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@obi Yeah. The Xmas one (which we don't celebrate as much with presents in mind) that Americans know is having your sock at the fireplace. We have our shoes. ;) A Pete would come down and put some fun stuff in there. You could leave a carrot in there for the saint's horse. ;)

@obi The Netherlands. Our neighbouring countries celebrate it too, and our overseas (former) colonies know of this tradition as well.

@vosje62 Ja, dat vind ik ook een beetje gaar. Dat kan je dus niet naar een ander tijdslijn verplaatsen? (zoals een lijst die je hebt aangemaakt). Dat kan hier op Qoto namelijk wel, veel handiger denk ik.

@obi I know the feel. We're celebrating Saint Nicolas soon here (5 december), and all the doors of our school building have a Pete sticker on the windows as if Pete is going to peek over the edge... and that keeps distracting me. :P

@MichaelPorter That was pretty funny. :)

@maryrobinette This was a hilarious read, thanks. :D

@rdaily Hilarious. :D

But seriously? Denmark?!

@NachoNachoMan@masto.ai Oh yeah, I totally played most of SIERRA's and LucasArts' games. Great times, missing them a bit.

My favorites ... LucasArts definitely Day of the Tentacle. It was fun to travel through time with uh... portapotties, lol. Learned a fair amount of English from that.

And SIERRA, definitely the Quest for Glory series. #2 is still having a dear place in my heart. Though Space Quest 3 also holds a big place in my heart as that was the game that improved my English the most.

Adventures are now a lot fewer, but good ones are still being made and I cherish those modern ones as well.

@Drosmel 😂

@NachoNachoMan@masto.ai I remember the PS1. I think it was the PS1, they got Final Fantasy 7 on it. I was glad to find out not much later there was a PC version so I could stop playing my buddy's PS1. :D

I also played the N64 of my roommate for a little while. When he was gone for a week, I could play as much as I'd like on that thing. Played the hell out of Donkey Country 64 or whatever that game was called. When he got back I cold turkey stopped and never yearned to play on that thing anymore lol.

But ok, I'm more of a point and click adventure gamer, and RTS games and games like Civilization and its many spin-offs. :)

@NachoNachoMan@masto.ai I know I'll likely be playing PC games in the next 40 years. After the initial Toshiba console, and later an MSX one, I've been PC only ever since.

I might be interested in a Steam Deck though, that's as close as one currently could get to a console with a PC. :)

I do have game controllers hooked up, so the experience isn't that different. Just that PC games are easier to obtain and way cheaper. ;)

@Amoeba The best one could hope to acquire!

@NachoNachoMan@masto.ai The consoles listed are not old enough for me. ;)

Some sort of Toshiba thingy with huge cartridges, and very pixelated games. And joysticks with tiny sticks and just one button.

Ahh, memories.

@skyblond I use Vivaldi every day and I've turned off the mail and calendar features. They can be toggled off so you never have to deal with it.

@kefir That probably shouldn't matter too much seeing the globalization. I'd say, just search for your community, not your audience.

@kefir Doesn't surprise me at all. That's quite an effort!

@kefir Must've had very sore fingers afterwards.

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@ChemBruChem The result of that one match surprised me as well.