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Jordan Peterson is the textbook definition of an absolute moron's idea of an intellectual.

It's always the saddest fucking people who listen to this guy. Let's get life advice from the guy who thinks human psychology is a derivative of lobster psychology, whines about transgender people, received life altering injuries from eating only meat for over a month because vegetables are liberal food, and then developed a severe addiction to benzos.

Kamil posted...

I do want to know what the next rank would be after that. Feels like I've just been in a listless state though I know there are ppl with way higher karma than me.

It's "???" at 10,000 karma. There is very little chance I'll ever reach that, the site would have to be open another 8 years.

I can't see them changing their console naming system that they've used for the last 30 years.

I own my house. But my mortgage has to be renewed in a couple years and I'm going to get hit hard by that unless interest rates come down (which they probably won't by much).

adjl posted...

I usually end up getting that one early simply because there's very little else to do in the first cycle if you know what you're doing. If the choice is between sitting around and waiting for the clock tower to open or bashing my head against the playground, I'll take the playground (though it is indeed much easier now than I remember it being as a kid. Funny how that works).

That's exactly what I did! In the past I used to just spam the scarecrow dance to get to the final night but this time I chose to just get this over with. It was the first heart piece I got, followed closely by the nearly unavoidable one on the platform on the Clock Tower.

FrozenBananas posted...

Did you get all the heart pieces? Damn you did that fast

My total play time was probably around 10 hours (I didn't actually time it though). I know the game through and through, so not much time was wasted.

I started Majora's Mask last night. I made it to the first dungeon but I want to complete some sidequests before I actually do the dungeon.

One of the heart pieces is obtained from the Postman by pressing the A button after exactly 10 seconds. You're supposed to do this with the Bunny Hood (which reveals an on screen timer for you to watch), but I did it on my FIRST try without it, lmao. Absolute boss moment.

I'm impressed with how much more polished Majora's Mask feels compared to Ocarina of Time. It also has a much more defined personality as a game. I don't know if I'll bother getting all heart pieces in this one (I remember one of them required you to deposit something like 5000 rupees in the bank, good lord that takes forever). However, I have already obtained the one from completing the Deku Playground minigame on each of the three days, which I used to think was one of the toughest heart pieces in the game to get.

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You don't lose 55 lbs in 2 months.

Colonel_Lingus posted...

wtf constitutes hornyposting?

Not allowed to post if you currently have a full or even semi chub

TomNook posted...

That isn't a real board.

People really love doomsday rhetoric. This board will still be here for atleast another 10 years.

It really depends on what Fandom's plans are and how the community responds to it. I can't see the message boards still being operational in 10 years. I can't even see them still being operational in 5 years. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if they are removed without notice in the next 3 months.

I started on the Ocarina of Time board and the Animal Crossing Wild World board. Back in 2006, the ACWW board was insanely fast. The full first page of 50 topics would fly by in a matter of a minute or two.

There was a user on the OoT board named Danimakesitrain who was awesome. She was genuinely one of the nicest people I've ever seen on this site. She had some health condition though, and in 2010 she used to talk about how she was excited for Skyward Sword but was worried her health condition would make it hard to use the motion controls. She suddenly stopped posting in the summer of 2011, before Skyward Sword even launched. We heard she was hospitalized. We never heard anything from her again. That was the most emotionally difficult thing I've seen on this site.

Runescape General Board during the mid to late 2000s was awesome. The only GameFAQs user I ever encountered in real life was on there, his name was coneheadsguy. He worked at a very well known restaurant in a town my family would vacation to each summer, and he was working the day I visited there in the summer of 2009. The Runescape Social Board was also great, this moment gave me a great laugh.

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PotD has been my main GameFAQs home since 2010, obviously representing the vast majority of my time here. I'll miss it when this site shuts down in the likely not too distant future, but I'm glad a Discord was made.

His dog must be an Australian Shepherd

I'll give credit to GameFAQs, the process of enshittification has been slower with this site than pretty much any other site ever.

