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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 04:11:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I'd like to suggest any fans of old sci-fi to check out the game The Invincible, based on the Stanisław Lem novel from 1964.
   It's a story-based adventure game, about exploring an alien planet that seems to be dead. But I'd really like to recommend it for the aesthetics: they clearly tried to make this game look like it's set in the future of the 1960s, rather than the future of today.

   https://store.steampowered.com/app/731040/The_Invincible/

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 04:16:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's got Apollo-style space suits, big clunky robots, giant shiny torchships, computers the size of buildings (with 9-track tape!), CRTs everywhere, punch cards for access cards, ship interiors made of steel with very little plastic, and spy balloons that take photos on large-format film.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 04:46:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Craig P

     @Craigp yup. It's a self-contained story

   • Craig P (craigp@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 04:46:16 JST Craig P

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     @foone i got kinda burned out on sci fi story games a few years back when we got 900 'chapter 1' games with no chapter 2.

     Is it complete?

   • Konrad Kołakowski (kkolakowski@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 08:24:11 JST Konrad Kołakowski

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     @foone I read the book relatively recently! 😍

     And big props for correct „ł" letter in Stanisław name! Subtle, but makes a difference and it's often omitted in Polish names (including mine!)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 08:24:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Konrad Kołakowski

     @kkolakowski as someone who used to have a Polish name no one could spell, I gotta try!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 08:25:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • forresto

     @forresto not all of those things are in my storage unit, sadly. Some definitely are! (there's a bunch of CRTs, a PDP-10, and plenty of punch cards and 9-track)

   • forresto (forresto@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 08:25:45 JST forresto

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     @foone I thought this was in your storage unit thread. 🧑🚀

   • EmergencyTemporalShift (emergencytemporalshift@mstdn.party)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 04:23:57 JST EmergencyTemporalShift

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     • forresto

     @foone @forresto do you have any punchcard access cards?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 04:23:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • forresto
     • EmergencyTemporalShift

     @EmergencyTemporalShift @forresto sadly not