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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • 30+ upvotes and no responses. I can’t say I’m surprised. This thing has a small community outside of the Arduboy forums.

    Either way, I got some time to fart around with some random games and it’s *really *fun. I love the Game and Watch physical type feel and the “anybody can make a thing” attitude and I’ve been mesmerized by some of these games longer than I thought I would have. Not every game is fascinating, but every one was made by an amateur on a constrained platform and the whole platform feels like a long form Wario Ware game where every game varies from 30 seconds to several minutes. It’s genuinely sweet, I love discovering new games on this thing.

    I love the idea of people developing games for a very limited, black and white console and this thing doesn’t cost $200 like the Playdate. That’s almost an entirely different one of these, but they’re in the same realm and you shouldn’t discount it.

    It obviously won’t emulate your Game Boy games, but it comes stock with a bunch of little 2 minute games that a passionate and loving community that loves retro games and maybe hates Christmas made.








  • They do, but I think their effectiveness at eradicating ticks is often greatly exaggerated. I read a couple seemingly reputable articles and studies some time ago, but can’t be fucked to find them now.

    They’re still neat little shits and I’ll take all the help I can get against those creepy blood suckers.







  • Yeah I don’t think anybody knows, but I think it’s only a matter of time and you can only rely on brand recognition and momentum for only so long before people realize that there are better services for them that don’t actively strip away the shows and films you love while treating you like an asshole. There’s just too much competition and it’s not stopping any time soon and a ton of people are actually paying a closer attention to their monthly fees and tightening the purse strings.

    They probably won’t go out of business tomorrow or a year from now, but maybe 5 years and likely in the next 10. They just don’t have the same cultural cache as it did even a couple years ago. What did they even release that everybody knows about past The Tiger King and Squid Game which was years ago at this point other than like Wednesday. Better Call Saul ended last year. What do they have? Korean soaps, The Witcher without Henry Cavill and a creepy French movie about little girls twerking?