Platform(s): this was on a computer (don't know which kind, I was like 5) and it was definitely free to play (because I was like five). Might have been mobile but that's not likely. Maybe it was on hp. Or maybe a big desktop computer (the chunky kind)
Genre: village builder/ sims type game with little tiny people
Estimated year of release: 2000's to early 2010's. There were multiple editions though
Graphics/art style: third person, looking down from the sky, you could drag the people around the village. It was like paleolithic or something.
Notable characters: they were dressed kinda caveman like and they all had names like Unga
Notable gameplay mechanics: you could drag the people around and if you put them on top of each other maybe they'd make a baby? You could give them jobs that they would do during the day. You had to have them build buildings and one of them was a love shack in which babies were made. There were bees. You could click on somebody to look at their name and age and interests. When they died they'd turn into a little pile of bones.
Other details: this was the game we played because we didn't have the sims. I vividly remember sometimes there were bees that would chase the people around. The pop up box of interests would be in a corner. They were little tiny cave people. Sometimes they'd die and become bones. Help me please. Oh oh and if they didn't make a baby they'd just hug instead but it was called embrace.
I spilled tea on my laptop tonight while studying, and wiped it up quickly before getting a microfiber towel to get all the liquid I could out and then set the laptop in a tent position to dry. It was working fine directly after, but I need it for a test Friday and my finals. What should I do??? I am not good with technology, and cannot afford to screw up and buy a new laptop. Is there somewhere I can go on campus to have them look at it? I don’t have a car, and legit sobbed for an hour out of fear lmao
I wish I could already start with ranting about internet and search engines but no. The problem begins earlier than that.
Software fucking developers. Back in the days 'user experience design' was about aligning app design to help people achieve what they need intuitively and without spending too much time looking around or reading documentation and that way improve the experience even if that means removing superfluous stuff. Everybody wins.
Naturally the quality of documentation went downhill, popular applications have come further from single purpose (do one thing but do it well) and now we're back to needing advanced functions. They're no longer superfluous. And in the age of continuously updating software: the amount of features stack up quickly.
Did the quality and completeness of documentation come back to the party? No. NO.
So now using popular software requires us to use search engines that hopefully point to a specific page that in a couple sentences responds to your needs.
But that's not how the 2020's information technology roll. Nuh-huh. The 2020's are about ads and grass root peer to peer help through seemingly humble content creators.
So if you need to know how to do something with a software or video you have to search on the engine that you think has the widest coverage area. And now you're literally shopping for information.
And there, blabla, ads, bad yeah. But no: I want to jump to the thing I hate the most: I'm sorry but there's no other word: F**king Youtubers.
You want to know how to change a photoshop color setting or find out how to crouch a certain way in Battlefield, you will find seemingly relevant links to tutorials/guides/how-to's with sensible titles. But you will have to sit through an 8 minutes video that starts with "HEY GUYS" and doesn't get to the f**king point until you've reached the minimum playtime for monetizing. Past one ad, if you can't stand listening to someone's thanks to their fans for 10,000 followers or tell you how to hit the f**king subscribe button, you can click on the timeline bar to skip and yeah that's gonna trigger another ad. Just to find out something you could read in 5 seconds.
So you hit "back" and you're back on the search engine, you look at the other hits. You see there are other links like that but they're YouTube too. So you scroll past them and see some pages that aren't videos and in the search hit summary it teases the answer cuts right before it would say what me
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Over the years, you will not be doing nearly as much damage to your hearing by using headphones constantly. When you are older, there is a significantly lower chance of you needing a hearing aid. Gradually losing your hearing isolates you over a long period of time and people naturally reduce the amount of time they interact with you because you just can't hear them. It isn't malicious but it definitely happens. Hearing aids are not "magic ears". All they can do is amplify ALL sounds coming in, including the ones you don't want increased (like that chair scraping on the floor). They cannot restore the subtleties of human hearing.
I’m sorry I know this is SUPER vague, but I remember making little people that looked like eggs, and they went through a factory on like a conveyor belt. I think that was the whole point of the game but I could be wrong.
Okay we used to play this game in elementary school on the computer. Basically you were a group of little troll-like characters. Each character had different facial features. Some had big noses, some had different colored eyes, some had springs for bodies, some had feet. I only remember this one part of the game where you had to get your troop across a bridge. Basically, some of the characters had features that were "allowed" to go across the bridge, while others did not. The ones who couldn't got bounced back to the entrance or kicked off the bridge. You had to sacrifice some of your characters to figure out the traits that could go across. The bridge was a rope bridge between two brown cliffs. That's all I remember.
My mom has stage 4 cancer and is unlikely to last the year. Recently, she was awaiting an appointment to have her lung drained of fluid, which rendered her unable to even walk to the bathroom without losing her breath and caused her constant pain. However, her ability to get an appointment for the necessary scan and following procedure was delayed for a while because a group of hackers took over the hospital's computer network and wouldn't restore access until the hospital paid them what I assume was a very large sum of money. Thus, she, on top of dealing with the stress of her terminal condition, was made to experience entirely unnecessary pain for no reason other than some shitheads wanting money.
To each and every person involved in carrying out the hack, I sincerely hope you suffer immense pain in your life equal to or greater than the pain you caused my mother and any other individual who was made to suffer similarly because of your selfish behavior. To the extent harsh circumstances brought you to the point in life where you needed to attack a hospital for money, you deserved every bit of them and more.
Edit: Thank you so much for the supportive responses. It really does help in processing the anger I have over the whole thing. In contrast to my hopes for the hackers, I wish each one of you peace and comfort for you and your family members and offer the gentle reminder to appreciate the value of time spent with those you love.
My understanding is that you make the wrong letters while writing. But you don't need to remember the letters for typing on a computer. Without thinking about it i can type things on my computer. So does dislexic people type without errors?
I remember playing from mid-late 2000s, it was a free game that came with the computer, the computer also came with Bejeweled 2? It was a match 3 game and it came with a lot of free games like cakemania but it was just a 1hr free trial for those games. You could use a computer remote to play it,I think the remote also operated a printer if that helps.. It was like a little cute ball, not Qbert but similar. Imagine that map mixed with Bloxorz. Maybe you weren’t a ball but you were bouncing, in space? Idk please help me
After many years of providing tech-support for elderly family members and other non-computer-savvy people, I have begun to piece together a list of skills that would help them understand what they are doing, instead of just following my instructions blindly each time, and therefore learning nothing. I want to create a course and offer it in my local community. Therefore I want to ask you fine people of reddit: what would you teach? What do you wish someone had taught you? Have you done something like this? Other thoughts?
