I just started The Fires of December by Brandon Sanderson cause my copy arrived in the mail. The first chapter has me intrigued.

And then they'll make TVs that refuse to boot if they don't detect a working modem.

The Jak and Daxter trilogy (OpenGoal).

Pete Rose raped a 14-15 yo and shouldn't be in the hall regardless of how mlb feels about gambling.

Nah, fuck nVidia

Is your keyboard ok?

You're right, we should find an eleventh white guy to let good things happen to!

Avoid Subaru too because their EVs are just Toyotas.

It was a cost/availability thing. SRAM was used all over the place prior to the GBA (and for some early GBA games) because FRAM and flash memory was expensive at the capacities needed.

Funnily enough, most games that use SRAM can have the chip swapped out for an FRAM chip, and they will no longer need a battery. (Actually you move the ROM chip from the SRAM board to the FRAM board) The two types of RAM present identically to the game's software, so it just works.

The Pokemon games use Flash RAM with 2x-4x the capacity of the SRAM and FRAM chips most other games used. There was also EEPROM for games with small save files.

Pokemon Emerald's battery is only there for real time clock functions. Saves remain intact even after the battery runs dry.

Gen I and II games used the battery for save data, however.

NTSC or PAL GameCube only rn

Earth worms and a pig fetus for me.