the gas generator in an ostensibly air-tight bunker isn't such a hot idea
Are bunkers really air-tight ? Don’t they pump air through filters?
The factory can always grow, even without internet.
This guy gets it, just download the mod server before everything goes offline.
That's not fair. There was time now...
Oof. Still too soon.
In my heart, he later finds someone else's glasses, and sits reading happily on their makeshift grave.
Wasn't the whole world outside nuked?
Well, I can still read large print.
If they’d gone to that length, one would’ve thought they would have gotten games that didn’t require being always online, or researched, tested, and implemented workarounds.
If it’s gonna be a primary source of entertainment for the foreseeable future, you’d better make damn well fucking sure you can maintain it for as long as you play it. H/w and s/w.
Pardon me mister or misses. But in my naivity, I was under the impression that the comic above, perhaps, was intended for humoristic purposes, and therefore might not be an accurate reflection of reality.
Boy I sure hope someone was fired for that blunder!
Hey, if you've got the bunker and supplies, what's the point in waiting for n the apocalypse?
taxes, bills
Time to pirate! WHAT? 0 seeds?!
There is a solution:
[email protected] (Not accessible via lemmy.world instance)
Live free on the high seas! 🏴☠️
Also a good option: [email protected]
Cracking your Switch is extremely easy if you have one from 2017/18 that is in the right serial number range ^^
be sure to switch to offline mode when the world ends
If it makes it any better, this way he might actually notice the generator exhausting fumes in his limited air.
With that, the low quality food and the failure to select and prepare offline-compatible games, this is clearly the worst prepper ever.
Well... if he's running a generator inside a enclosed bunker, he won't have much time to regret the lack of games.
I don't want to out myself as a bunker nerd, but there's two points here that are worth noting: all modern bunkers circulate exterior air (through an NBAC filter) specifically to avoid problems arising from "bad air", and many bunkers have dedicated rooms for generating equipment that have entirely isolated air supplies to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, isolate fuel from ignition sources and so you can lock your traitorous brother in there and not have to listen to his pleading he knows what he did.
Well, that's on the guy. Plenty of games run with no internet.
Modern retelling of that Lloyd Bridges Twilight Zone episode. "Time Enough," I think it was? Simpsons did it too!
I think you mean Burgess Meredith and it was Time Enough at Last.
Wow I really butchered that one! Thanks for the correction.
When did Simpsons do it? There was a Futurama Scary Door episode that parodied it.
Wasn't aware of the Simpsons doing it, but I thought the Family Guy reference to it was really funny.
The spider in this one is rather sneaky. Haha
Yes, took me a while!
Spider? Is there always one?
Yeah, artist hides one in their comics.
spoiler
It's on the shelf, top right.
single player minecraft FTW!
*Luanti
oh yeah i meant to try it, is it any good?
windows xp?!
The Mayan calendar was right! The world did end in 2012.
But with the windows 95 my computer icon
Had this same problems last night. Storm knocked out the internet so I booted up the Xbox with some old school borderlands 2 from disc. Nope requires internet to even start the game. This is some bullshit.
I'd never build a well stocked emergency bunker because I don't think I could live with the constant temptation to just go in, close the door and live in it.
I mean, arguably at that point it would stop being your emergency bunker and just be your home, right? So... I see no downside to any of this
Bruh that start bar looks like Windows XP from...(checks Old.exe) 23 years ago?
Peak of computing
Also that wallpaper...
Well, sure. XP won't moan that there's no Internet connection.
You've heard of applying themes to the interface of your devices, haven't you?
Never mind maybe he's been building the backlog of games he wanted to play since then...
Plenty of time to teach yourself binary exploitation.
Steam users be like:
GOG users be like: 👍
You can run Steam games with no DRM without running Steam.
And for those only using Steamworks, there's Steamless
Call me crazy, but I would miss my League of Legends.
You're crazy.
Call me crazy, but they sound crazy.
Find something to hate all you want, but the major Bethesda releases into today with a bunch of mod profiles could keep me in offline paradise for decades.
