Anyone else guilty of this?

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• SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Raising them right.

    The Sunshine music is burned into my brain from my eldest playing it daily for the past couple of months.

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My favorite musical artists as a child (90s) were John Denver; Peter, Paul, and Mary; the Beatles; and Cream. I didn’t ever get into boy bands, but I can sing along to the absolute biggest spice girl hits.

  That was only really a hindrance in elementary school because in middle school I branched out into more contemporary musicians. Now, I’ve got a lot more knowledge about the 70s in music than most of my peers, but I’m not isolated from the things my peer group likes (I will lose my shit to Mr. Brightside or Yeah by Usher if I’m drunk, but I definitely will as well for anything from Carole King’s Tapestry)

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• bobbyguy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  as a kid a never played the same games as my friends, and since that’s all they would talk about i was pretty distant from the group, also that guys daughter looks like she’s old enough to rent a property and just buy her own games.

  (but all those old games really are better than what we have now)

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• thearch@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  out of touch? more like saving her from the absolute garbage fire that passes for ‘games’ these days. she’ll actually learn what a good game is. this dad’s doing god’s work.

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  • bollybing@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Game design has come a long way since the '90s. Heck, even the N64 controller is awkward and weird with only one joystick.

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• puppinstuff@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes! On the SNES switch online thing? My 3 y/o has been loving it too, especially after finding the rocketship eraser.

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• Gin@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do plan to start my sons on retro games starting when they’re about 4 years old. They’ll basically get an abridged experience of some of the best games of each generation.

  They should be on modern games by the time they’re old enough for it to matter in terms of relating to their peers. And it’s not like I’d say “no” of they said their friends wanted to play a particular game with them just because it’s from the “wrong” generation.

  I’m also not going to force the issue if they just aren’t receptive to it. Everyone has different interests.

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I assumed my kids would love games, but they’re just not that interested. I got my six-year-old obsessing over one of the UFO 50 games, at least until she couldn’t progress any further, but for the most part toys are just way more exciting.

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• treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I was young my parents encouraged me to watch Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, and Abbott & Costello. These are easy things for children to watch because the physical comedy is universal.

  As I got older my love for them remained, but also it gave me a love for media from any age. So long as it’s done reasonably I think this sort of thing can be quite enriching.

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  • TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I experienced something simmilar. Authors, comedians and actors were mostly from our or neighbouring states, and man were they brilliant. In my case it was rather a kind of comedy, that was heavily relying on spoken word, but those guys really knew their craft.

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• ckmnstr@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  definitely one day

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• DiskCrasher@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  C64 reboot: a.co/d/2uyn43m

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• macncheese@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A well made game knows no age limits! My kiddo was super into the original mario when we showed it to him. I would have thought it would look dated, but he doesn’t know!

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Today’s kids have the benefit that insanely amazing graphics in huge budget games is commonplace, pixel art is a popular visual style that has new games coming out all the time, and janky homemade graphics with visual glitches (essentially memes in game format) are also popular thanks to everything from garry’s mod recordings to platforms like Roblox where a million people make their own goofy little games.

    So if I take my 3rd grader though some gaming history, starting at least from the NES era where you have decent resolution, smooth scrolling, and numerous colors, things are not instantly dated like we olds might expect.

    I could fire up Super Mario Bros, TIE Fighter, Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Symphony of the Night, VVVVVV, or Elden Ring, and I honestly don’t think any of them would get a particularly positive or negative reaction based on visual fidelity. It’s just a question of whether it looks like the type of gameplay he is into. Even with the obviously popular chunky Minecraft/Roblox look, he’s draw to it because it’s a popular style that he likes. If I comment about how ooh they updated the Xbox version to 4K rendering, or look at the crazy stuff I can do with the draw distance in the Java version on Linux, he does not give any fucks. It’s the command line and the mods that let us do wacky things that are actually entertaining.

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• arararagi@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You are just giving your kids more options, most don’t have that choice and can only play whatever launches for phones or switch.

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  • Vile_port_aloo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Phones, tablets other portable devices are where this generation is at. There is a question of when you give your child access to brain rot materials. Assuming they are above 12 in this situation, they are already in touch with the general status quo of digital entrainment. The ego they will gain and cool points in the future is unknown but working in Education I feel students with a boarder background make for Better Humans. In the UK most public spaces like community centre or library, school will always have computer relics in a cupboard. A good Gamer will seek these out even if they don’t have a dad, which is maybe the reason they are there…

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• LucidLyes@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am and I don’t care.

