The system was slowing down. It was becoming noticeable. Booting up, opening applications and opening files was taking a lot longer. Even the memory swap was clearly not as fast as it used to be. The reason was simple: the file blocks were all over the place. The solution was just as simple: it was time to Defrag by Brandon McCool from Envy Born Games.
Read the full review here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2023/09/23/defrag-saturday-review/
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Defrag: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/854354559/sirens-defrag-and-16-candies-a-tiny-game-series
Envy Born Games: https://envyborngames.com/
BGG listing: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/376284/defrag
Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/)
This review uses these sounds from freesound:"hard disk drive IBM (1999)" by user "viertelnachvier" (https://freesound.org/people/viertelnachvier/sounds/321502/) licensed under CCBYNC 4.0
8-Bit March by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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