Zarxrax @ Zarxrax @lemmy.world

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It looks like I can go to a local repair shop to get the battery changed out. Anyone have experience with that option?

When I was a kid, it was just called ADD, attention deficit disorder. Then at some point they slipped the hyperactive in there, and it made everyone think that it's just energetic kids. Then you got pushback in the media saying it's just excusing people not wanting to discipline their kids. And that's why I never even considered that I might have it until after I flunked out of college.

Fracturing support for a legacy format makes so much more sense than actually supporting a modern format like JXL, right?

I never really have more than one game at a time. Right now it's Pokemon TCG Pocket.

I don't know what it is, but those cleaning tablets will cause my machine to suds up so much that bubbles/water start pouring out of the exhaust and all over my floor. One of the first times it happened, all of the bubbles were screwing up a sensor and I couldn't get the machine to work for a week. I thought it was broken, and was just about to buy a new one when I got the idea to try sucking everything dry with a shop vac.

Asuka seems to be missing. I wonder if she won't be making an appearance.

How about water usage rates that penalize bulk consumers instead of giving them cheaper rates?

What sort of help are you looking for?

There are a lot of different strategies for learning kanji. I think the most important thing to understand is that kanji are not created from random brush strokes, but they are made up from parts called radicals. The same radicals appear over and over again in many different kanji.

A method that many people find helpful is creating mnemonics or little stories for each kanji. So for example, if you have a little story to help you remember that a certain kanji is made up of 3 particular radicals, that's a lot easier than just trying to remember the 14 strokes that make it up.

This method was put forth in a book called "remembering the kanji", and you might hear people talk about this method sometimes. A lot of other sites and methods have also taken this technique. The book itself is somewhat controversial among Japanese learners though, because of some other ideas it mentions about how you should learn kanji. I think the fundamental idea of breaking kanji down to radicals and using mnemonics is extremely helpful though.

TMNT Turtles in Time on SNES. Its a fun game and kids can button mash, and turtles are still relevant today. Puzzle games like tetris can be good for using the brain. There were a ton of puzzle games in the snes era, like bust a move (puzzle bobble), yoshi's cookie, puyo puyo (kirby's avalanche), and many more.

I would mostly avoid NES because it looks really dated, aside from a handful of the real classics like Super Mario Bros 1 & 3.

I've had my eye on this for a bit, as the concept of it catches my interest. I got a little confused when I tried the demo though, so I've held off on it. I might give it a serious try if it ever comes out of early access.

It's crazy how fast this thing crashed and burned. And it's just got me thinking, it's kind of nuts how nearly EVERYTHING around this time was failing. You had Sega of America pushing the 32X, there were these new consoles like the 3DO and the Atari Jaguar, and then even the Sega Saturn couldn't catch a break in America. Nintendo's virtual boy was a flop and the N64 kept getting delayed further and further. The fact that the Sony PlayStation seemed to catch on during this time actually seems like an anomaly when you look at everything else around it.

I like upscaling when it's done well (some older iterations of dlss and fsr were not great compared to the current versions). If I have to lower my resolution to get a good frame rate then the image will already look blurry. Using upscaling to hit my monitors native resolution will generally look better. I could care less about raytracing because I don't have a GPU strong enough to handle it.

The Internet of the 90s was such a simpler place. Better in many ways, worse in some. For instance, the Internet wasn't so commercialized back then. Instead of a bunch of services, it was a bunch of nerds sharing information and having conversations. If you liked a tv show, you would search for websites about that show. Anyone could make their own website, so you would find tons of fan sites dedicated to each thing. Search engines didn't provide you with information or answer questions, they just helped you sort through all the different websites, then you could look on those sites to find whatever information you were looking for. There was almost no video, it was all text and (small) images.

I've been using Vivaldi as my primary browser for years. My favorite feature of Vivaldi is its powerful sidebar. It's a great browser, but because it's based on chrome, ublock origin will eventually stop working on it. When that time comes, I'll be switching to a Firefox based browser. I've been keeping my eye on floorp, but it's not quite where I would like it to be yet.

Just try to maintain what you've already learned until you get in a better place. It doesn't take too much effort to do, and it beats learning everything all over again if you change your mind in the future. Though, if you are certain you are done with it, I guess there's no point.

Exactly this. Yoshi's Story was a follow up to Yoshi's Island, often considered one of the greatest 2d platformers of all time. I spent weeks if not months completing Yoshi's Island. Then when Yoshi's Story came out, I rented it and completed it over the weekend.

I think tomb raider let you swim underwater.

Is there any actual proof of that? Because I see plenty of restaurants advertise 1/3 lb burgers these days.

I'm a little younger, I grew up playing the NES. I had so much fun and some of my best memories are from playing those games with friends and stuff. But I find it really hard to revisit most of those games based on their own merit.

There is definitely a thing about playing games together with another person that can be magical. And that isn't gone. You can still do that today with modern games. So in that regard, I don't think there is anything particularly special about 80s games. Heck, it wasn't until the N64 that it was common for more than 2 people to be able to play together. A bunch of guys hanging out and all playing a game together was great.

I think losing that is just a factor of growing up. You move on from your friends, maybe you don't make any new ones, you start mainly playing against faceless strangers online... It's not a problem with the games, it's a problem with the players.

Absolutely. I still don't have a pet because I don't necessarily want the responsibility, but i generally love them.