Others happen quick. Tumblr went from one of the top visited websites to a bygone obscure low traffic site in a matter of days with a single strict policy change regarding NSFW content.

But I have to admit, it's kind of funny that GameFAQs ends with an admin typing out the word "hornyposting".

Edit: for the record, I think the limitations on political conversations are the main nail in the coffin. But closing or limiting several long standing message boards is a sure way to pushing more people away to an already rapidly shrinking site.

I've finished Ocarina of Time. Wow. This game was easily the best so far, which wasn't surprising in the least. This game was a masterpiece. We knew when it released that we'd still be talking about it 10 or even 20 years later, but now over 25 years after it released I can boldly but confidently say people will still mention how significant this game was even 100 years after its release.

By modern standards, it might not seem significant. But compared to its predecessors, especially when played in sequential order, it absolutely shines. The gameplay is solid, the dungeons are unique and require little backtracking, the world is beautiful, the characters are diverse and meaningful, and the changes between the past and future times have a subtle emotional shift that is hard to put into words.

There are also small lore connections to previous games, especially ALttP. They reference the creation of the Dark World during the events of this game, which somehow never clicked with me before. The fact that Ganondorf didn't have a strong and righteous mind was what prevented him from becoming the full King of Evil through the use of the Triforce, which ALttP established as well though the Triforce's purposefully weak interpretation of Ganondorf's wish to "rule the world".

Ocarina of Time was what I considered the best Zelda game for nearly 20 years, until Breath of the Wild released. I'd like to see if that impression stays as I continue through the series. I'll likely start Majora's Mask tomorrow. As I mentioned yesterday, I'm sad to see this game end. The N64 era of Zelda means a huge amount to me. I'll do my best to enjoy every bit of what Majora's Mask has to offer.

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LinkPizza posted...

I would say you should also do it for MM

I'm considering it, I'll definitely be doing a lot of the sidequests in MM because that's what really sets that game apart. I might even aim to get all the masks.

I'm in the Spirit Temple right now. I have all the Heart Pieces, I only need the Heart Container from this dungeon to have the full 20 hearts (I doubt I'll bother doing that for any other Zelda game, but this one is pretty special to me, so it gets that extra level of treatment).

I just got the Mirror Shield. The Spirit Temple is probably my favourite dungeon in the game, and the connection between the past and the future was a great touch.

I know this isn't the most unique perspective, but good God the owl is annoying. I don't know how or why they greenlit that character, it's totally out of place and he never provides advice that wouldn't be better off figured out on your own. At least in Link's Awakening it sort of fit the bizarre dreamland vibe the game had.

It's bittersweet to be coming to the end of this game. What an absolute treasure this game is, even with its flaws, and even with the N64 crappiness that comes with it (the last time I saw the owl, he flew away straight through the Spirit Temple exterior wall). Despite how simple it is compared to modern games, the differences between the past and the future always strike an emotional note with me. The brief dialogue with Saria after the Forest Temple, saving Lon Lon Ranch (and Malon remembering you after all those years), seeing Darunia's son, all these things were such awesome world building details that outmatch most of what the previous games put forward.

I'll likely finish the game by Friday (there really isn't much left to do), and I'll hopefully get a start on Majora's Mask this weekend. I've been slower in my progress lately, but that isn't to say I'm not enjoying this goal! I'm trying to savour every bit of these games; I'd say the games released from ALttP to WW were the golden era of the Zelda series.

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Ogurisama posted...

The only issue I had with the water temple was the key behind the longshot. The block was just perfectly hidden behind the chest.

Not exactly a key, but under the block there was a hole that dropped you into a room that was a long winding route that ended with a key chest. I think I remember having that issue, too.

Bruh

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It felt weird setting my server username to Faramir given that I haven't used this username for anything new in about 18 years.

adjl posted...

It really cannot be overstated just how much that game did to maintain structure in my life during a time that otherwise would have had very little

Bro the 5pm music though

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Not getting sick even once from March 2020 until like late 2021 or early 2022 was great. I've never gone more than like 6 months without getting a cold before.

Animal Crossing became a daily routine for at least 2 months. There has never been a better timed release for any other form of entertainment media ever.

