Cerberus would cost me a fortune in dog treats.

Thank you, friend. It’s lovely to have such a positive reply.

I’d recommend it to anyone - education is never wasted. This is the end of year five or six now mind and I’ve had a bit of a titsful of it - the summer break has come at a perfect time. I’ll smash this last year in then give it a rest I think, maybe formalise my French over a year or two.

Teaching my dog the “kiss” command has been one of the best things ever.

Even when he’s turbo excited to see me, a quick “sit” followed by a “kiss” gets him pointing his nose in the air so I can kiss it.

He’s a good boy.

I abandoned my plan to go into software development by means of university, left secondary school and took up employment in a different field.

After a bit of lateral movement and promotion to a job that was more desk-oriented, I’m doing a computing degree part time, and I actually really enjoy it.

I’m doing it for fun, because I enjoy the subject - I’ve got no plans to use it and there’s no job pinned on the hopes of passing. It’s wonderfully liberating.

That said, I appreciate I’m in a privileged position to be able to do what I’m doing.

I used to wonder about who came up with those weird names, but then I saw so many .HACK// games at the top of ROM directories or games called !!!AAAA at the top of shareware lists that I just got numb to them, they’re just the clear tape at the start of a cassette that is ignored until the sensible titles come along.

Which is a shame, because apparently the .hack manga is supposed to be decent.

“so is it clearer with lens one…”

“…or with lens two?”

Academic year is largely done, so I’m looking forward to three months of kicking the arse out of my gaming to-play list; getting out running more; and spending time with the family.

For the second three months, I’m looking forward to enjoying the study and achieving good grades, before it fades away into another nine month slog and the pass mark becomes the target and not the minimum 😂

Ah yes, a fellow person who hates disposable income too!

Congrats!

The only minor problem with debit or charge cards in Europe is that the initial preauthorisation amount is actually debited from your account - so if the preauth is £15 or £30 or £40 - regardless of whether you put £1.50 of juice in or £14.99, the £15 is debited until the transaction finalises and the remainder is refunded a few days later.

As much as I like using contactless payment to avoid using an app or an RFID or NFC card, I do have more problems with failed attempts to charge using a bank card.

Using the ChargePlace Scotland card to tap in seems to work way more consistently for whatever reason, across that network.

edit: or get a Type 2 charger in the house, or a granny charger at worst.

Happy birthday!

gr8 britun squad reppin

Awesome! What’s your favourite Pokémon and why is it Sandshrew?

I agree - I’m not expert but I know that the mining of rare earth metals and the disposal of some EV components are problematic. It’s not a perfect solution.

That said, better solutions such as fuel cells or hydrogen are still 10-15 years away, and “better” shouldn’t be the enemy of perfect. I’m not particularly car proud and cars tend to last me twelve-fifteen years so I went for an EV hoping that an even better tech will be available by the time I need a car next time round.

This pizza was sponsored by AmigaOS

If I didn’t think you were a troll before, I certainly do now.

Enjoy the rest of your day 😊

…literally nobody is talking about playing on a phone apart from you, though?

Well done for winning an argument with yourself.

You’re basing that off incomplete evidence. It isn’t known if it was the GBC, the cartridge, the batteries, or software at fault.

Yes?

No such thing as a weird kids collection.

Whatever a kid is excited about is fuckin awesome man!

edit: as long as something isn’t being unalived to add to the collection obvs

In fairness, the backup issue is era-specific. One would have that issue with a Game Gear or a Wonderswan.

The issue of carrying around old tech is personal preference. The debate between emulation and original hardware will rage on all day long and is far too big for a thread like this.

I’m no fan of Nintendo, but the fact that both my GBs and my NES work okay is an entirely anecdotal but personally convincing argument.

As for more modern games… then yeah I can’t really argue, particularly with Ninty’s asshole approach to game preservation; creating false scarcity; and legal-heavy approach to mods.