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  • Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Direct 1.29.2026

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    1. I assumed that Nintendo was trying to distance itself from Miis. I am aware that you can create and import Miis on the Switch and they are still used in a couple games, for historical reasons, but they are not nearly as prominent as they were on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS. I wish Nintendo kept using them more. It is always fun to look back at all the Miis of friends and family I collected playing Wii Sports and whatnot.
    2. The gameplay seems to be the socialization and customization of Animal Crossing turned up a notch with all the resource collection removed. Like Animal Crossing, you will have to fiddle with your system clock to access the shops you want.
    3. Unlike Animal Crossing, your Islanders are not human/animal hybrids, but real people that you model as Miis. That means every time you want a new NPC, you have to find an actual person to base them on, which is discriminatory of people like me who have no friends. Also, it allows the game to create a love triangle between you, your cousin, and your grandma.

  • Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review - Official Nintendo Site

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  • My favorite part is the Switch lifetime stats they included at the end of the page as a reward for scrolling all the way through the wrap up.

    I have played 209 hours of Pokemon Arceus and 138 hours of Ring Fit. I am nowhere close to 100% completion on either.

  • he's not wrong

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  • Therapy, seriously. I am not a mental health professional, but from what I have read, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be just as good as chemical antidepressants.

    If you are struggling with depression, please do yourself a favor and see if your health insurance covers therapists. If not, at least read up on therapy techniques to deal with depression. I have been recommended Feeling Good by David D. Burns as a book to follow.

  • Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options

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  • They did not have other sizes at launch. If you read the article, the game publisher let slip that Nintendo has started offering smaller, cheaper carts.

    My theory is that the Switch 2 launch was rushed. Nintendo had been delaying the system for years, saying that Switch 1 sales where still over performing expectations. Last year, Switch 1 sales fell faster than the Nintendo expected and suddenly they had a system ready to release in a couple months. I would have expected the pre-release hype cycle to be longer but I suspect Nintendo expected the death of the Switch 1 to be much slower.

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    Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options

    arstechnica.com /gaming/2025/12/cheaper-lower-capacity-switch-2-cartridges-could-mean-fewer-game-key-cards/

  • Guys, have you ever been asked this question: "If your mother and your girlfriend are both drowning, who would you save first?" How would you answer this question?

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  • It is easy for me to answer, my mom is old. My wife can probably tread water while I get my mom to shore.

    I told my wife this and she replied that she is a strong, independent woman who can swim perfectly well on her own. The right answer is that I should grab my mom and start bringing her towards the shore while my wife swims ahead and helps me pull her in once we get to shallower water.

  • Poland calls for EU action against AI-generated TikTok videos calling for “Polexit”

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  • "Step 1: Create an account"

    No thanks. I don't want to create an account to see that there is no interesting content.

  • ...I wish mom was still here... - CatTrigger

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  • The trendy junk store at the mall still sells them and has a literal line to get in. I have no idea if Labubus are trending down or not, but they still seem pretty popular around here.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • It doesn't have to be a religious celebration. Just copy the USSR and celebrate the parts of Christmas you want (putting up a tree, gift exchanges) on New Years.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • I get where you are coming from, but I find holiday decorations to be one of the highlights of an otherwise crummy season.

    Winter is so depressing. It is cold and dark all the time. It is fun to come home to a bunch of silly lights everywhere. I leave mine up for a few weeks past Christmas. If you ask me, the tree should stay up until the first day of spring.

  • Locked

    TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill

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  • And Soviet Socialism never went away either, it just reorganized upper management. Instead of the state owning a few mega companies, a few mega companies now own the state. In either case, it is the people controlling the human/natural resources paying off politicians to overlook all the horrible shit they do.

  • Throwing a tantrum

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  • Good to know. Never heard that abbreviation before.

  • Throwing a tantrum

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  • First of all, I am not sure what you are talking about in regards to my user name.

    Second of all, parents living paycheck to paycheck are not buying their kids a new phone and a new door every time their child has a hard day at school and decides to blow off steam by smashing up the house.

    Working class kids should learn not to throw destructive tantrums as toddlers, when they rip the head off a toy and their parent glues it back together, crooked, instead of buying them a new one.

  • Throwing a tantrum

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  • I do not think I ever threw a tantrum that that destroyed property (I probably tried as a toddler, but I did not have the strength).

    This is why therapy is penny foolish and pound wise. Your parents should have been paying for a therapist to teach you not to throw tantrums, not simply paying to fix the house every time you smashed it up.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • Except that I am using a very porous knit scarf as a mask and only masking up outdoors (the opposite of proper masking).

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • I am convinced that I will come down with cold/flu if I breath too much cold air. When I walk in the cold, I always wrap a scarf around my mouth and nose. If I don't, the cold air will give me a sore throat. That sore throat will act as a Petri dish for illness to develop and spread into my lungs or nose.

    I know plenty of medical professionals and all of them tell me that that is not how it works, but I have a datum of proof. In my first year of university, I had a nasty, persistent respiratory infection during the late fall/early winter. To keep my throat warm while it was recovering, I started wearing a scarf and my illness went away quickly. After that, I started wrapping up whenever I was walking to class in the cold and never got sick again.

    I am now used to wrapping my face in the cold and feel wrong without it. When I don't, it seems like I am more likely to come home with a scratchy throat. I can definitely say that many of my flus start in the throat (though it could just be that the first flu symptom I tend to notice is the sore throat).

  • How do VPN providers manage to stay in business?

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  • With an ISP, you are not paying much for your bandwidth to the Internet. You are paying for connection between your house and their office. Your ISP has to maintain many miles of wire across your city. They also need to maintain equipment that can handle thousands of individual connections across many individual wires.

    In comparison, a VPN provider just has a couple of very big connections going into their data center for pushing data in and out.

    Plus, you likely have only a few choices of ISP (or only one choice), so your ISP can maintain a very healthy profit margin. With VPN providers, there is a ton of competition, so they have to charge you only a little above actual cost.

  • Pokemon Pokopia launches March 5, 2026

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  • Pokemon is not a first party title, so it does not have to follow first party title rules.

    Game Freak is a third party studio. Apparently their next game is going to Xbox, PlayStation, and Windows but not the Switch.

    The Pokemon IP is jointly owned by Game Freak, Nintendo, and Creatures Inc. Nintendo probably has the majority vote in that arrangement, but they still need to act in the best interest of all shareholders.

  • Nintendo Store app now available for iOS, Android

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  • For me, the 3DS gameplay statistics are wildly undercounted. For example, in 2016 I played 21 hours of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Spirit of Justice. According to the Nintendo Store app, I have never played that game.

    Not to mention that the app only has 3DS and Wii U stats only until February 2020.

  • She is making a GREAT point

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  • Also, that imply i have to plan doing sex weeks before if i have to take the pill

    Same with the female pill. The intended usage is that you take birth control regularly, regardless of how often you actually have sex.

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    Pokémon Pokopia – Nintendo Direct 9.12.2025

  • Board Games @sopuli.xyz
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    Kallax staging at my local IKEA

  • Board Games @sopuli.xyz
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    Wise Wizard Games: Board Game Tariffs in the U.S.

    www.wisewizardgames.com /board-game-tariffs-in-the-u-s/
  • Software recommendations @lemmy.world
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    App to organize work notes (OSX)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Any good April Fools jokes out there?