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- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 6 hours ago:
They definitely know you’re 42. Kids these days don’t have the attention span for longer, plot-heavy cartoons like TMNT.
- Comment on How does one acess Rhythm Tengoku's Debug Menu? 6 hours ago:
Try the third one from the bottom. That’s the only one whose name doesn’t seem to align with an obvious game mode to me
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 17 hours ago:
The DC had so many great specialized controllers!
Maracas, a fishing rod, mouse and keyboard…and even the regular controllers had screens!
- Comment on Is ironing clothes significantly less common now? 1 day ago:
Why are you choosing to be like this?
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 2 weeks ago:
The reason has to do with money.
Over 5 years, someone can get a first job, a raise, finish paying off debt, etc
- Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why? 2 weeks ago:
- They aren’t making more of them, so supply only ever decreases
- People are finding reasons to get these consoles
- The “target audience” is increasingly finding more disposable income. While they couldn’t spare the $100 years ago when they were cheaper, they can find the $300 now (for whatever reason)
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks ago:
Convince them to stay home because the election is a foregone conclusion
- Comment on Dreamcast controller 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
I figured – that’s exactly why I shared that. Overall, your English is great!
- Comment on Bomberman has a lore? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
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(her boyfriend is no longer alive)
- Comment on UZDoom the successor to GZDoom has a first proper release out now 2 months 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