• john89@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      1 day ago

      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.)

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        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.”