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lifefeed ◴[] No.42962861[source]
I had the Dungeon Notebook. It was fun. I played it until I got bored, which was quick, then gave it away.

The ability to "give away" these little games are part of the fun. I'd like to see a game like this where "giving it away" is part of the game. Something you can pass around a school or a con. Like an analog version of Chain World, which was a mini-Minecraft-on-a-USB-stick that you were supposed to pass on. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_World )

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mhb ◴[] No.42963122[source]
Wait until you hear about PaperBooks. They're like a Kindle download except, once you finish reading one, you can give it to anyone else to read. And BookNotes are completely portable - anything you write in it stays with the PaperBook and can be read by any other person.
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benbristow ◴[] No.42963175[source]
You're going to be blown away when you hear about DRM free eBooks and LibGen...
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tutuca ◴[] No.42963242[source]
I believe he was being sarcastic and talking about old fashioned, actual paper books.
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cafeinux ◴[] No.42963450{3}[source]
Reminds me when in school I had to do a presentation about ways to defend against malware. I showed a few software examples (among other things) and ended with "the most powerful anti-malware ever, compatible with every other anti-malware, adds a strong security layer to them, protects your passwords, prevents you from opening spam, from clicking unknown links, from replying to phishing, almost impossible to uninstall by a hacker, and lots of other powerful features: Common Sense™".

One of the other students came to me after class and said "hey, that last software seems really promising, but I never heard about it. What was it again?"

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1. SpaceNoodled ◴[] No.42965035{4}[source]
You should have asked them how they managed to uninstall it.
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2. patcon ◴[] No.42966324[source]
As the sort of absent-minded human who (no matter how much I learn) will always have a deep-seated irrational fear of being "that student", I must say: sick burn