{"id":8410,"date":"2015-12-09T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2015-12-09T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:55:51","slug":"90s-gaming-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/90s-gaming-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"90s gaming revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

I pulled out my ancient copy of Fallout 2<\/i> a while ago and found no sign of the manual, but decided, eh, I’ll figure it out. Which is how I got reminded of things like “90s games don’t autosave across levels” and “90s games don’t autosave when you level up.” SO LONG, PROGRESS!<\/p>\n

The PDF of the manual was on the Fallout wiki, and that was fine for reading on a tablet. But no, I decided NO I WILL HAVE THE BOOK GODDAMMIT, even if the pages in the PDF are arranged impossibly for proper double-sided-pages book printing.<\/p>\n

So I printed out everything, physically cut and reassembled it back into correct signatures, scanned and duplex-printed all those<\/em> new signatures, recut all of them<\/em>, and bound it using perfect-binding techniques with carpenter’s glue and fabric. Because I’m just that kind of obsessive.<\/p>\n

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I thought about trimming the excess glue but realised quickly that no, that’s really kind of thematically appropriate. As would be adding some radioactive material, but I’m only so much<\/em> into thematic accuracy.<\/p>\n

And then I mentioned this online and lj:flashfire demanded gifs or it didn’t happen. So see above, and below.<\/p>\n

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I’m unironically really pleased with the cloth binding<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

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