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Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/02/14-percent-of-north-americans-still-play-gaming-systems-released-before-2000

References this site: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/media-formats/holding-on-to-physical-media-a3747629925/

Actual data here: https://article.images.consumerreports.org/image/upload/v1718112414/prod/content/dam/surveys/Consumer_Reports_AES_May_2024.pdf

Actual question references "Classic videogame systems that came out before 2000, like the NES or GameBoy" and "used at home in the past year" of which 14% responded yes out of a group of 2022 surveyed in North America (demographic details available in link).

Yeah, it's kind of hard to come up with a cutoff. There's lots of really old vague theories that had the right idea. Eventually you get to the point where you're thinking that there was probably a caveman somewhere who built a fire in a cave and wondered what would happen if the whole world filled with smoke.

From a science perspective, Svante seems to have mostly had it, but applying the science really started to coalesce in the 1950s. The American Petroleum Institute actually funded a study in 1959 to figure out if they were really going to destroy the planet. Their findings were a bit more extreme than what actually worked out, they thought New York would be underwater around 1990, but it pretty well established things.

Ocarina of Time soundtrack lives in my head rent free too. For me, its usually Lost Woods, everyone who played remembers the tune even if they don't know the name.

I know this was a joke, but I was kinda wondering when we first started talking about Climate Change as an issue.

It looks like some guy in Sweden named 'Svante Arrhenius' was the first to really get everything properly worked out and documented back in 1896, but the first time it really started to go mainstream seems like it was with 'economist William Nordhaus' back in 1975 just feeling like it might be starting to become a real problem.

The multiple instances of the word 'Cloud' floating by at varying speeds in the background is what really does it for me.

Definitely art.

Not sure if this is optimistic or not, I feel like it's going to suck for awhile until we just don't trust anything digital ever again. There will just be an assumption that anything digital is not real. We'll go back to "If it's on the internet, it must be true" being a joke. Also not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

At a lot of flower places, you'd likely be paying a premium for flowers on Valentines Days even if they didn't explicitly tell you. Check back in a week and whatever you bought may be significantly cheaper. Just saying that if you didn't actually get them on Valentines, may want to push for at least some of your money back whether they eventually get there or not.

Threatening to call your bank may help if they won't give you a refund, actually do it if they don't. If you have to talk to your bank, remember that you bough valentines day flowers not eventually delivered some day flowers.

Or Red Shoe Diaries, people kinda forgot that his big role before X-files was just softcore porn.

Haven't seen one exactly like this, but looks like a lock out tag out deal.

I feel like banning all direct links gets you 90% of the way there. No referral codes, if a user wants to find your site, they have to go looking, automated spam is harder, etc.

Like... are we 100% sure that's even his kid?