backlog but there are some gems that can be beaten in a single play session. Titanfall 2’s campaign for example only takes 6 hours.

arran4,

Thanks. I didn’t know, it is also on my list.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

No worries HowToBeat is a good website if you want to gauge how long a game might take you.

Every so often I feel fatigued by long games so I’ll look for something shorter.

Gooey0210,

If we are talking about modern games

Uncharted series is pretty short

Dark Souls game+ can be beaten in some hours if you know what you do 🤭

ZeroHora,
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Around 2005?

TES Oblivion

xilliah,

1000010708

Interstellar_1,
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As a Line Rider Creator, I’d get Line Rider Overhaul, Ungoogled Chromium with the linerider web app, get a bunch of mods and download a bunch of cool .ogg’s.

deezbutts,

Where can I learn more about this

Interstellar_1,
@Interstellar_1@pawb.social avatar

You can join our community in Discord (unfortunately Discord is where the community is), there’s also a couple good guides, Arglin’s Line Rider for Dummies and Malizma’s .com guide, and you could also just watch videos and make tracks, which is imo the best way to learn.

Interstellar_1,
@Interstellar_1@pawb.social avatar

You can download LRO from github.com/LunaKampling/LROverhaul/…/Latest

Capitao_Duarte,

The brother bear game

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Any reason why? Nostalgia?

I feel like I had that or the Open Season game at one point

Capitao_Duarte,

Simple nostalgia! I used to play this with my cousin on vacation non stop, we’d go all night on that thing

Faceman2K23,
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Morrowind, RCT2, Total Annihilation with all my mods and Deadlock 2 as well if I have time.

root,

Civilization 4, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White just to name a few. See you next year. :p

quickhatch,

Man, I haven’t thought about Black and White in a long time. I wonder if I still have the disc floating around somewhere…

root,

I still have the CD. Getting it to run might be the tricky part. :p

spasticeightball, (edited )

Emulators definitely should still run fine for GBA games I’d think. So there’s a lot to choose from already in that library. If not, then SNES. even a potato from the mid 2000s can run SNES games.

Other than that, I’m thinking I would load up my entire calibre Epub library so I can read books. I have so many books I want to go through that I have collected over the years. Want to go through the entire Dune series for the first time among other books.

I’m also quite certain a mid 2000s office PC can run VLC. I have many older series I have yet to watch still because I’ve been so busy. Stuff like The Shield or The Wire that I have downloaded but never got around to watching.

I don’t think I would get bored without internet for 12 hours at all with all that media at my disposal. Even on a 128gb thumb drive, I can easily bring in 2-3 full 1080p tv series. Epubs and retro system ROMs take no space at all so that’d be easy.

And if I get bored of all that media somehow, I’d just use an offline copy of wikivoyage to plan my next vacation.

mctoasterson,

SNES 9x ran great on systems of this era. I spent days playing all the Megaman titles and save-scumming or scanning memory to make infinite health cheats.

Cethin,

I’m currently listening to the Children of Dune audio book. That alone is 16h. I think Messiah was around 8h and Dune was around 12h. Basically, 12h is nothing.

Baahb,

Dwarf fortress

Cethin,

It turns out the answer to these types of questions is always Dwarf Fortress. Even if it’s “travel back in time” style, with only access to stuff of the time, it’s still Dwarf Fortress, though much more limited and janky, and probably 2D depending on when you drop in.

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

12 hour morrowind marathon begin. and a few seasons of TV series I like.

crimsonpoodle,

I remember back in 2013 I picked up the full expansion set at a thrift store for $4 it was the best summer of middle school by far— got the werewolf mod working and went around finding out who was essential to the plot by killing them and then reverting the saves— good times

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

sounds epic one of my fave mods is the illuminated order mod, I remember having such fun becoming a lich

tasankovasara,

FastTracker II and a bunch of samples.

ArmokGoB,

Any good tutorials? I wanted to get into tracking.

tasankovasara,

Can’t recommend any, I learned by trial and error on the Amiga circa 1989 :D

Renoise does come with a bunch of tutorial modules and surely there is some good learning material on Youtube.

Krauerking,

Nerf arena blast.

Honestly not sure if it will run on the PC because man that game was a resource hog but should feel just like my childhood trying to get it to run if it doesn’t.

useful_idiot,

Visual C++ 6 SP3

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