It loses its poignance when both drawings were made in the same afternoon.

Every time I stepped into the tall grass, it was a mystery what Pokemon would appear - with time I knew what I could find, but there was always a chance that I would be surprised by something new. And the world felt endless because I didn't know where the boundaries were.

It's interesting revisiting games that I played as a child, because I can still remember what the experience felt like when I was discovering things for the first time and didn't understand how video games are put together.

Oh we do have those kinds of barcodes, just not any related to cash.

Pretty much... I'd never heard of these "barcodes" before. They're not a thing in the US, so any internet commerce is done with things like credit cards, crypto, gift cards, or bank transfers.

Artists have to get around this obstacle with PayPal, Ko-fi, vgen, etc.

That's what it means to be woke - every day, someone learns for the first time that the US is the evil empire of our time. Most Americans *aren't* aware of this, conservative movements like MAGA distort and censor history. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I honestly don't get it at all. The facade of talking to a real person falls apart after the bot runs out of tokens and starts to forget facts established earlier in the conversation.

Fixing problems is hard. Breaking things is very, very easy.