Or honestly just anything Smash Mouth made

Bring Me to Life by Evanescence

I'm currently in the Water Temple. I've beaten this game so many times that the idea that this dungeon was ever confusing for people is hard for me to relate to anymore, but I will admit that the room hidden under the block that floats up when you set the water level to medium isn't very clearly shown. Dark Link was very fun to fight, especially without "cheating" by using the Megaton Hammer. This was another reason I opted to find as many Heart Pieces as possible, as Dark Link's health matches your own (so in my case, he took 16 hits to beat).

The interface flaws of this game are put on full display in this dungeon. The biggest issue is pausing numerous times to switch the Iron Boots on and off, when they easily could have been put on the D-pad. The Ocarina really should have been a D-pad button, too.

That said, I can appreciate the greater freedom that Ocarina of Time brought with the number of items you can have equipped at a given time. In Link's Awakening you technically could have 2, but that was only if you unequipped your sword, which was something I had to do on only a few rare occasions. Having 3 items equipped PLUS a sword and a shield at all times is a huge improvement, and the game responds by giving you many different challenges requiring many items all at once, which unfortunately counters out any benefit achieved through having more items equipped.

I know that it's easily to look back in retrospect and point out these shortcomings, but the pacing of the Water Temple because of this is so jarring that I'm honestly surprised it wasn't corrected in development. N64 games were often scared to use both the D-pad and the analog stick, likely because of the ridiculous controller design, but it wouldn't have been as annoying as having to pause to change items so often.

One other total random observation: when you hit enemies with arrows, you can see the arrow spin off in a random direction afterwards. This feels intentional but I can't understand why they'd program that, lmao. I've always noticed that, but this playthrough it's actually bothering me because I focus on looking for it happen. I wonder if it was an inside joke.

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People can like things that I don't like.

I can think they're wrong for liking things I don't like.

I don't care enough about literally anyone to try to change their mind about what they like.

I remember the L Block one but I don't even know who Draven is at all.

Probably because as soon as Character Battles started I'd just avoid the poll for the month or whatever that it lasted. I appreciated the effort the site put in to make something engaging but those contests would drag on for way too long.

I tried a Big Turk only once maybe about 20 years ago. Never again.

I imagine the moment that will forever define Amber Heard as being similar to the horse head scene in The Godfather.

Johnny Depp wakes up and can tell something isn't right. He pulls the bed sheets back to reveal a horrific blue ribbon dookie the size of an adult man's forearm nestled in his linens. Amber has made herself Heard.

Revelation34 posted...

I will always save scum shit like this.

You mean reload the game to try again? I honestly would have done that if I hadn't got it on that last try. The rupees aren't the issue, it's more the time commitment. Rupees aren't used for much in this game aside from minigames, it seems they were used much more in the earlier games (aside from Zelda 2 which straight up has no rupees at all).

I've just finished the Forest Temple. The level design is mostly better than the earlier games, but what has really shined has been the bosses. Every single boss has been better than literally any boss from the first four games. The cinematic entrance of King Dodongo is still awesome, even after over 25 years. Barinade is my favourite boss in the game, as it makes you really move to dodge it's attack, feels much more engaging. Phantom Ganon was great, too.

The revelation that Link isn't a Kokiri but is actually a Hylian was one I enjoyed as a kid but now just seems flat. The game doesn't build up this story element enough for you to care. I feel like they could have handled it better to make the reveal really stick.

On a side note, it occured to me that I'll be playing a lot of the next several Zelda games on the Wii. After Ocarina of Time, 4 of the next 7 games will be on the Wii. In fact, I could even hook up my GameCube, which with the Game Boy Player I have I could play all 7 of the next 7 games on it! I remember when Twilight Princess came out, Nintendo made a big deal out of the fact that every single Zelda game up to that point could be played on the GameCube. Neat.

The work week is starting up again so my progress on Ocarina of Time is likely to slow down, but I'd bet I'll have it finished by next weekend. I know this game like the back of my hand, so even if I manage to get all 20 hearts it won't take me too long.

