I still have my first pair of AirPods I got 13 years ago. Used them for 40+ hours a week when I’d be in an office doing nothing all day. Never had any issues with them, and I still use them occasionally (although rarely, after getting a pair of pros.) The batteries are pretty sad after all these years—I get about two or three hours of charge before they have to go in the case.

But they still work, and that’s pretty old!

Oh god yeah. I LOVE Pokémon but the highest a Pokémon game has gotten from me is a 7/10 (Smoon, Bwhite) in many years. bwhite had a great story with great mechanics and great QoL. Smoon had EVERY Pokémon in it and was the last game to do so. The beginning was an awful slog, but I loved all the locations, music, QoL features, and the endgame was incredible. Loved Battle Tower and how simple the game made to see the IVs of your Pokémon, while still keeping it challenging to breed a near perfect or perfect one.

The Switch main line games are mediocre to abysmal (ScarVio are neigh unplayable on the Switch) and the Legends game are good: 6/10 for Arceus and I just started ZA or whatever on an emulator and don’t have an opinion at all on it yet, other than it sure does look nice at 1440p/60 hahaha

I want a game review site where there’s a number and it’s legit. Like

1/10 - Irredeemably bad. The music is terrible, the sounds are grating (or missing), the visuals hurt to look at (or are completely boring, which might be worse.) controls make it frustrating to navigate. I also give this to bland games with extremely predatory monetization, where the goal of the game is “make as much money as possible from whales”. Usually a mediocre mobile game skinned to a popular IP, maybe with some of the same aspects as that other game, but a huge wall where suddenly it’s spendin’ time.

2/10 - this is rough. Like, really rough. Something about it is either unique, funny, or novel, so it gets a point for that. Overall, you’re proooobably gonna want to skip this. It’s going to be tough for even big updates to fix the flaws in this game.

3/10 - this game has some redeeming qualities, but huge flaws as well. Worth it to try if you can get a deal, but needs a lot of work, and won’t be for everyone. Probable skip for most folks.

4/10 - A good game with many flaws, but worth picking up if you’re really into this kind of game. Maybe this has been done better by other games, or maybe there’s glitches. It’s not terrible, but below average.

5/10 - a perfectly serviceable game. If you like this series, you’ll certainly be playing it. If you like this game type, it’s worth checking out. A lot of CoDs and BF games have fallen here since BF4 for me.

6/10 - A good game. It’s good! Above average, and definitely worth playing if you like this type. This is the most stacked category for games I’ve played overall.

7/10 - Pick this game up, it’s very good. If this is on a console with a smaller library (N64, Dreamcast, 32x, GameCube) deeefintiely pick it up.

8/10 - A True Great. Few or no flaws, very fun. Great controls, interesting graphics, fun story, overall just a stellar game. Play this.

9/10 - almost perfect in every way. Maybe perfect, but a genre that might limit people. Or incredible but very difficult to play without spending a lot of money (Alyx comes to mind when I say that, but that’s an eight for me)

10/10 - Should almost never be given out. Incredible flawless perfection that everyone in the world with most of their limbs, sight, and vision in tact MUST check out. I have very few games (or movies, shows, books) that get a 10. We don’t need to grade things like their parents are getting a report card, some 10s I see given out are baffling.

If you like music games, it’s a HOOT! It’s very difficult at the highest levels but it’s basically IIDX for the PSP. It’s incredible. There’s DJ Max Portable 1, 2, Clazzaquai, and Black Square. I’ve completed the first two and played a chunk of Clazzaquai and BS, and DJMP 2 is easily the best of the bunch for me.

Got any favorite PSP games?

Excellent article, very interesting fix! Love the writing style :3

I still have my original PSP! A face button wore out from mashing over the years—my favorite PSP series is DJ Max Portable. I could still get the button to trigger, but it required a horrific amount of force. I disassembled my beloved PSP and did the most terrifying thing I had ever done to a console: I used a hole punch on an old NES sleeve to punch out four circles, then hand-cut a small cross out. I punched a hole in the middle of the cross, then hot-glued the sleeve bits to the D-pad and button contacts inside my PSP.

I put it back together, trying soooo hard not to get dust from the grungy apartment I was living it underneath the screen. Fully assembled, the screen was somehow immaculate! I booted up DJMP2… The buttons that was broken was now working. It was working incredibly. The D-Pad and face buttons are now incredibly sensitive, requiring half, maybe a quarter of the force my other PSPs do!

I love the audio and screen on my Vita, playing games through Adrenaline… But having the big ol’ super sensitive D-Pad and buttons on the PSP makes DJMP infinitely better-feeling to play.

I worked with a lady 20 years ago… one day she came up to me and asked me, “My kids outgrew Pokémon. You like Pokémon, want to buy their stuff for cheap?” I immediately said “Yes absolutely”

She offered me four big (Pokémon themed) duffles/backpacks full of Pokémon figures, plushies, and other toys. She also had three card albums full of the whole base sets, tons of jungle/fossil/rocket cards, and a bunch of other cards up to 2003 or 2004. She asked for around 150USD, which I agreed to—I didn’t have any money at the time, but also who am I to pass up on giving Pokémon stuff a good home?

I have almost everything she gave me still! I should go through it all sometime…

It’s a setting someone told me about like a year ago! It lives in voyager, somewhere. I can find it if you’re interested! Alas, it only counts votes from when you turn it on. I like stats sometimes, so it’s fun to see random numbers on people.

A lot of times, when I see a big negative number like 20+, it makes total sense. Occasionally I see a negative number and it makes no sense.

I downvote image posts a lot if they’re really dumb-ly censored and it’s not purposeful to be cheeky, or if they taste really.. “Facebook-ey”? I think then I see whoever posts a lot of posts, and they’re making funny or insightful comments and I feel bad. I’m sorry, those people. I appreciate that you post, it keeps things alive. I should stop downvoting those posts… but I don’t like them.

Ah, well.

Are there like.. forums on I2P? Like… good ones, where people talk about hobbies and maybe they’re moderated well enough? Or is that just 2001-Me’s insanely wishful thinking? Forums used to be my favorite thing on the internet until they mostly kinda went away.

Is that even possible to have that anymore? Something seemed to fundamentally change when smartphones made the internet accessible to everyone, not just the kind of people whose interests involve sitting at a computer all day.

If my current hardware failed and I had to go buy a tablet for some reason, I’d… yeah I’m out

(I have 13? 14 computers?)

He was way ahead of his time. If he released that movie half a decade to a decade later in early Adult Swim days, it would have been very well-received. Instead, it was one of the worst-reviewed (in my opinion) great movies ever made.