FullOfBallooons @ FullOfBallooons @leminal.space

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My high school didn't have them, but the vocational school where I took extra classes did, as did our family's PC. I thought they were great. This was about 2001-2004ish, flash drives weren't a thing yet, and burning a CD to hold a single word doc or powerpoint or something like that seemed really wasteful.

Sometimes I would put a couple mp3s on a zip drive and bring them to school to listen to while I was working on a project.

I'm not the first to say it and I won't be the last, but it just amazes me how the older generation went from "never post your name online, never upload a photo with your face on it, and always be skeptical of things you see on the internet" to "I have to give this sketchy website my credit card info because a guy on Facebook told me...." and then the most bonkers conspiracy theory you have ever heard.

3D Dot Game Heroes on the PS3. Forget good ports, this poor game didn't get ANY ports.

The one toy I wanted more than anything as a kid was the Jurassic Park Compound.

I see them on Ebay going for $100-200, but that's just for the building itself. It'd be pretty pointless to have a big fence with no dinosaurs in it, so I'd have to buy some dinos too. And I need action figures to sit in the watchtower and watch over the dinosaurs, you gotta have that.

And then the realities of adulthood set in: I wouldn't enjoy this toy as much as I would have when I was a kid. Kid me would probably spend hours with this thing crafting big elaborate stories about wrangling dinosaurs and stuff like that. Nearly-40 me would set up the toys, make sure everyone's in cool poses, and then it would probably sit on a shelf. I'm not really sure it's worth it.

So while I'm sad I never got the toy as a kid, I think going back and buying it nowadays would be kind of an expensive hollow victory.

Typically first person.

You might want to check out Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers. The book is about the people of the Exodus Fleet, a group of multi-generation ships that left Earth years ago. Even though the fleet eventually found other planets for them to live on, many are content to continue living out in space. It's a neat little slice of life book about this community doing their part to keep these ships going.

Cavern of Dreams is a great little game, I played it a few months ago. The controls felt a little imprecise (on the PC version anyway) but the graphics absolutely nail the N64 look.

We'll take all kinds of dragons!

Small dragons, big dragons, even radioactive dragons.

When it comes to buying furniture: Get secondhand furniture handed down by relatives, or found at thrift stores, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, garage sales, whatever. It's more eco-friendly to buy stuff that already exists, it'll probably cost less than brand-new furniture, and the older stuff is sturdier than anything you're going to get at Ikea.

With the money you save buying secondhand tables and drawers and such, buy a GOOD brand new mattress. You can cheap out on a lot of furniture, but never cheap out on a mattress. Decades from now, your back will thank you.

Seconding joggers. They're basically just sweatpants with good marketing. I've got two pairs that haven't pilled up on me yet.

What if I'm already gay, can the ants pick up on this and leave me alone?

[laughs in trans man] no thanks, it's all yours.

Last week I was on vacation (went to Disney World) so this weekend I'm gonna take it easy. Do some chores, order a pizza, play video games. Nothing particularly exciting, but I'm okay with that.

Damn, 2024 went by so fast.

The first Phantasy Star is such a cool RPG, especially with the SMS Power patch that retranslates the game and adds several quality of life options.

Rhythm Heaven might be one of my favorite rhythm game series of all time. It's kind of hard to compare with other rhythm games, because RH isn't really like DDR or Guitar Hero or Osu! where the harder songs = more notes to hit. There are some songs where you might only have a couple dozen inputs, but you need to be exact on all of them. It's charming as hell and I love it, and Dolphin running RH Fever works greeeeeeat on the Deck.

That looks GREAT! I love that you got the matching buttons too.

I can't say I've ever heard of Duolingo speedrunning, but I already love the concept.

The plan was to cover everything in orange, but as I was applying the skin I liked the orange/black combo so much I decided to leave it like that.

Not great! I guess I'd be forever bed-ridden with a giant surgical cut across my chest from armpit to armpit.