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It's been odd for the last few years, Google and Facebook have seemingly discovered that it's actually profitable to cater to extreme fringe groups. Their algorithms have learned and responded to that. I'm not surprised that they're actively platforming and advertising gore content now, given that the have encouraged the spread of racism and misinformation (particularly political and medical misinformation) for at least half a decade.

They've both grown so colossal as companies that both consumers and advertisers are unable to take their business elsewhere, so instead they just ignore or put up with it.

There probably is a narrow connection between the name of the game you're searching up and some key terms used in these extreme videos. Your best hope is to report the videos but I wouldn't get my hopes up that anything will change.

So I've completed the first three dungeons of Ocarina of Time. I'm playing the Wii Virtual Console version.

I quickly abandoned my three heart run idea, not out of difficulty (this is by far the easiest Zelda yet in terms of combat) but rather out of interest in exploring as much as possible. I managed to get 11 hearts before getting the Ocarina of Time, which is the most you can possibly get. I used a glitch involving a cucco to get into and complete the Bottom of the Well and thus get the Lens of Truth, which helped me get the heart piece from the Treasure Game.

Dampe's Gravedigging minigame was a nightmare. I went into it with 200 rupees and didn't get the heart piece until I had only 6 rupees left.

Ocarina of Time is a gigantic step ahead for the series. It's no wonder this game was so critically acclaimed in its time. It still looks great, too (at least compared with anything else on the N64).

My main issues revolve around the amount of hand holding the game tries to do. Navi is disliked for this very reason. The game interrupts you very often to tell you how to do the movement you were just going to do. I get that this game was pioneering but the amount of explaining it does for basic tasks like opening doors or looking down corridors before you enter them just seems annoying.

I'm going to aim to get as many heart pieces as I can, just to really take in as much as I can of this game.

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Without reading it, is it because Salt Lake City is willing to use taxpayer money without the direct consent of their people to entirely pay for an overpriced brand new state of the art arena with an agreement that all profits go directly to the private hands in the NHL rather than back into the public purse?

Calgary did the exact same shit to prevent the Flames from leaving. It's pathetic.

Monopoman posted...

If memory serves I believe you can also hurt them with arrows I typically just avoided them though unless a room required their defeat. Shit this game does the trap you in a room until every enemy is dead thing a lot less than the original NES game.

Yeah, you also can beat them with bombs. Prior to about dungeon 7 though it feels like bombs are a pretty scarce resource, so anything you can do to not waste them is wise.

Revelation34 posted...

The 5th dungeon is the one with the skeleton knight right?

Yup, I actually liked that idea of chasing it around the dungeon. Definitely a unique part of the series so far, made backtracking more forgivable.

Anyway, I've finished Link's Awakening! This was certainly the longest Zelda game thus far, which is surprising for a Game Boy game. It could be just because I'm less familiar with the game compared to the others. I'd estimate it took about 8 hours of gameplay, compared to under 5 hours for the first two and maybe around 6 hours for ALttP.

The final boss was excellent, especially it's final form. I purposely avoided using the boomerang, which I know is an instant OHKO on the final form. Dodging the swinging arms while hoping to get a shot in was a lot of fun.

The ending is always pretty sad. There really isn't a lot of character development in the game and yet it's heartbreaking to see Marin and the rest of Koholint Island disappear.

At the same time, this is the first truly "weird" Zelda game. The Wind Fish (in name only, for it is neither) is a very odd concept for a central character, and even more so by the fact it sleeps in a giant egg on the top of a mountain. Mario enemies being included is also super strange and those enemies always particularly stick out. I wonder what conversations went down during the pitch for this game.

Overall, a good game, but it's the first time in the series that a game has felt like a downgrade from the game that came before it. It's understandable given that this was a handheld game released in the early 90s, so I can forgive it for that. If anything, it deserves extra praise for what it was able to accomplish on such limited hardware. I have the liberty of playing it on the Switch on a big TV while sitting on my couch, so it is easy to forget what the original intended experience was supposed to be.

