@jeffw to TechnologyEnglish • 2 days agoThe quest to save the world’s largest CRT TV from destructionarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square46arrow-up1356arrow-down18cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•1 day ago 80s/90s kids remember being able to throw their controllers at the TV without fear. Fuck, I never would think to throw my controller at the screen! I also don’t ever throw my controllers in general. Why would I want to break them? Lol.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 day agoWhen you’re a small child and you get extremely frustrated about dying to the same boss one too many times in a row, you have to vent that somehow. It only happened once, I got so frustrated I bit the controller and threw it. You can still see the bite marks. (I was at most 11 years old.)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 day agoI love my kid-gamer self. I was really bad at games, but I would always chalk it up to “I’m just a kid and it’s okay to be bad.”
minus-square@CocodapuflinkEnglish1•14 hours agoYeah man! As a thing made in the 80s myself, I gotta tell ya, I’m feeling pretty broken these days. But I don’t blame the build quality, I blame the 8 year old, that dude will be the death of me.
minus-squarelurch (he/him)linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 day agospoilt kids tantrum -> brain goes into standby
Fuck, I never would think to throw my controller at the screen!
I also don’t ever throw my controllers in general. Why would I want to break them? Lol.
When you’re a small child and you get extremely frustrated about dying to the same boss one too many times in a row, you have to vent that somehow.
It only happened once, I got so frustrated I bit the controller and threw it. You can still see the bite marks. (I was at most 11 years old.)
I love my kid-gamer self.
I was really bad at games, but I would always chalk it up to “I’m just a kid and it’s okay to be bad.”
Things made in the 80s never broke.
Except for the people 🥲
Yeah man! As a thing made in the 80s myself, I gotta tell ya, I’m feeling pretty broken these days.
But I don’t blame the build quality, I blame the 8 year old, that dude will be the death of me.
survivorship bias
spoilt kids tantrum -> brain goes into standby