# jason welge ate your data jason '#welgestyle' welge ate your data - that is to say as an indirect result of your screwing up trying to get ir awesome fast motion train wreck to work on steam (ubuntu 14 64bit) // video here last night you purchased the mighty art simulation time ramesside "for linux" as the little penguin icon on steam indicated cool you thought - finally we'll be able to undertake a little voorism and explore a unique world of outsider video art yet when we tried to install teh garme steam instantly said it was downloaded - apparently on steam you can get "0 byte" downloads mistakenly taking the bait you then tried running a windows version of steam in wine compatibility layer teh garme did download - but you got the old 'endlessly installing / hanging microsoft visual c++ 2013' installation error finally for some stupid reason having not even remotely understood the problem as a non problem - and especially without first backing everything up (not that you even have money for an external backup drive) you considered installing a 32 bit version of ubuntu on a memory stick and run an offline version of steam and teh garme from there - like that would of even worked having downloaded an ubuntu iso you proceeded to burn to what you thought was a memory stick - but which was really your main ssd - or something like that; in any case upon reboot there was a terrible error message: you had foolishly gerfingerpokened der blinkenlights and now there was neither an os nor a partition to be found **+** arrrrrgggg. you cried swore beat your legs and chest in rage and for a second imagined putting hands of stony internal iron kung fu death right through the monitor / around jason welge's scrawny squeezey-bottle garmedev neck but all your files and hard work were gone - approximately three solid month's worth of files writing digital art - all wiped in a flash - all because of a strange / artistic admiration for that troubled #welgestyle the reason for this was not perhaps just your inherent dimness about tech and total failure to adequately prepare (knowledge wise) regarding the esoteric vogon poetry of linux; one of the reasons you often like to imagine players hate macintosh users is because you think they have an easy life and never face such common difficulties this is mostly nonsense of course; if only you'd not bothered purchasing time ramesside in the first place - if only: the past as regret the pain of present personal screwups and the certainty of future failures. and so players muddle on through content in our ongoing minor discontents what you also just wanted to say: something about how linux and mac user interfaces seem less and more visual and how user interfaces with a clear visual language seem 'better' because they present ir options in a more humanistic way "dev/sda1"? ancient naming conventions be damned // republic of bob