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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I use all the tools I can. Reddit has a great community in a lot of subreddits that are extremely helpful. So are many standalone forums for the topics I enjoy. Lemmy is just another option for great content. I prefer Lemmy to Reddit as a platform, but the content - I really don’t care where it’s hosted as long as it’s free (free as in freedom of information, not just cost).

    Reddit’s gone to shit, but I’ll still hit those SysAdmin and other subs for information. Too valuable not to.



  • Kind of. But, without the “cool” factor. You were a geek, a nerd. Computers were for nerds for a while, the internet was like a computer library which were also only for nerds. Towards the late 90’s, it started to become cool and then suddenly everyone and their grandpa had a computer and the internet.

    It was a bit more difficult back then, too. I was dialing into Seattle (long distance) for my closest POP for the internet. Had to use trumpet for Windows because it didn’t have a native dialer, and Mosaic for a browser. Before that, it was all BBS’s. Always fun finding new sites (and we also had a “internet phonebook” that was a physical book with a list of most websites).




  • It’s a bit of nostalgia, personal preference, and just overall masterful developers - but Super Mario World is a solid 10/10, easily the best game I’ve ever played. SMB3 is excellent as well.

    For me, they still stand the test of time. I was a huge Sega fanboy back then, but I also loved Nintendo and the games they had. SMW just always blew me away, so every time I play it I think of that time. How advanced it was, how it played so much better than anything I’ve previously played. It was a serious masterpiece, and IMO still is.

    Definitely a must play. Depending on your age, though, it may seem not as great as I’m claiming. I think it still is, but that’s from my point of view. I’d really be interested in younger people’s opinion that grew up on the Gamecube, Wii, and later console versions of Mario.

    Like @R5N said - a lot of staple design concepts were pioneered in those games. Some that now are very commonplace. That’s where I’m curious… Is it just normal for some while for us that played them on release they were so perfect and new?



  • Several of he hobby ones. Ben Eater (6502 based computers, 8 bit computer), local ones, history/science based ones, infosec/sysadmin/etc. ones. There are some Lemmy based ones, but it’ll take a while to build up. I’m hoping that I can contribute to them and see them grow a bit. But, others are just where I could comment and enjoy as I lack the real knowledge to contribute very much (the history/science ones that required more in-depth knowledge and not just a “Wikipedia degree of arts of internet research for obscure questions”.