Not mine, but my sister accidentally kicked a tall floor lamp over in her sleep. It landed right next to the glass aquarium her hamster was in. It had one of those really bright incandescent 100w bulbs.

Poor little guy cooked to death like a Thanksgiving turkey.

My twelve year old self is screaming in excitement at this.

Not op, but:

Many games aren’t profitable to port to older or less relevant hardware and community porting efforts often takes years to properly disassemble and reassemble to work on new platforms. FOSS is easier to access and port to different hardware.

Expanded mod support. Mods are great but they always have limits and there are often certain parts of a game that either cannot (due to tech) or may not (due to developer wishes) be modified. FOSS games wouldn’t have this limitation.

The ability for the community to own FOSS and forks in the event that a company buys the rights to a game and either closes off access or stops supporting certain versions of it.

Likewise your access to a FOSS game cannot be revoked my a marketplace. If a game is for some reason pulled you’re not guaranteed continued unending access to it. The marketplace in question holds all the cards.

FOSS games may also continue to be updated, improved, and worked on after the original dev loses interest or is no longer around. Stardew is well maintained right now, but what about in 15 years when hardware is very different and the dev has stopped updating it?

So sick of Nintendo doing stuff like this. Releasing the GBA SP and requiring a dongle to use headphones? What if I need to charge during a session of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance? This will never catch on.

IDDQD

Castlevania on NES

Unfortunately options are becoming increasingly limited. My guess is that they’re making more money cramming in ads for people that tolerate it than they are losing money from people who refuse it.

Traded that to a friend a few years ago, but it was a pretty fun system! Had it modded and recapped.

Yeah it’s a little bittersweet. But, honestly, I play more games now than ever before and the features that emulation provides means that more games are accessible to me. The kid version of me would’ve been stoked to see the cart, but would have be more stoked to see save states, fast forward, rewind, shaders, and cheats. Not to mention fan translations and romhacks!

Yup, works great.

I have! Balatro is cool, also did TMNT Shredder’s Revenge. Didn’t know UFO50 got a port, I’ll have to check that out.

Definitely underrated! Played that ones a lot as a kid.

I’ll have to sit down tomorrow to go through these ones, but thanks for listing them all out in such a nice format!

Oh weird, I didn’t even think about that. Yeah anything with dynamic ads would likely set them per country, I suppose. So some places wouldn’t have anything to go in the slot.

I don’t know if it’s open-minded per se, I just like people having good discussion. Like I don’t give a shit about astrophysics, but I’ll listen to an astrophysicist explain what excites him all day. I listen to my SO gush about fountain pens all the time, but have no interest in them whatsoever. If I only listened to things I had a pre-existing interest in then I’d never discover anything new to enjoy.

One of the podcasts someone recommended in this thread is just two dudes dunking on Alex Jones. I don’t give a shit about Alex Jones, he seems like a dirtbag. But listening to them dunk on him is hilarious!

I also second Pico8, tons of cool games over there!

You know what I like? People talking passionately about stuff they like. I also don’t like ads. It’s not that hard to figure out, not sure why you’re coming in so hot.

Hearing people with passion explain things they’re knowledgeable about is fun, enlightening, and interesting to me. Sue me.

While I’m at it, got any book recommendations?

Sounds awesome! On the list.

Then either is honestly a great choice, but the RG35XXSP does have a very slight feature advantage. But it does also have very clicky buttons (think original GPA SP but stiffer), so if you’re a button-feel person then that might be a deciding factor.

Well the allure of Rhys Darby might be enough for me to stomach some of it. Time will tell though.