To be fair, about 8 LA remakes would fit inside the original LA cartridge.

if you’re in academia you should be able to produce a five paragraph essay.

So, K-12 is “academia” now?

Being able to produce a narrative is an essential life skill.

Lots of essential life skills are difficult for lots of people. Something we get reminded about every time it comes up by people who have no clue what they’re talking about yet see fit to tell others what they should and shouldn’t do, and how to feel about it.

The world isn’t going to cater to you

No fucking shit.

your self diagnosed executive dysfunction

I’m sorry Dr. Jackson, I’ll have to let my old neurologist, psychologist, neuropsychologist, and psychiatrist know that The Internet told me that the assessments I had done at ages 23 and 44 are all in my head.

learning to adapt is probably a useful habit.

You’re right! I’m just going to do that instead of being in constant psychological agony. Where were you all of my life? ❤️ If only I had someone talking down to me saying Just Do The Thing over and over again, from childhood onwards, life would have been so much easier.

🤡

…so you just gonna leave everyone in suspense? The internet loves armchair psychology!

Hi,

I would have failed every single one of your tests. Not because I don’t understand the material, or the English language, but because structured writing, to this day, makes me seize up. Blank space is one of my biggest triggers for executive dysfunction/PDA. Turning everything into a cookie-cutter essay is just a different form of trying to fit everyone into the same box. More selective than making everything multiple guess, but no better. I feel bad for your students.

Signed,

Former “gifted” kid (with then-undiagnosed AuDHD) who got sick of bad teachers 30+ years ago

The Walkman is long gone, like 30+ years ago. Still have Optimus’s foot, though.

Thanks for the replacement tip. I’m not sure much is going to change moving forward though. Nonstandard screw heads are used to keep bored people (especially kids) out. Only the invisible sky wizard knows how much stuff was saved from my preteen curiosity by not being a Philips or flathead. (RIP my old Walkman, sorry I never figured out how to put you back together properly.) Do you know how tempting those clips on the top of NES carts were to me as a kid? I poked at them even knowing the security screws were there. Had those been anything I could undo with my dad’s tools, you bet your ass I’d have them disassembled, inspected, running back and forth across the carpeted floor (which also served as the work table) to get more carts, seeing if game boards could fit in another case to prank my brother, the whole nine yards.

If one of those ~$50 games ended up not working (whether by carpet-fueled ESD or a literal misstep or whatever), best case scenario is that I would have been out of a game if my parents didn’t find out. (Worst case, my mom wouldn’t be able to play Tetris anymore and I may not have survived third grade.) Because they certainly weren’t going to buy “it just stopped working” from the kid that disassembled Optimus Prime. I can see other parents buying the sob story though, making a big scene at the store or on the phone (and these days, online), demanding a refund/replacement regardless of warranty status.

Of course none of that impacts hobbyists - we just get the right tool and go to town. But nonstandard screw heads work well enough at keeping out kids (and idiots) that they’re likely here to stay.

And we both know the answer to the fastener quality issue: if you can shave a penny off of a part that’ll be used hundreds of millions of times, well, that’s what you’re gonna do. There’s precious little in the way of (regular) user-serviceable parts in anything anymore. The manufacturers don’t want us in there. Is that going to stop us? No.

We can hope for better, but IMO “this makes a great replacement part” is awesome info on its own.

Thanks for reading my very long-winded “thank you.” ^_^;

This comm has an absurd amount of downvote fairies. I’m not sure which is more pathetic: setting up a downvote bot, or being terminally online enough to constantly refresh all/new and reflexively downvote anything you don’t like.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s Nintendo pile-on session.

Who says you can’t hear a thumbnail?

It’s not just Switch games.

https://lemmy.world/post/29538917

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on glue.

This is the only reason I preordered one. The manbaby in the orange house can throw a tantrum at any time. If it happens before release, I’ll just cancel.

Yeah I think the PS2 is out of reach. Unless they slash Switch 1 prices and keep software support going I don’t think there’s going to be a long tail. Pretty much everyone that wants a switch has one at this point.

The joycons are an ergonomic disaster for most people regardless. I can’t play handheld without a grip. I imagine the mouse aspect will be similar, and I’m expecting shells/grips or 3rd party more traditional mice to fill in for shooters etc.

I’m kind of scratching my head. For years, people clamored for more Switch, just better/faster/etc. That’s exactly what’s being offered. I don’t consider anything a must-buy at launch. Switch 1 didn’t launch with much, either. But over the past 8 years it’s been my primary gaming machine. I don’t see staying the course as a bad thing.

Congrats on being one of today’s lucky 10,000. 🤝

How can I get to the internet without AOL?

Can confirm, had one on semi-perma-loan for a few years. Bought a secondhand Canon from a friend and never looked back.

Those things were like the perfect compromise between frisbee and throwing star.

Previously:

You have a Nintendo account. Under your account is your primary device. You buy a game under your Nintendo account. You can then play on any device that you’re signed into. Or any account on your primary device can play the game. (Xbox had this same setup for years.) Working example: you buy Mario Kart. Your friend comes over. You sign in on your friend’s Switch, and hand them your switch and they use any other account on the device (including local). You then can both play the same copy/license of Mario Kart.

Now there are two options: virtual game cards, and online licensing. VGC is what all of the noise/confusion is about. Online licensing is very similar to the old method, but they closed the loophole I outlined above.