Another hot tip: don’t refer to people as “normies.”
Another hot tip: don’t refer to people as “normies.”
Nostalgia is really interesting in that it’s inherently bittersweet. It’s nice because it grounds us in a shared timeline and focuses on mostly positive aspects of some past point in time, but it’s also sad because it means thinking back fondly on a time that will never be again.
So maybe it’s the bitter half of that bittersweet feeling that you’re subconsciously averse to? Either that or maybe your past/childhood was mostly negative or even traumatic? I’m no psychologist, so really I don’t know what I’m talking about.
We’re so fucking cool, aren’t we?
That’s really cool that someone thought to preserve this and put it on display in a museum. It’s like a modern historical artifact from the golden age of computing.
“Shouldn’t we wait for reinforcements?”
“I am the reinforcements.”
We’re done here. That’s the one.
I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread because I would also love to know if I’m missing out on some good games journalism out there. Sadly, sites like what you’ve described are increasingly rare in the modern era. Nevertheless, here are a few that come to mind:
NintendoLife is pretty great for this if you’re looking for Nintendo-related news, reviews, interviews, and feature articles.
One of their affiliate sites, Time Extension, is also really good for long-form articles and retrospectives about retro games.
And while it’s mostly just news, like you said, Polygon will sometimes surprise you with some really excellent feature articles that have a lot of thought and research put into them.
Yeah, that surprised me, actually.
I just took Mastodon for a spin only a week or so ago, and it felt much less active than most of the communities on here do. Just my anecdotal experience, though. I couldn’t find more than a handful of Twitter-migrated accounts on Mastodon that I cared to follow. There just wasn’t much happening on there that I’m interested in when I last checked. I’ll look again.
Oh hell yeah they are. I’m a tech enthusiast, myself. Don’t even get me started on Wednesdays because I’ll never stop.
Because it’s just an incredibly small userbase made up mostly of tech/privacy enthusiasts as of right now.
I’ve tried them all, and as of right now Connect feels the most polished and feature rich. So that’s my recommendation.