I want gaming to be a health business that makes it long term but going after crackheads addicted to gambling, porn, and get rich quick schemes ain’t it

The high point of reddit was The Swamps of Dagoba story and Woody Harrelson’s absolute shit of an AMA.

Let’s talk about Rampart

I had been on Reddit since 2011. This place feels a lot like the Reddit of 2011 but with less rage comics. I didn’t get banned. I left during the API debacle of 2023 when Reddit decided to push to make itself just a TikTok clone with occasional text and link posts and blocked the 3rd party clients using the API. Apollo kept Reddit as it was and without Apollo, I had no reason to use Reddit any more

More ownership over my data. Now I don’t really own anything I post on my Lemmy.world account but they also can’t stop me from exporting my subscription list and moving my account to somewhere else on the fediverse. And if I wanted to, I could port my account to a single user instance and I would actually own my local copy of the data (of course federation means I don’t really own the federated copies since it’s all public.

It’s more relevant on a platform like mastodon where I not only can export my follows but can port my followers to my new account if I move.

I went to the midnight releases of Call of Duty Black Ops, MW3 and Pokemon Black and White 2. I was in college at the time so had a lot more time to play video games on release back then.

I have the same level of intelligence as Jar Jar Binks and have vulnerable masculinity.

Middle class people can only afford to go on a vacation to another continent if they save for a decade. If Mars is ever inhabited it will only be by the wealthy because they killed the planet and left us to die

Yes, especially among those active on the fediverse. That’s why we celebrate no shit november

Seems like the first advice chat got gives when checking your finances is stop paying $200 a month for AI

Damn I guess I’m going back to keepass again since I am not really interested in hosting a vault

We hate cloud here too, what’s your point?

Like all things, fine in moderation. Nothing wrong with friendly wagers among friends or spending some money playing casino games. The gambling industry doesn’t exist off the back of these players though and that’s the problem with it

Yeah I deleted all my accounts. I only run a mastodon, Lemmy, and a rarely used Pixelfed account now

I’m not familiar with modern games really but the launch trailer had basically zero footage that looked like it could be considered gameplay other than a Wii sports minigame.

If it’s trying to be a movie, it looks like shitty movie. If it’s trying to be a game, it looks like a shitty game. I will likely never play it so I can’t imagine being upset about it.

Bad movies and bad games come out all the time, I just don’t partake. If someone thinks it’s their game of the year, we probably have different tastes and I’ll just ignore their opinion.

Don’t forget charge they phone and twerk

The WiiU also sold well at launch. Then once all the diehards got their console, it never sold meaningful numbers again.

The switch 2 has already outdone the WiiU (not much) but I’d be shocked if it sells even close to half as well as the switch 1 did. I’d guess it’d be more around n64 numbers.

I don’t see it as a failure at all. I really like the action side scrolling gameplay and early RPG elements. It’s a nice departure from the style of the first game and link to the past. Especially compared to other games on the NES, it holds up. My only gripe with it is that it took me forever to find the hidden village because there wasn’t really any good hints. Definitely seemed designed to sell Nintendo power. LoZ was the same way though

I’m fairly certain he meant life insurance. In the US under the ACA, charging people higher premiums or cancelling their coverage due to pre-existing conditions is illegal

I suppose since that because he still got the intended meaning from the spelling, you are right but it still bothers me when it makes written language harder to parse.