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  • pasdechance@jlai.lutoRetroGaming@lemmy.worldBuilt to last
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    29 days ago

    Back in the Nintendo era we picked up a copy of Final Fantasy I when the local rental shop went out of business… The battery in it was 100% dead. So my brother would just leave the Nintendo on.

    I don’t think I’ve had a console affected by this though.

    Recently I had an Evercade cart die. It was the flash memory that gave up, though. Not the battery.



  • Probably winter 91 or spring 92. Not sure when, but I saw the ads on TV and I needed to get Metroid II: Return of Samus.

    I was 7.

    I asked. I begged. And for Christmas or a birthday it came.

    Every day when I came home from school, I played. Sometimes I took it with me and played at lunch.

    Nobody else played that game. Nobody knew what I was talking about. I took the booklet with me and tried to draw the creatures.

    I was stuck at one point. It lasted weeks. Maybe longer. One night before dinner I made some progress. My mother actually let me keep playing until I got to a save point.

    Whatever feeling I had at that moment, I’m not sure I’ll find it again, but my expression must have been enough. I made it to the save point.

    Eventually I beat the game but I’d look forward to getting home to try and speedrun it 100% And eventually I could consistantly beat it under 3 hours with 100% items. I haven’t had a game since that I’ve enjoyed as much except maybe a few shmups.












  • Oh for sure, they can be aggravating but I haven’t watched any of their vids in over a year. I wouldn’t take their advice the same as how I wouldn’t want anyone to take my advice. Just because someone says they work in IT doesn’t mean they do, right? I used to work in a pharmacy and people would ask me for medical advice when they saw me in town, but I didn’t work in the dispensary. I knew the answer to their question, but I was not going to risk it.





  • It’s what I’ve been using since the early 2000’s. Whatever laptop I can get for free with boring Linux. I teach all my classes across multiple establishments with it. Battery still lasts over 9 hours. Beats the Raspberry Pi I used as a computer for 6 months!

    I do have a colleague that installed one of the LLMs on their computer to play around with translation and live subtitles, and another who claims ChatGPT taught him French. Maybe there is something to it, but I draw the line at using AI because, as I said, I forbid it in my classes.