Immediately thought of Sonic Adventure 2 lol I’ve never met anyone who actually owned a pair (I don’t think they ever made it to Europe but I might be wrong)

I got one this morning!! Immediately clocked it as a scam lol. I didn’t delete it but it disappeared from my inbox so I guess the account was closed

I feel like of all places to try and scam people lemmy is… Not a good choice? From what I’ve seen (and I haven’t been around too long tbf) the community gravitates towards more tech-savvy and educated people, so unlikely to fall for scams like these. They’d have better luck on Facebook probably, just attach an AI-generated Jesus and they’d make mad cash lmao

“Could care less” really irks me lol. Like, if you just stop and think about it it makes no sense? If you could potentially care less about a topic that means you must care at least somewhat in the first place?

I got a wired wired XBox360 controller at GameStop 10 years ago for a really good price and it works wonders! I’m on Windows 8.1 and for most games it doesn’t require any sort of configuration either, I just plug it in and it works right away

Mh, not sure how I feel about these. On one hand, as someone who mostly buys games secondhand, I appreciate they can be resold unlike actual digital releases. But what’s going to happen in 15-20 years when Nintendo pulls the plug on the Switch servers and eShop? Won’t these stop working? So at that point it’s just a piece of plastic whereas physical cartridges would still let you play games. Feel free to correct me if I’m misunderstanding how they work!

For me the one I remember most was just being mega nauseous and dazed. I had a killer headache and tummyache combo and was also like… Kind of overly emotional lol? Definitely overshared and said thing I would have never said otherwise. But for better or worse I barely remember what I did! Walking home was also crazy, it felt like the world just kept spinning and putting one foot in front of the other was a whole ordeal.

It wasn’t bad enough that emergency services had to get involved, though my brother did call once we were back at his flat just to be sure. They told him to make sure I stayed conscious and didn’t fall asleep in a way where I could choke if I threw up and to call again if my breathing became too slow. And the next morning I had the worst hangover of my life. 0/10 do not recommend, miserable experience all around lol

Not sarcasm just a poor choice of words haha. You’re right in that the internet wasn’t safer, what I was trying to get across was that at least when there were sites for children they had a curated space where they wouldn’t be exposed to anything inappropriate, whereas now they’re on sites that don’t cater to children (and nor should they!) where they’re exposed to lots of things they shouldn’t be exposed to

You’re right, the word safe there was a poor choice lol. But I still do think the internet was at least better for children when there were designated sites/communities for them with appropriate moderation, instead of children being on social media. Though of course the ideal would be for them to be playing outside but that’s a whole different discussion

Issues with Flash and the actual quality of those games aside, what I really miss from that period of the internet was that children could use it safely. There’s no spaces for children on the internet anymore and I think that’s really sad, nine year old should be playing Hannah Montana dress-up not get eating disorders from TikTok influencers

Edit for clarity: I didn’t mean to come off as though I think the internet was ever safe for unsupervised children because that’s not what I believe. What I was trying to say is that the loss of spaces made for children, with adequate content curation and moderation, pushed children on social media which is awful for them

Drinking alcohol while taking medication I was not supposed to drink alcohol with. Was a fun night until the alcohol poisoning happened at least!

I keep two windows side by side: the left one has my email, youtube and sometimes a comic I’m reading or audiobook; the right one has a browser virtual pet game I check every few hours and is where I open new tabs to check lemmy, imgur, etc. Pretty clean! But then the moment I work on either art or coding I open a third window that usually gets to 10+ tabs oops

Oh man that unlocked some memories I hadn’t thought about in 10+ years!! I never participated in the PS3 vs Xbox360 arguments myself, but as a teenager who loved me some drama I spent more than a few hours reading through strangers’ flame wars lmaooo

Every time I hear a new piece of news about the Switch 2 it’s disappointing. Bummer

Definitely!! There’s a few I frequent too (funny enough mostly attached to virtual pet sites lol), but it’s sad how many communities have moved to Discord. Which don’t get me wrong I like Discord, I’ve been in really fun servers and use it to talk to my friends, but it sucks for archiving purposes and is just not a good replacement for forums imo

There already are art/gallery sites that look and function like old DeviantArt! Albeit not on the Fediverse, though I recall seeing someone mention a Pixelfed instance for artists once

Oh I meant miss as in you’re nostalgic for it! So it could be something that doesn’t exist anymore or something that changed a lot over time

For me, it would have to be 2008-2011 era DeviantArt! A lot of my nostalgia is really due to the fact I was a teenager and a part of me misses having no worries outside of videogame bosses and homework lol, but I genuinely feel like it was a great place! I used to spend hours browsing art, talking to people, making friends… Of course it wasn’t perfect, there were creeps (one time a grown ass man tried to convince my then 15 year-old friend to partake in a diaper fetish roleplay… Jesus Christ) and the kind of stupid drama you can expect from teenagers. But even with that, I’m glad my teenager internet experience was there instead of Twitter or TikTok haha

More broadly, I miss forums! I remember spending so much time getting good at using GIMP to make graphics for roleplay forums I was on. Which in retrospect were ugly as sin LMAO because I was a teenager slapping every effect I could on crusty jpeg anime screenshots… It was a simpler time (❁´‿`❁)✲ﾟ

Understandable! I lived in the UK for a few years and will say I really appreciated how mindful everyone was of personal space there!

Kiss people on both cheeks as a greeting! Though even as an Italian I will say I never really liked it lol

Precious!! They look like muppets lol