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What is your favorite obscure Retro Game? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The game you're thinking of is Bangai-O Spirits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangai-O_Spirits. It was a DS sequel to Bangai-O on the Sega Dreamcast (another excellent, and imho the superior version). I had the DS version as well and it was a great game. If you ever get the chance (emu or native) I'd highly recommend playing the original on Dreamcast. Pure Arcade shmup goodness.

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Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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Been wanting a NES for a minute. Decided on buying myself a toploading unit for my 40th birthday this year. The American NES toploaders were too pricey, but the Famicom AV was much more affordable and with the bonus of AV instead of RF only like the US model. Just by coincidence I bought Mario Bros as my first Famicom game since that was the cheapest, best quality game I could afford and it just seemed right to make it the first Famicom game I owned. But after I purchased it it dawned on me that it was delightfully appropriate to buy Mario Bros on it's 40th anniversary as my 40th birthday present this year :D

Looking forward to grabbing an Everdrive when I have the cash and really getting down and dirty with it. I have a whole bunch of homebrew and hacks I'm itching to play.

Best or least worst choices for cell phone service? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I've been thinking about this a lot recently as well. I decided that I wanted to ditch using any cell carrier in favor of a VoIP provider. I made a post here: https://lemmy.ml/post/26192657.

The two recommendations that came up the most were voip.ms and jmp.chat. Both require at least $15 to get started but you can port your old number over to both services too. From there jmp.chat is $5 a month, which comes with unlimited texts and 120 min a month.

With voip.ms the call and messaging is subtracted from your balance at a predetermined rate (per min and per text) which I haven't worked out the math on how much mileage $15 will get you initially.

From what I could see jmp.chat looked like it was the easier option to setup, with the Cheogram app for your phone and a Jabber app for the computer. Here's a wiki entry detailing how to setup jmp.chat: https://kb.above.im/jmp-chat/

I settled on discontinuing my mint service and setting up jmp.chat on my phone and computer, and then supplementing the limited minutes via Signal for calling. Seems like a pretty good alternative to me. I still have a week left on my phone plan, and then I'll be taking the plunge. I'd been using my phone less and less lately so it wont be too much of a shock, and I'll save myself an extra $20/month going from the $25 mint plan to $5/month jmp.chat plan.