When they said we have to get used to not owning our games, they really meant it! Can’t own it if it never comes out.

That would be like if I had a kid 11 years ago. I cannot imagine having a kid now, let alone 11 years ago when I was 18.

StackExchange was the most discouraging place I ever asked a question as a beginner.

The two questions I ever asked were immediately downvoted to 0 before an answer was even given. And then the answer basically called out my errors without explaining how to fix them. The most helpful replies were people just giving me a full set of code that worked, but they never explained how it worked.

So I went back to lurking and hoping someone else has my question.

I was in middle school, just discovering retro game collecting. I got tons I’d NES, SNES, and N64 games for pennies on the dollar, compared to today. It was a terrible time in terms of school, but a wonderful time in terms of exploring my hobbies.

I had just met my best friend at the time. Finding someone with as much anxiety as me was helpful.

I’m glad I graduated in 2019. The bridge collapsed behind me lol

All we wanted was the Falcon. Dammit.

Mario Party 9 was so bad I think I only played it one time.

The moment I saw the car thing and read that there was no way to get around it, we quit and went back to the older games.

They ended for about a month, a month and a half ago.

What’s that? Could be a plane. Or maybe a train locomotive. Maybe an old Pontiac even.

Which is why I never answer the phone.

Can someone make it for Firefox?

Bags of baby carrots are nice.

Also those cans of fruit with no sugar added. I call those adult fruit cups.

That computer will do everything you listed, and be able to run most coding environments if you choose to do that as well. And 250 bucks is a great price, I’d say.

Fuck the rest of the admins too while we’re at it.

I’m not going to give up, but I’ve really stagnated on upgrades over the past decade.

I used to get a new phone every year back when you could do that for $100 a year. Now I go five years between.

My last computer was built in 2012 and I used it until October 2024, and could have kept using it. It was fully upgraded and played all new games on high settings fine. That said, I’m extremely glad I did a new build in October 2024.

And then you have consoles. One has no exclusives and is dead, the other has two exclusives and is there, and the other is Nintendo and is expensive and has its own lineup issues, depending on who you ask.

Tech is stagnating hard and has been for a while. Buy the mid range or high end of what you can afford and acquire right now, and then sit on it for a decade.

This is exactly it. The Muskrats, Benzos, and Zuccs of the world want people to think that the future is only on the cloud, because it benefits their business.

The problem with that is that most people are tech illiterate, and will see the cloud as an easy way to just exist with less wires.

Reading comments from people who just do not care whether they own their software, and now hardware, is alarming.

It’s people like us who have to be loud about it.

Blombo solely because of the name.

Is that another term for “couch co-op” or is that a term used in Civ? I’ve never heard it used this way before, but it makes sense.

I didn’t know Bad Bunny was a dude until the whole Superb Owl outrage happened.

I’d rather just pay it once and have it.

Like video games. Just let me pay money for the whole game.