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I did horribly on a test in high school once and went through my closet throwing out most of my favorite toys, in particular things from Nintendo: All my pokem
by swiley 6y ago
I did horribly on a test in high school once and went through my closet throwing out most of my favorite toys, in particular things from Nintendo:
All my pokemon cards (I had a few pages of some pretty rare ones)
My GBA (the thing I learned programming on)
About two trash bags full of other various things
including SNES games
Often I regret throwing out the Pokemon cards, lots of people I met in college loved the game and I feel like that could have scored me a bit of reputation (but maybe that's a childish thought.) Then again, maybe if I didn't have that kind of attitude I wouldn't have made it to college at all.
- detritus 6y ago> I did horribly on a test in high school once and went through my closet throwing out most of my favorite toys, in particular things from Nintendo But.. why? Was it an act of self-flagellation? Rage? An attempt to clear out distractions?
- jackstraw14 6y agoI think this is a fairly common reaction (maybe overreaction) when people first notice an addiction, or that something toxic is in their routine. It's like an attempt to regain control, I think.
- kovek 6y agoHow did you learn to program on your GBA?
- hashtagmarkup 6y agoI used to hack around with GBA programming too, but I started much earlier on an Apple ][. My first serious attempts at assembler programming were on the TI-85 graphing calculator which had a Z80 processor (same as the original gameboy). Later, I bought a programmable GBA cartridge and a tool that could write to it. There were a Z80 emulators on the GBA to play the original gameboy games, and there were packagers available to make your Z80 programs, so I ported over my "columns" clone I made for zshell on the TI-85.