Yeah, my sister bought an SP and my assessment was more or less the same. But the original GBA screen was terrible. That pic is under a really bright work lamp, and it was difficult to find the narrow angle where the screen reflected enough light to be visible but also wasn’t reflecting the lamp LEDs. Back in the day I played it wearing a pair of microscope glasses, which were a regular glasses frame with a sort of jeweler’s loupe mounted in the left eye, and I had to hold it with my nose almost touching the screen. As you can probably guess that wasn’t great for getting a good light angle.

Is shunning people for not using Linux also gatekeeping? I feel like I get that a lot.

The concept of “real fan” is flawed I think. I’ve never assembled a WH40K model or read any of the spinoff novels, to say nothing of playing the actual tabletop game, but I’d say I’m a fan of the franchise. I’ve played some of the video games (Space Marine, Mechanicus, Boltgun) and enjoyed them. I enjoy reading lore and worldbuilding stuff from wikis even if I’ve never touched the franchise itself, and my knowledge of 40k is almost exclusively from such wikis.

Not quite the same, but remember when everyone had a bare -r at the end of their name, flickr, tumblr, etc. What was up with that?

I was technically around as well, but I was in high school and was busy worrying about my own problems. Adults were doing adult things and making adult mistakes and bearing adult consequences. Even back then I knew adulthood was going to suck.

Makes me wonder whether people saw the dot com bubble the same way in the late 90s, with investors smelling their own farts and everyone else on the sidelines screaming about how stupid this is.

It was my understanding that it was a misconception that companies are legally bound to have an ROI or whatever. Not an economist so IDK. I just remember hearing that from several places. Regardless, the buyer-seller relationship is “I give you money, and you give me a product or service”. The investor-seller relationship is “We give you money, and you give us more money, and we don’t care how you do it.”

I drove my friend’s RC car into a storm drain when I was a kid.

🌈⭐️ the more you know.

I always called it the number sign.

Counterpoint: games were more expensive in the past, sometimes even before adjusting for inflation. Goldeneye was $70 new.

The problem is that back then you bought a complete game to play forever. Now you buy an unfinished mess that despite costing as much, makes it abundantly clear that the game isn’t yours through DRM and in your face micro transactions.

Whenever investors get involved things go downhill. If the only two parties are a buyer and a seller, the only way the seller can make money is by making a product the buyer wants to buy. But investors don’t care about the product. They may not even understand the product. They only care that the product makes money.

AAA studios are failing because they want to please investors, not buyers.

murder bears

intensive Care Bears

Seems a bit over-engineered to me. Why would a soldering iron need a CPU?

Other guy: “Grab the supplies”

Me: “Where are they?”

Other guy: “Over there”

Me: “Where is ‘there’?”

I know next to nothing about Arc Raiders, so I may be assuming wrong. It’s not just about PvP, it’s about how fast-paced the game play is. I can bumble through a game of Deep Rock Galactic with friends because it’s (I imagine) slower paced and everyone is working on the same goal. My friends are also patient enough to deal with my issues.

I wish I could experience multiplayer games like this. Bad performance due to my vision would likely frustrate others playing with me.

update 2: I’ve now done the same to my copy of Gold. It requires a different battery compared to either yellow or sapphire.

The only thing I can tell you is my save survived the battery replacement, which tells me it’s flash and not SRAM.

One theory for why there were so many serial killers in the 70s was because of lead paint.

Update: Now I’ve replaced the battery in Pokemon sapphire. Luckily since it uses flash memory my 25 year old save file is intact.