i do enjoy the anbernic. It's up there on my list of Things Worth Every Penny that I don't have a gram of regret about buying. Basically a big Game Boy that contains almost the entire 8/16 bit history of gaming (and some 32 bit, hence the 32X games).
The pinball belongs on that list too, we've used it lots every single day since we got it and we absolutely love it. Really glad to have that in my little arcade room. 🐂
I tried the 32X game with the hummingbird that's named after a lighter but I had no idea what to do, none of the buttons seemed to do anything and then i was eaten by a frog.
Going through my anbernic for the first time in a while. I had no idea Frontier made a crap, twitchy 3D version of Asteroids on the 32X. It has enemy saucers whose main mode of attack is to crash the framerate, which is novel.
Panda is one of the most affectionate sheep I've ever known. If I sit down in the field he'll come and lie down snuggled up right next to me and he'll chew his cud for a bit, then rest his head on my leg and drift off to sleep.
I wonder if there are any games from the 80s that, if they were released for the first time today, would still be hailed as genius game design (we’d be seeing them for the first time, but not we may already know the genre). And what does it mean if that’s not the case? Has how we perceive games changed so much that our very idea of ‘the core of a good game’ has changed to something more superficial?
@psychicparrot42 hell there are games from 1979 that would be classed as great designs if never seen before and released today.
There was a lot of crap released back in the day but the truly great designs remain recognisably truly great.
Studying game history and being able to identify what made those games so timelessly great is an important exercise for anyone learning the art of game design.
@mattround I think it's just that we don't go in for cosmetic dentistry as much as the yanks do, so they take the piss because they perceive our imperfect teeth as "bad".
But in truth essential dentistry to maintain dental health here is either free or relatively affordable, so our imperfect teeth are at least healthy. Whereas in the US even a basic filling is stupid expensive and you hear of people having all their teeth removed rather than bear the cost of having them maintained.
Oh yeah and the flight aggregator sites need to knock it off with this shit, a box that pops up literally every few minutes to nag you and FOMO you into not taking your time. And the flight listings are constantly MOVING ABOUT and the numbers keep fucking changing. I mean yes perhaps pricing is volatile but I'm quite sure all that moving and changing is just more bollocks to intimidate you into leaping before you look.
Good god don't ever try booking flights with traveljunction. If you book on their site it eats all your CC details etc then you get sent to a webpage with this at the top, so you think "fine, I'm done". Then a few minutes later some guy rings from an Indian call centre and tells you that this confirmation is not in fact a confirmation after all.
@dev_ric eh, I already booked elsewhere. I doubt that they are actually dodgy (their name is all over the aggregator sites and if they were criminal I doubt that'd happen), just that they have a shitty counterintuitive UX compared to most places, possibly with ulterior motives of trying to upsell you stuff, IDK. I got fed up and booked elsewhere, couldn't be arsed with them.
@dev_ric@gilesgoat It's just a shit setup that makes you feel deeply uneasy. Why doesn't it do the 2FA stuff? If the payment is declined why doesn't it say so at the time instead of pointing you at a CONFIRMATION ✔️ page and then calling you from an Indian call centre ten minutes later? It probably is still legit, it's just unsettlingly cack-handed compared to everyone else.
