• MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    You pretty much just described my typical lower class American upbringing in the early 90s. Except the Rubik’s cube thing. Internet or not, somebody knew how to solve that thing. If you got bored enough, you played with it until it made sense

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      5 hours ago

      I hope you’re right about the rubicks cube. I never had one as a kid and no one I knew did but my kid brought one home a few months ago and I’ve been working with it off and on. One day I’ll give up and look up how to do it but until then I’ll keep being bested by a children’s toy.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s a tricky puzzle, but I think you’ll find you’ll have more success if you focus on getting just the middle cross on each side the same color

        Or, you can try one side at a time, but that’s never workes for me

    • somebody knew how to solve that thing

      I didn’t get to meet many people because my parents think the there are kidnappers everywhere so I just got stuck at home beside school time…

      I think during breaks, they sometimes take us back to one of the parent’s village, and there I remember we were allowed to run around since I assume everyone in the village knew each other and I remember hopping on to other people’s roofs with my older brother… I took a peek down the sky-window thing and saw spiderwebs in one of the houses… could be abandoned… idk…