*step-bro

Gotta keep it wholesome.

Duck walked across the keyboard.

I expect a report when you return, along with an essay about what you did during the summer.

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I enjoyed the experience of Pandemic legacy, but yeah, it feels so wasteful. We started a game of Betrayal legacy (got shelved indefinitely due to life and scheduling) but it was much the same. More immersive, but everything was intentionally permanent.

Right. Individuals can be okay. Awesome, even. But “people” as a whole include many individuals. And the more individuals you have, the more likely that one or more of them is an asshat. The problem with bad apples is that it only takes one to spoil the bunch.

Imagine a few dozen people sitting in a park enjoying a nice day. If one of them starts flinging feces everywhere, the problem is not just that person. Is that person and the mess they made and ruining everyone else’s day.

Now imagine that society has spent generations financially rewarding shit-slingers. Not everyone is going to do it, but every day in the park brings a non-zero chance of getting pelted with poop.

People have incentivized being awful to other people.

…have I mentioned lately that I hate people?

Can’t wait to play Fatal Fury for 10 minutes and then get bored. No shade against FF, just depression things.

Yep. Hardly any of that registers as a blip on the mass market. People have been calling for Nintendo to give up on hardware and just make games for other platforms for decades. Then the DS line happened. And then the Wii. And then the Switch. Each one pushed the boundaries of what the gaming space could be, despite the spec nerds raging at the lack of horsepower.

Nintendo does a lot of shady shit, but once Sega exited the market they were the only true gaming company left in the console space. PlayStation? Xbox? Just a small part of larger corporate empires.

I’m fucking thrilled that Steam picked up on the hybrid format. Not everyone wants to screw around with maintaining a PC. I was in corporate IT for 25 years and want nothing to do with any of it anymore. Enormous PC game library, consolized experience, and a big push to Linux, all with the Deck? That’s awesome from every angle. It’s always good to have more options. And if they can sell a hundred million more units, Nintendo might start having a problem. Until then, I’m pretty sure they’re just going to continue to print money.

People have been conditioned to understand numerical console increases for over two decades now thanks to the PlayStation.

And they even managed to do it while Microsoft counted to potato.

I had a coworker who was convinced that the whole thing was a scam. That it was just an upgraded Wii with a weird controller. So he went out and got a secondhand Wii U console. Just the console. Gave it to his kids for Xmas. Got mad when it didn’t work. Eventually got a gamepad (and maybe the power brick? I don’t remember if it’s cross compatible) and ended up spending more than buying it new.

I’m pretty sure even he can follow Switch -> Switch 2.

Hell, I think domain names other than lemmy.xxx is confusing some people.

This. Techies know custom domains are a thing. A LOT of people are going to look askance at anything that isn’t among the most common TLDs. I mean, lemmy.zip is kinda funny. But it also screams “don’t click me, zip files from an unknown source are dangerous!”

…and now I’m having intrusive thoughts about exe being a TLD. I’m-a go lay down until the voices stop.

You are not alone.

It wasn’t.

Nazi apologist, got it.

Same shit, different uniform

🤝

It’s a trade off between time of punishment vs chance of being rescued. I hate using the phrase, but… agree to disagree?

I hope he gets shot in the throat and bleeds out slow enough to realize he’s no longer the main character in his life.

Many instances have domain names that look invalid and/or like scam sites to non-techies. Dot world? Dot social? Dot [obscure country TLD]? There’s also no guarantees that the domain will indicate that it’s a Lemmy site. Both of these become problematic with sharing, as the default (? been a while since I’ve used the web interface) share function links to the poster’s instance and not the community instance. A year and a half ago, the shared links section in my messenger was mostly a Reddit flood. Today, it looks like someone spilled alphabet soup.