@foone Everything fun and games until the next exception that causes hundreds of message boxes to pop up, each one with cryptic developer messages that could as well be hieroglyphics.
@foone Alice you're gonna make me objectum for operating systems
@0x4d6165 what you're not already? skill issue
@foone maybe i always was ajsdfasdf lmao
@foone

loving Grace?
@gracie was a reference to the poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" but yeah, that too :)
@foone obviously need to tag @BestGirlGrace as well 😎

@foone

Oh Dear God. (Probably Cthulhu.)

@foone I’m always in for a Brautigan reference.

(It’s so sad how far away we are from the techno-pastoral paradise he imagined.)

@foone Please do not the Clippy comfort fic
@foone how to get functional Clippy in XFCE
@foone must have gotten smth in my eye
@foone Microsoft Word is a beautiful name for a baby girl.
@foone i like to imagine this as a robotgirl having a printer for a mouth and she can only speak by printing out dialog box looking images onto receipt paper and then holding it up to the other person
@foone is this death generator? Or how were they produced? Or screenshots of that one?

@wavejumper3 They're mostly screenshots of the original OSes running in emulators. I used Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic.NET, Word Dialog Editor (from Office 4, I think?), and MUSH, the tool for controlling Agent characters like Clippy.

The DOS EDIT one is a lot of careful paint.net manipulation of pixels, combining a few screenshots while respecting the underlying text grid

@foone @wavejumper3 I vaguely remember there was some kind of tool for creating CUI programs for DOS, similar to Edit or QBasic, although I don’t think it was in QBasic. Might’ve been in Turbo C/C++, since they the only other DOS IDEs I used.
@UpLateGeek @foone @wavejumper3 Turbo Vision probably, the TUI library that Borland C++ and Turbo Pascal shared
@foone impeccable web comic idea
@foone I'd press Cancel to see what would happen
@starlight @foone
You gained "Aphantasia (permanent)".