Ya it seems weird to me to dunk on this object when this world is filled with so much legit harmful trash, I wish Panic had given me some buxx 2 crank off but I ain’t gonna begrudge a mother for blowing their iOS/Mac warez-enabling riches on something this silly, you give me a quadruple digit bank balance and you better believe I’d be bankrolling the dumbest shit possible, I’d probably buy me a go-kart and a megaphone and a professionally printed banner that says “BACHELORSOFT.COM – THE MOST ELIGIBLE SINGLE IN YOUR AREA”, also I’d probably buy at least half the Car Wars vids on clips4sale (for research), that would be so freeing, I wouldn’t have to do an indiegogo to help me buy pedal pumping fetish videos (for research), actually I take it all back, everyone at Panic should donate half their income to me, and other members of select button dot net, we’d at least use it to buy some really weird pseudo-pornography
sony sells expensive shit but they don’t seem opposed to poor people having their shit in the first place. that’s the vibe i get off this shit. i mean, that’s the vibe they want you to get! you wanna touch this crank? no? you just wanted to play the exclusive games? too bad we added a crank lol. IT’S FUN, LIGHTEN UP
if that ain’t reason to dunk then i should stop posting permanently
game boy was 89.99 US in 1989 (still under 200 adjusted for inflation), this device is $179 and would have been competitive in 1989.
so yes i’m going to keep shitting on weird bougie shit that’s intentionally crippled
anyway i am in pain 24/7 so forgive my prickly pear personality. thank you <3
here’s the deal jack
i hate capitalism and i hate the march of everything i care about towards utter shit. this is symbolic for me. things will not get better, they will get so much worse! i fucking HATE IT. i fucking hate being alive, if i’m honest. i don’t want everything i love to die!
i stick with game boy games, myself. it’s a console that fucking exists and has only a few buttons and a slow CPU! it’s vomit green! it’s a nice thing! it’s an earnest thing!
it was meant to make money but it transcended that due to the collaboration of hundreds/thousands of passionate people
it brought people real, prolonged joy! honestly it went too far and now people worship nintendo 
what the fuck is this playdate shit?
that’s where my head is at, anyway. i am not going to delete any of this because every single character i type hurts like shit lol. would be a waste
like i don’t begrudge playdate’s physical manifestation as much as i begrudge the universe for proceeding in a way that such a thing exists and i have to know about it and decide to discuss it. symbolic, indeed
now that’s a real fuckin mood, this is highly applicable to everyday life imo
honestly the caveat i want to add to anything about the playdate stuff is “i’d never actually buy this unless it cost $50” but then think well maybe it’s not great that my expectations around consumer electronic pricing are all based around super-massmarket plastic shit
i do want to mention that £19.99 boxed copies of the Retro Arcade Game Controller multipack ended up being stacked high in the museum store for the high-profile V&A exhibition on Videogames As Art, alongside all the glossy coffeetable books on atari games etc, so the canonical videogame art device clearly already exists
Playdate is just dumb enough that I will buy one if it takes no effort (it will take effort and so will not buy one.)
Not sure about Mame but I’m happy to be the guinea pig for this version. It seems OK so far performance-wise.
It’s one of those Hamster releases, so probably on PS4 as well
Wait, Sea otters, guinea pigs and hamsters? What’s goin’ on here
this is a good point too
i hereby apologize for playdateposting. please enjoy platedate!
playdate!
I feel pretty good about this forum’s collective measured ambivalence to playdate. it is, imo, an ambivalent object.
wheres my mad katz theremin periphiral
i do not feel great about the gamerverse’s sense of entitlement to ethically object to products they don’t want to buy penetrating the forum
but on the other hand we do complain about literally everything so i suppose it’s no big deal
it’s always ethical and never entitled to object to the existence of any commercial product whatsoever
Hey fuck you too
and yet there are so many that no one posts about
there are obviously products that it is unethical to buy.
what i’m talking about is more like this sense that because it’s something that can sort of be categorized as a “video game,” it becomes necessary to like form an opinion about how one is personally grieved by it because it isn’t… something else?
it just seems like this particular aspect of fandom, not limited to just video game fandom, that has big ‘the customer is always right’ vibes to me and i just don’t know what to make of it.
sorry for being wrong on the internet again i guess.
the customer isn’t always right but the manufacturer is always wrong. it’s 100% fair to find the cottage industry around this stuff in a medium you care about stupid, wasteful and depressing.
yeah i know. i mean i’m not talking about some kind of grand critique of capitalism here i think that’s obvious.
anyway i am going to personally commit to not post about this anymore.
Penetrating the forum, seeping into the cracks and crevices
you are talking about capitalism because you’re describing earnest people speaking critically about commercial trends in an artform they love as entitled customers in a fandom
I called it a fetish object in the first post but sure, I’m a pernicious agent of the gamerverse