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- Comment on Target Pride merchandise only available at select stores after rightwing backlash 6 days ago:
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 week ago:
ZSNES was also how I got into emulation for the first time. Ended up using SNES9x more, though.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 week ago:
Emulation is magical. It’s how I discovered most of these games.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 week ago:
The best thing about this reply is that literally none of those games are on my list, since I haven’t played any of them (except for a Flash clone of Worms as a kid). That just goes to show the sheer amount of quality gaming that there was.
My list is moreso comprised of console games. In no particular order, and includes some later indie games:
- Chrono Trigger (GOAT, ranked number 1 above all the rest of these. Fantastic story, gameplay, music, pacing, etc. I haven’t played any other game as polished as this one)
- Terranigma (A surprisingly deep and philosophical game for the time, even compared to other great JRPGs of the same era, or of any era)
- Yoshi’s Island (just raw fun)
- Super Mario 64 (also just raw fun)
- Majora’s Mask (Surprisingly deep and emotional for a Zelda game)
- Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3 (2 in particular opened my eyes to actually being able to feel emotions for the first time)
- Super Meat Boy (Addiction: the video game)
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Crack: the video game)
- OMORI (another fantastic and emotional game, almost on the level of Silent Hill 2, but replay value isn’t very high IMO)
- A Link to the Past (Just raw fun, but in Zelda form)
- Guitar Hero 1, 2, and 3 (I was especially involved in the customs scene back then)
- Final Fantasy VI (A fantastic story in general)
- Super Smash Bros (the series as a whole)
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but the stories aren’t really connected; they’re all standalone games.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 week ago:
The 90s era of gaming, extending to the early 2000s. SNES, Genesis, PC Engine, N64, PS1, PS2, GameCube.
It was the era before the Internet and video gaming became extremely linked. The sheer number of classics that still hold up today, even compared to modern games, are very numerous.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 week ago:
If you haven’t played Terranigma, you should do that. It’s on the level of Chrono Trigger in how good it is.
- Comment on Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity 1 week ago:
Owned by Match Group as of 2019
- Comment on Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity 1 week ago:
When basically all dating apps are owned by the same company (Match Group), you get enshittification of all of them.
Their goal is to get repeat customers, which is the polar opposite of what people actually want from these types of apps.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
The board of directors probably plays bigger roles when it comes to layoff than the C-Suite.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
According to this projection, it’s bigger than Africa
- Comment on Confused Reddit Users After Coming to Lemmy (Apparently) 3 weeks ago:
Crazy that a character from The Simpsons has such a large following.
- Comment on If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon 3 weeks ago:
Wonder if there’s an alternative nowadays, not counting Telegram or Discord channels.
- Comment on If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon 3 weeks ago:
ActivityPub gives me hope for the future of the Internet. I was able to completely replace Reddit with Lemmy after the exodus last year. I never used Twitter, but Mastodon seems like an alternative that’s gaining popularity.
The one that seems the hardest to replace is YouTube, since hosting and serving video is very expensive, and many creators have come to rely on monitization.
I’m not sure about I2P being an alternative to the clearnet. It helps prevent censorship, sure, but I don’t see how it provides anything that you can’t do on the clearnet already, other than anonymity. It’s also much harder to set up than Tor for non-tech savvy people.
- Comment on If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon 3 weeks ago:
I miss the xda of old, where shitty clickbait articles and ads didn’t rule the front page.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 4 weeks ago:
As a NixOS user myself, I wouldn’t recommend it to someone new to Linux.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 4 weeks ago:
Every person is going to have different opinions as to what distro works best for them. What exactly are you looking for in an ideal operating system?
Best would be to try different ones and see which one works best for you, but if I had more of an idea of what you’re looking for and what kind of hardware you’re using, I’d be able to recommend some distros to try out.
Are you a power user? Do you prefer stability or always having the latest software? Do you value ease of use or do you consider yourself more of a power user? Do you want to learn how to use the Terminal, or whould you rather avoid it and use graphical tools instead?
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 4 weeks ago:
Hell, I’d be okay with 100 million total in both liquid and non-liquid assets as a wealth cap. We could even tie it to inflation, so long as we also tie the minimum wage to inflation (let’s say, starting at $30/hr federally, then increasing as needed locally).
- Comment on Canonical and Qualcomm Collaborate to Bring Ubuntu to Qualcomm Devices 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully this means Qualcomm is going to support mainline Linux instead of just supporting their downstream fork.
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 5 weeks ago:
I personally just had to figure it out for myself.
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 5 weeks ago:
Rooting an Android TV gets you there, plus you get a TV that you actually own. It’s super niche and difficult to do, though. Hard to find info on which TVs can be rooted.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 5 weeks ago:
Or just abolish copyright law altogether.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 5 weeks ago:
Socialism is when government does stuff
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 5 weeks ago:
Probably, but also HDMI can carry ethernet as well.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 5 weeks ago:
Do you know of a good HTPC UI other than Kodi? I was never a huge fan of Kodi.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 5 weeks ago:
It would have to be a society that isn’t driven by profit. A society where everyone has the basics guaranteed to them, like housing, food, water, utilities, and transportation. A society where working is optional instead of one where you have to “earn a living”.
Just the phrase “earn a living” alone means to me that in capitalism, nobody deserves to live unless they work.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 5 weeks ago:
They Live
- Comment on Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. 5 weeks ago:
Fair point
- Comment on Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. 1 month ago:
Even worse, Reddit itself has been getting infected with corporate AI “recommendations”
- Comment on The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words - "Isekai" is now officially part of the OED. 1 month ago:
Fish out of water story