41 points

That wireless controller is a bit pointless if you’re sitting 1.5m away from the screen. Gotta give her that.

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7 points

Now you can move the pizza directly in front for the perfect loading screen snack with no obstacles!

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32 points

It’s called a WaveBird!

And you had to sit that close or else a cordless phone or other wireless device might interefere with the signal and stop registering inputs.

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11 points

Cordless… phone…?

Haha you’re old! (and so am I but never mind that)

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6 points

GameCube came out 20+ years ago. We’re all old down here.

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10 points

Wavebird is the GOAT. Best name, best controller. Personally, I never had interference problems that couldn’t be fixed by changing the channel on the controller and even that was pretty rare.

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2 points

Depends with the Wavebird. Due to using RF, the range can be pretty good. Or really bad if you live in a busy city.

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1 point

Every '90s and '00s manufacturer looking at 2.4GHz

is for me 🥺?

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A GameCube? What a peasant!

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How else are you going to play Pokemon Colosseum?

(edit: it’s spelled “Colosseum”…?)

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12 points

We’re playing Super Monkey Ball or you’re not getting any pizza

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6 points

Everything is cool until someone whips out Melee.

Then it gets real

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3 points

Smash me bro. My Link will demolish your Mewtwo or Jigglypuff. Then we can play SMB because that is also a great game for our Cube and pizza game night.

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11 points

The GameCube is a great system!

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4 points

um what

GameCube is fucking rad

Also calling people peasants unironically is really gross

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70 points

This hurts my back.

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41 points

Neck too from when you eventually lay down to deal with your back pain.

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10 points

Then tailbone, from when you try to awkwardly prop yourself up into a hybrid position.

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9 points

Then neck again when you go prone.

Then back again when you hide in a box

snake? Snake?

SNAAAAAAAAAAKEE!

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3 points

But at least you’ll get some nice hemorrhoids from sitting on the floor

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133 points

The only problem with that setup is the grease from the pizza box getting on the carpet.

Balance it precariously on top of a too-small box, you heathen.

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28 points

A too-small box such as the GameCube.

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7 points

Nah fam

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32 points

You have been unsubscribed from game night invites.

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7 points

I remember reading that Nintendo designed the SNES with a hump to help prevent people from setting food and drinks on it since the NES made a great table for things to spill on. Guess they gave up when they designed the Gamecube!

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First design decision was probably to improve the design, second one was when they realized that the bad design made more money when people needed to replace consoles.

I was going to say maybe it’s because you can stack flat consoles and a lot of entertainment stands are easier to access the front from than the top, but you still had to access the top of the flat GCN.

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4 points

That’s why they vent out the sides, like a open air convection oven

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30 points

I am a man, and I see many problems with this:

  • the TV is at least two sizes too small
  • WAF is a non-factor, so there would absolutely be some oversized speakers beside that tv
  • my ass isn’t lying on the floor, when a couch would be far more comfortable
  • the couch would make floor pizza too far away, so there would be a “coffee table”
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A couch? A coffee table? OK, King Louis XIV. The rest of us will make do with a floor gaming chair.

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26 points

I’m not sure you realize how much heavy lifting I’m making the quotations around “coffee table” do.

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9 points

Two cinder blocks and a rough sawn plank.

That’ll do.

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I too create my own furniture out of mostly-empty pizza boxes

(kinda-related story time: I used to live in an apartment with 4 other gay furries [the sitcom writes itself] and we very often ordered in from dominos. Like so much so our delivery guy seemed to take a genuine interest in how we are doing. But after I spent a day making the kitchen spotless, and the next day it looked as awful as before I touched it, I stopped giving a shit. Of many factors, it was silently decided that the one taking out the trash was the one who lost the game of jenga with the garbage. So skill and precision were needed whenever you were adding to the stack that was as high as an adult (or more), as the actual garbage bin for the apartment complex was like 500 feet away and 4 stories below us. Multiple trips were necessary, even if you bothered to use trash bags to simplify the excursion. I wish I’d have taken photos, this was a challenge where boys became men.)

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4 points

Ehh but they’ve got a wavebird, so you know they’re already ballin.

Or they were very specific for their birthday request

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Neah, get some milk crates and a used futon!

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3 points

NO! Never a used futon. I once got a used futon. It had stains on it. After a while, I was told what the stains were.

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2 points

Just some plastic chair, table and pillows would be enough

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5 points

Yes, this looks like back pain.

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11 points

Clearly it is a young man’s place. A more mature man would have a second hand recliner and a bottle of alcohol to wash down the bitter taste of divorce.

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4 points

The recliner would be ugly as hell (I still have a second hand one from years ago) but so comfortable that it would suck the soul out of you if you laid down in it too long.

And there’s bourbon in the chocolate milk.

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1 point

Yeah, this is more like what would be acceptable 20 years ago.

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