Back in the days my old Nokia fell in the sea near the shore, I managed to rescue it and dry it with rice, but unfortunately the salt water caused corrosion and it lost its signal and you were unable to call with it, but otherwise it worked fine
Back in the summer of 03, I accidentally went into the pool with my gbc and pokemans silver. She still works fine, I had to hit her and apple pressure to the backside for any game to boot but I was impressed it still werks.
Indeed, back in the days I was in this spinning type of machine in an amusement park and my phone flew out of my pocket directly into the cliff wall next to it. Turns out all I needed to do was to assemble the scale and battery back.
Going forwards, after buying my first smart phone last year for 300€, a Samsung A70, I was dumb enough to not upgrade the screen with a panzerglass. Like 1 week or so after getting it I was riding my bicycle and the phone decided to jump out of my pocket into the ground, shattering immediately the screen and turning it black and unusable. For some reason there is really no competition for services that fix the screens and the only one I could find charged me 180 fucking euro to get it fixed.
It bothers me that general smartphones cannot have their batteries removed or replaced without disassembling the entire case, potentially mucking up any internal connectors. That and having software that's out of date and filled with bugs immediately after shipping from the factory, drives me up the wall. I used a Nokia N9 for a while and despite its shortcomings, I still accepted it was up to me to maintain my own repositories and figure out work arounds, instead of dealing with locked down hardware and software that hinders the aftermarket experience and longevity of a device.
Do you still have the same phone? From what I understand, Samsung now offers 3, maybe 4 years of updates, but they're a bit vague as to what exactly an update might deliver.
I am EXTREMELY annoyed by the fact that the battery can't be removed, I can't understand why everyone nowadays thinks this is normal and OK. I even had a "fun" experience with this phone when it decided to completely freeze one time this summer and I was completely kcmodded. I was unable to restart it, a simple removal of the battery would have been so easy and helpful then. Luckily after 9000 attempts of spamming the powerbutton or something (I actually forgot what I kept doing) it finally unfroze and I was able to restart it.
And yes I still have the same phone, I don't wanna keep consooming and buying new phones. This also has a decent camera that I like. I hope the memory won't run out immediately for the updates, but we'll see.
Gengar for me. But then again, I'm bad with having any favourites really, I liked them all like my Blastoise and (later Charizard) too. And the electric version of that Eevee. Not to mention Tyrannitar from Crystal, badass.
Good times back in -99 and turning up that Game Boy for your adventure. All my friends and siblings were utterly shit and for some reason I was the only one in my friend circles who was able to train them to lvl 100 and kick their asses, it baffles me to this day how bad everyone else was around here, it was boring to fight them because their only pokémon that was close to lvl 100 was some shitty Raticate and after you killed it they never had anything left.
We watch a lot of subbed media here and start learning English in school quite early on so it wasn't really a problem. English was understandable at that point.
However, something that was a bit more challenging was when me and my brother played pretend co-op on splitscreen of the Silver/Gold-version on the computer and it was in Japanese (I think, or some other asian language) with 1% words in English so we played through it just guessing and doing trial and errors. I don't even remember how we got the emulator in the first place.
In the end with logic you can somewhat guess what you are supposed to do in simple games like this even if you don't understand a word, as a kid you have patience to test, but today as an adult no way I'd go through it.
Damn I forgot about Feraligatr. I had him, I called him Sokrates for some reason. I liked the fire guy too.
Typhlosion was surprisingly good as it had a good speed stat and could learn a lot more moves than Feraligatr.
The grass type starter of gen II was dogshit from what I remember and since I wasn't a sperg with movesets, I never could properly utilize her.
One issue I noticed when trying to get rarer evolutions, was the difficulty cooperating with kids in the playground. Some would steal your pokemon once you traded them. Eventually kids either started stealing gameboys or losing them, causing parents to complain to the faculty about their child's distraction causing them grief, ruining the experience for everyone. Then my school banned other, more innocent, cheaper physical toys since the issues repeated and finally the playground gyms were banned because of children hurting themselves.
In junior high, I listened to a lot of music, and similar issues began to happen with the staff banning music players, ipods and telephones during recess. I would hide my earbuds under my hair and toque, but one asshole teacher caught me, and told me to hand it over. I tried playing dumb, then he threatened me with detention, so I handed it over like a good boy and recollected it at the end of the day and resumed walking around recess listening to music.