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Time is a flat ferris wheel: The enduring legacy of ‘RollerCoaster Tycoon’

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  1. cptcobalt
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    RCT was such a huge part of my childhood. I've probably lost hundreds of hours to it as a kid. I can always remember building long, fast, and totally unrefined coasters. I never understood...

    RCT was such a huge part of my childhood. I've probably lost hundreds of hours to it as a kid. I can always remember building long, fast, and totally unrefined coasters. I never understood scenery. I never knew how to get excitement high. But I always had fun. Whenever I jump into it these days, my experience is totally different. I'll rush through getting a polished coaster built, and then spend 3x the time it took me to build the coaster on decorating it perfectly. It's also more...tiring, in a way.

    What you may not know is that there's also an open-source reimplementation of RCT2 that adds some new features, like multiplayer. My husband and I played a ton of it a few summers ago, until desyncs just became too much of a nuisance. It's probably better these days.

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  2. Pilgrim
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    I'm a bit taken aback by the title. I didn't read the whole article. Should I assume that the publication is being clever and there isn't really a connection to True Detective or the various books...

    I'm a bit taken aback by the title. I didn't read the whole article. Should I assume that the publication is being clever and there isn't really a connection to True Detective or the various books the first season put in as "easter eggs?"