Free copy of Thimbleweed Park

[RealNC]

You can grab a free copy of Thimbleweed Park on the Evil Games Store:

https://www.epicgames.com/store/product ... eweed-park

It does stay in your account forever, but you can only get it for free until March 7.

[Jizaboz]

Neat. This is a pretty good game if you enjoyed Maniac Mansion & Monkey Island like I did. I'm maybe 3/4s done with it and need to get around to finishing it.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I think I got it on Steam. This is the way Epic can get people to install their launcher though - free games of a non arena shooter kind. I applaud them.

[RealNC]

Turns out, their launcher is spyware.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/develo ... -op.105385

Tim Sweeny then defended his company by saying "It's OK that we ship spyware because we don't share the data we spied off your computer":

https://gearnuke.com/epic-comments-on-a ... rt-in-2019

So it's OK to spy on people as long as you don't tell others about it. Tim Sweeny logic, everybody.

[Flack]

Along those same lines, all those pictures I took with my telephoto lens are for personal use only, so it's cool.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Epic is a piece of shit company. Yeah, I will never let that awful fucking malware on any of my PCs. Sorry, Epic, everyone was kind of ready for a Steam competitor (I mean, not me, but I see people crying about it on Twitter) and ALL YOU HAD TO DO was not make it an entry point for Chinese nationalists and spy on your customers. Oops! Oops! Oops! Could have happened to everyone, really (but gog and Steam and EA's nonsense and so on).

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I guess this is the Maniac Mansion thread.

Maniac Mansion, I think, is one of the few games that took advantage of the smeared CGA thing going on, if you played it on a TV.



I tried it in pure 4-color CGA mode on my Jr tonight and it may be the worst-looking game I've ever seen. I will take pictures tomorrow.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

[AArdvark]

It looks like the tint knob was turned all the way to purple