Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12

Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by Waterluvian on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:26PM (#18495585)

This reminds me of a drinking game my friends played in high school.

System32 Roulette is a drinking game where you get a fresh install of Windows 98 on some crappy Pentium 2 in your friend's mom's basement. Each player takes a turn deleting a random file out of System32 (we disabled protections, I forget how), then reboots and tries to play a game of minesweeper. If you can, everyone else takes a drink. If you can't, you finish your drink and the game starts over with a clean install.

I really ought to formalize it and make a container based version of the game. But it's far more fun to do on a real computer from the era.

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Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by ReC757 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:33PM (#18495662)

That sounds like a wonderfully well-paced drinking game.

Kids today would get wasted with an SSD :)

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Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by Waterluvian on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:36PM (#18495688)

It's true. It was uncanny just how balanced the game was. And there was a meta-layer where the drunker you get, the more awful it was to reinstall Windows 98. We had two computers going to cut down on install time.

I think once we mapped a Thrustmaster snowboard to the mouse and had to use that to navigate. It was awful.

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Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by Swizec on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:29PM (#18496869)

This reminds me of that time I decided to clean up my computer and organized everything inside System32 into neat little folders. Then my computer stopped working and had to be taken in for service.

Fun times.

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Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by knolan on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:41PM (#18496971)

Reminds me of lose/lose

http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/

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Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by shabble on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:39PM (#18496397)

see also: suicide linux [https://qntm.org/suicide]

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Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by shrtctroulette on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:51PM (#18496526)

woah

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Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by api_or_ipa on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:02PM (#18499365)

You inspired me to write a random poison script.

  #!/bin/bash
  
  VICTIM=$(find * -type f -writable  | shuf | head -n 1)
  CONTENTS=$(head -c 10000 /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0- 
  9~!@#$%^&*_-')
  echo $CONTENTS > $VICTIM
  echo $VICTIM was poisoned.

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Re:Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcu... by indemnity on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @12:25AM (#18500334)

Only Me and later had SFP/FP.

I know because people used Back Orifice to clean out these folders and brick relatives’ machines :)

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