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Connections #581 2025-01-12 (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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I forgive myself for missing green, but purple and yellow can fuck themselves

[–] Wizard_Pope 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah yellow is utter bullshit. Purple is a bit too niche.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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Almost lost my twelve day streak. Not sure if it’s because I’m overly tired up way past my bed time and rushed things or what but I guess I’m glad it worked out.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe 4 points 2 weeks ago


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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I had no idea about purple on my first guess, it was just the leftovers. But after being told I was one away, I quickly realised.

I'm going to give it a 5/5 for reasonableness, although

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Some of those games might be a little too niche to be reasonable. Or maybe it's just a blind spot for me. I've heard of breakout and asteroids, and immediately guessed centipede was probably one, but had to Google around to find defender. Initially I had Sonic in there, just as "old games".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago


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Purple was extra-cursed on this one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] lemonmelon 3 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] Wizard_Pope 3 points 2 weeks ago

I refuse to accept yellow as a category

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] Thcdenton 2 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] Ele7en7 2 points 2 weeks ago

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