luna, friend of eggbugy’all ever buy a pre-owned game cartridge or mp3 player or something and the previous owner’s data is still on it, and for a brief moment you feel a sense of connection with that stranger through their lingering data, and a twinge of sadness at the idea of deleting it to use the device for yourself?
azul@luna one time i bought a used game cartridge to replace one i had lost many many years ago. the used cartridge still had the previous owner's data. the previous owner was me. i accidentally bought back my lost game cartridge.
La mère tume@typeswitch @luna ... how???
@Nocta_Senestra @luna Small country, rare cartridge, I guess.
The full story is more unbelievable, since i lost the cartridge (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance), as well as the GBA SP it was in, when i was a teen in southern Portugal. Over a decade later, the person who bought it used was my husband (then boyfriend) as an xmas gift, off ebay, from a seller in Spain. I loaded it up and it had the data from my childhood (including the nickname I used around that time that I never told anyone about).
@typeswitch @luna that's an incredible story wtf x)