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Hah, what are the odds!

Agreed, it has held up exceptionally well. I never played it when it was newer, but I’m also not well-versed in the genre (outside of Mario Kart and some F-Zero). I guess maybe since it released later in the PS2 gen, the modern design patterns were already falling into place. Or maybe it’s just really well made.

I started Burnout 3. Enjoying how definitely mid-aughts it is. Crashing is not always as much fun as I was led to believe, lol. I mean, it’s gnarly at first, but after a while you just appreciate it as a fail state if you’re in a race or time trial. It includes a Need for Speed demo, and that demo really contrasts, making me appreciate how snappy, fun, and clean-looking BO3 is.

The game just came out, so in some ways it doesn’t qualify as patient. But at the same time, Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter is a remake of an older game I’ve wanted to play for a long time (and I’ve patiently waited since SC never got a physical release in my region before). Just got started, but it was immediately refreshing to pick back up right where the original First Chapter left off. Seeing the characters, hearing the music motifs, takes me back. In a way I miss the charm of the 2D, but the new coat of paint is overall quite seviceable.

Replaying Zelda: A Link to the Past this week. Been kinda of a busy/stressful week, so whisking my way through a comfortable favorite to relax.

Pokemon and Dragon Ball were just cartoons to me at entry, but after those I realized I like anime.

First ones after that I got into were Cowboy Bebop and Trigun.

Some options at various levels:

• Take the phone app off your home screen
• Make sure it’s not in your Firefox address bar’s suggested sites
• Log out on every platform when you’re done looking at it, so there’s even more friction to checking it
• Make a post there announcing you won’t use it any more, possibly why, and share better places people can keep in touch with you. (Then stop using it with any regularity)
• Help your immediate family (or friend group) setup a group chat on some other platform, and share updates with each other there

Individually making good choices is nice, but even better if you can help other people leave it behind.

Was just recently trying to figure out how to browse my mbox backup, and wound up at the same solution.

I’m stunned that it’s part of a plugin, and not a standard feature. Didn’t see many other actively maintained programs that made it easy either.

You can add “before:2023” to filter out a lot of it when searching. Doesn’t work for everything, obviously you won’t find yesterday’s news or info on the newest games that way. But I think it’s good hygiene for very broad topics. Beyond that, if it recommends me some new channel, I check the account history and try to see if they were already uploading similar looking videos before the early 20s. If not, I treat it as suspect.

Tho even before the recent AI boom, there was plenty of other low effort (via other means) slop out there.