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)?"
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
In fact, it looks like it's almost a decade old.
Wait, this was built in? I thought it was a bug, having lived through the A R F era.
Nice, learned something new. I’m not a fan of the curse wand artifact, or really half of them. Too many negative effects..
...it's called a curse for a reason. And I will note, at range a decent number are still usable attacks
Sure, but that doesn’t make it fun to spend half of the run on fire because the other 2 artifacts were sundial and mimic tooth..
Brilliant, probably will start doing that.
Classic. I haven't seen that one in ages.