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  • You missed out on the tomb raider demo disc that came with PlayStation magazine (probably issue 73 based on the fact I have it and I wasn’t subscribed very long while demo discs were a thing) Same era.

    If you went for a swim in the pool, and swam into the side, you’d not only get a constant intense vibration, you’d also get to see her swimming motion, and I don’t think it had breath mechanics yet (or at least she wouldn’t die in the demo zone), so you could take your time. Win win.

    There was also a vibration test in the menu if you just wanted no frills.











  • The middle of nowhere where nobody really wants to live has some really affordable places to live.

    Indiana, for example, has whole houses under 100,000. Like to own them. And they aren’t even condemned!

    Around me a 2br apartment is around 900 at the moment. You can still find one bedrooms for around 550-650. Not very good ones but housing is housing.

    Problem is there’s nothing to do, very little good employment, and you’ll never make good money, ever. So if you move to a depressed area, or are unlucky enough to have been raised in one, you’ll probably be there forever, because everywhere else costs a lot more than whatever your nest egg amounts to.




  • I suppose not really. I never could see toast Jesus or cheezus or any of the other things that went viral like that… never linked the two tho, figured it was more related to not being able to do those magic eye “puzzles”.

    I do see cartoonish/abstract faces though, just as well as anyone. But I strongly prefer animated media due to the ease with which one can tell different characters apart. So that may be part of it.


  • I love posts like these. Where it shows two people who look alike or whatever. They are so confusing to me.

    I have face blindness, so I use individual features to tell people apart, rather than aggregate faces, and I gotta say, other than very very general similarities like hair and skin color, the people in question never really look that similar to me.

    In this pic, the eye shape is wrong, nose shape is wrong, lip shape is wrong, etc. so to me they look nothing alike.

    (Then again maybe this is a joke and that’s the point? I have no idea, hence the confusion)


  • ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialtoHumor@lemmy.worldYes, but
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    It’s the best way to ensure the resale market sucks, at least. As well as getting people to pay up for replacement parts/devices or upgrade sooner.

    I have a perfectly good phone, babied all to hell, lives in a case and never comes out, the works.

    Well it must have fallen at some point and caught the camera bump. The lenses are fine, thankfully, but it caused spider webbing of the back glass. I didn’t even know it happened until I saw cracks through my liquid case. Possibly months later.

    Resale value now significantly lower for essentially no reason. Almost like they designed the whole thing to be as fragile as possible.