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[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not a new curse, but very rare.

It's an homage to the days of floppy diskettes. Usually, when there was an unrecoverable disk read fail the system would make a characteristic grind-buzz-kachunk noise as the drive tried a hi-low track seek before stopping. Then it threw the dreaded error, "Problem reading disk. Abort (A)? Retry (R)? Fail (F)?"

It meant your game was cooked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago

In fact, it looks like it's almost a decade old.

shattered-pixel-dungeon$ git log -S "CURSED WAND ERROR"
commit f1f68163ada4f3e57006fac31d97e6b88c5a5e74
Author: Evan Debenham <Evan.SHPX@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat May 23 03:40:31 2015 -0400

    v0.3.0: improved game crash cursed wand effect
shattered-pixel-dungeon$
[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

Wait, this was built in? I thought it was a bug, having lived through the A R F era.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Nice, learned something new. I’m not a fan of the curse wand artifact, or really half of them. Too many negative effects..