Les OrchardWeird crap I remember while questing for batteries: I have an original #Tamagotchi and batteries for it
Update: I forgot how demanding a newborn Tamagotchi is.
I may find that the batteries in this Tamagotchi are more urgently needed elsewhere, like in a drawer
The #Tamagotchi has survived a few hours and grew up to a slightly larger blobby critter. Chilled out a bit too
Fun fact: I found this #Tamagotchi on the ground in a mall parking lot in 1997.
Apparently a full Discipline meter is a good sign for a #tamagotchi? Weird. Lil blob's still "alive" and turning a week old tomorrow (7 years in 'gotchi time). Guess I haven't removed the batteries yet
Oh hey, a new #tamagotchi developmental stage - I think this is adult? The discipline meter reset, so I wonder if that means it's going to be a brat for awhile?
This #tamagotchi also has some weird faces. All teeth when they're happy or eating, pretty shady when they're mad.
My #tamagotchi stays up late and sleeps in, these days. I respect that. Seems pretty chill as an adult of 8 tamagotchi-years old
This #tamagotchi has made it to 12 years old. I think it’s done evolving now?
So from here it’s mainly watching number go up until I make too many mistakes in attending to feeding, playing, cleaning, and lights-off at night. We’ll see how long that meshes with my ADHD 😅
Oh noes: i took the car to an hours’ long service appointment and forgot my #tamagotchi at home! We’ll see how it’s doing when i get home 😔
Disaster averted: my wife fed the #tamagotchi breakfast and it’s still bopping along now that I’m home. Going on 14 tamagotchi-years (i.e. human days) old now.
I've read and heard that this critter might make it to 16 tamagotchi-years old, so it's quite senior now
This #tamagotchi is still truckin’ at 16 "years" old, even though I forgot to turn off the lights when it went to bed last night 😅
We'll see how much longer this critter makes it? I'm going on a trip next week and don't think I really want to take it with. But I'm a dork so who knows?
It's been an interesting fidget toy and kind of pomodoro-ish time prompt to pull my ADHD brain out of various rabbit holes and hyperfoci. I didn't really have any of these notions in my head, back in 1997 when I first futzed with it.
Trying to avoid falling too fully for the pet conceit, though, so I'm not too sad when it inevitably "returns to its home planet"
Well, I figured it would be soon for this #tamagotchi but it still kinda surprised me. I had just fed & played with it and set it down.
Then, 5 minutes later it started beeping incessantly, looking surly with a flashing skull. None of the buttons worked. Finally it kind of laid an egg? Then it transitioned into this angel thing.
Farewell little Maskutchi, it was good weird 17 days. I will miss your familiar sensory input patterns.
From what I've read, this thing has a interesting though maybe cruel interaction design toward the end.
As it gets closer to simulated old age, it starts demanding more food and more play with increasing frequency, approaching the demands of the first few hours of hatching.
That demands more attention and makes care mistakes more likely, which in turn makes the end conditions more likely. Also makes it more likely you'll be near or looking at it when it starts the final sequence.
Either way, I think I'm going to let it stay in sparkly angel mode for awhile.
Also: Dead Tamagotchi would be a cool band name.
Not really a huge update, but my Tamagotchi continues to voyage home. Kinda wonder how long the battery will last
Tamagotchi update: still voyaging to home planet. (These batteries last awhile!)
Craig@lmorchard cruelty or accurate lifecycle simulation? (It's both)
LiamSafe travels, wherever you're headed Maskutchi!
[HANDMAIDEN] xan
Jonathan E Cowperthwait@lmorchard I’m sorry for your loss
Greg@lmorchard Congrats on your journey. I led mine through a few life cycles in 5th grade, then put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Just last year I put new batteries in mine, booted it up, and immediately put it back in the drawer. 17 days is a long time to keep it going!
rhosyn@lmorchard Now that's commitment to the bit.
Giflian@lmorchard has it asked to borrow the car yet
@lmorchard omg that last photo
(I hadn't seen the rest of the thread so I thought it was 14 calendar years, lol)
@giflian Heh, yeah, it's not human years 😅
івась тарасик@lmorchard way back when those were a new thing i thought #tamagochi was a clever but ultimately evil plan that went far beyond tricking children out of their parents' money… because if one can get kids addicted to ONE stupid thing, one can get them addicted to ANY stupid thing.
that was before #youtube, #instagram, #tiktok. i was naïve… but also unfortunately right. and that's what tamagochis remind me of.
itgrrl 
is looking to #GetFediHired!@lmorchard have you accelerated internal time for the device or is that just how Tamagotchi work…? 🤔
@itgrrl Oh, that's just tamagotchi, every day is a year