one common misunderstanding about retro games I see in younger people is not being aware that games used to come in boxes with printed manuals and there was an expectation that you'd read the manual in preparation for it.<\/p>
so people will be like \"how was I supposed to know I had to press up then A\", etc., when it was in the manual all along. same goes for background lore that's never present in the game; yes there was no intro or explanation or anything of who you are and what you are doing, because this was annoying and costly to do with cutscenes so it was left for the manual.<\/p>
of course in the third world we only ever had pirate games without manuals so our experience playing was like the modern player's lol<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/transmom.love\/@elilla\/117207440452643290","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-03:objectType=thread:nonce=ee6a0736cc062205","notice_info":{"local_id":"13122551","source":"ActivityPub","repeat_of":"13122546"}},"published":"2026-09-03T17:02:40+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"title":"Bruiserzinha repeated a notice by elilla","verb":"share","url":"https:\/\/ursal.zone\/users\/Bruiserzinha\/statuses\/117208183144791680\/activity"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/foolishowl","displayName":"FoolishOwl","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/93402-original-tmp20230131165125.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/93402-96-20230131165854.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/93402-48-20230131165854.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/93402-24-20230131165854.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"93402"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/93402-96-20230131165854.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"'In the end, however, we must escape from the debris with whatever booty we can rescue, and recast our technics entirely in the light of an ecological ethics whose concept of "good" takes its point of departure from our concepts of diversity, wholeness, and a nature rendered selfconscious -- an ethics whose "evil" is rooted in homogeneity, hierarchy, and a society whose sensibilities have been deadened beyond resurrection.'The Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin#nobot #noindex","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@foolishowl","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"foolishowl","displayName":"FoolishOwl","note":"'In the end, however, we must escape from the debris with whatever booty we can rescue, and recast our technics entirely in the light of an ecological ethics whose concept of "good" takes its point of departure from our concepts of diversity, wholeness, and a nature rendered selfconscious -- an ethics whose "evil" is rooted in homogeneity, hierarchy, and a society whose sensibilities have been deadened beyond resurrection.'The Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin#nobot #noindex"}},"content":"