Recently I found out my Retroid 3+ died. This was sad because I wanted to play *Lufia II*. No, I don't know why. My ADHD-addled brain is an anomaly. Regardless, I went ahead and grabbed a Retroid 4, since I found out it could play PS2 and GameCube games on top of every other console in existence. Sometimes the future we live in is pretty cool. The Retroid came in and I did what I did the last time I got one of these android phones with controllers attached to them: check out a Retro Game Corps set-up video. [Retroid Pocket Starter Guide](https://youtu.be/Fij-HPYg3xs) RGC is my cocomelon. I watch all of his stuff, even if I don't buy 98% of what he's talking about. Anyways as I was watching I skipped around because I had done all this before, and then booted up *Lufia II* through Retroarch. As I started I realized that I didn't add the shortcuts that let you save and load states for whatever you're emulating. I decided not to go back and fix this, mostly because I'm lazy, but then it turned into me being thoughtful. Not having the option to use save states and things like that completely shifted my perspective of my Retroid. I had to be **deliberate** playing *Lufia II*. I needed to pay attention to the game in its entirety - dealing with RNG that I might not like, appreciating the sprite-work of the game, and figuring out whether I wanted to push deeper into a dungeon or fall back to town and save at a church. This probably all seems obvious to people with regular brains. I don't have one of those. Emulation is too freeing for my personal brand of brain worms. I treat the massive library I now have access to like toys instead of art. There's nothing wrong with putzing around with a bunch of ROMs, picking them up and putting them down. But I want to be more cognizant of what I'm engaging with as the historical artifacts they are. What's the point of going all the way to the museum if you're just going to breeze past every piece? In being more deliberate with the games I've decided to pick up, I now no longer have the netflix-like issue that comes with a big emulation library - that is, 10 million games and no idea what to play. I'm deep into *Lufia II* and *Shining Soul II*. The layer of separation that comes with manipulating the software like an electronic god has been lifted, and I'm able to appreciate the games more as a result. There's no greater point here - just an interesting note I've recognized. If you find it hard to engage with games on hardware like this, consider disabling all the emulation options. You might enjoy them more as a result! :) Also play *Lufia II*, that game is fun as fuck.