abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's actually supposed to be pronounced as "woyák", so it doesn't rhyme with Bojack.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

Maybe it has learned from previous occasions. Mine doesn't suggest either option.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just FYI, the phrase is "per se", not "per say". It's Latin for "by itself".

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

3000 years is a lot. You can't imagine how profoundly, unbelievably long that is. In just 65 years we went from the Wright brothers' first flight to landing on the moon. And technological progress is exponential. Assuming people don't all kill each other, in a couple hundred years, maybe a thousand, it will likely cost the humanity next to nothing to go pick them up, if they so desire.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't making it sound bad. I'm just saying how it is. We wouldn't tolerate game mechanics like those nowadays. That's all I'm saying.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's a possibility, if they really wanna play the game. Nowadays we are so spoiled for choice that we would just either switch to another game or pick up the phone.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

You're clearly just trying to pick a fight, but care to point out what I said wrong?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sure, however you choose to call it, it's not "original hardware".

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

It's still emulation. Yes, it's emulating hardware, as close as possible and often indistinguishably close, but it's still emulation.

For example, my EDGB X7 runs fine on any real Game Boy I have, but can't switch games on an Analogue Pocket.
Another weird issue that I had was that if I launched my Pokemon Crystal save on Pocket it would, for some reason, permanently change my character from a boy into a girl (without saving the game!). This wasn't happening on my Game Boys (I restored the save a couple of times to test it).

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a communist thing. Fair distribution of wealth and suffering.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I vote for fair distribution of suffering, instead of to just 100 people.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

My brother and I were, like, 7 and 10, respectively, when we played this. Some things on the list were obvious, others (the heck is a "slalom"?!) we had to guess just by doing every possible thing you could do with a car. A couple day's work, bada-bing bada-boom.

People definitely would've given up nowadays.

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