I hummed hawed on this over the past few years to finally end up in the pixel watch 2, being sold on getting workout, sleep and general heartrate metrics.
davemeech
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This is a daunting proposition, I'm admittedly massively invested in Google's ecosystem. Gmail and Google calendar, I have a pixel phone, watch and buds and have YouTube premium. I feel like the time I switch is when I have a homelab and am able to find open source alternatives to everything heavily use and be able to do so with all devices I use.
I agree with your sentiment, I love it because it was my favourite game growing up, but I feel like it would be hit or miss for someone playing for the first time.
I'm playing it this weekend as well, STILL trying to hit 100+ super jumps.
I play through this one at least once a year. Timeless.
Hollow Knight for me fits this scenario to a t. I got it as part of a humble bundle, but couldn't get into it for at least a year as the initial part felt really depressing, and didn't at all grab me.
But once I managed to tough it through to greenpath, and started to get some power ups, it finally sunk it's claws into me. I proceeded to nearly 100% the game.
Super Mario Wonder. I got it at release as I came down with Covid and beat it 100% that weekend. Excellent experience, I just wish it was longer.
Either 2 and 3 or 3 and 7.
Free gravel is fantastic, a ton of practical things to be done with it and is otherwise expensive.
Teleporting 7 inches away is enough to get you past many barriers and walls, that's not insignificant. This seems the coolest to me.
Being able to determine if a container is empty or not seems pretty cool as well although I can't think of a good example of how this would be useful.
The rest are hilarious.
I love the idea of it, but it hasn't clicked yet. It never occurs to me to even tag things in order to leverage my notes as a mind map/second brain.
The absence of a clean means of using it from multiple devices and syncing between them without their cloud service is kind of disappointing. The git community plugin is godawful to set up on mobile/tablet, something native that handles git behind the scenes would be excellent.
Ultimately, what I'd like is obsidian but with the interface of confluence.
Both of those were game changers for me too. I had a PlayStation 1 memory card with just Squaresoft games. Absolute golden age.
For these though, I would alter the original question to be if I could relive playing this game for the first time at the time that I did. If I tried them for the first time now I'm certain I'd find both to be antiquated.
I'm about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.
I'm admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it's interface isn't intuitive to me yet.
Ideally I'll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.