start interactions by saying “We’re tourists from Germany…”

Right now, I guess 1/4 the people they interact with in USA might give the fash salute in joy or something

CRT? What’s wrong with cathode ray tubes?

Probably for the better, though the general spacesuits as armor theme doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense either.

I really wish one of the devs would come out and talk why they a-ok’d the RNG to be a single pass with nothing between POIs - also generated without a single thought about anything since, to me, that’s the third biggest letdown of the game (the first is the universe/setting, the second is the main story, )

it’s just factually incorrect that “The PC is dead”

I think the author’s point on this wasn’t so much that “nobody uses PC anymore”, but rather the concept of a Personal Computer, which you fully owned. There’s also the irony of the first Apple computers being personal computers you could open, fix and modify. Software is where few people feel like they own their computers. Free software being sold to shady companies isn’t new, even FOSS projects have been bought. That’s the main problem the author wants to point out, which is essentially the same as Cory Doctorow’s piece on enshitification.

The author also left this:

I’ve shown this editorial to friends, and some people felt that I did not emphasize the benefits of current technology enough. But I argue that my criticism is less about the actual technology and more about how we use it—and how companies make money from it.

To me, mostly convenience. I do that with anime and, if the show doesn’t grab my attention by halfway of the first episode, I won’t feel like I wasted extra time waiting for the full episode to be downloaded only to decide that nah, not worth it.

The very first thing that would die is truth. There is no way to solve that without “censoring” or limiting speech.

Here are some problems that would just rocket their way into everyone’s lives

• Impersonation, made much easier online
• Scams and frauds would no longer be crimes
• Unregulated advertising, effectively the same problem as above (this health supplement will cure cancer and make your dick grow!!!)
• Defamation and general reputation killing would happen every 5 seconds
• Some assholes leaving porn playing on public streets and in front of schools, 24/7, because lulz
• Same as above, but with disgusting shit like 2girls1cup, goatse and similars

Only on PVP focused games

Pretty sure youtube still runs on deficit. Storage costs alone would probably bankrupt some small countries.

That’s the neat part, you don’t

If not for clocks and all that industrial-corporate time management shit, people in the hotter parts of the world would probably be starting work ~5am, stopping around 12-15 (hottest time of the day) for lunch + a nap, then returning to their stuff and probably going to sleep at 23

Force pushing other people’s keyboards so they’re always mistyping

Frankly, I’ve never touched the online part in GTA5 but I hear it’s quite successful.

The microtransactions kept a very steady flow of hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter to Rockstar, so yeah, it’s absurdly successful

Maybe it’s counted together with mastodon?

Video game patents are not a way to monopolize game mechanics, but to recover development costs, say Sega, Capcom and Konami legal experts assholes being paid to defend that bullshit

Fixed the headline

There are plenty of cliffs in deserts :)

I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better

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The Meta boss was defiant in downplaying the possibility of a mass exodus of users.

I mean, he’s probably not worrying too much about the US/EU markets, since in terms of MAU, Southeast Asia probably represents over 70% of that. Does anyone know what has been the general reaction to his bullshit over there?

Mary-Frances Makichen, a Threads user who has 253 followers, lamented that Meta and Zuckerberg “are counting on the fact that it’s too hard for people to leave Threads and IG.”

Pretty much. It’s probably actually impossible to fully delete the accounts, fuckyzucky lives off users’ data.

Yeah, there were also some areas where you’d pretty much get fucked because you’d hear the digimon footsteps and, as soon as the screen faded back in, SURPRISE BATTLE. Your mon having to fight up to 3 enemies made things even harder

Battling against wild Digimon is a waste of time in the original game

And required for certain evolutions. Not fun times heh

Made a few mistakes on the way, and now you’re stuck with a Numemon, Sukamon, or another Digimon you don’t like? Just buy a Reset Radish to revert to an egg and try again (younger me would’ve loved that item).

Back in my PSX days, I would “save up” the poop so that my 'mon would evolve straight from a baby into Sukamon on the first missed potty. Since that evolution halved all stats, and a baby’s stats were super low, it was easily a net positive as training a champion had much larger gains than a baby.

providing a fix to the “bonus try” in the gym

So now it’s possible to actually hit all marks? Because I couldn’t get it with fucking save states.

Damn, I’ll have to give that a try. I’ve tried to get back into DW via emulation and man, the game is ruthless! The enemies you fight on the first screen (after beating Agumon) will wipe you if don’t bother training at least one entire day first.

It was the worst tech acquisition until Twitter.

To be fair to the fucking muskrat, he paid 44 billion dollars to have the loudest voice in the world. By chance, he also got a lot of power in US politics. Sure, he’s killing twitter in the process, but he can probably recoup the money through other means.

Are people who offer work for artists using Pixelfed?