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- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 2 hours ago:
I know this doesn’t answer your question, but I think something went wrong with your formatting. In Voyager (Lemmy), your title seems to be cut off, and the body of your post is way bigger than it should be, lol
- Comment on Am I overreacting for wanting to quit driving altogether? 4 hours ago:
Do you live somewhere that you can get around without relying on a car (or someone with a car)?
If not, can you reasonably move to and live in a place like that?
If those are options, do those.
If not, learn how to drive properly and safely. DO NOT drive unless you feel in control of the car on public roads.
“Not being good at multitasking” isn’t an excuse to put people’s lives in danger.
Some people need more time to learn and practice and that’s fine. You need to take responsibility and take that time to learn and practice.
It may need more than lessons. It might require therapy. But if you need to drive, then you need to drive safely. And relying on other people to drive for you is not the answer either.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 1 day ago:
Last I heard, “learning styles” are a myth
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 6 days ago:
Going forward? RetroAchievements, Steam, GOG, and LaunchBox to tie it all together. PSN trophy integration to LaunchBox would be cool too, because PS3 stuff is never coming to any of those platforms and I have history there, too.
For historical stuff, that’s in my memory exclusively.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 6 days ago:
The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.
I cared about the 3DO…
Thanks for the info though!
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 week ago:
I was looking it up, and games like Super Mario World are allegedly at 60fps according to some random things on the internet
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure the 16-bit era were generally 60FPS
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 week ago:
Bro when Majora’s mask came out nothing was 60fps lol
Huh? 60fps was the standard, at least in Japan and North America, because TVs were at 60Hz/fps.
Actually, 60.0988fps according to speed runners.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To the last point, I wouldn’t trust anyone at your departing airport who tells you your bag will go to the destination. Almost lost a bag that way. Thankfully, my uncertainty made me ask again at the layover airport “just in case”…lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Gotta ask. Do you really think this community has a list of pornographic actresses names and automatically filters posts with them?
Aside from that, ChatGPT isn’t a reliable source of information, and probably can’t tell you much about another source’s reliability… especially on a topic like this.
- Comment on The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself? 3 weeks ago:
Gatekeeping food, of all things? Lol
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are subcultures within “Internet culture”…but these days, I don’t think “Internet culture” is cohesive (and omnipresent) enough yet to call it a “culture”.
It’s complicated and messy. Hard to define, lol
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 4 weeks ago:
Ethnicity, no.
Culture, I think that’d be a bit of a strong claim.
Sub-culture, definitely.
- Comment on SILENT HILL 2 remake gets a surprise GOG release 5 weeks ago:
GOG is doing amazing work these days. I’m always happy to support them when I can.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Should’ve been “Until the tariffs are gone, right?”
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 month ago:
“Mom! I want to read articles on Polygon!”
We have Polygon at home.
The Polygon at home:
Polgyon
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 1 month ago:
your options are shite and I refuse them all is a valid vote, why make it harder for someone to choose that than necessary?
The only way that’s communicated is by officially declining the ballot. And I agree with the other commenter that it should be easier to do this.
By not voting, you’re communicating “They’re all fine; I can’t be assed to pick”.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 1 month ago:
You don’t actually have to fill out the ballot. You can tell the voting officer that you decline it, you can write profanity on it, or you can vote for your dog.
It’s a minor civic duty. Much less onerous than jury duty, lol
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 1 month ago:
Yeah, broadcasting to the world that you’re playing a game that hasn’t been released yet isn’t a great idea. Particularly when it’s Nintendo. It’s pretty common knowledge how petty they are even with stuff that’s less flagrant
- Comment on is there a community for asking specific questions such as “is this user a troll”, “why do people act this way,” “what should I do”, etc.? 1 month ago:
Yes. There’s the .ml instance. If they’re from there, they are a troll!
/kidding
- Comment on Death to Nickels 1 month ago:
I could fathom a digital wallet that stores money locally.
Of course, any counterfeiting would only be verifiable with an internet connection.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
What is a Personal Pronoun?
A whole bunch of angry Americans would fail to answer that question correctly these days…
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 2 months ago:
To clarify, I don’t think the writers did anything wrong. The headline will be misleading because Nintendo’s being somewhat misleading.
I don’t know how much the headline could be improved, if at all.
Nintendo says NS2 GC controller will only “officially” support GC games
Or if they can’t quote “officially”, they could quote “only”. Which could arguably be more clickbaity, but also clue in a casual reader that there’s more to what Nintendo officially says.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 2 months ago:
It’s somewhat misleading. It’s not providing the additional background information, and it leads the headline with the claim (not that Nintendo is making a claim).
I don’t think it’s a bad headline. It’d be hard to include all the information in the headline. But if someone only reads the headline (something like 73% of people), they could end up with a mistaken conclusion. And those people will have been lead in that direction (so, mislead).
- Comment on Can I sue my apartment management company? 2 months ago:
Doesn’t this kind of depend on where you live? Lol
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 2 months ago:
The games don’t drop in price, but the consoles do. There’s even a chance the price could go down for the holiday season, even if it’s something miniscule. This launch price is the early adopter tax.
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 2 months ago:
“But I haven’t seen you in over a decade!”
I said, SAME. OLD!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, I use some software that’s Windows-only, and can’t be bothered to set up a VM or anything
- Comment on Found money. What do? 2 months ago:
$100 could be a week of grocery money too. $50 for a frugal individual, even.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 2 months ago:
Canadian here: What’s the difference? /s