I'm going to start Ocarina of Time right away tonight. There isn't a game I'm more familiar with than Ocarina of Time, so I might be hard pressed to give any insights as I complete it, as I know exactly what I'm getting myself into. I might do a three heart run just to spice it up a bit. What I'm mostly interested in seeing is just how much of an evolution it was compared to these first 4 games. There isn't another game held in such high regard as this, so let's see if it really deserves the praise as being perhaps the greatest game of all time.

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Hey I'm Trump

I'm not so Trump

I've made it to the 8th dungeon. The 6th dungeon was an absolute labyrinth, I had to backtrack so many times to complete it. The Switch version never gave me that much trouble from what I can remember.

The 7th dungeon was actually much better for me, even though I remember always getting stuck on it in the past. I think this time I remembered that you can access the chest containing the Mirror Shield very early in the dungeon, and that your first priority needs to be destroying the four pillars.

Link's Awakening certainly has a very unique atmosphere to it. It's hard to describe. The story and truth slowly revealing itself to you is a very interesting approach, especially for a Game Boy game.

I'm getting the impression that the developers were just still trying to settle into a "feel" for the series. Link's Awakening is feeling a lot like an attempt to mix the positives from ALttP and Zelda 1. It's like it understands the significance of world building (like in ALttP) while also giving a lot of freedom for the player to discover things and solve cryptic puzzles on their own (like in Zelda 1).

There are some gameplay elements that don't really hold up, though. As I've mentioned before, the backtracking is very frustrating. The power ups are more annoying than they are helpful. Some puzzles, like the jar door (which has now happened several times) or the throwable chess pieces are total misses for me.

This has led to me having quite conflicted feelings about Link's Awakening. I'm also having a hard time pinpointing exactly what I like and don't like. It could very well be that I'm just spoiled since I've played through the Switch version multiple times yet only have beaten the Game Boy version once (and it was many years ago). I should be done the game by tomorrow, or by the end of the weekend at least.

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Dude why are you so paranoid about your Pixel 6a, literally every topic you make is about some new worry you have about it. It's a budget level phone and yet you're acting like it's your only child.

I'm just starting the 6th dungeon now. Wizzrobes are invincible to sword damage, wtf. It almost seemed like a glitch because they fly back when hit with the sword, so I looked it up, and I found out you can stun them with the Hookshot and then pick them up and throw them at each other.

I don't like that you can't harm them with your sword unlike in Zelda 1 and ALttP, but this trick definitely makes it better, haha.

I'm noticing that dungeons are incredibly long in this one compared to previous Zelda games. That's definitely a good thing, but I'm not a huge fan of the forced backtracking.

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I beat the 4th dungeon, the boss was insanely easy.

I also now have the upgraded sword. It's weird that the game doesn't give it an official name. I remember years ago looking it up and it was called the Seashell Sword, but in the remake they called it the Koholint Sword. I think the first name was better.

The upgraded sword along with the Red Mail basically means I'll defeat pretty much all enemies in one hit.

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I'm on my way to the 4th dungeon now. I've got the Angler Key. I also finished the Color Dungeon, and chose the Red Mail only because I like red over blue, lol. The Blue Mail is honestly the better choice but whatever.

I'm finding travel around Koholint Island to be pretty tedious. There's a fair amount of back and forth, and the warp points aren't really that great. I'm trying to poke away at the trading sequence while I'm following the main plot as well (I remember the boomerang you get at the end being extremely OP in the Game Boy version), but every now and then I realize I forgot to do a certain trade task while in a region, but it's just too time consuming to backtrack.

That said, I just gave the letter from Christine the goat to Mr. Write. The fake picture honestly made me laugh out loud, the inclusion of Mr. Write's hand holding the picture adds so much to the joke. It's like one of those grotesque close up still frames from an episode of Spongebob. Definitely the funniest thing in the series up to this point.

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adjl posted...

I'm pretty sure I had to look up the pot thing. Definitely not an intuitive puzzle.

Glad I'm not the only one, I didn't play LA until the mid to late 2000s after I had played every other Zelda game that had been released at that point. Had to look up how to open the door, still remember being grumpy about it.

dedbus posted...