And it's a bitch to get working right, and takes mods to do so, but you get Skyrim VR the working properly, and you won't miss any of the modern live service bullshit.
In addition to the carbon monoxide problem, is there also not the issue that fuel last only for half a year (a bit more with some additives) ?
Btw, anyone know how entities (e.g. hospitals) with fuel-based emergency generators manage their fuel supply?
It's not necessarily gasoline could be a diesel generator which would last significantly longer. I bought an RV that had been sitting for 8 years with a full tank of diesel and it fired right up. Smokey and smelly but it still functioned.
Diesel will last a while (way longer than 6mo) but it’ll get pretty nasty after a few years. As the other commenter pointed out you technically can still run it but it will ruin your shit and eventually things will just seize up and at best will need to be completely torn down and thoroughly cleaned, at worst scrapped
Not a hospital but I have a generator on my house. Runs on liquid propane. I live in an area with terrible infrastructure. I lost power twice today (only 20 minutes each time, thankfully) because it rained. It typically runs about 3-400 hours a year and we typically have at least 1 >6hr outage every 2 months or so and at least one outage longer than 4 days a year during snow season, two if there’s a nasty hurricane season in the northeast.
We have no services available to our house aside from internet (eg no gas, no sewer, no water, etc) so we just have a large tank for the liquid propane. We originally just had them come twice a year but that was insufficient. We then had them come after serious run times but that was a pain to remember to call. I now have an ultrasonic tank monitor on there, it was like $50 and connects via Ethernet to home assistant, uses some magic ultrasonic nonsense to detect the level of the tank, once the tank drops below 40% I have it ping me and I call them, repeats at 35%, 30, etc just in case I forget then more rapidly like 28, 26 because it’s really bad for the generator to run out of gas (so it’s also a reminder to just shut it off if I truly drag my feet). I wish I could send them an automated request but the companies around here are pretty “phone only” situations for the most part
I imagine the industrial solutions are fairly similar except they’re probably using the $350 generac (or equivalent) tank monitors
Someday I’ll have the money to just convert to solar. The house came with this setup and it works for now
Sounds like you can do the battery conversion now and wait with adding solar panels. Should be cheaper than your generator pretty quickly considering how much you use it.
Seems multiple times more annoying than solar with a big lifepo. Hope you can switch to solar sooner than later!
There are ways to store fuel for a very long time, preserving additives you can put in, and filtration systems intended to preserve diesel for a long time. Also, apparently kerosene has an incredible shelf life.
They use diesel
Wait, so what happens if you try to run a car that's been sitting there for more than half a year? Does the gas just not work? Or does it explode or something?
In general, gasoline and diesel can be stored for 6 months to 1 year without significant degradation if they are stored in a clean, sealed, and dry container or tank, away from sunlight, heat, and sources of ignition. However, fuel that is exposed to oxygen, moisture, or contaminants can deteriorate more quickly, resulting in reduced quality, lower octane rating, and increased levels of sediments or sludge.
So yeah, the trope of hopping in an abandoned car after the zombie apocalypse does not work 😂
I bought a gasoline powered motor home that had been sitting for about 5 years unused.
I tried to fill the tank with fresh gas and hope it would offset the bad gas.
Although I did drive it some, it was hard to start and ran poorly. Eventually I just had to replace the
dieselfuel pumps and get the injectors cleaned. Lot of work. In the end I wished I had just drained the tank and put fresh gas in before anything else.
This is why you get yourself some sixth gen consoles.
Solitaire and Mines it is then! Well, maybe a bit of Mahjong too.
Edit: Hey wait a minute! I got FreeDoom too! An eternity of gaming!
We had our apocalypse in March ‘20 to summer ‘22, and we had to stay indoors with an internet connection,and you all suggest you didn’t clear your backlogs?This has been a public service callout.YOU may have had that experience, but that's far from universal - remember all the "brave heroes" we were "thanking" by making them work (and burn themselves out) while everyone else stayed home? Medical professionals, emergency response personnel, delivery services, truck drivers, etc.?
You’re right, I am an absolute shit with that comment and I failed to understand the world that happened around me in that moment.
I apologize.
My backlog... was too strong...
