I’m not sure I can imagine greater horror than that of the “desktop idle sim”. My computer’s desktop already fills me with confusion and dismay. It’s a mixed media moraine of reaction gifs, rogue ebooks, abandoned drafts, and shortcuts for apps I uninstalled years ago. It is like seeing my life’s failure reflected in the compound eye of the fly nibbling on my corpse. And now, you would have me run a small widescreen videogame at the bottom of the view? Madness. A small widescreen videogame about a mage attending mage school? Well, all right then. But give me a few seconds to at least sort by Item Type.

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