Mantis_Toboggan

@Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Because you just don't understand and I can't explain it to you.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s my Xanga peeps at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roll for initiative⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BORTLES!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to finish all levels with all characters on Mario 3D World.

  Then, it’s always “just one more race” on F-zero 99

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Did Anyone Beat This In The Arcade?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a child in the 90s, I remember Saturday and Sunday afternoons being incredibly boring if we didn’t go out. TV was shit (still is), and on rainy afternoons you were basically locked at home.

  By the late 90s, at age 10, with no internet access in my county, I was mapping ways to beat the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time. I remember scheming for hours, using Farore’s Wind to take me to the beginning of the dungeon and jumping to the platform on the 2nd floor. This way, I was not using the only key I had on the middle pillar, which is what almost everyone got stuck on.

  But yeah, I remember the tail-end of this at that time and starting a whole new game to try this out. And it worked. Still proud of 10 year old me. It’s interesting but I hadn’t felt boredom in a really long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently, it's not a gaggle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if you ever are, I’ll deliver them… on screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z and millennials are more into gig work than ever, BofA says — but it’s not coming close to making ends meet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  More like forced into it by these multiple “once-in-a-lifetime” economic crisis.

  BofA deez nutz!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently, it's not a gaggle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Flashbacks to being 17-18 and working retail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently, it's not a gaggle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ends up somehow casted in Kate Goslin biopic…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kristen Bell was in Assassin’s Creed II and that was 14 years ago… Fuck I feel old.

  But still, it’s been slowly happening for quite a while

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m about to hear a lot more of José “hongos mágicos” Rogan outside of the internet now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hope it gives them ideas. fingers crossed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man behind viral dress to stand trial charged with trying to kill wife⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like we should put a rest to the term “breaking the internet.”

  Am I the only one here completely out of the loop?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you might not want to use whatsapp anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think unlimited texting was a thing in the US since like early to mid 2000s. It was never the case down here (probably still isn’t, since nobody uses it).

  In fact, by the time cell phones became ubiquitous down here, it was around the time smart phones were launching. So with regular SMS being expensive, everyone just started using WhatsApp. I think back in the day the app was $1.

  It’s kind of fucked-up that Zuckerberg has so much power over people’s businesses, study groups, family communications, neighborhood watches, et al. He could put ads on WhatsApp tomorrow, and people will probably take it, because humans are stubborn and like familiarity in general. I could stop using it today, but I would not be able to participate in a lot of things in society.

  You can see it now in Reddit and Twitter. They’ve been completely entshittified and people are still there. In fact, we got people on Lemmy wanting to brigade and participate in r/place and give engagement to that shit-sipper Spez, so he can use the metrics on his damn IPO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you might not want to use whatsapp anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my bad. Mlem is bugging out and it seemed like it didn’t post it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you might not want to use whatsapp anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone from Latin America. FUCK!

  It’s literally what everyone uses for business, family/friends groups. Don’t know if any country around here is an exception, but we started using it because greedy telecoms were charging so much money for SMS at the time. So, it was a great way to circumvent that.

  Then Facebook bought it when it was already established, so it’s improbable that people will move away from it.