A lot of folks on here want to worry about how their computer is working. This is very time consuming and can be pretty frustrating to manage on your own.

Add 25 years of IT work, and I now have zero interest in doing computer stuff as a hobby anymore. I used to love tinkering. Had multi-boot systems, spun up VMs just because I could, turned a minitower into a JBOD SCSI enclosure, etc. Now I just want stuff to work without fucking with it. That used to be Apple… and while they’ve gotten away from that a fair amount it’s still head and shoulders above Microsoft and Google.

If big tech gets awful enough that I have to consider brushing up on Linux, I might as well just fuck off into the woods and see if I can make friends with some raccoons or something. I’m tired, man.

This is exactly it. But it doesn’t fit on a hat or bumper sticker so the details get ignored.

Yeah, that week or two in the spring is nice. Little bits of purple everywhere.

Otherwise, it’s just choking out everything else. Except the English ivy. Which is worse.

Source: my eroded, cracked, dying yard. Cmon, clover, do something ☹️

I’m not sure if it’s valid anymore (I am far from a brick aficionado but I have friends that are very into it), but the old rule of thumb says $0.10 per piece, which would put this at $250. $50 Nintendo tax doesn’t seem out of the question, either.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/classic

Fine, but only the one.

The story of my life.

The front is where the spoiler isn’t.

Race car beds FTW.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but the tiny-ass font that seems to be all the rage in gaming UI these days makes things very difficult to play.

goes outside to yell at clouds to get off of his lawn

Any Gundam fans here?

raises hand

Cautiously optimistic for this. Any word about online cross platform play?

Here in the USA, freedom is measured in Freedom Units, colloquially called “dollars.”

Hi,

I don’t know you, and I don’t participate on Beehaw regularly (just when something noteworthy hits my all feed, and even then it’s just an upvote usually), but I wanted to give sincere congratulations on stringing all of those connections together to land something you wanted. It’s not easy, but you did it. That’s awesome.

Signed,
Random internet stranger

The D-pad also sucks. (Unless they fixed that already in a silent revision somewhere along the line.)

I will take your word for it, haven’t played it in 20 years or so lol. Still have the carts though! And a novelty N64 controller with a wheel instead of a stick that worked great with those games.

Same, had so much fun with that one. I also played the sequel but I can’t remember if it was better or just more of the same.

Man, screw you guys.

I’ll be in… Quinnland.

Train wreck or not, I will forever kick myself for not buying one from KayBee back when they had dozens on clearance, stored on like half of the top shelves in the store.

it was San Francisco Rush on the N64 where I had to stop playing because my eyes hurt

It was Hexen on N64 where I had to stop playing because I kept trying to play through the headache to and distract myself from being nauseous. One violent vomiting session later I found myself questioning life choices. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ To this day I still can’t handle first person games …or third person games where the camera is too close, too low, too fast, or the framerate isn’t consistent/smooth. It kinda sucks.

I’ve owned every machine so each one means a little something to me.

Same.

The N64 was the first I bought with my own money and that had some amazing games. I still own my whole collection.

Same.

However I think I’m going with the Switch. So many great games, many more ported from the WiiU

Almost same. I realize that it’s also on WiiU, but BotW re-ignited something in me that I thought had been lost. And the Switch form factor, while it has obvious tradeoffs, basically made it into gaming option #1 since launch day. I’ve barely touched my XB1 outside of Rock Band since 2017.

However, I will always have a soft spot for the SNES. Again, so many great games. And the controller was brilliant for the time. Sony added handles, two more triggers, and sticks (to one-up the N64 after the fact), and that format is still the default blueprint to this day (copy-my-homework-but-change-it-up-a-bit notwithstanding). So much gaming DNA came from the SNES.