Aight, I’m a modern Nintendo hater, but the DS lite was so good. It had a great games library, an excellent layout that didn’t cramp my hands as a child or an adult, and a solid touch screen. Peer to peer networking was so nice in an era where you very rarely had internet anywhere and it was never fast enough for gaming.

I think I must’ve spent hours in pitcochat alone. Plus, my almost 20 year old DS lite still works. I used it to play some of the Layton games just recently! I did manage to break one, but that was cause my mother put some obnoxiously large case on it that made it impossible to play anything. Tried ripping it off and tore the sections in half

Nope.

Tuck Chesta

I had a friend like this in college. His name was AJ. That’s it. Just the letters.

Everyone in the department spent ages trying to guess what it stood for. I managed to glance his ID when we got lunch together once. His name was just AJ. There weren’t even periods marking it as an abbreviation.

Still haven’t told anyone though

I was just discussing with a friend of mine how we’re rapidly approaching the dead internet. At some point, many websites will likely just be chat bots talking to other chat bots, which then gets used to train further chat bots. Human made content is already becoming harder and harder to find on algorithm heavy websites like Reddit and facebooks suite of sites. The bots can easily outpace any algorithmic changes they might make to help deter them, but my fb using family members all constantly block those weird Jesus accounts and they still show up constantly

How’d you get my Cities Skylines save?

Oh thank God I’m not crazy

As someone with mild dyslexia, that is a horrid dyslexia font and a horrid font in general

To make things worse, we’ve known they were ineffective for over 20 years

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448384/

For everyone’s reference, D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was not only ineffective, they were anti-effective. Their presence and total demonization of weed not only didn’t reduce drug usage rates, they frequently increased the rates.

They’ve been known to be ineffective since at least 2004: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448384/

DARE is a wild program. They finally admitted defeat to drugs and have switched to suicide prevention. The kids that do petitions for them, at least around me, are militant. I had one follow me into a restaurant to keep pestering me. Didn’t stop until I told the children to kindly fuck off already

Yeah, but I think a droid with its miles of wire and circuits is far more impressive than a tech bro using chatgpt to build a front end for chat gpt

Funnily enough, the bot everyone identified as tik tok hasn’t hit me as far as I’m aware. It’s mostly been random LLM bots grabbing data to train.

I should specify - I have family of various, but typically quite low, technical skills and of various far distances apart that use the server. So it’s either walk them through getting the IP of every device they access with or driving up to about 8 hours away to do it myself.

I have family and friends that also access the sites contents, so that’s sadly not feasible without getting the IPs from dozens of different devices

Thankfully they haven’t bricked my modem yet, but it’s possibly worth looking into

It’s to disenfranchise voters conservatives don’t like, meaning non white, non Christian people.

GOP groups have repeatedly done studies where the examined which forms of ID black people were least likely to possess, then made those requirements for voting.

It’s not accidentally inconvenient, it’s intentionally set up to disenfranchise and discriminate.

Honestly, if you hear about anything in this country and wonder why the hell we do it in a fucked up way, it’s either disenfranchising a group, making a billionaire more money, or both. See: healthcare, voting, copyright, the highway system, gerrymandering, prisons, and many, many more things

Yeah, desensitizing people to violence is the original argument. It’s always “if they’re willing to shoot people in video games, why not real life!?” Crap.

It’s been disproven so often that my shitty little uni assigned that research to first year psych students. It’s not a thing. Media is a reflection of society, not society itself. Violent societies like violent media. Violent media doesn’t create violent societies. Propaganda based media can, but no one’s committing murders cause they saw Knives Out or played COD 23

My personal website that primarily functions as a front end to my home server has been getting BEAT by these stupid web scrapers. Every couple of days the server is unusable because some web scraper demanded every single possible page and crashed the damn thing

Have we looped back around to blaming media for violence again? This was disproven in the 70s with rock, the 80s with dungeons and dragons, the 90s with metal, and the 2000s with anything anti war or America. Can we stop trudging up this argument? Please?

Why’d you bring up tem tem specifically? It’s supposed to be “Pokemon but an MMO”. That’s the entire appeal. I had Pokemon loving friends that played it at launch and loved it dearly. It’s sad that it’s died, but if you want a single player version of tem tem, there’s about 22 Pokemon games according to Bulbapedia. Go play one of those.

Steam does an indie show case almost every week, to the point it’s almost annoying. Idk how you’ve apparently missed every single one of them