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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:10:02 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 01:14 this Saturday (GMT):
>>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:00:09 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
>>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>
>>>>I grew up playing emulators, so I don't really care that much.
>>>>Thenagain, I was scared of fullscreen games :)
>
>>> I still have that fear when it comes to full-screen games from the
>>> Win9x/early XP era. They were so... FRAGILE when it came to running in
>>> full-screen (or, more importantly, when you tried to alt-tab out of
>>> them). Back in the '95 days, switching away from a full-screen game
>>> could lock up your computer (these days, the older game might lock up,
>>> but you're PC will keep running fine otherwise. That's progress, I
>>> suppose).
>
>>Nah, I was way more irrational. Was outright scared bc I couldn't close
>>it as easily. Then again, I mostly play games in windowed mode nowadays
>>bc it's easier to have other windows open in the bg.
>
>That's a sensible method. 
>
>I, on the other hand, just plug in more and more monitors and make
>everything full-screen. ;-)

Been running everything that will in windowed mode since launch day of
City of Heroes.   For some reason it would disconnect after exactly 5
minutes, and the "fix" was to play windowed.  Been doing it ever since.

It's a rare game that crashes when paused or when I inevitably tab out.

Xocyll