A little SNES vibe
richyawyingtmv @ richyawyingtmv @lemmy.ml Posts 3Comments 88Joined 2 yr. ago
richyawyingtmv @ richyawyingtmv @lemmy.ml
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Yeah, I grew up with the PAL SNES, and then got an imported Super Famicom. The first time I saw the US SNES was a real WTF moment.
I personally work in finance. It's essential, especially for calculations.
The best scheme.
I live on the coast, my home being a five minute walk from the beach, and between two large towns. In between is countryside one side or quiet roads the other side. So wherever I go, I can take the residential routes (all suitable for pedestrians), walk along the coastline, or go around through the woods and parks.
So on Monday I walked through a country park, around a large bay, through to town to buy some lunch. I then walked alongside the beach up to a forest path, then to the next town where I looked at a few shops and walked back a slightly different way!
I live on the coast, my home being a five minute walk from the beach, and between two large towns. In between is countryside one side or quiet roads the other side. So wherever I go, I can take the residential routes (all suitable for pedestrians), walk along the coastline, or go around through the woods and parks.
So on Monday I walked through a country park, around a large bay, through to town to buy some lunch. I then walked alongside the beach up to a forest path, then to the next town where I looked at a few shops and walked back a slightly different way!
Two photos from yesterday and a few days back. It's probably one of the nicest areas in the country, which helps: https://i.postimg.cc/T2QCGNvq/IMG-20230709-144117.jpg
And the other one:
I walk, a lot. Everywhere. Always have done.
It keeps me nice and slim, and is my way of dealing with stress and any thoughts I may have swishing around in my head. I live in an area that allows me to walk anywhere I want (ie. not America) and I don't need a car at all, luckily.
And I do push it a bit. I walked 36km which is around 21 miles on Sunday, and 32km on Saturday. My legs were starting to hurt like hell nearing the end of it but I always keep going. It feels good to push past what I thought was my limit and keep going. I don't think there's any real conscious thought behind it, it's just how I am. And as I'm in the office today, I'll be walking there and back too (5 miles each way), no bother at all.
Running and weight lifting though? Not my thing. Too much rushing around for the former and not enough moving around for the latter!
Edit: realised my conversion to miles is off. It's early. Turns out according to Google maps I walked 21 miles Sunday...! Took just under 5 hours. And I did get a bit sunburnt, but otherwise fine as usual
I can get that, I guess it's why they introduced menu music - you're in there a looong time.
Well, usually people find 2 to be the hardest to get into so that's interesting!
I find 3 to be the easiest to understand, and it actually has proper tutorials which can be accessed at any time, unlike XB2 (core bursts in battle are like, never explained!).
My daughter (12) recently finished XB3 and loved it, but is having trouble with the battles and systems in 2 - especially the forced field skills. Xenoblade 3 never locks anything away behind skills, aside from the ladders, ropes and slopes which just require a simple chat to the relevant hero once to access them you're able to use them going forward.
I do get that XB3 can be overwhelming. 7 party members at once is a bit of a jump up from only 3. Not for everyone!
Diagnosed autistic as an adult, but not tested for ADHD...but this image feels very, very familiar.
What? That's pretty insulting, really - your statement could be applied to any age. Generalisation isn't cool.
How many 70 year olds do you know? Because the ones I know are either still in work or fully active. Retirement age here in the UK is 67, are you saying those in full time work should be treated like children? My mum and dad are in that age group and Dad's set up his own Plex server for christ's sake.
The people I know who have the worst issues with social media and shit like that are half the age, and the less said about my daughter's age group and their tiktok addiction the better.
Literally the first thing I thought of, complete with his voice
UK focused casual discussion and news.
There's a very small amount, but nothing like there was on Reddit. It's the only thing I miss.
I'm going to name a few potentially obscure ones from my 30 years of gaming
- Micro Machines 2 (SNES and Mega Drive) - as far as I am aware, only MM1 had wide release, the rest were PAL only but have modern 60hz and NTSC patches now. Great fun, and you can play as Violet Berlin (for those like me who used to watch Bad Influence!)
- Looney Toons Collector: Martian Alert!! (Game Boy Color) - this one is hard to categorise! Its a top down adventure RPG like Zelda, you start as Bugs and recruit further characters each with their own skills to traverse the world and solve puzzles. For example, Elmer Fudd has a gun, Tweety can fly over gaps, etc. It is actually really fucking good, and holds up better than many GBC games. You can also trade with other people who have the game, and there's a sequel I haven't even played yet!
- Wario Land Virtual Boy - this is without a doubt one of the best platformers ever made, and it's a damn shame it's been forgotten by most. HOWEVER! Emulators exist, and the game runs like a dream in retroarch/mednafen.
A few tips: the virtual boy is a 50hz console, so set your display to that or use gsync otherwise you'll have stuttering. The console is also natively a wide-screen display, which is sweet. Steam Deck is perfect for it, and looks great in black and white. If you have a VR headset, that's a good idea too to get the proper 3D experience, but it's not essential in any way whatsoever.
- Neutopia II (PC Engine/TG16) - a shameless Zelda clone that is actually worth playing as a spiritual successor to Zelda 1. A neat little what if, if Nintendo had expanded on the original rather than Link to the Past. It has an awesome soundtrack, save battery backup (wahooo) and is just great fun. The first is good too, but feels significantly more dated than the sequel
And lastly, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Switch) - I don't care if it's the opposite of unknown,, I'm recommending this one. Culmination of the best trilogy I've ever known in gaming, and by far the best game I've ever played. With the 4k, 60fps and rebalance mods when playing on PC it's simply incredible. Based Monolithsoft.
The soundtrack is mind-blowing, has the best battle themes in the series and you can tell just how much work went into it (main two characters have flutes they use in the story to send dead soldiers to the afterlife - Yasunori Mitsuda then made those flutes for real to be used in the soundtrack). Just, every single thing about the game exudes more love and care than most games I've played and it shows. After so many years of being unable to finish a story due to corporate wankery (xenosaga....), Takahashi finally got to make his masterpiece. And for those who were put off by the anime-ness of Xenoblade 2, 3 is very much reined in, adult and pretty fucking dark. No big anime titties here - it's war, and it's not pleasant. It's more like XB1 - 2 is the outlier, and its happy-go-lucky feeling makes far more sense after seeing what happens in 3.
Not on my 65" 8k OLED they aren't! You can absolutely tell the difference.
Smaller/low res screens though, sure.
Thomas the Tank Engine on SNES. Me and my mates used to find it hilarious when high. Still do.
Seriously thought for a second there when scrolling that lemmy had added ads
It was a horrible feeling man
I have a few. And I'm not even that old (mid thirties)
- People who talk on phone calls using airpods or similar look ridiculous in public, like they're utter lunatics talking to themselves or their imaginary friend.
- people who view life through their mobile phones are unfortunate and sad. Like...why pay money to go see a gig if you're going to view it through your phone screen? I went to a wedding last week and I was one of the very few who was actually watching the procession with my own eyes rather through a camera app.
- Not being on social media should be an accepted norm, not a fucking exception. This is an issue when dating, unbelievably.
Ha, well we had the same design in the UK as Japan. So did everywhere else, apart from the USA.
A relative bought back a Japanese Super Famicom after being there for a bit along with a shedload of games. We had a UK power supply for it (worked with my UK mega drive AC adapter) and it worked with our UK 20" Sony CRT (pal, but supported NTSC). We used an RGB scart cable, so I was living the dream of full speed 60hz RGB in the UK back in the 90s. Dreamland