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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • Very admirable work, but I can’t help but feel like they are late to the game.

    I work on those handhelds, and they’re all slowly dying. The onboard flash memory is starting to fail more often in older units, and even newer ones are prone to developing significant screen issues. Parts are mostly still available - but some, like the power boards, are getting harder to find.

    It’s not as easy to swap the primary PCB as a Game Boy. And the chips are not off-the-shelf, so donor consoles are the only source of replacement chips.

    This project looks fantastic, and I hope it succeeds. But the consoles themselves may be too old for this to have much impact.


  • Yeah, Black Flag’s seafaring was fun. It was enjoyable to guide your ship around, explore the random tiny unnamed islets, dive into the ocean and hear the crew laugh about the captain jumping overboard.

    Yes, collecting every last thing was a grind. But it was a fun grind. It felt like I was choosing to do all that, even though the game was psychologically goading me into it.

    (Insert philosophical discussion about free will related to a video game about genetic memory and following predicted behavior.)

    Add to that how 3’s protagonist was so unlikable that Ubisoft made fun of themselves for it in AC: Rogue.