Zelda: Link’s Awakening on the GameBoy Color in the mid-90s. I got to the second temple, and was totally stuck - to progress I needed to learn to jump, which I inferred was in this temple, but I just couldn’t figure out where it was.

Wandered all over the available map, which of course was constrained due to lacking the jump skill and other story-driven tools. Nothing.

Finally bought a game guide, which explained to me that I needed to bomb a wall in one room in the second temple to progress. It was indicated by a small crack, a staple in Zelda games but invisible to me in my first experience with the series.

The cherry on top was that by that point, I didn’t have any bombs to break the wall, and I recall that I didn’t have the ability to buy or acquire any and had to restart the game to progress past the point where I was stuck.

After that point, Zelda: Links Awakening became one of my favorite games of my childhood. It is hilarious how much frustration it caused me before that realization.

The Onion should copy the White House and just start scribbling through the mass shooting article headline they repost each time with red crayon.

“He should have gotten a job with health insurance so he can afford therapy!”

A cfucknsored version

Gosh that sounds lovely, especially the Linux part. Actually, mostly the Linux part.

Someone should plot the price of things (eggs, gas, the Big Mac) against the (date-referenced) count of times he played golf.

Why would I spend a ton of money to go out in public and play golf, when I can stay at home keeping that Teams icon green while playing videogames and watching mid-week Europa League fixtures?

Source: currently home sick, but feeling good enough to clock a few hours of required training and data backups.

“…the funeral was an excellent networking opportunity, and I was able to share my amazing experience working for [ChatGPT rebadge “AI” company] with all of my friends and family. I spent extra time showing Grandma how she can chat with our product NeedAFriendAI since Grandpa isn’t around anymore.”

Luigi unavailable? Try a pack of his furry nemeses, Wolfuigi

. Right you are. I don’t have a Facebook account or have the app installed on my phone, yet they are attempting to track data from my camera system app.

Highly recommend DuckDuckGo browser or RethinkDNS for everyone reading this (if you are on Android).

Edit: Also PiHole, though it is a bit more complicated to set up.

A guy who went through such an experience made a webcomic about it. Very long read, but incredibly powerful.

https://elan.school/rude-awakening/

I had this experience in a family chat with some iPhones and some Androids. The funny thing is, it seems to be the iPhones that will miss pictures/message rather than the Androids. I’m not sure how that would pressure me (Android user) to switch.