I didn't know I needed a Chinese bootleg of Shining Force in my life but here we are. Bonus points for the random usage of the Albert Odyssey coverart.

Welcome to Tom Nooks' McDonald's. Feel free to browse, but try not to carouse.

Save scumming my way through Baldurs Gate 3, like Mystra intended.

I use Duck on my laptop, but my phone is pretty entrenched in Google. But I downloaded the app just now to test and sure enough immediately found the answer to my dumb question that Google couldn't handle.

Like is it just an AI model interpreting what it assumes I want as opposed to what I literally typed?

It's trash whatever it is.

I've noticed for awhile that Google sucks dog balls. I know they were caught changing search strings behind the scenes to add "where to buy".

But lately like zero returns are informational. It's all marketplace results. For shit I didn't search for

The slow death of the internet is heartbreaking.

As bad as my social anxiety can get I think I actually weathered this event pretty well! Probably because it was so dumb I thought it was pretty funny.

I also hadn't really slept the night before because airports are stressful.

...and wait. I pop on my noise cancelling (this part is important) headset and listen to music while idly browsing my phone.

I'm a few songs in when I notice the girls giggling and sneaking looks at me.

The headset is not connected.

I just blasted Scotty Doesn't Know to the whole gate.

I was at the airport, escorting my kid to a flight. We're waiting and across from us are two teenagers talking loud shit about some other girl when they catch me rolling my eyes.

They adjust their volume and we all go on with our lives. My kid boards his flight but I have to wait...

It's like a demo!

Totally insaney

I forgot that was the name of the city, which is weird cause you'd think I'd remember my own name.

Dammit now I gotta write a book just to use this photo

New profile pic. Feelin' frisky. 😘

I personally like not splitting my spending between new releases and retro physical

Gotta love Final Fantasy 9 ❤️

Did you know many previously untranslated retro games received first-time official English releases on modern platforms?

I've created a little site with a list of 60+ newly translated ports/remakes: sites.google.com/view/retro-g...

This list (& thread) will be updated over time.

Nope :P

Won an eBay auction for a game that ultimately traveled less than 4 miles to my house.

I did!

Also congrats on the new leg!

Best part of going offline for 10 months. I wasn't constantly being bombarded with literal garbage advertising

Related note: Phantasy Star Online skate decks...

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Whhhhhy

So the LRG Toomba plush is actually kind of adorable? Shame they marketed it with a 3D render that was impossible to replicate at the price they were selling them.

Also why I never pulled the trigger on Rocket Knight. Like I just don't trust the marketing.

Congrats to Trump for throwing the gayest Nazi rally ever

Probably not, but it's convenient.

You know I own Sim City 2000 on Saturn and now that you mention it I should probably just rebuy the PlayStation version. Otherwise I'm going to run into the same problem. :(

Oh yeah! It uses a whole memory card. Not much of an issue on the PS3. But would have sucked back in the day.

Civ2 is still one of the best in the series. I really miss the edutainment vibe from the wonder videos. Last year I realized it was ported to the PS1 and I just keep coming back to it now.

For anyone who wants to relive the ff9 guide madness, there is a live archive of this guide (SE no longer hosts it and hasn't for like 15 years):
www.ff9guide.com