How was the 3ds majoras mask a downgrade, never played the original of it. Thought the 3ds OOT was prettty good.

The biggest issue was the fact they changed the mechanics for all of the bosses, and always for the worse. Each boss would sprout a gigantic eyeball you had to hit in order to inflict damage. The fourth boss was made particularly awful, with the fight taking at least 5 times longer than it used to, and much more boring. The second boss, which was one of the best bosses in the series in the N64 version, was in some ways even more disappointing because the new mechanics pretty much forced you to switch away from Goron rolling to defeat it.

A YouTuber named Nerrel has a very good video breaking down everything wrong with MM3D.

badjay posted...

Did you ever play BotW or TotK?

If not I'm curious what you'll think about the maps and how they kind of coordinate through out the games.

Yes, I've played through every Zelda game (excluding Triforce Heroes which I don't consider canon).

It's been a long time, but I've played a bit more. I'm between dungeon 2 and 3 right now. Currently collecting the Gold Leaves.

The puzzle in this photo always holds a place in my mind as being the most unintuitive in any Zelda game. You're supposed to throw a jar at the door to unlock it. They made it more clear in the Switch remake by actually putting a picture of a jar on the door, which as much as that removes the problem solving element, it honestly isn't a bad change given how weird this puzzle was.

Overall I'm enjoying Link's Awakening, but the Switch version has spoiled me. I doubt I'll ever play the GBC version again after this, unless someday I play through each Zelda in release order again.

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There was a solar eclipse like 6 months ago and nobody cared. Just don't look at it.

Nintendo Power was awesome. I still have all my old copies from about 1999 to 2008.

It went very downhill around 2006.

C0RNISHACID posted...

cool sig :v

I'll be sure to beat the Running Man once again when I get to Ocarina of Time, mwahaha.

I'm on vacation in British Columbia right now. I'm appreciating the fact that it's actually spring here; when I left Alberta the other day it was straight up dead winter.

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rjsilverthorn posted...

I'm not really sure how well that holds up today. In the past it probably made sense since you would be taking on supporting your wife and would generally end up having kids shortly after, but now most couples are both working and already living together before they get married so it doesn't really make any major change in finances.

I don't think it really ever made sense to drop three months of salary on a ring unless you were still living with parents or something.

I'm reasonably well off but three months of salary would definitely take me over a year to put away. It would be a devastating expense to spend that on something like a ring when it inevitably should be used to pay for the expensive infrequent things in life, like a new furnace, a new roof, or a new vehicle.

adjl posted...

Fun realization: "Bluetooth 20 years ago" is how Wiimotes worked.

There is nothing fun about this at all

I used to see a car frequently parked at a GameStop (probably an employee) with QQNOOB as their plate lmao.

Keep in mind, finasteride comes with a 1% chance of permanent irreversible erectile dysfunction. I wouldn't do it personally but it depends how much your hair means to you. I'd rather pay $20000+ for a hair transplant than risk losing the use of my weiner.

Revelation34 posted...

That's the grotto right? Also intrusive? I should get around to playing the Switch version since I bought it for Black Friday two years ago.

Yeah, and by "intrusive" I mean that it interrupts your gameplay to give an overly long message that takes forever to slowly scroll out, even if you just bump into a boulder.

I made it to the second dungeon in Link's Awakening the other day, but I haven't had time to play since. I'll be busy for the next several days, too. Probably won't pick it back up until next weekend, but it definitely will go quick once I have the time.

The GB version is better than I remembered, I'm not upset about not playing the Switch version. The only complaint I have so far are just how intrusive some messages are, especially when you touch a boulder or jar that is too heavy to lift, or when you get a Guardian Acorn or Piece of Power (or whatever it's called). I don't know how they didn't fix that during development, or in the DX release (which is the one I'm playing, because it's the only one available on the Switch Game Boy service).

Also in my 30s but I know my turn is coming soon. I've made it further than my dad or either of my grandpas but I doubt I'll have my hair by 40.