but it shipped, didn’t it! Looking at you pippin.

This is the kind of story I was hoping to hear in this thread.

Did you enjoy it at the time, or was there a sense of it not being a great console? I know that we were much more forgiving of janky games back then, so it’s hard to look at it fairly from 2025.

At least until he makes a break for Portugal, down 'ol South America way.

Hey, don’t sell yourself short. You’re worth at least twice that many sacks of potatoes.

I’ve been using one for the last couple of years, and same. I have a much better feel for what certain heart rates mean for me now - when I need to get moving, when I need to sit for a bit.

They were there, waiting for you!

Love it. This deserves a name.

“Ryedaft’s Robot Paradox”

I met a guy like this once.

This is an excellent meme format

Of course! Why, what have you been reading?

I bet you excelled in your Literature classes.

Exhibit B:

That sounds like a pretty cool solution. I don’t have a good mental picture for how that would work on the technical side, but anything that does behind-the-scenes work like that for new users is probably worth considering.

And I still haven’t seen it somehow…

My kids are almost the right age to watch it at this point, so I’ll just wait until then.

I think it’s healthy for the fediverse to have similar communities on different instances, because if we centralize, it basically becomes reddit, which means moderation and censorship are at the whims of whoever owns the only place people go.

I’d also like to give a shout-out to sopuli.xyz/c/memes for having a popular memes community too.

All the comments have me questioning if I’ve seen it before too, lol. I guess it looks familiar…

That sucks!

I’ve been on the lookout for a nice wooden set with weighted pieces, but they tend to be so expensive.

This is poetry

These look really cool!

Hell, chess is huge right now, and it’s over 1500 years old.