The funny thing about that is the game store I really like also sells fake cartridges/ROM hack cartridges that are clearly fake and not labeled as the real deal. Don’t know how they source them, but I could probably buy something like Shadow the Hedgehog on Genesis.

Also, I really don’t expect anything even slightly good to come of this GameStop retro games thing considering the fact it doesn’t matter whether the game is legit or rare, they’ll buy at as low of a price as possible then sell at least 2x the going rate online. That, and their workers probably aren’t gonna be given any training whatsoever to spot even the most obvious fakes and will probably get severely reprimanded over buying a fake.

I was born right before the new millennium.

At this point, there are definitely plenty, but I’d personally say my top picks are definitely (in no particular order):

• Brok the Investigator

• Franklin (yes I’m a child at heart sometimes)

• New Vegas and the DLCs

• Borderlands (on xbox360 w/ all 4 DLCs, have been playing on and off for over a decade and still have way too much stuff left)

• An American Tail (definitely in my top 3, if not my absolute favorite 3D animated film ever)

As an arachnophobe, I personally made it my mission to block that community without looking so I’d never have to see it again. Can’t stand spiders.

MX Linux and the other side is a big deal for the next two years so we can get it in the future

It’s kinda boring because I always keep the thing that personalizes your autocorrect off.

Absolutely agree with point 2, not just for Mastodon, but others like here on Lemmy or Misskey or whatever it may be.

The process of finding an instance can sometimes be annoying because you might find an instance that sounds alright, like I did for Mastodon, and then find that there’s the problem of sign-ups not available. That, and signing up for the instance I got on then had a waiting period for account review and all that before I could do anything.

I assume, from what I’ve heard, all you gotta do for threads and bluesky is just sign up and start posting with less effort, which is what the majority of people want.

Pretty much the same for me, but videos included in the mix too.

On my laptop/desktop, for now I’d say Strawberry Music Player because I like playing/listening to the audio files I’ve stored locally on them.

For my phone, it’s currently Auxio for the same reason.

These are subject to change if I find something better.

At this point installing win11 is a bug that can be easily fixed by installing anything from Linux to BSD to even something as incomplete and not meant for use as a daily driver as AROS at this point.

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Have yet to personally block any instances. So far I think the closest I’ve come is blocking a spider community because fuck those hell spawns and a Minecraft community or two.

Edit:

Found out there’s more than I remember being blocked. Multiple mc communities, a cock community (, because that stuff ain’t for me and I remember accidentally clicking on one post from there by accident), a pussy community because I don’t come here for porn, a Sintendo community, some bikinibottomtwitter or something similarly named community (you can guess why), and for some reason an xbox community (couldn’t tell you why).

Also, I noticed for some reason I have someone from a different instance that I cannot remember why I blocked. Some guy from lemmt(dot)tf, so I have absolutely no clue since I have no idea what that instance is like, let alone remember anything about that account.

Fighting piracy is like a caveman with a pointy stick trying to fight a 3 headed hydra from Greek mythology. The only way for them to truly defeat the hydra is an idea they would never accept because they aren’t allowed to treat customers/consumers as people.

Definitely too late for them to be trying to get into the retro games market where I live. We’ve already got a pretty decent retro games store that sells more than just retro game stuff. It’s a GameStop on steroids since they also sell new games, plushies, used DVDs, physical board/card games, manga, etcetera. It even has 2 locations!

Don’t know if it’s still the case, but I did hear around maybe mid to late 2010s they had even replaced GameStop on a military base. As for the store chain, I don’t know whether it’s a west coast thing, but Game World.

Customer: brings in super rare limited edition signed copy Sintendo game

GameStop Retro: Best we can do is $0.50, but if you sell it and come back next week we’ll let you buy it back for $6mil! What a steal!

To be fair, it’s been over a decade since I’ve seen it, so I can only remember vague images of it.

Edit:

I couldn’t even remember the right brand. Chrysler Concord.

If I had the money and knew people who could do this type of stuff, you bet I’d wanna buy my favorite 90s vehicle and turn it into an EV

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Tried looking up the vehicle because I wanted to remember what it’s called, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it is, even after attempting to look it up. All I remember is that it was potentially a Chevrolet with 3 seats up front, 3 in the back, and a little divider thing in the middle of the back seats you could pull out.

I absolutely loved it and it was a sad day when we had to get rid of it. It may have been a safety hazard, with the back heating up and burning (thankfully it didn’t actually reach the seats, just heated them up, or there could have been 3 burned minors, myself included), but I still love it since it was the family car.

I’m definitely gonna have to continue searching for the name, using my limited car knowledge.

Edit Edit:

I’m not a car person, so shoot me for this if you want, but it was actually a Chrysler Concord. Again, I’m not a car person, so I don’t know much about vehicles other than basic things like how to change a tire or on changing the oil on a 2000s Toyota Town and Country.

My mechanically inclined father came to the rescue as to what it was.

If my desktop didn’t get disconnected every night due to router restart and I wasn’t worried about my VPN killswitch deciding to activate, I wouldn’t mind doing a little bit of seeding of some old stuff.

Those no phones in school rules would have absolutely killed me since I always listened to music in-between classes in highschool. Especially freshman world history class since I kinda relied on my phone for the digital textbook since I almost lost my physical copy I got loaned from the bookstore.

Slim chance, but for my first and only scratch ticket, being only one away from winning is pretty cool in my book.

Not rich, but definitely more well off. As a one off thing, bought myself a scratch ticket and almost won somewhere around $20,000. Luck almost shined on me.