For sure! Kick ass score! Trying to show me up, eh? :P
Yeah, I dabbled a bit with the full game since I own it through itch.io. But never played past the third stage. I'm no stranger towards brutal platformers though, so maybe that gave me a little bit of a boost. I can hold my own with fairly difficult games and have even tried my hand at some Mario Kaizo hacks. That said, I still felt like I was doing a lot worse than I was apparently. It's also been quite some time since I really took on a challenge of this difficulty, as I have been mostly been playing cozy stuff like TOEM and GNOG lately. I'm really enjoying the change of pace though, it feels good to beat a good challenge like this again. I'm playing through Celeste Classic 2 now, and I'll be playing the full Celeste soon as well.
That episode is commonly misunderstood. I too had always thought they were lampooning climate change deniers, but Matt and Trey were actually poking fun of Al Gore and An Inconvient Truth as alarmist. They've since apologized for the episode, but it's wild that it's so often confused for satirizing the very thing it was mocking. For me I just assumed that Matt and Trey wouldn't be deniers so it never occured to me until I found out their true intention and now it's pretty cringy to watch that episode since it's a lot more obvious. Here's an article about it:
Just because I'm already on .ml
It's gotten a fair amount of attention so far, I'm sitting at 49 subscribers now. So, I think it's best to stay where I'm at. I'd hesitate to move it right now after almost 50 subs. I could see if there was less traction, but right now it seems like it's alright where it is.
Huh, I hadn't picked up on that when I watched it. I've been meaning to rewatch it when I get the chance. I'll be sure to keep an eyes out.
That's awesome! I'm all about upcycling. It's amazing what people will toss without thinking about repair. Although sometimes it's not worth the headache. I remember flipping my shit when I couldn't figure out how to repair the read error on a PS2 I picked up. Ended up just giving up in the end. Also spent hours through the middle of the night jacked up on energy drinks pulling a laptop apart to fix an issue with the processor running too hot, only to put it back together and still have the same issue.
Ah, what's the issue with the Game Genie? I'm buying an Everdrive, I think I heard that it had built in cheat support.
Yeah, nowadays I shy away from hardmods because of the experiences I listed above. I'd rather buy from someone with the time and experience if I need to go that route. Otherwise I'm completely fine with softmodding or flashcarts for my needs which tend more towards software. I wouldn't mind seeing a RGB mod in person running on something cool like one of those "HD" Trinitrons that were used a video editing monitors back in the day. I hear they look fantastic, the highest fidelity picture you can get for CRT based systems.
I would always be jealous of my friends who would talk about playing a Link to the Past and Chrono Trigger. Here I was sitting in my room playing Pitfall and Enduro on my 2600, while they were jamming on their SNES systems. I had one friend who was lucky enough to have a PS1 when it first came out, seeing FFVII on the PS1 blew my mind at 12 years old. Eventually my parents did get me a other systems, first the SNES than the Genesis and later a PS1. My dad got in on the PS1 pretty hardcore (he was a big car fanatic and thought Gran Turismo was amazing). The funniest time as a kid was when my parents got us a Genesis, and we got the Sega Channel through the local cable company. My parents got so hooked on Shining Force that they'd play for hours and hours, a lot of times they'd hog the Genesis to where we kids barely got to play lol
Sweet! Thank you, happy B-day (or soon to be) to you too! The CRT is the icing on the cake, I love real scanlines in action. Sadly I didn't pay attention to the listing close enough and purchased the console only so I don't have the dogbone controller (was really looking forward to it too). I had to grab a generic NES one for now. Eventually I'll be grabbing the dogbone when I can though.
I've been thinking about this a lot recently as well. I decided that I wanted to ditch using any cell carrier in favor of a VoIP provider. I made a post here: https://lemmy.ml/post/26192657.
The two recommendations that came up the most were voip.ms and jmp.chat. Both require at least $15 to get started but you can port your old number over to both services too. From there jmp.chat is $5 a month, which comes with unlimited texts and 120 min a month.
With voip.ms the call and messaging is subtracted from your balance at a predetermined rate (per min and per text) which I haven't worked out the math on how much mileage $15 will get you initially.
From what I could see jmp.chat looked like it was the easier option to setup, with the Cheogram app for your phone and a Jabber app for the computer. Here's a wiki entry detailing how to setup jmp.chat: https://kb.above.im/jmp-chat/
I settled on discontinuing my mint service and setting up jmp.chat on my phone and computer, and then supplementing the limited minutes via Signal for calling. Seems like a pretty good alternative to me. I still have a week left on my phone plan, and then I'll be taking the plunge. I'd been using my phone less and less lately so it wont be too much of a shock, and I'll save myself an extra $20/month going from the $25 mint plan to $5/month jmp.chat plan.
After looking around their website I found the info on SMS. I do like that it has a minimum pay of $5, both VoIP.ms and JMP require $15 to start. Although, I saw for SMS KeepCalling directs you to their app on the play store. I wonder if it is possible to use their SMS service with a third party app? I would like to avoid using apps from the Play Store if I can help it. Otherwise, it might be a viable option to try out with such a low barrier to entry. I'm still leaning JMP since it seems like the easiest to setup and use between mobile and desktop (MX Linux in my case, using the Gajim app).
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Kafka did, but after that I've had trouble getting over that default setting time and time again. I still have Sputnik from the library, so I might push ahead and see if it lures me in, but I'm still annoyed by the repetitive use of the same motifs.