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@exerian

she/her
celeste.lol/

dorky femme droid

if you use the phrase "be normal" as if it's something to aspire to, kindly take a long walk off a short plank. or block me. whichever is easier for you.

child of the 80s

i escaped a cult.
all of the content warnings.
all of them.
tag: exerian's tragic backstory

Ξ @exerian12/20/2023, 6:45 AM

dante, personally @dante

gravis again @cathoderaydude12/20/2023, 5:21 AM

if you want to get shit like "fangames made in the 2000s that come exclusively as a single windows exe" you have to get them from the kind of sites you'd vitriolically instruct your grandmother never to visit. anyone who was there for the early days, when we launched cave story with doukutsu.exe, is like a fucking bomb sniffing dog now. we can wander through minefields and miraculously exit unscathed. our noses tell us which pages install ransomware. our tails twitch when we look at the fake download button; our mouths water when we look at the real one.

gravis again @cathoderaydude12/20/2023, 5:24 AM

it still absolutely obliterates me psychologically that a few years ago someone started sharing around a single file just called mario.exe, claiming it was mario fucking 64 but for the PC, and thousands of us just uncritically clicked on it and nothing bad happened.

we knew it was safe. our tails knew.

@exerian shared with:

#i didn't think absolute truth could exist and yet here it is

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Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev12/20/2023, 5:43 AM

There was a really good Mario fan game for MSDOS that I really liked, I think I managed to get an early preview that abruptly ended after the castle level and only later found the full version

Epsil Delta @EpsilDelta12/20/2023, 5:44 AM

doukutsu.exe a staple of my existence

@Rei12/20/2023, 5:45 AM

you can detach your tail in a struggle though, that's different

godspeed you! yuri warrior @citriccenobite12/20/2023, 6:56 AM

this was me trying to get free linkin park mp3s in like 2008

Nadia Rain Chassis @softchassis12/20/2023, 7:15 AM

Being one of the ground zero tweets for that back in the Twitter days was funny. I jokingly called it a "risky click" and a lot of Real Geniaouses being like "why didn't you run it in a sandbox", while the True Understanders nodded along.

gravis again @cathoderaydude12/20/2023, 7:34 AM

their tails knew

Luiz Paulo @LuizPSC12/20/2023, 1:51 PM

i normally did good with this stuff, but there was one time i managed to dowload 4 gigs of meatspin because i thought it was The Suffering 2: Ties that Bind from a torrent when i was like 18+

gravis again @cathoderaydude12/20/2023, 10:47 PM

well, it does sound like you suffered

El Tlacuache de los Ojos Tristes @pebblepossum12/20/2023, 2:34 PM

thinking about how Toby Fox just told us all to download and run SURVEY_PROGRAM.exe and we all just went "yeah alright"

Dragaroth @Dragaroths-hideaway12/20/2023, 6:20 PM

"the funny dog man adopted by the country of japan could never into me a virus :) "

Lizardguy @Lizardguy6412/20/2023, 3:00 PM

Wait, that's something people can't just do?

「Ｂｅｈｅｍｏｔｈ」@Behemoth12/20/2023, 3:44 PM

There really is a sixth sense for trustworthiness on the internet. Sniffing out the real download button, finding the one version of a file on limewire that isn't a virus, determining which torrent is most legit, etc.

@uep12/21/2023, 11:24 AM

and nothing bad happened.

Are you sure? Have you looked at the world lately? Or even just the Internet?

~@modulusshift12/22/2023, 1:26 AM

I've thought for years that hours and hours of watching cel animation as a kid, looking for the slight color difference that hints that something isn't as static as it first appeared, really trained me for the spot the difference routine of figuring out which download button is real

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