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• nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am 50+, remember paying quarters to play Pong and Space Invaders.

  Built my kids a game box using Batocera Linux and ROMs from the 80s and 90s (Atari2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc)

  I was thereby able to show them the True Magic and Wonder of Computers

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • ScienceGuy722@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why, tho? Is it because it’s not an advertisement for some large language model?

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    • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Calm down, Bill Gates

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    • bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      r/usernamechecksout

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• agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why so salty about a dad sharing his interests and stuff from his life with his kid? She can play other games too.

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Salt gets traction, no one on the internet wants normal family values or feelgood anything

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    • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not true people like feelgood videos and cute animals and wait hold up …

      Enhance

      Normal family values

      Ah now I know exactly what kind of person you are, nevermind

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Legit, it’s not an either/or. I ragequit Warioland on RA and took my frustrations out building and unleashing siege weapons in TOTK

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still play animal crossing new leaf. Just got the golden net the other day (my town has been going since 2013)

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  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    3DS is still awesome even in 2025.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t think it’ll ever be not awesome.

      I’d love someone to make a modern foldable smartphone in the shape of a 3ds. With the controls and everything, and a stylus. But also cellular capabilities and a modern camera system. Most of all, a chip that can emulate the 3ds. Would be even cooler if one eventually came out that can emulate the Wii U.

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• cepelinas@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I did this to myself because I only played games that my gpu could perform and that was the reason why pretty much all of the games I play are pre 2010.

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  • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What GPU

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    • cepelinas@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t remember which one I had at the time, but it barely played angry birds and my current one is an rx580.

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• Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Mario 64?
  • Ocarina of Time?
  • Turkish?
  • Goldeneye?

  This kid is about to meet one of the gaming gods.

  Kid’ll be fine.

  Besides, what super awesome lifestyle changing game is out right now that the kid will miss?

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve tried to figure out what your typo for “Turkish” was supposed to be. I can only assume “Turok”.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Turkish?

    One of these things is not like the other... I tried to look this up and can't find it. My best guess is a typo for Turok?

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  • ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Roblox 🤮

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ehhh, there’s a lot of crap on Roblox, but some of it isn’t bad. There’s just the obvious UI bullshit and constant spam to buy shit, but I take that opportunity to shit on people who do that so that my kids understand that’s a dirty practice.

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• Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  as if everybody gaming in the 90’s we were all in sync with each other. lol i was rocking pc win98 tie fighter, and old floppy disc knock off games/ sim city, one kid down the street, she had a Nintendo with 3 Disney games Aladdin, lion king etc, one had a Sega with zombies ate my neighbors, that paper boy game and some sanic. it was pure chaos even later when “everyone” had a ps1 everyone’s tastes were completely different. sure there were trends but nobody felt they were stuck in a outdated bubble like op is implying except for that Atari kid. only played pong, fuck that bubble kid neanderthal mutherfucker. lol

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh what a memory! I remember I was playing Sonic the Hedgehog, where my best friend was playing Zelda Lttp and my crush was playing Doom.

    And yeah, when PS1 came out, suddenly we were bringing our own controllers to play Tekken. And then once in a while, go to our one buddy’s house to Oogle Dead or Alive 2 on Dreamcast.

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• KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  we are currently playing stardew valley and I don’t think harvest moon would hit as well, but maybe that’s an exception overall, they truly just enjoy hard simpler games like the classics are

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• alansuspect@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got a Miyoo Mini plus for mine, installed onionos and loads of games from internet archive. They love it, maybe one day I’ll set up my dusty wiiU but i only have Mario kart for it. Or some kind of minipc set up.

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• Tuxman@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now my daughter brings her friends home to play Mario 64! Masterpieces have no expiry date!!

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I misread that as Mario Kart 64. That game is the apex of the genre.

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• doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have had an N-64 plugged into the back of my TV for 25 years straight. The TV has changed. My kids were raised on this shit.

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• Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cant force the shit, same with any culturally significant thing from your childhood. Think of it in reverse: if you aren’t willing to engage with their zeitgeist in good faith, how could you expect them to engage with yours?

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Vile_port_aloo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just let my sister have access to my Steam account and it’s turned out alright

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    make a steam family to share your games with friends

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s what we do. Steam family with my other friends too

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are plenty of games up to the PS3 era that every kid would do well to play at least once. Stuff that is objectively good, that aged well, or close enough.

