The monkey that (I think) can see my ears

Makes it simpler without the if-clause.

Parentheses are optional, but help with readability imo

Probably long enough to make yourself slightly unwell, get a test from the doctor, and sue the company for not providing you with all the nutrients they claim! Lol

+1 for the Gnasty Gnork namedrop! Lol

The article looks like it has evidence of the original definition of “Meteoidvania”, which didn’t originally refer to a genre, but to games in the Castlevania series that played like Metroid.

If we wanted to update the term for accuracy, we’d probably be calling the “Metroidvania” genre “Metroid-likes” instead.

Since nazis hate jews by definition

That’s not the definition, that’s an association.

It’s like saying that the definition of an American is someone who hates tea. That’s a much older association (and the comparison is tongue-in-cheek), but this kind of thing isn’t how definitions work.

When I brought this up, plenty of people here attacked me for being a boot-licking CEO supporter, lmao

I didn’t even say the CEO was guilt-free, I just explained that there are a lot more people than just him who were responsible for the shitty decisions.

Yeah, what I was getting at is that I can still easily see downvoted comments here. It’s easier when a post that explodes has like 100 comments. A Reddit post that explodes could have four or even five figures worth of comments.

• I get where you’re coming from with drug crimes, but I don’t think I agree. Non-violent doesn’t mean harmless…as with the Cash for Kids situation.
• I’m all for using money efficiently. I’m sure you can understand my skepticism though – usually when people talk about government cuts, they tend to talk about/favour cuts for things they don’t like or understand.
• oh, I definitely get that Trump’s TikTok flip-flop is a PR stunt. So it’s the actual justification that I’m not really following.

Also “Trump’s TikTok Flip-Flop” is perfect for a headline. Some news writer person, please take it and use it!

Aside from possibly becoming a dependency, I’d imagine it doesn’t interfere with sleep quality. It’s what builds up in your body to make you sleepy/fall asleep.

Too much might keep you groggy in the morning though.

Trump is already president again. That next paycheque isn’t coming for you, lol

100% completion, no one left to genocide.

Oh I’m sure they’ll find more people to genocide

Lmao. The US Democrats are barely centre, let alone left at all. You’re on a whole different planet if you think they’re “far left”

I feel like I see a wide variety of opinions on Lemmy. In Reddit, there are such large audiences that major opinions get upvoted and drown out niche ones. And no, I don’t like sorting by New or Controversial, lol

On Lemmy, I can easily scroll through an entire comment chain and see niche opinions, sometimes without having any idea how niche it is because it’s sitting at +2, and the top comment is at a whopping +11, lol

As for your examples, I’ll share my opinions because that’s fun for me…

• I’m against the “War on Drugs” (because I like evidence-backed measures), but I’m not libertarian about it. I want drug usage to be legalized, but sale and, uh, “delivery” to be regulated. So I’m against this pardon, and I don’t care who did it. I’m leery of Biden’s mass pardons. And Trump’s. I think the US judicial system is pretty fucked up for this.
• I’d rather have government waste than people who can’t get what they need. Businesses have all kinds of water and bloat too…and it’s not government jobs that are creating people like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. So I guess you “got me” there!
• I’m really confused about the whole TikTok thing. It seemed odd that Trump wanted to ban it. It seems odd that Trump wants to reverse it. I understand both perspectives in general, but I don’t have a wholesome understanding to have a firm opinion

descenting opinions.

I’m picturing descending opinions. Ones that start off alright, but just keep on getting worse the more you think about them…lol

Alright now do death penalty for cops who kill innocent lives

Yeah, it’s tragic when a life is killed!

Or perhaps insurrection terrorist attack?

You’re talking about sound system output in your analogy. I’m talking about the sound that can be produced by the consoles themselves.

Someone phoning it in on the N64 can produce music that sounds better than a skilled composer making music on the NES. Composition aside, of course. The N64’s sound capabilities are objectively superior to the NES’.

Between the Genesis and the SNES, it’s not so clear. Also, the sample track from the Genesis that you shared is infamously glitched. It’s not supposed to sound like that! Haha

The subreddits I still read (because they don’t have the population on Lemmy) have done this. Some had already done it by coincidence.

I’ve always hated Twitter links (I always preferred screenshots), but it got worse after Musk took over and locked everything behind accounts and phone numbers, lol

Xbox “Series” is the stupidest name for a mainstream game console since the WiiU. And the Xbox One is pretty dumb, too.

How do I look up games for the original Xbox? People used to call it the Xbox 1 when the 360 came out.

What about Xbox-exclusive games? Well, can’t call them Xbox series anymore.

They cemented themselves as a permanent underdog after trying to keep up with Sony. It worked for the PS360 era, but it seems they’ve been getting lost ever since then.

tbf it’s the users of Reddit and they’re doing the right thing

Nintendo subreddit would occasionally seem to have Nintendo supporters jump on someone who said something critical about Nintendo, and also anti-Nintendo people who’d jump on people who said positive things about consumer-unfriendly things (like enjoying the NSO emulated games).

I also had a thread where people attacked me for being a pirate when I first got my Switch used because I was asking how to check if it was console-banned before linking my Nintendo account to it, lol

As for Animal Crossing, I had multiple people tell me to kill myself (or that they hoped I die) when I made puns based on typos in low-effort post titles, or when I poked fun at posts whose only content was a picture of the game running on a Switch against a scenic background.

I’m not saying I was necessarily the good guy there, and I don’t care about downvotes or sarcastic replies, but when people were negative in those subs, they were downright vicious, lol

I was more shocked at the juxtaposition than actually offended, and the mods did a good job cleaning that stuff up when I reported it. But truthfully, the sub went downhill after the first year or two of ACNH. Probably when it went from mostly hardcore players to casuals, haha