Doomscrolling by Train

Doomscrolling is nowadays a way of life. Sometimes life happens on trains, especially in Germany. DOOM Runs on What?! Incorrigible readers of this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads are, no doubt regrettably, aware of our occasional pieces on the first-person shooter computer game DOOM running on hardware that seems… inadvisable. It’s been made to run on pregnancy tests, in PDF files [1], in the statistical analysis language R [2], and to self-distribute for installation by the internet Domain Name System. [3] Via writer Charlie Stross comes news from the FV Transrapid service in Germany that, against all reason, they have gotten DOOM running on the cockpit monitor of their trains, as shown here. The safety implications mean this is is on a whole new plane of inadvisability. I mean, it’s hilarious as a joke, of course. Just… adjacent to some really bad ideas around monkeying with the software of in-service trains. One hopes that sensible German train engineers know better than to do…