Tamagotchi’s were fun when they came out and I have fond memories of buying one from a buddy. I also liked the fighting one called Digimon that turned into Pokémon-ish video games.
Tamagotchi Connection
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#52I'm kind of surprised that zoomers haven't brought tamagotchis back yet
I think they're becoming a bit of a fad again. Many streamers I follow have been obsessing over them recently (granted that they're mostly not zoomers, just millennials enjoying some nostalgia).
The current 90s nostalgia wave is pretty interesting as a late 80s/early 90s millennial. The zoomers brought it back into the zeitgeist, and we are still young and hip enough to be interested in the trend, but we were actually there the first time round!
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#53Tamagotchi are an ingenious psychological and social gambit, paving the way for smartphones. An electronic dependent, halfway between a doll and a game that hooks into the formative maternal and caring instincts of a child, almost 20 years before the modern smartphone (1996 -> 2016). Don't feed it? It dies. Fail to socialise it? It gets lonely for friends. B.J Fogg eat your heart out! Now we grew up into mums and dad…
> ... that [AI] will become something so deeply needy. Something in which we indulge all our affections instead of with real people.
Business is way ahead of you in intentionally building this -- https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bqbp/can-you-be-in-relatio...
Turns out, mimicking emotional connection is something LLMs are also good at.
Also see here for the moral quandaries users are working through (e.g. do I tell my bot about my real life partner): https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/comments/105g425/replika_as...
The really dystopian part is that Replika regularly pushes updates, which change the sensitive topics boundaries, which has the net effect of rewriting the personality, overnight, of a bot people spent substantial amounts of time getting to know.
We live in crazy times.
(DISCLAIMER for addiction-sensitive readers: maybe don't download an intimate AI chatbot? Your time would probably be better invested with human friends)
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#54Sweet childhood :D! So much nostalgia was tied to this game, that beginning the pandemic I thought I should have a go at creating a virtual pet game for Garmin touchscreen smart watches. It's nowhere close to the actual Tamagotchi games, but it was a nice project. Garmin Connect IQ: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/f5fc24e2-7cea-4585-8878-a... Github: https://github.com/vladmunteanu/monky
I just love this project. I wish you could port it to my Bangle.js...
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#55Is there not an open source hardware project to revive these? I was scanning the comments assuming there must be someone doing that. No?
This seems like a project that, if it were completely untethered from commercial desires, would be incredible for kids and adults to play with. I can imagine tamagotchis that could wander about the house (like a remora fish on a shark), finding random bluetooth connections to feed upon, sending strange messages to watches and iPads. All kinds of fun ideas come to mind.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they're becoming a bit of a fad again. Many streamers I follow have been obsessing over them recently (granted that they're mostly not zoomers, just millennials enjoying some nostalgia).
The current 90s nostalgia wave is pretty interesting as a late 80s/early 90s millennial. The zoomers brought it back into the zeitgeist, and we are still young and hip enough to be interested in the trend, but we were actually there the first time round!
I wonder if this is what boomers/old gen x felt like when 70's hippy fashion/culture was the fad back in the late 90's/early 2000's.
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#57I feel like theres a big opportunity to bring Tamagotchi back as a platform agnostic applet so you could have your Tamagotchi on Fitbit or other devices. There was something so weirdly, emotionally powerful about that toy.
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#58A few years ago I worked in a project to do a new tamagotchi. The idea was the the monster was going to be generated using random algorithm and work as an nft.
I never got to finish the project, partially because o the hate for NFTs, but there where a few functions I got to implement, like playing jan ken po with your virtual pet, and was about to finish implementing playing in a network with other virtual pets.
I made a video of random animation tests in the beginning of the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fltoTmUJPBE
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#59I'm kind of surprised that zoomers haven't brought tamagotchis back yet
Yeah i'm also a bit surprised that "virtual pets" aren't larger today. Maybe i just don't follow the gaming market enough but games with a simple interface, with a creature that you care for, that grows and lives 24/7 and that can "do things" with other creatures seems like quite the market. Many people find the "character creator" and just "walking around a aimlessly" in games the most interesting thing, and spend l…
Pou was (is?) paradoxically one of those highly popular games that noone has ever heard of - with half a billion downloads on the play store back in 2014+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pou_(video_game)
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Racing simulators are such a weird game. Why not just race real cars? Do people really do this?
That's silly. I understand that not everyone can afford a race car.
One of the leading reasons pets end up at animal shelters etc is that their owners can't afford to cover their medical costs. Dogs develop cancer just like humans do, many breeds are prone to joint problems, spinal injuries, etc, and the treatment costs often quickly grow to thousands of dollars and more. So yes, a lot of people who get a pet can't really afford to own a pet, they just don't know it yet. As a side note, if you want to avoid that being you, I recommend checking out Trupanion [0].