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- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 hours ago:
Sometimes “man” is more of an exclamation than a term of address.
I’ve noticed kids are seemingly using “bruh” this way, funnily enough
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 hours ago:
Convince them to stay home because the election is a foregone conclusion
- Comment on Dreamcast controller 4 hours ago:
Oh, fascinating! I’ll have to look into it some more later, but do you know if it supports receiving VMU information from the game?
Like Sonic Shuffle showing your cards on the VMU
- Comment on The betrayal 1 day ago:
It did rarely matter.
I think emulators can give little windows for the screens now? But no controllers I’m aware of can actually display them (including an official DC controller with a VMU…no adapter sends data back, and the emulators don’t know how to send it anyhow)
- Comment on Do these murderers or mass shooters or hostage takers do they actually commit suicide more often than not? Or does a cop take a good shot and blame the offender as suicide? I would do the latter 2 days ago:
They probably do take credit for their “wonderful” handling of the situation.
They didn’t have an easy shot on the guy, and were to afraid to go get one.
I mean, I would be too. But that’s why I didn’t sign up for a “serve and protect” job.
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 2 days ago:
That makes sense. It didn’t even cross my mind that someone would connect their phone to their car’s audio system specifically to take a call unless they were driving, lol
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 2 days ago:
Ah, gotcha. I was wondering why someone would be sitting in their unmoving car while having their phone connected to their car’s audio. So I figured this was while driving. But I see how I misinterpreted it now.
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 3 days ago:
Isn’t it unsafe to use headphones while driving?
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 3 days ago:
You can still be overly respectful to the teachers – I’m sure they appreciate it!
(Especially when there are parents who seem to treat the teachers as retail workers…)
- Comment on New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft — project is 5 years in and contains over 50,000 buildings so far 3 days ago:
This project isn’t just a one-time build either. Instead, they’ve rebuilt several sections to ensure the accuracy of their Minecraft version of NYC.
Man, it’s going to suck for these guys if the US has a civil war
- Comment on Bomberman has a lore? 3 days ago:
If it’s a statement, definitely.
“Bomberman has lore?” is generally not the standard formation of a yes/no question. They’re usually formed for with the verb “do”.
If one wants to know if Amazon sells books and wants a yes/no answer, one would generally ask “Does Amazon sell books?”
If someone is browsing Amazon and finds books unexpectedly, they would be more likely to say “Amazon sells books?”
However, in some dialects of English, the two might be interchangeable. I think it might be the case for Indian English, to give an example.
- Comment on Bomberman has a lore? 3 days ago:
“Bomberman has lore?” as a question would generally be some sort of surprise or suggestion that it goes against expectations.
“Donald Trump is a young man.”
“Donald Trump is a young man?” – response to a statement that went against expectations.
“Is Donald Trump a young man?” – neutral, general question (if additional context or tone is absent)
- Comment on Bomberman has a lore? 4 days ago:
I figured – that’s exactly why I shared that. Overall, your English is great!
- Comment on Bomberman has a lore? 4 days ago:
I think you meant “Does Bomberman have a lore?”
With a post titled “Bomberman has a lore?”, I was expecting the post to be either surprised that Bomberman has a lore, or surprised that someone would have said Bomberman has a lore.
Especially when paired with the picture of a game’s boxart, I thought that this post was about something lore-related on the box or in its artwork.
As to where to find the lore, I’d check the manuals, including manuals from other regions. For a lot of the 90s, the manuals were the best (and occasionally only) place to find lore!
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 week ago:
“Quick! A giant meteor is heading for our planet! Collision is expected in less than a week!”
…but if I sleep 7 times while doing all this level grinding and doing sidequests, nothing goes wrong…
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
I think the point is that she was a child rapist, not necessarily a pedophile.
Some child rapists rape children because of the power imbalance etc., not necessarily put of physical, sexual, or romantic attraction.
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 3 weeks ago:
I think the commander dude gives you hints if you keep losing a particular fight though. He’ll get explicit about the trick for Psycho Mantis!
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 3 weeks ago:
I played MGS for the first time recently, and it felt like a PS2 game with older graphics. Would’ve blown my mind as a kid if I had it back then…with a guide, too. Otherwise, I never would’ve figured a bunch of that stuff out, haha
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
I understand the skepticism on society’s priorities.
Athletes are literally 1-in-a-million individuals. They bring in crazy amounts of money from people who want to watch them play.
The real problem is that there are so many people who are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to watch a sports game, but not willing to see teachers properly compensates (in my opinion). Because athletes getting a big share of the pie that they’re bringing in sounds fair to me. The question is why people have that much pie to give them, and not as much pie to give to schools.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
Where I live, we’ve been treating…
- Nurses very poorly. Underpaying and overworking them, while not training enough new ones.
- Family Doctors (aka. GPs) very poorly by removing the kinds of services they’re allowed to provide, increasing expenses without increasing compensation, and again, not training enough new ones.
Doctors are paid well, but they also have incredibly high expenses (and often high student debt, too).
- Comment on YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases 4 weeks ago:
I have an Excel file for recurring expenses with dates of recurrence and auto-calculated yearly and monthly totals, and these factor into my monthly/yearly “budgets”. And thus, into how much I need to maintain my emergency fund!
- Comment on YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases 4 weeks ago:
That’s a good idea! I do things differently (basically adding money to different “pools” to use for different categories), but if I need to forecast how much I’m going to spend on things, this would really help.
I tend to assume that something I buy will last forever (unless it’s explicitly replaceable)…but that’s basically never the case these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
(her boyfriend is no longer alive)
- Comment on UZDoom the successor to GZDoom has a first proper release out now 1 month ago:
I played it for the first time a few years ago and had a blast. But I’m also not big on modern FPSs. I just liked the simplicity of Doom
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 1 month ago:
Their hardware is too expensive even with this subsidizing it
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 1 month ago:
The commenter you replied to seems to be suggesting that the spying still happens
- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 1 month ago:
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 1 month ago:
When did you see the most activity here?
- Comment on Rebecca Heineman, grandmother of modern gaming, has passed away 2 months ago:
Damn. One month, you find out you have cancer. Next month, you’re dead.
- Comment on A list of open source games. 2 months ago:
Originally released for PC in the early 90s and ported to the 3DO with voice acting and FMVs. The 3DO version got released open source.
UQM Mega Mod is a fan-made remake with optional HD graphics, QoL features, and all kinds of extra goodies. Only possible because the game is open source.
Originally known as Star Control, the series is now known as Free Stars. UQM is SC2, and they released it for free on Steam in anticipation of the release of its long-awaited sequel, which fans backed upwards of 6 figures.
The game is a space adventure game. The dialogue is great, and was the cited source of inspiration for Fallout’s dialogue trees. There’s also space battles with a couple dozen unique spaceships.
The game inspired things like Mass Effect and Stellaris. So if you enjoyed any of those, give this game a try!
…or at least add it to the list!