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it feels like we're one of the younger ones in our acquaintance group; the original and gbp were before our time, we started with the color

Game Boy

do you ever just randomly remember that one moment in earthbound where a plot-required door can only be opened by standing motionless in front of it for five minutes of real time?

do we have any plastics right now that are in common use and are made with zero petrochemicals? I know there are plant-based plastics out there but I don't know if any of them use no petrochemicals to manufacture.

why are there so many toroidal cereals

are they all just cheerios ripoffs?

it has that kind of... mid-20th-century-sci-fi feeling to it

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then again, i bet an author like arthur c clarke could have done something fascinating with it

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I feel like this has strong potential for a plot to a sci-fi/fantasy thing

the book starts with the realization that astrology works on venus and then goes on to *why* does it work there, using equations worked out by people millennia ago who were definitely on earth at the time... right?

it's not the most fascinating plot out there but it's about on par with some of the cheap paperbacks we've found in the library's used bookshop

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What if it turned out that astrology was actually 100% true and predictive but it actually only works if you look at things from the perspective of venus

we should maybe go... actually finish breath of the wild sometime

the game has so much content that actually doing the final boss is kind of... not a thing we want to do yet? but we're *still* avoiding spoilers for the late game and it came out years ago

this "Demo User" person hasn't turned in a *single* assignment for me to grade

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

"If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it"

This is such a good article. CW discussion of ableism
humanparts.medium.com/amp/p/3a

is it just us or does it bug anyone else that super hydlide isn't a super nintendo game

oh huh, apparently the main reason the game gear was such a battery hog was that it used a ccfl backlight

apparently you can mod a game gear to use an led backlight pretty easily and modded ones have comparable battery life to a game boy (about five times a stock game gear)

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