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[Jacob/Lee]

Is Shadow President abandonware?

I think so. Also, how the frak do I run it?

Since it's old, you need to use DOSbox.

From what I've heard, it runs like a piece of shit in DOSbox so you need to run it in XP. I ran it in XP but it's not working.

I've never gotten a game like that to run normally, so I couldn't say how it would run compared to normally running it.

[Akura]

It worked just fine when I tried. Granted, all I did was fire nukes at the Soviet Union.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It worked just fine when I tried. Granted, all I did was fire nukes at the Soviet Union.

See, the mistake was that the Soviet Union can fight back on that regard. The trick is to nuke nations that are unaligned and without nuclear armament.

I was disappointed when I found out that I could not, in fact, call an assassination attempt on myself. That really should have been my adviser's first clue that I was not a stable individual.

[Greiger]

First time playing cataclysm.  Have no idea what I'm doing, try to fight off a horde of zombies in a field with a steak knife after I figured out that firing a gun to kill a squirrel is in fact, a bad idea.  Death 1

Find a gas station, decide to blow up a gas station for the lulz (who can resist really) escape the explosion easily and then turn a corner to get vomited on by a boomer.  I stab it and it explodes.  By the time my vision cleared I was surrounded by no less than 20 zombies.  Death 2.

Go to a bar.  There's a fucking bear in the bar.  Why is there a fucking bear in the bar.  Get eaten by bear. Death 3

[Matz05]

Bears are guzzlers!

[Jacob/Lee]

I was running through a feel of burnt out tanks with really tall grass, come near a clearing and suddenly snipers pop out everywhere and gun me down.

Modern Warfare 2, a Special Ops mission on Veteran.

[sokmund]

killed by black hole

[NotAQuisling]

*Cough*Game?*Cough*
Led a conga line of a zed a sec bot and one of those little flying camera bots. Durn' machine beat me to death.

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Cataclysm

[Darvi]

Solar 2 possibly

[jc6036]

Every time I see some body go "game?", I die a little inside. It says in the OP to state the game, damnit.

[sonerohi]

A giant knocked me out into a river. Then, troglodyte shamans kept using various stun spells to keep me immobile while I drowned.
DDO.

[Sirus]

First time playing cataclysm.  Have no idea what I'm doing, try to fight off a horde of zombies in a field with a steak knife after I figured out that firing a gun to kill a squirrel is in fact, a bad idea.  Death 1

Find a gas station, decide to blow up a gas station for the lulz (who can resist really) escape the explosion easily and then turn a corner to get vomited on by a boomer.  I stab it and it explodes.  By the time my vision cleared I was surrounded by no less than 20 zombies.  Death 2.

Go to a bar.  There's a fucking bear in the bar.  Why is there a fucking bear in the bar.  Get eaten by bear. Death 3

...goddammit. I'm just gonna HAVE to go play Cataclysm, aren't I? 

[NewsMuffin]

Yep.

[Flying Dice]

Now I know a bit more about Cataclysm and why it wants me to die horribly. I had a nice setup, a character with a name drawn from A Song of Ice and Fire, a mutation that let me see underwater with no downside, a massive stockpile of food, water, ammunition, weapons, tools and materials stockpiled in a cabin out in the woods, with a 4-wide ditch dug all around it, with scores of traps placed near the doors and windows. I come back after a long day of scavenging in the cities and go to sleep. Several hours later, I am woken by lightning striking nearby. Those of you familiar with the game knows what is coming next.

It turns out that "nearby" means "in the bathroom twelve spaces away". And, as it turns out, houses are remarkably flammable. I woke again a few minutes later when half my body had been charbroiled and quickly fled to a store I knew had a fire extinguisher. As it turns out, those don't work very well. With deep burns and in excruciating pain, with smoke filling my lungs, I attempt to reach a clinic. Key word: Attempt.

Fin Arya III. (All of my characters are named after Eddard Stark's children, and most of them are already nearing the double digits.)




On another note, same game, it turns out that it is a bad idea to take on security robots without body armor, but even worse if you forget to use your motherfucking TIME STOPPING BIONIC to kill them before they make you into a holey man.

[Jacob/Lee]

I've never had lightning cause a cataclysmic fire before, I feel left out.