That's a beautiful unit! I have Toad #017 and I love it, one of my most used portables.

Petition to bring back full qwerty portrait oriented keyboard sliders like this. I miss this hardware style.

Wow, brave! The display on my batch 2 Playdate has started to develop an issue where certain pixels are displaying in a black line. It still plays for now, but I'm saving up my dollars to get it repaired/replaced since it's unfortunately outside the warranty period now.

HLT is still one of my most used. So simple but so good.

I didn't realize Vapor Brothers was still around, these are old school.

While I don't think I would actively recommend people over to something like VB today, it is cool that an original innovator in the vape space is still operating today.

I've been following this and am intrigued, but the combo of the high price, crowdfunding, and lack of even a functioning prototype to show off has me skeptical enough to not throw down money in advance for one.

If it actually comes out and they don't go bankrupt during the design/manufacturing process, and if the phone is actually good, then I'd definitely consider buying one. I like the concept a lot.

Very nice! What case is that?

I personally use a small pocket sized pouch from Skunk bags to carry my FW7 and a few other small accessories when I need to.

Was the first vape I had ever heard of/tried. Followed closely by the original Pax.

How far we've come.

My favorite desktop is definitely the Herborizer. I love the design of it, and love the hits that it produces. I have other vapes that are technically "more powerful", but for some reason the Herborizer just does it for me.

Portable wise, my favorite would be a close tie between the Tetra P80 and Morwood Toad. The P80 is the stronger performer between the two, but something about the Toad is so pleasant and enjoyable to use.

I've got the same green Grav mug, one of my favorites!

Thanks for sharing! Cool to see what the community has come up with for the Pocket.

We've got a dry herb vape specific community here on Lemmy as well. /C/Vaporents on Lemmy.world.

Payments ranged from $50-$1,000/mo.

I picked up a lot of games on the sale, so here are some thoughts on a few:

Mars After Midnight: I'm still early on in this, but this is already one of my favorite games I've played on Playdate. The art is fun, music is catchy, and the gameplay is fun. At $6 this is a must-buy for any Playdate owner IMO, up there with Bloom.

Bloom: By far my favorite game on Playdate. This is a fantastic game from both a story and gameplay perspective. I've played it start to finish twice, and likely will play a third time as well.

Taxi Trouble: This is a fun high score style game. If you ever played Crazy Taxi or Road Rage, this is essentially a top-down take on that concept.

Steam'd Roller: I thought I'd really enjoy this from the catalog page, but it's only okay. The gameplay is very basic, and there isn't much challenge here for a high score based game. The first time I played I got a score of over 300 before I just gave up and let the timer run out, out of boredom.

Greed: This is a basic dice game, but endlessly replayable. I like that this lets you play against both a computer, or to pass the Playdate back and forth with a partner.

I bought a few others that I haven't gotten to spend much time with yet, but I'll post those thoughts here later!

Mutazione & Saltsea Chronicles are two favorites of mine, from the same developer, which don't seem to get much attention.

They're both narrative focused games, with a lot of world building and character development.

I enjoyed both of them greatly, and if you like chill story based games, I think you'd enjoy them!

Maybe I haven't spent enough time searching out accounts to follow, but I've found Pixelfed to be a bit lacking compared to Lemmy.

Lemmy successfully replaced Reddit for me. But Pixelfed is just too barren for me to be able to ditch Instagram.

Any update here? Would love to play your game if it's ready!

What I find interesting about Life is Strange is that everyone has a bit of a different experience with the games depending on if the characters resonate with them, what they're personally going through in their life at that time, etc.

I do agree with you that it felt like LiS2 was attempting to be topical, which is where I felt like it fell flat for me.

Whereas the stories in the other games felt a bit more timeless and relatable for most players.

It's an esoteric device for sure. I've really enjoyed the titles that the console ships with, and it actually has some relatively big names who have developed games for it. Crankin's Time Adventure was developed by the makers of Katamari Damacy. The upcoming Playdate game "Mars After Midnight" is being developed by Lucas Pope, of "Papers, Please" and "Return of the Obra Dinn".

The lo-fi aspect is part of the appeal, but obviously not for everyone. That being said, Panic has struggled to keep up with the overwhelming demand, and itch.io is filled with thousands of titles developed for the Playdate, and it has a very active online community surrounding the device (outside of Lemmy).

It's certainly an esoteric product. I bought mine before the price increase (when they were I believe $170), and I've been quite pleased with it. It's fun, has creatively made games on it, and makes for a perfect waiting room time-killing device. But it certainly isn't for everyone at its price point. The build quality is very nice though, as you'd expect from something designed by Teenage Engineering.