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Probably Donkey Kong Country 2. I can blaze through the game in a couple of hours and have done so a few times a week each week for about twenty years as just a fallback when I’ve got nothing else to do. Before that I used to play it just as much, but no idea how frequently - too long ago.

I’ve been playing it since 1995. I had a lot more free time back then too. So uh, maybe a good few tens of thousand hours at least? Impossible to say.

I don’t intend on using this at the moment but applaud the name

Just saying, 1080p doesn’t necessarily indicate whether it’s wide-screen or not. 1080p refers to the vertical resolution - the horizontal resolution of the title could be the full 1920px or it could be a 4:3 image bordered by black bars. Still 1080p.

You don’t need to censor yourself…

Fuck the RIAA, bunch of absolute cunts.

My daughter has this issue with others in her class - she grew up with me and the computers and games I got for her, and she was ahead of her classmates in IT from the start. Some others had never used a mouse before - at age 11.

I use seedhost.eu, can’t really recommend others as this is my first! But it’s been great so far, easy to use and access

I use transdroid on my mobile for torrent management

It’s, in layman’s terms, server space you rent out and can use for your downloads. torrent clients like transmission are usually built in. I pay £5 a month for 2tb space and enough bandwidth to keep a good ratio.

So instead of downloading to my pc, I download torrents to the seedbox (at a blazing fast speed) and then download files from there to my pc whenever I feel like it, again at stupid good speeds.

I have FTP access, so I’ve just added it as a folder/mounted drive on my windows and Linux mint file explorers. Works great. Also have it on my smart TV as a web address for quick streaming of whatever I downloaded.

Edit: this also eliminates the risk of downloading Torrents locally.

I cancelled all my subscriptions and just pay for a seedbox instead.

Only two subscriptions I have now are Spotify and Game Pass…because they are actually worth it.

Yeah, it’s why I run everything up to the N64 on real hardware or my MiSTer FPGA/analogue pocket, then everything N64 and above I prefer emulation for the sheer benefit of upscaling, 60fps mods and texture packs in addition to visual accuracy if needed (Mupen64 with the ParaLLeL video core in native resolution with a good shader is as good in my eyes as my old UltraHDMI modded Nintendo 64 was).

Yeah I have stable diffusion (installed on my PC, works great with my rtx 3080 12gb) and it is scarily good. You have to inpaint and regen a fair bit if you want ideal results but it takes no time at all.

I can see how designers and artists are concerned.

Well, I grew up with my first games being in the early 90s, and I’d argue the majority of that era still stand up visually today. Look at Sonic 3, Secret of Mana, Outrun, Turtles in Time, etc. They all still look fantastic. Even many NES and Master System titles still hold up today like Super Mario Bros 3 and Kirby’s Adventure.

It was earlier, the Atari 2600 era to be exact, that needed an imagination…