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I turned my PC off during the "don't switch off" symbol in five different games to see what would happen and boy was this an annoying experiment (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The games and their results

Hades 2 - Result: No data loss.

Still Wakes The Deep - Result: Absolutely fuckaw.

Dread Delusion - Result: Getting very bored of entering my Windows password.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Result: Regret starting this pointless experiment.

Alien: Isolation - Result: Just glad this is over, to be honest.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bro was doing a graceful windows power off by hitting his front power switch. Not cutting it via the PSU switch.

Results invalid, needs doing over.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He needs to do some finger stretches..... cause it looks like he needs to log back in 5 more times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

In his defense the article does say he attempted numerous times for each game. Whether or not he did only he knows, but it does get very mind numbing even doing something 5 or 6 times and you simply have to wait during all the loading time.

Completely agreed though, what the hell kind of experiment is this haha. Afaik Windows has a very graceful power off cycle, so graceful that I've had my power button fail to turn my pc off for God knows why.

Would love to see just how quick (or slow) you have to be with a hard power off.