Basement Dwellers

[Your Local Wild Child]

That's the way to do it. Don't get me wrong, they work fine - especially if all your devices are apple things, because then everything will obviously always work well together because every part of it is owned by the same company.

The people buying the newest of the apple stuff are just being materialistic an I'm convinced that the older generations would do the same (actually I know they are doing the same) so naming an entire generation after a major brand is just kinda dumb I mean we didn't name the older generations after cigarette brands either

Yea I got the whole not replacing stuff until it breaks thing from my parents. We had a washer/dryer set that was older than I am (we JUST replaced them last year and this year because they eventually broke down)! My parents had to eventually get 7s because their phones broke and they have a lot more problems with them.
I couldn’t imagine replacing these every 6 months just to get a SLIGHTLY better camera or screen. If I wanna take good pictures I’ll use my dedicated camera for that purpose...

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I played neopets, webkinz and Shining stars (cool site where you “get” a star with your pet), and that Ty 2.0 thing from years back.

speaking of Ty 2.0, I have an...interesting story that is tangentially related to the McDonald’s promotion for that.

 

[Mick]

Yea I got the whole not replacing stuff until it breaks thing from my parents. We had a washer/dryer set that was older than I am (we JUST replaced them last year and this year because they eventually broke down)! My parents had to eventually get 7s because their phones broke and they have a lot more problems with them.
I couldn’t imagine replacing these every 6 months just to get a SLIGHTLY better camera or screen. If I wanna take good pictures I’ll use my dedicated camera for that purpose...

My dad's an electrician and I learned pretty quickly that a lot of things can be fixed. It's part of the reason why I have a windows computer and an android phone, I like messing with stuff to better fit the way I want to use it, and I like having the ability to repair it if that ends up breaking the thing (or if I can't do it myself, not paying obscene amounts for the repair is nice...)

My phones last about 5 years. I completely bricked the operating system on my last phone several times (oops) but it never actually broke, it simply wasn't fast enough anymore.

 

[DinosaurDumpster]

Yea I got the whole not replacing stuff until it breaks thing from my parents. We had a washer/dryer set that was older than I am (we JUST replaced them last year and this year because they eventually broke down)! My parents had to eventually get 7s because their phones broke and they have a lot more problems with them.
I couldn’t imagine replacing these every 6 months just to get a SLIGHTLY better camera or screen. If I wanna take good pictures I’ll use my dedicated camera for that purpose...

Post automatically merged: Sep 7, 2020

I played neopets, webkinz and Shining stars (cool site where you “get” a star with your pet), and that Ty 2.0 thing from years back.

speaking of Ty 2.0, I have an...interesting story that is tangentially related to the McDonald’s promotion for that.

why do i remember the ty promotion at mcdonalds
i probably wasn't even alive when that was a thing
probably thinking of something completely different

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

My dad's an electrician and I learned pretty quickly that a lot of things can be fixed. It's part of the reason why I have a windows computer and an android phone, I like messing with stuff to better fit the way I want to use it, and I like having the ability to repair it if that ends up breaking the thing (or if I can't do it myself, not paying obscene amounts for the repair is nice...)

My phones last about 5 years. I completely bricked the operating system on my last phone several times (oops) but it never actually broke, it simply wasn't fast enough anymore.

We aren’t that much into coding in our family. We do use windows devices for PCs tho (I’ve messed with a Mac once or twice at college and it’s a PAIN).

 

[Seastar]

Oh... I never got to try Ty 2.0 before it was gone.

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

Oh... I never got to try Ty 2.0 before it was gone.

I mostly dabbled in it with the month trials that came with the McDonald’s toys. I remember that I got a sheep and a dolphin from that promo

 

[Mick]

We aren’t that much into coding in our family. We do use windows devices for PCs tho (I’ve messed with a Mac once or twice at college and it’s a PAIN).

I don't code for my phones either, but I did use some bits of code made by smarter people online that made my phone so much nicer
This kills the warranty

I've used Apple devices very briefly in the past. The experience is always rather similar - Where are the buttons? Why can't I do this? Why won't you let me mess with that? Where are all the settings?

and other such questions

 

[Seastar]

I mostly dabbled in it with the month trials that came with the McDonald’s toys. I remember that I got a sheep and a dolphin from that promo

I know I have the dolphin from McDonald's somewhere...

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

I don't code for my phones either, but I did use some bits of code made by smarter people online that made my phone so much nicer
This kills the warranty

I've used Apple devices very briefly in the past. The experience is always rather similar - Where are the buttons? Why can't I do this? Why won't you let me mess with that? Where are all the settings?

and other such questions

I was raised with windows so it’s all I’m used to.
My stats professor uses a Mac so it’s always a bit of a pain translating certain processes from Mac to Windows (we use R software for the majority of our work)

 

[DinosaurDumpster]

I went with Deirdre.

She's mine now. I missed her so much ;v;

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

I went with Deirdre.

She's mine now. I missed her so much ;v;

I’m hoping for Beau, Bruce or either of the smug deer tomorrow. I’ll take the sisterlies if I’m running out but I wanna hold off in hopes to find them via the camp (in case Apollo or Tex is stubborn)

 

[Chris]

It's safe though! Like I said, I've been to the store. I have candy.

What sort of candy?

why do i remember the ty promotion at mcdonalds
i probably wasn't even alive when that was a thing
probably thinking of something completely different

They've done several over the years.

My favourite McDonalds promo ever was for Poo-Chi. At the time it was active my friend Matt and I used to go swimming every weekend and we'd end up in McDonalds after. I think we ended up with most of the toys between us!

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

My favourite McDonalds promo ever was for Poo-Chi. At the time it was active my friend Matt and I used to go swimming every weekend and we'd end up in McDonalds after. I think we ended up with most of the toys between us!

I’d say my favorite was the Ty 2.0 promo (it was for a 30 year anniversary of happy meals!)

The biggest thing I remember of that month is that our van got it’s windshield caved in by a giant bird. That was an interesting afternoon/evening...

 

[DinosaurDumpster]

Honestly I barely remember those since I was very young when the one I remember came out.

All I remember doing during the promo was playing in the Playplace lol

 

[Cosmic-chan]

Hi hello

 

[Mick]

What sort of candy?

Skittles™

and also chocolate because I felt like it

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

The last trip I was on I got a little metal container in the shape of the original NES Link. The funny thing is the candies it had were orange flavored (my least favorite flavor) but the container is cool enough for me to not care

 

[Chris]

Chocolate beats candy.

I still have a Lindt bunny from Easter in my kitchen cupboard.

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

Chocolate beats candy.

I still have a Lindt bunny from Easter in my kitchen cupboard.

I’m an unashamed chocoholic so I agree with ya there. Sometimes I like fruit candies to change things up tho

 

[DinosaurDumpster]

I like both equally.
But I can't have way too much of it in one sitting. I can only have about 15 pieces at a time or i'll get sick.