There’s a Bluesky thread (yes I know) going where people are contributing things that have gotten better in their lifetimes, and there really are a lot of things there. Things are still improving, there will always be setbacks and things left to fight for, but it isn’t impossible, things aren’t hopeless.

It leaves Trump with doing what he’s doing now, using the Executive’s considerable power to wreck whatever he likes, plus executive orders and his willingness to ignore any law that doesn’t suit him.

People at REAL dada centers want to eat a clock, recite the alphabet then become fish.

Judging by the Star Wars Holiday Special, this must be Chewbacca’s uncle.

AT THIS MOMENT

• The localization of the first Mystery Dungeon, Torneko’s Great Adventure, despite it having some implementation issues. It hasn’t been remade so much as ported with better graphics.
• The remake of Romancing SaGa 2, which is great.
• A new web browser roguelike, Naqbu. It’s really new and on the easy side, but I enjoyed it.

This is 22 days later but just noticed it. The Shiren the Wanderer games are true roguelikes, and great. Please try them!

Reddit has been exodusing for multiple years now. At some point, people are going to have to stop caring about the gorilla down the road and just be good, and I think Lemmy is good. Posts that make it to the front page often have over 1K reputation! It’s far from Reddit big, but it’s still big!

Disagree. This is a case of the brand actually not meaning much. “Reddit” isn’t great either, but people think it does because it’s well known.

I’m reminded of the person who said Mario was a character designed from the ground up to be marketable, when it was literally created to make a graphic of a person readable in a 16x16 sprite with three colors.

I’m sure that popes react well to being told to (adjusts glasses) “shut the fuck up.”

The way I see it is, for many things on the internet, the raw number of people using them has stayed steady or even gone up slightly, but there are so many more people who wouldn’t have used the old internet online now, and much of the money and energy goes to catering to them, which means Facebook, Instagram, Reddit etc. The people who know what they’re doing still use the old internet. We should be extending our arms to the people stuck on social media, who think that is the whole thing.

I mean, the sucky genre of news article that’s all “here’s an extremely rich person’s opinion” is still sucky when it’s good news. We should know what he’s doing, but shouldn’t have to care what he thinks.

A link to an article on AOL?!

Shiren 6 exists, why would I play that?

You know, I don’t know if that’s what “a Western audience” wants. I know that Youtube has made its service steadily worse over time, and also much more resource intensive. Checking Firefox’s Process Manager, it currently lists four Youtube tabs loaded in memory that total up to 1.4GB. And I know a lot of that isn’t the video: when I load a new Youtube tab, it shows the “placeholder” content, gray lines where text will go, for several seconds before anything really displays.

I mean, Bilibili sucks too? I get popups before videos I watch with anime characters, whee. There’s also the whole currently-is-in-Chinese thing, kind of a drawback for an English-speaker, But it does seem to load a bit faster.

ssh and scp (secure connection and file transfer)

grep (the standard command-line search tool)

sed (Stream EDitor, good for find-replaces once you learn how to use it)

awk (can operate on text files or command output that’s organized in columns)

sc (terminal-based spreadsheet)

trash (safer replacement for rm that moves things to your desktop’s trash directory instead of deleting immediately)

I just installed Windows 11 in a virtual machine for software development purposes.

• This machine has a valid Windows 11 Pro license, but it didn’t recognize it because it’s running in a VM.
• It installed a bunch of stuff I didn’t need and had to uninstall, because Microsoft assumed my use case.
• I had to log into a Microsoft account that I use for nothing else, using my phone’s two-factor authentication.
• I had to flip a bunch of switches NO to opt (as far as possible) out of Microsoft’s tracking.
• I had to do the updates overnight.
• When it was done, I then began the process of clearing all the crap off the computer and out of the taskbar. That’s ongoing.

Simple!

There are all these people who think it’s only a video game if it involves big fightymen killing things. That’s hyperbole (they could be big sportsmen doing sports), but not by much.

These are the people who view graphics as the be-and-end-all of a game’s quality. There are more kinds of games than anyone could count, but you wouldn’t know it by asking those people.

Yoot Saito also directed the wonder feudal japanese wargame/pinball simulation with microphone support Odama. I still have my copy and mic!

Kirby Air Riders!

Study also suggests that water is wet.