angstylittlecatboy
@angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com
- Comment on arriving 3 days ago:
How do you know someone prefers Winter over Summer? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 week ago:
But unknowingly, gently, they keep getting pulled towards a trodden path and if this goes on long enough we’ll have like 10 genres to choose from and that’s it.
Usually when people think in genres instead of artists, genres get more granular, so we end up with hundreds of more new words that describe minute differences. Like, look at EDM, a genre that has never really cared about individual artists. They’ll consider a 5BPM difference to be a different genre.
Given all the different “microgenres” that are popping up now, usually by younger artists, I think that tracks with music today.
- Comment on [Eagle screech] 1 week ago:
There is no way people would be as tolerant if this were about like, Argentina, despite the country haven fallen victim to similar politicians. Or even Italy, another rich but declining nation with dominant Conservatism.
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 weeks ago:
If the West Coast breaks off, the Northeast will more or less be forced to.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Pixel phones cost several times what my phone costed.
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 3 weeks ago:
I think there is an AI bubble, but the aftermath will be like the dot com bubble: the internet didn’t go away, but a bunch of businesses that were only ever valuable because they were on the internet did.
OpenAI won’t go away, but a bunch of companies whose products are pretty much wrappers for OpenAI will.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 3 weeks ago:
I believe the only reason adult games aren’t as popular in Western countries as they are in Japan (and I think elsewhere in Asia?) is because there’s a stereotype that they’re low quality, which came about because of the ESRB (not sure about other countries’ rating systems) basically making it so there was no money in it in a pre-digital download world.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 weeks ago:
They come for the things nobody would be caught dead defending (often even people who privately engage in it) first. Look at how during the thing with payment processors and porn games, some people were saying they didn’t mind if it were just the rape games being banned. Those are used as justification for speech restrictions to the public.
(I don’t even think KiwiFarms should be legal personally, Chris Chan’s story should be considered evidence enough that they’re a harassment forum)
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 weeks ago:
4chan’s creativity died when the first Soyjak was posted.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 weeks ago:
You were getting sports?
It’s not even that I really want sports as much as that I get nothing but tech, politics, Star Trek, and memes on here unless I search for it and even then it’s not a lot.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 2 months ago:
Mudbob Laqueefastien
He’d be a whiny, feminine nerd who’s a shitty rapper
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Cool shirt? 3 months ago:
I’d absolutely post this online but I wouldn’t wear it as a shirt
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 3 months ago:
It’s people who run apologia for anything the Chinese government or even Chinese business does.
Meanwhile I remember that TikTok helped Trump’ s youth outreach campaign with the message they gave when US access was restored, so they’ve already signalled they’re not on my side.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 months ago:
I like SMW better myself (actually not a single franchise entry on that list is my favorite in the series) but it doesn’t have the kind of unanimous praise SMB3 does.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 months ago:
I’m going to take this as “games that I never see anyone question their quality.” (I don’t even like all these games myself)
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Sonic 3 & Knuckles
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Kirby Planet Robobot
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Doom 2016
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Street Fighter III: Third Strike
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Pac-Man
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Balatro
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Steins;Gate
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The House in Fata Morgana
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
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Gran Turismo 4
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
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Mega Man X
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Mega Man X4
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Super Mario Bros. 3
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- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 3 months ago:
More evidence that the panic about porn addiction is a psyop.
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 3 months ago:
I believe it. I very much do remember that, for the first day, you could hardly find someone who thought Floyd’s killing was just. Then the “but he had a past record” and “he OD’d” (???) talking points started coming up.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 4 months ago:
It’s looking like they will, but then the results will be fudged.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 months ago:
It’s maybe not that hot a take to people who grew up with the Apple II.
- Comment on What If History Had Taken a Different Path? 5 months ago:
The 32X was one of the things that killed Sega. Making add-ons or expansions for existing consoles has proven to be a failed business model.
Stating this unilaterally overlooks the PC Engine CD, which has more games than the base PC Engine.
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 5 months ago:
Don’t give me hope like that.
I’m more optimistic than the average Lemmy user, but that’s too much.
- Comment on Most under-utilized consoles? 5 months ago:
Atari Lynx. Remarkably powerful handheld for coming out two months after the Game Boy, but no truly memorable games that aren’t ports (which could be said about all of Atari’s non-2600 consoles tbf.)
- Comment on So this is it, is trump god? Will Republicans sacrifice their own well being to own the libs? 5 months ago:
It’s usually a Bible but you’re allowed to swear on anything.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 5 months ago:
It’s not that Mario Kart is worth 90, it’s that a lot of these AAA games aren’t worth 60.
- Comment on Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll 5 months ago:
When BAFTA’s poll reached Lemmy, I did think a lot of you were overrating Doom. It’s definitely in the top ten, but not number 1 IMO. Tetris, Minecraft, Super Mario Bros, and Pong definitely belong above Doom IMO.
But Shenmue??? Maybe top twenty, but number 1???
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 6 months ago:
midwest.social is sorta the defacto US-specific instance despite the name pointing to a specific region.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 6 months ago:
I think cold balkanization is both the most likely and most optimistic scenario.
I’m curious why you think it’s most likely. Most optimistic, I agree.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 9 months ago:
Nothing like this should ever rely on an external server.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 9 months ago:
So many of the people who are most invested in federation are a contradiction in terms; centralized social media is evil and it’s fucked up that it’s the norm, but also anyone who isn’t a cynical, crotchety Gen Xer with a tech degree doesn’t belong.