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[–] john89@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

80s/90s kids remember being able to throw their controllers at the TV without fear.

Fuck, I never would think to throw my controller at the screen!

I also don't ever throw my controllers in general. Why would I want to break them? Lol.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

spoilt kids tantrum -> brain goes into standby

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you're a small child and you get extremely frustrated about dying to the same boss one too many times in a row, you have to vent that somehow.

It only happened once, I got so frustrated I bit the controller and threw it. You can still see the bite marks. (I was at most 11 years old.)

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I love my kid-gamer self.

I was really bad at games, but I would always chalk it up to "I'm just a kid and it's okay to be bad."

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Things made in the 80s never broke.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Yeah man! As a thing made in the 80s myself, I gotta tell ya, I'm feeling pretty broken these days.

But I don't blame the build quality, I blame the 8 year old, that dude will be the death of me.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

survivorship bias