Nice! Congrats and I hope you enjoy it!

I’m just going to come in here and say the Neo Geo Pocket Color will always have a place in my heart.

Leonard Nimoy was the narrator, not the fish. Alas.

I’m not the OP but I went ahead and bought his file and sliced* it and with 20% infill, it will require about 77g of filament. So with one normal spool, you could print 12 of them.

I can only vouch directly for the M5, but looking into the differences, it looks like the M5C would be a solid option. I would miss the onboard camera and the ability to check my prints and get notifications of suspicious issues, but the printer itself is more or less the same otherwise.

Edit: and with the current sale, $200 is a STEAL

• Slicing is the process where a program takes the 3D model and turns it into layer by layer instructions for the printer and where you configure lots of settings such as infill, which is how much of the interior of the model is printed with a lattice for structural support. Prints are rarely 100% solid material but rather a hull with infill.

I have an AnkerMake M5 and it’s gloriously painless. There are intrinsic unavoidable challenges to 3D printing, but this thing has been incredible for casual creation.

https://www.ankermake.com/

Super Monkey Ball is a fun suggestion! Plus it’s got an interesting GBA version with an untextured 3D engine for rendering courses that I found pretty impressive.

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I’m going to stay retro because I’m on a retro kick right now. I’m also a big fan of chunky old-school graphics, so most of these are available in some form or another on GB, GBC, GBA, GG, or my personal favorite, NGPC.

I stuck with mostly mindless action or traversal, leaving off things with complicated puzzle solving or exploration and what to do/where to go challenge, hence things like Sonic and Mario yes but Metroid and Zelda no. That said, there’s plenty more if you’re up for some light exploration thinking. Shantae for GBC is a delightful example.

Puzzle/Tetris-like:

• Puyo Puyo/Puyo Pop/Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
• Magical Drop (I played this so much my brain would zen out and I’d have crushed all of my friends in a row without breaking a sweat)
• Dr. Mario
• Puzzle Bobble/Bust A Move

Mindless Action/Adventure:

• Metal Slug series
• Contra series
• Gunstar Heroes (IYKYK - if you haven’t played this before but you like Contra-type games, play the Genesis version, be blown away, then try the GG version and be impressed as hell with that too)
• Streets of Rage series (The GG ports are pretty incredible for the platform)
• Smash TV (SNES or Arcade version probably though, since retro handhelds never had the controls for it)
• T2: The Arcade Game is on Game Gear and it’s an impressive port to dink around with.
• Like, the entire shmup genre, but if you want retro portable, there are some Gradius and R-Type ports, GG Aleste/Power Strike 2 on GG, and probably a ton more on GBA.

Pure Platformer:

• Any early Mario mainline game
• Any Sonic mainline game
• Lion King or Aladdin, but these are so difficult you might want to save scum them just to brainlessly get past the brutal challenge

Sports:

• NBA Jam (I loved my dinky little GG version)

Other:

• Ms. Pac-Man and other retro arcade games/collections
• More Pinball! I don’t know any actual “normal” pinball games for retro systems that were all that great, but Sonic Spinball is awesome, plus there’s Kirby Pinball, Metroid Prime Pinball (DS), and even Pinball of the Dead.

Same probably. I think the Switch has been so successful they won’t risk doing much to the form factor or features. So I’m fully braced for the Nintendo equivalent of a new iPhone. And I’m 3 generations behind on that now, and not all that worried about it.

The good news here is that Valve is privately owned. Investors are typically what drives enshittification. Granted, pure selfish profit motive can do similar, but fortunately Steam is massively profitable and sustainable as-is, whereas enshittification is based on suffering unsustainable losses up front to capture users.

The bigger issue is the effective monopoly they have, and that’s currently something that’s starting to rumble a little.

Nintendo has kinda been shitty lately with their insane litigiousness too, but they’re the only ones giving a really good reason to buy their console. The Switch 2 so far is sounding like “faster Switch with minor QoL improvements” so it’s hard to get excited about that too.

I’ve basically been Team Xbox since the OG in 2001, but lately I’m feeling very disaffected as part of the ecosystem. Sony isn’t really any better, but I don’t have the same drive to confidently support Xbox anymore and now I just feel beholden to my digital library.

It kinda feels like the console makers have basically enshittified on a much slower timeline than most technologies, but the corner is being turned now. I think I like my Steam Deck more than anything else these days.

Smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris!

A promise is a promise. I could see backing out if there were extenuating circumstances or some kind of concession to try and mitigate it, but it was just cartoon dollar signs in his eyes and a middle finger to everyone else.

But yeah, I didn’t have time to go into detail but I appreciate you adding the extra nuance to the fact that all signs point to this guy being a toxic piece of shit all around.

I don’t know and I don’t care. Palmer Luckey was the guy who started Oculus, promised it would never sell out, then instantly sold it to Facebook and started a privacy invasion company.

Fuck Palmer Luckey and fuck his Chromatic, but the game is cute.

Alien Isolation. Resident Evil 7. If you can do either/both in VR, DO IT.

Yeah, I was exaggerating a bit but frankly I don’t love the trend. I want portable and tightly designed, not Yet Another Nintendo Switch Shaped Device. My favorite device at the moment is probably the TrimUI Smart, and if they could pack the power of that into the form factor of the Model S with L2/R2 and a better screen, I’d be very happy.

One decent larger device with thumbsticks for later generation consoles is reasonable, but these are all feeling so same-y.

I worry that with the trend toward larger screens and more capable processors in every retro device, one day we’ll need retro-retro devices that harken back to the days of retro devices with lesser capabilities.

My exact thought. Just…why?

https://www.8bitdo.com/micro/