• SolidGrue@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Not a new curse, but very rare.

    It’s an homage to the days of floppy diskettes. Usually, when there was an unrecoverable disk read fail the system would make a characteristic grind-buzz-kachunk noise as the drive tried a hi-low track seek before stopping. Then it threw the dreaded error, “Problem reading disk. Abort (A)? Retry ®? Fail (F)?”

    It meant your game was cooked.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      In fact, it looks like it’s almost a decade old.

      shattered-pixel-dungeon$ git log -S "CURSED WAND ERROR"
      commit f1f68163ada4f3e57006fac31d97e6b88c5a5e74
      Author: Evan Debenham <[email protected]>
      Date:   Sat May 23 03:40:31 2015 -0400
      
          v0.3.0: improved game crash cursed wand effect
      shattered-pixel-dungeon$
      
    • cevn@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Nice, learned something new. I’m not a fan of the curse wand artifact, or really half of them. Too many negative effects…