  The problem, as I see it, is that if they get too used to mobile games, they won’t have the patience for typical console or PC games, because those, on average, aren’t dopamine dispensers and won’t be rewarding every second click or button press - more importantly, they should NOT nag the player with cash shops.

  Also important: limit the amount of games available - this is valid both for current and retro games. The moment you have “all the games” at your disposal, several things kick in: analysis paralysis, appeal to familiarity (will only play what you already know or someone knows), seeing no value in the games^[If, when you were small, you only had a limited selection of games, which was common during the cartridge era, you would be very careful with choosing new games to ask your parents to buy, though renting was an option to see which ones were good or not. You had to make do with the little you had. When you got bored with one, you either looked through your collection and played something else, or did something else entirely; you never threw away a game (unless it really sucked) and you never got a new game on a whim. That is good.].

  Others mentioned the social aspect, which is true as well and something they just can’t experience nowadays anymore. Minecraft and Roblox are famous because they’re easy for kids to pick and play with friends. Back in our days, we had to physically sit beside one another and play together, or pass the controller on death; we also physically lent and traded games, so the games also had value within our little social circles. While fully digital games are extremely convenient, the “scarcity” gave them a social value that they completely lack today and which I suppose boardgames now fill out (yes, you can play them online, but playing on an actual table is almost always better)

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn, I never knew that Markdown (or Lemmy idk) had footers!

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      they’re pretty useful and neat in some contexts, also super easy, caret + brackets: caret after a word^[and all text in the brackets goes in the footnote]

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i don’t think i’ve ever heard anyone call it “the ps3 era”.

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Given all the child predators on Roblox, can’t blame ya

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re worried about child predators on Roblox.

    I’m worried about my dummy kids taking my credit card and buying microtransactions.

    (We are not the same meme)

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  • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the slavery and financial exploitation!

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ive heard of the financial exploitation and pedo controversy but what is the slavery controversy for roblox?

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• christian@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Telling my five-year-old that if they can beat Ecco the Dolphin in front of me I will take them out for ice cream, but I’m not sitting down to watch more often than once a week.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Woah you just unlocked some core memories.

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• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As long as we all raise our kids this way, they won’t be out of touch with their peers!

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  God I tried. And it told me a lot out myself.

  The VAST majority of that old stuff, the stuff that I remember so fondly, was only fun because it was the best we had.

  My first game was Yars Revenge. By today’s standards, it’s about 30 seconds of entertainment.

  Even Super Mario Brothers, the pinnacle of games for years, had no save button and you have to pull off a long series of perfect play with only a couple of lives or get sent back to level 1. It was almost all single player taking turns.

  Compared to even old current systems, there’s just no draw there and there’s no social aspects for them.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was really surprised how quick my kids fell in love with Super Mario 3(Super Mario All-stars).

    Their cousin played the Switch version and my introduction led them to try and 100% all the classic 2D Super Mario games.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even Super Mario Brothers, the pinnacle of games for years, had no save button and you have to pull off a long series of perfect play with only a couple of lives or get sent back to level 1.

    Maybe the original has this issue of being held back by overly punishing arcade inspired design, but I replayed Super Mario World recently and I think it holds up in this respect. You only need to get past the next checkpoint for your progress to be saved, and if you are running low on lives and don’t want to lose progress, there is the option of going back to previous levels to farm more lives and powerups. There are also semi-secret areas with buttons that put extra blocks into every level that make the game easier. For basically the first half of the game the only thing that’s really required to win is a small amount of impulse control, planning and patience, and it seems to deliberately work to teach you that stuff in various ways.

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  • bier@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My kid is almost 6 so he doesn’t really know modern games. For now he is totally into lemmings and the incredible machine 2. It’s fun because I played those games a lot and can easily help him when he is stuck.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you’re missing a large piece of the puzzle here.

    back between the 70s-90s you played games with friends in the room. you would mock and challenge each other to do better. That was the game.

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like something someone who had friends growing up would say

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ᵃⁿᵈ ʸᵒᵘ ʲᵘˢᵗ ˡᵒˢᵗ ᶦᵗ

      thanks for making me lose the game 😠

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• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I grew up playing games with my dad. I wouldn’t change a thing. I miss it dearly.

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  He never went easy on me in Soul Calibur.

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  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He never went easy on me in Soul Calibur

    Dad aint raising no wimp! Get good or get schooled.
    But seriously that’s really sweet.

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