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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

I could never decide between this and the pipes screensaver.

Swapped between them every other day; much to the annoyance of my father, lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I remember trying to play this in the 90s. Couldn't understand that it wasn't Doom

[–] Kachilde 12 points 7 months ago

Back in my day, this was the Backrooms.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Has that Wolfenstein 3D vibe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How I learned that all mazes can be solved if you hug one of the walls

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

that only works for mazes without islands if I recall correctly

[–] shalafi 5 points 7 months ago
[–] wreckedcarzz 3 points 7 months ago

Suddenly, boulder

🔃

[–] Maultasche 2 points 7 months ago

You could also set it to a trippy psychotic version

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Xlock has this one, as well as a bunch of similar ones

[–] TrickDacy 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Search engines don't know about whatever xlock is apparently

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] TrickDacy 2 points 7 months ago

Interesting, I did find that originally but it didn't seem related until this time I scrolled fairly far down the page. Thanks! Can it be set to automatically invoke like an old school screensaver? I know a while back I looked into screensavers and it seemed like everyone had deemed them obsolete so I abandoned the idea