That’s amazing! Herbie looks to be in decent shape for what he’s been through.

The Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive) had expansions that were meant to improve the capability of the system and extend its lifespan, but ultimately they weren’t super popular because it didn’t make sense to make games for such a small subset of Sega’s market share.

This is the 32x add-on that allowed for 32bit processing, and someone has just stacked a bunch of them on top of each other to be funny.

(Pictured here is the base system in the center, with the 32x add-on on top and the CD player below)

Wait till it’s so enshittified it’s unusable

Discord is going public soon, so start the timer…

Do you use it a lot? Or does it auto-run on startup?

I might open the app maybe once or twice a month, and it frequently asks for credentials.

Lol, it’s luck of the draw I guess. I do most of my posting from my phone, so sometimes it looks good enough to me, but probably not on a bigger screen.

I’m worried that I’ll never know if I’m getting Alzheimer’s.

CTRL + shift + T and I are very well acquainted.

I had no idea this feature existed.

I hope it happens!

Spy Family

That commenter mentioning that votes on reddit were designed as a sorting mechanism for relevance, not agreement/disagreement is 100% right.

The people currently running that site have lost their minds.

And it happened again!

But you get to be silly with the kid/s now! And as a whole family of weirdos!

I was a “Reddit is Fun” user for at least a decade

The impression I had of the US election based on it was completely out of line with reality

I’ve largely switched to Lemmy for the past two years, but this was really the last nail in the coffin for reddit for me too. It’s an enforced echo-chamber and no longer a reliable source of information. It’s hard to notice how bad things are when the politics are leaning in your direction, but once you see it, you can’t unsee it, and it feels gross.

Lemmy is obviously pretty politically homogeneous too, but the difference is that I don’t feel like someone is trying to trick me. Topics and and sources are clearly influenced by the individual posters’ opinions, but it doesn’t feel like there’s a coordinated behind-the-scenes effort to push an agenda, which makes for a better vibe.

It’s the social media equivalent of supporting a bunch of Mom and Pop shops (or opening your own!) vs some hyper-sanitized, corporate monstrosity like Wal-Mart.

but it shipped, didn’t it! Looking at you pippin.

This is the kind of story I was hoping to hear in this thread.

Did you enjoy it at the time, or was there a sense of it not being a great console? I know that we were much more forgiving of janky games back then, so it’s hard to look at it fairly from 2025.

For as much as I played Super Metroid back in the day, I’m not sure if I ever completed it. I should fix that.

Yes, definitely. It has to be that they’re all using the exact same engines and methods or something.