I’ve said this for years… There was no “gaming crash”, people just started playing games on the C-64.

Happened with me in FFVII back in the day… Doing well, had to take a 2 week business trip, got back… “Wait, did I just GET to this town or was I LEAVING this town?” No clue what I was doing, I may have just started over…

Even in the days of memory cards you could back up saves to other memory cards…

Yeah, but you don’t give pirated goods as gifts. 😉

I still have the OG Advance Wars carts for my GBA.

I picked up Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot for my kid for Christmas. $60 still after coming out in 2023.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/advance-wars-1-plus-2-re-boot-camp-switch/

(* “My kid” - He’s 29, he should be buying his own games! LOL.)

The Switch 2 is the first console I’ve just outright skipped in… well… years now. I guess since the Wii U?

Just every piece of news about it as it was coming out made it sound less and less appealing…

$70 games (that never get discounted because Nintendo.)

Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.

Special SD cards that are more expensive.

Microphone support requires a subscription after 1 year.

Charging $10 for a hardware demo that should be included, like Desk Job on the Steam Deck.

And, like you say, the remote detonation option, which is burning legitimate players:

https://www.gadgetmatch.com/nintendo-switch-2-lawsuit-bricked-consoles/

Generally with new hardware it’s “Hey, what’s not to like?”

With the Switch 2 it’s more “What is there to like?”

Have you considered seeking professional help?

Looks like you’re right, it used a password system for saves.

Only games with save features and I believe Star Control was one of them.

The mere presence of griefers eliminates this from PVE:

https://www.ign.com/articles/we-just-started-i-have-nothing-retired-pro-gamer-goes-viral-for-relentlessly-killing-casual-arc-raiders-players-but-is-it-griefing-or-just-fair-pvp

Until they come up with servers where PvP is prohibited, PvE isn’t worth discussing.

With current pricing, it’s going to be tough and that’s no joke.

Even the new Steam Machine is being predicted to be around $1,000.

https://www.indy100.com/gaming/steam-machine-price-cost-release-date-2674829977

The era of $600 gaming PCs is 1-3 years ago now.

(NGL - I still want a Steam Machine. :)

I’ve consistently refused to buy in to Game Pass. I still buy physical games where available. If it’s only digital, I’ll get the Steam version for my Steam Deck.

Yeah, weird how he skipped the universally acclaimed game of the year.

It’s not #1, it’s alphabetical. 😉

I mean, if I had, essentially, unlimited money, and there were places in the world I liked to visit repeatedly, and I don’t mean “for a weekend” but months or seasons at a time? Hell yeah I’d buy a house there.

At a minimum, one Southern Hemisphere, one Northern Hemisphere. Never see Summer again.

Yeah, 181 is extraneous to the point, the “psst” at the bottom of 180 is the neighbors pulling him into a conversation, which is 181, same with the top part of 182.

I wanted folks to focus on the matches story which is relevant here.

But really, all of Maus is excellent.

So manufacturers can bill you monthly for the same features…

There’s a similar bit to that in the classic graphic novel Maus:

(edited for clarity)

Always use the indefinite article… “a”, never “your”. 😉

“But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.”

More to that… these are exactly the people we have all been telling “If you see someone on the internet telling you ‘type this!’ DON’T DO IT!”

ALT-F4 being the benign one.

rm -rf / --no-preserve-root - not so benign.

I remember a story of someone getting the recursive tag wrong on the chmod command and managed to chmod 000 themselves out of everything on the system… including chmod.