I’ve been playing games since the 80s. I wouldn’t call myself a gamer. Here are a few personal hallmarks…

• Crash ‘n’ the Boys: Street Challenge on NES was the first time I had fun playing multiplayer.
• Metroid II: Return of Samus was the first game I was addicted to. Super Metroid is still my favourite game.
• UMKIII was the first game I actually got pretty good at.
• Starcraft. My brother played this and I loved being a spectator, in hindsight I realized that gaming could be a sport that people would watch at this moment.
• Quake and Descent were the first times I got motion sickness playing games!
• Counter-Strike because everyone played it at university.
• FFVII because I never played it and it is apparently kinda famous…

I play this version at work sometimes

https://vole.wtf/crow-flies/

I’ve only played one and I recommend it: NieR:Automata. If you don’t choose that one, you can watch the series.

I found the channel. It is all about raccoons.

This is the video that I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxgUOQRFjh8

(And this one is also à propos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E181sIZhhfA)

They were native. It was still illegal. Originally what happened is a pair of squirrels lost their parents and literally wouldn’t stop trying to crawl all over us whenever we went outside. So we planned on keeping them safe for a little bit. My mom got attached. Then they got out once and came back so we just left the door open. Eventually they got bored of that “hotel” and just stopped coming around altogether.

Ha. True! I do have one revenge-seeker living under my roof!

We tried to keep squirrels as pets for more than 2 years. Couldn’t hold them ever. Eventually we just opened the door to the pen and it was a squirrel hotel for years. Watched lots of little babies come out of that thing.

There was a video being shared by someone who studies raccoons.

The tl;dr was they are too smart and tend to hold grudges to become domestic.

Still, they would be cool pets.

Just use the link to the Mastodon post. That site is junk.

Yeah I loved SF6 and I’m tempted to get a recent MK entry even they are iffy on Switch because they go on sale all the time.

I can totally understand that Strive is a great game. Everyone who played it with me loved it. Once the match started it was a joy. Anyway, maybe someday I’ll get a beefier console or start using my computer for gaming.

I sold the version I had. It was the Switch version, so load times were to be expected.

Guilty Gear -STRIVE-

Played it and played it. There was just so much loading time. Loading to get to the main menu, loading between matches. I never even bothered going online. I beat it with all the characters. Then beat it again with a few without losing a round.

No joy. Sold it and got the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection instead.

I’m generally a fan of all the human-made independent blogs and sites, from the elaborate neocities sites (which really are an artform) to the basic black-text-on-white-bg bearblogs.

Content is important, too. Too many meta posts (e.g. “My blog workflow”) can be a pain, but tinkerers gotta ticker!