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It's always interesting when someone is like "I wish I could go back to using smaller sites/forums or try some more open/ethical platforms, but I can't because all of my family are on Facebook."

Remember just 20 years ago when most of your family wasn't anywhere on the internet and that was just fine? I recognize that I'm saying this as a semi-isolated weirdo on some relatively obscure corner of the Internet, but it's okay to not be in constant passive contact with everyone you've ever met. Yeah it's more work to keep in touch with the folks you actually care about if you can't do so passively via Facebook, but that's how it always was. Email exists, texts and phone calls exist, meeting up exists.

If there are people you care about you can still keep in touch with them without using the same social media platform as them. Just like in the 90s you didn't need to read rec.models.railroad to keep in touch with your model train loving uncle.

I get that these connections (whatever one might say of their quality or tangibility if the interaction is just "look at picture, press like button") are important to people and one of the positives of platforms like Facebook, but if you're going to bemoan not being able to seek alternatives solely because the entire world isn't switching with you, it's important to realize that is a choice and not a requirement.

There were lots of games back then. And many of them were as bad or worse than the shittiest shovelware and template swaps we've got today.

Thing is, most people don't remember the 200 Action Games 3 disc pack at the bottom of the bargain bin cause they sucked.

I'm not disputing that there is more "stuff" these days by raw numbers, with the barrier to creation and distribution of games and such dramatically lowered by ubiquitous and easy to use tooling. But I bet the ratios of good games to shitty games won't have changed too terribly much over the years.

I am not informed enough (nor do I care to be) about random online and celebrity bullshit to weigh in on whatever the fuck that was. But They Cloned Tyrone was so damn good.

DMVs are sometimes where states will dump troublesome or underperforming employees they can't outright fire.

On the other end, the DMV is one of the places where employees have a job interacting with the public for sometimes-complex transactions. And, generally speaking, the public is dumb, unpleasant, and unprepared. Especially when dealing with low-level government beaurocrats who are telling them something they don't want to hear.

My parents had a C64 back when I was too young to remember. I've seen a picture of myself sitting at it, aged maybe 2 or 3, but I don't have any actual memories of it. I have been loving getting to know some C64 games via Evercade, though - including Pitstop II in fact.

My first gaming memory is Legend of Zelda on NES. And it's still one of my favorite games and I play through it every few years. Though I haven't had it on original hardware since 2019.

It is absolutely blowing my mind how many people are looking at this and thinking that is trying to show, like, primary land use per block on the map or something?

Like it's well-known that maple syrup comes exclusively from northwest PA, plus all the logging that happens in downtown San Francisco and LA.

I gave away my NES, 3DS, Dreamcast, N64, and all related games and peripherals a few years ago cause they were taking up too much room for stuff I barely ever used.

I've already played these games on (3)DS back in 2013 or so, so I agree it's the best way to play em. But I just don't have the time, money, or space to be a retro game collector (outside of Evercade) anymore so I'll make do with playing these games on Switch.

And...it can be important to understand the specific nutritional content of things we put in our bodies and not think of it as a binary between "health food" and "everything else." Otherwise if I'm not drinking water I might as well just drink kerosene, right?

There are also cultural and socioeconomic things to understand around how different industries operate around the world and how different globally-available products differ in different markets. Like how Pizza Hut in Japan offers a pizza with mayo and diced potatoes.

I'm playing through the Switch re-releases now and they're great. The mapping controls leave a lot to be desired versus the DS originals, but it was never gonna be as good as that magic.

But it's not an invitation from an owner/occupant. I say it's no good. Or at least not directly, of course just like with regular police the warrant is useful in coercing an actual invitation.

On the other hand, the implicit invitation offered by the welcome mat by the door does provide entrance.

No, one report goes to each involved instance. So if the reported user and community of the post were in the same instance, a community moderator could "hide" that report from the instance admin by taking quick action. But an additional report would still go to the instance admin of the reporting user and that instance admin could choose to defederate from the problematic instance.

As far as I'm aware, Usenet is mostly paid providers used for piracy these days. There's probably still some subculture somewhere still using it for discussion, but I wouldn't expect much.