This was said and true even even at the time. N-Gage did SO MUCH ahead of it’s time that it had a true chance to be a sale record giant to compete with the GBA (nintendos current handheld at the time).

It has so many quirks, and things that innovate that it feels like a nintendo product honestly. That is up until they miss the mark SO HARD with stuff.

First off, it has this really bizzare screen aspect ratio. It’d be great for arcade emulators…if it could run them. I assume any game post 1992 or so in arcades would be too hard to emulate on this. As a result, I never saw any arcade emulators on here.

Then there’s the issue you describe. Card reader UNDER the battery. No idea why they did this. Zero sense.

Then there’s the taco talkin. I have no idea who thought this up.

There’s no L or R triggers. They have a 12 button dialpad that they double as buttons, which works surprisingly well…but no triggers. So 1 and 3 are your default triggers, and it feels SO weird.

The fact that this was made by Nokia shows. It had amazing build quality. Phone OS for the time was top of the line. But it just has so much head scratching baffling moments that makes it very clear that this is designed by a phone company. Not a video game company.

Can’t tell if Charley Kelly, or the lucky charms leprechan.

Because you hit me.

So what you’re saying is we should be on the lookout for men who don’t have the right or authority to do things, but try to force their way in anyway. Those are the guys who want to be ultimate unquestioned dictator.

Like…maybe we should grab these guys, and throw them out of any meaningful positions of power. And if they’re criminals, we should throw them in jail. When you’re a criminal they let you do it. So we should just grab them by the balls, and lock them up!

…I really wanted to include a reference to hunter bidens laptop, but couldn’t make it work in that joke.

Depends how hard I hit you.

When I was drinking, my favorite martini was Bacardi 151. They don’t make it anymore, because the 151 is the proof. Meaning it’s 75.5% alcohol by volume.

What people were doing was taking the 151, pouring it in a glass, setting it on fire, and then drinking it while it was still on fire.

Well, it’s liquid. It spills easily, even little droplets. And it’s on fire. So these drunk people in their early 20s were setting themselves on fire. The drink would spill onto their shirt, and now their shirt is on fire.

On top of that, the fact that it was so strong was something young people weren’t expecting at the time.

So they’d drink it, with the same expectency of it being like jack danials, or skyy vodka. It’s a little less than twice as strong as those. And it burns like fire going down. Even without literal fire. And then after a few drinks of that they don’t have a nice buzz like they thought. They have a full on blackout drunk where they aren’t in control of themselves AT ALL.

That was my cocktail of choice 20+ years ago. Just a glass, pour in the 151, and that’s the drink. Your “chaser” is that you lick a pussy riiiiiight after. I’ve been told it’s a weird sensation. Like a warming and tingle on the clit, as it’s being licked.

Never try boxed wine.

When I was 21, my job had someone lose an entire massive jug of wine in a box. It sat in lost and found for a month before I just took it.

Second worst thing that has ever been in my mouth. I invited people over to try it. If they liked it, they could have it. I figured “I’m not a wine guy, but it’s free booze.”

I couldn’t take more than a sip. Nobody could.

We had to throw the damn thing away.

“Extra dirty please!”

bartender mixes the drink with his penis

Hey, stay strong brother. That one drink isn’t worth giving up your progress. I don’t know you, but I’m proud for you.

Yeah. Acquired from the bartender.

You hit me, I hit you back.

How is that illogical?

When it first debuted, I remember the gamestop near me was selling it by itself for $399. I think that was 2003 or 2004. Something like that. I remember within about 9 months or so it was $100 and came with 3 games. A few months after that I remember them being like “Ok, $30, comes with 10 games. PLEASE just take these out of our store!!!”

I bought one.

Then I got home and found out you can get an MMC card (think SD card, before SD cards existed…and also much thinner), and you could download ALL the N-Gage games for free. You could even store like 20 games on 1 MMC card at a time. So yes, I had 10 boxed games, but I never even opened them. I just downloaded them so I wouldn’t have to remove the battery between game swaps.

Now they did also release an N-Gage XD, which is kind of like how Nintendo releases NEW DS after the original DS was slowing down sales. The N-Gage XD solved the issues of taco talkin, and needing to remove the battery. By this point it was already too late.

Were you forced to have sex with people you didn’t know?

The real question is, why isn’t it shaped like a dove?

What about V for 5? There’s only 2 people I ever saw make a V with their hand. Spock, and Vader.

No, not Darth Vader. I mean the OTHER Vader.

THIS GUY

I’m unclear if you’re the reason Pika has an edit to their post, or if you just missed the fact that they said that. Although they said 2018, you said 2016.

It’s uplifting in the sense that it happening is better than it not happening.

I would say it shouldn’t be uplifting news, because it’s only a fraction of what’s needed. 625,000 people should have recycled their own batteries. This is less than 1% of all the trash in the world. All the cleanup thats needed. Billions of cigerette butts just lining the streets of every country (except Japan).

Do you have any idea how many people i see driving down the street, and a mcdonalds wrapper just flys out of their car? Those wrappers will remain intact for years. They’re not biodegradable. They float in the wind until they eventually land in the oceans.

625,000 recycled batteries is great, and I want to hug this kid. I’m just saying if people were better people it wouldn’t have to be his problem.

Maybe it was the early 2000s, and limp bizkit just released their new album, and grandma knew he liked wearing black nail polish and spiked collars with chains.

And then it got thrown into a drawer. And now he’s a financial adviser in his mid 40s, and his last parent recently died. So he had to clean out the house before he sold it. And found the hot topic gift card he forgotten about. It has $6 still loaded on it.

Nobody is safe in a fascist government. Study history.

They probably won’t come for you (unless you’re very politically vocal)

Maybe advocate on behalf of some of those folks - your voice has more clout.

Pick one.

This fight won’t be won by the silent, but don’t try to claim he can use others as a buffer until their numbers thin out.