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Chozo, do gaming w A sacrifice for the greater good

My parents used to get so mad at me for poaching the batteries from all the remotes.

dharmacurious,

My mom got so frustrated at how often I needed batteries for my walkman, my Gameboy, my other toys, and my little stereo I won at the library, that she replaced all of our batteries with a bunch of rechargeables she bought in bulk. All my friends were so jealous

SturgiesYrFase,
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See…was the other way round for me. My mum had a crippling Tetris addiction when I was 7. So much so that I’d get home from school and every battery in the house would be dead. That year for Christmas all I asked for was batteries.
To be clear, it was my Gameboy and my copy of Tetris…

dharmacurious,

You poor thing. I’m so sorry! That sounds genuinely terrible

SturgiesYrFase,
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Hey, could’ve been worse. At least she was addicted to Tetris, not a raging alcoholic or addicted to meth or something.

dharmacurious,

Very true! Haha

When I was around 22 or so, my mom won a free tablet from a contest online, and got this absolutely terrible android tablet, even by then current (2012) standards. But it did have angry birds. She played so much angry birds that it had noticable grooves in the plastic of the screen from aiming. Lol

My dad (clean now!) decided to try crack at 40 and spent the next 15 years taking us on a wild ride of addiction and absolutely bullshit. I’d definitely take a game addiction over that. Lmao

SturgiesYrFase,
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The slippery slope is when a game addiction turns into a gambling addiction.

Glad to hear your dad’s clean. Hope everything is good for you ❤️

dharmacurious,

Yeah, me and mama both share a tendency towards that. I have to be very careful around gambling, so does she.

And hey, thanks! Yeah, life is swell most days :) Hoping the same for you

SturgiesYrFase,
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Fair enough, it’s important to know what your potential speed bumps are.

Glad to hear that things are going good for you. On the whole, life’s pretty good for me too.

Maeve, do gaming w A sacrifice for the greater good

😏

altima_neo, do gaming w A sacrifice for the greater good
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Yeah, nah, boss, you gonna need at least 3 more of those bad boys.

ArmoredThirteen,

Only one needs to have charge though right? It’ll just drain really fast. Or am I misremembering

altima_neo,
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I don’t think it’ll work without enough voltage

Psythik,

Depends on whether the batteries were hooked up in either series or parallel. Later GameBoys only needed 2 batteries but required the same voltage, so I’m guessing that the OG GB is wired in series-parallel.

So in other words, you need at least two batteries to be good for this to work in the OG GB. Later editions need both batteries to hold a charge to reach 3V.

altima_neo,
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The og, as depicted in the meme, needs 4 batteries, but I remember from experience as a kid that it wouldn’t work with a few dead batteries and one good one. Sometimes it would work out if they had enough juice in them, though. It wasn’t nearly as picky as my Nomad was.

Dijon,

From my knowledge, it’s kinda the opposite - when a device first runs out of battery, it’s almost always the case that only one of the batteries is truly dead. So if you find that one dead battery and swap it out, you’ll be good again for a surprisingly long while

hdnsmbt, do gaming w A sacrifice for the greater good

👴

asteriskeverything, do gaming w A sacrifice for the greater good

Wanna know some evil shit?

Knew a kid who had siblings all close in age. Their Parents didn’t want for money at all, but still bought only one gameboy to share between the siblings. That’s just stupidity on the parents’ part, to the point of total lack of self preservation!

IE they introduced something to cause conflict instead of spreading it out and causing peace for everyone.

Juice260, do gaming w A sacrifice for the greater good
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That takes me back

bsides, do games w I think Sims is a dead franchise now

It makes money so it’s not dead. People using it and playing it are the reason. It would only flop if people weren’t giving them tons of money. It’s the hard truth one’s got to acknowledge.

miklo, do zapytajszmer w Hostowanie kalendarza
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Przystępny docker do nextclouda w jednym kontenerze, z lokalną bazą danych: github.com/linuxserver/docker-nextcloud . Do prostych zastosowań dla jednego użytkownika, typu właśnie kalendarz - działa wystarczająco dobrze.

wacpan, (edited ) do zapytajszmer w Hostowanie kalendarza
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W odróżnieniu od pozostałych piszących – choć, przepraszam, nie podam lepszej alternatywy, też aktualnie researchuję temat – to chyba nie polecam jednak NextClouda. Odniosłem wrażenie, że to nie jest jeszcze dopracowany, dojrzały i stabilny projekt – może właśnie przez jego rozrost, feature creep. Baikal i Radicale także wystąpiły w rekomendacjach. Dzięki za Anytype, @harc i @dynks.

Berin, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 22nd
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Got myself a Switch and started playing Cult of the Lamb and Jack Jeanne! Cult of the Lamb is incredibly fun, and I’ve just started the second dungeon~

Katana314, do games w What do you think about random encounters?

I think there’s better patterns RPGs can use for them.

A lot of games now just put them wandering the world, and touching/attacking them prompts combat. Then, the game needs to invent various motivations for you to actually want to attack the enemy.

In a lot of games, they’re just genuinely in the way through tight corridors to a destination. A better approach can be to associate some kind of minor quest reward to directly pursuing the enemies.

But, then you get the problem that a lot of RPGs just have no interesting decisions to make in combat. And, participating in combat can lead to a slow wearing down of the party’s mana points, or the game’s equivalent. In many games, you only want to use the basic cure spell and auto-attack because you’ll survive fewer fights without mana rationing. It becomes counter-intuitive and less fun.

Some games resolve this well. Cosmic Star Heroine for instance, a short indie JRPG, heals you after every fight, and each combat is uniquely scripted in for pacing much like Chrono Triggwr.

callouscomic, do games w Day -4 of posting a screenshot from a game I've been playing until I also forget to post screenshots
rcbrk, do gaming w A sacrifice for the greater good

Don’t do it. Alkalines are all shit now and will leak all over your electronics.

Get some decent NiMH.

HiddenLayer555,
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NiMH is perfect for an application like this, where the power draw is high but you don’t need the batteries to retain charge while in standby for that long, so the high self-discharge rate is irrelevant.

AllOutOfBubbleGum, do gaming w A sacrifice for the greater good

10yo me realized that other sized batteries that were also 1.5v could be used as well if I had enough tape and aluminum foil, so then all the flashlight D batteries around the house started to go missing as well.

HiddenLayer555,
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The kid who jury rigged their gameboy to a power adapter is probably an electrical engineer by now.

Rozz,

I had a plug that went with rechargeable batteries or something, and it was great for a while, but then the connector failed and if I moved at all the gameboy would turn off. very frustrating.

linuxguy, do games w Day -4 of posting a screenshot from a game I've been playing until I also forget to post screenshots

I like how the days go in reverse on this series of posts. Down to -4 now.

callouscomic,

It’s all downhill and lower quality from here! Cheers!

Cadeillac,
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I’m glad I wasn’t the only one giggling about this

Edit: sorry, I didn’t realize the post was 2 days old. Guess I haven’t browsed my subscribed in a while

linuxguy,

Oh no, 2 days! That’s stale AF! /s

Cadeillac,
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I’m always super worried about proper etiquette. Probably the 'tism

linuxguy,

That’ll do it :nods:

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