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I like mixing "levels" of words

"slightly outstanding"
"extremely mediocre"
"a middling degree of utter incomprehensibility"

I'm quite sure we're not the first ones to have this thought but a small portable device dedicated to playing classic portable games would be a very nice thing to have

I bet people have done it before but probably went the emulation route which inevitably causes problems, and probably didn't make good enough quality housings and stuff so it would end up feeling plasticky and cheap

i'd want to make something that uses a proper housing from like a gba or something, has an actual cartridge slot and uses actual game boy hardware (or SOC versions thereof), but with upgraded visual quality due to using an actual backlit screen

maybe make it so it can do some other games too, maybe NES and SNES and SMS and Genesis and game gear (obviously not with original cartridges of those, the whole shell of the thing is smaller than an NES or even SNES cartridge)

I guess a super game boy in one of those portable SNES clones would get you gb games with a backlight on the go but I dunno

I just want a handheld system that plays gb/gbc/gba games from the actual cartridges and has a backlight

bonus points if it can also play from roms on an sd card or something though

*yes, you can play gba games on a DS or DS Lite but you can't play gb/gbc games on those, so the backlit SP is the only official way to play gameboy or gameboy color cartridges with a backlight excepting the really rare game boy light that I think was japan only and still didn't do gbc games

**i'm not counting the game boy player or the super game boy because those are not portable like the original was

I wonder, has anyone ever made a clone of the GBA that has a nicer screen that you can actually see without standing on the surface of the sun? Or do you just have to play the games on a GBA SP if you want any form of lighting at all?

It's a shame the backlit (as opposed to frontlit) SP is so rare.

And some of them have briefly done it, though the stars they create tend to stop being stars shortly afterward.

It's strange to think that there are people right now on this planet attempting to work out how to create actual literal stars in laboratory conditions.

cities that have a "homeless problem" would not have a homeless problem if they just gave the homeless people homes

it's weird to think that the nintendo DS was originally going to just be a spinoff of the gameboy line and they were planning to go back to more conventional gameboys after it

i wonder what portable games would have looked like if not for the massive success of the ds

thing we noticed at the grocery store: dark chocolate M&Ms claim to use 50% cacao chocolate (which is not particularly dark but okay), yet dark chocolate peanut M&Ms use 49% cacao chocolate

why do they use different recipes

why are game genres so badly named

RPGs are rarely about role-playing and far more about experiencing a story (particularly JRPGs; WRPGs and cRPGs are more focused on the RP part of the RPG)

FPSs aren't necessarily about shooting and being first-person, they're about reflexes and fast-paced action. just going by the name alone, Metroid Prime (very clearly a metroidvania) and Portal (very clearly a physics based puzzle game) would be FPS games, which they really don't fit in with the rest of

The price of helium, like helium itself, is very volatile.

Why is it that you can still get hand versions of many power tools, but hand drills aren't really made anymore?

it does exactly what it says it does: it attempts a number of different ways to crash your browser (only after you tell it to though)

I like that https://www.crashmybrowser.com/ exists

*atari 2600 style beep*

why is it that one of the most memorable lines ever seems to be "NOT RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT
WILL STAY THESE MES ENGERS ABUT THEIR DUTY"

it's not a particularly poignant line, it's not even terribly important to the story it's from, it's just that glom of nit sounds funny

i am just extremely stressed right now and need affection but also i'm in the sort of mood where anything suggesting physical contact is Bad

okay apparently internet is back now

that was about three hours of what ffelt like some kind of psychological torture or something

aaaaagh having internet out is such a horrible experience when internet is your only way of interacting with people, especially when it's somehow out in a way that makes it so that I can _see_ things people say but I can't say things back and I get all that anxiety of "what if they get worried, what if they think we're in trouble or somethin gbecause we're not responding" and i can't even post this right now as i type it because of it and i have no idea when it's going to get fixed and aaaaaaaa

this is worsened by the fact that most of the things we do to help cope with stress require an internet connection... and when the stress itself is over not having an internet connection it kind of compounds on itself and just makes it way worse

i just want to at least know what the hell is going on