If someone chooses to use their social media as a haven from the real-world issues they encounter everywhere else, then

I would advise them to curate a specific feed for that explicit purpose rather than browse /all and complain other people are paying attention to real shit

You can.

You can subscribe to every stupid brain rot meme sub you want, and when you’re ready to turn your brain off just switch to only viewing subscribed communities.

No one is saying not to do that, burnout is real and what fascists hope for.

So by all means, take your breaks. Check out and don’t think about it for a day or two. But come back and care about the important shit again.

But when viewing /all and seeing the top post be actual discussions on serious topics it’s a good thing.

It means right now more people are choosing that over the brain rot. Hopefully it becomes the norm, but we still need to rotate off for a break, it’s not gonna be a short fight against fascism. No one is going to make it to the end without some breaks.

Can you do me a favor and reply with your alts?

I’ve blocked at least 3 so far but it’s like playing fucking whack a mole

What happened?

People pay attention to memes more than news…

I blocked all the stupid meme communities as soon as I started using Lemmy, glad to see actual discussion is replacing brain rot tho.

It’s a good thing.

Lots of places play loosely with the terminology, but in general:

Refurbished: they wipes the dust off

Recertified: had an issue, was sent back to manufacturer who fixed it and checked everything else.

Past advice was always buy new, but drives last much longer than they used to. And lots of business replace to be safe when a drive could last another decade just fine.

The music is because those trucks drive around.

You can’t make tacos on the move, or any other kind of hot food really.

Which is why food trucks park in locations and operate

They really buried that this is an 11 month old quote…

But yeah, I was guilty of expecting a groachical experience like Seluna’s without realizing the trade off was an N64 level of being stuck on rails.

5ish years from now it could be different.

But it’s not about making the best games, it’s about making the most money.

If you have a propitiatory engine, your hiring base is limited. And studios don’t want long-term employees, so they want generic engines with a readily available labor pool.

Yeah…

But that’s not a shower thought, it’s something we’ve known for a very long time.

It’s like saying the sky is blue due to wavelength scattering, it’s true, but regardless of where you are when you realized/learned it, it’s not a shower thought.

The addition of electricity is the only reason anyone calls it scifi

It’s been a long journey since:

If we count Frankenstein as scifi…

Then stuff centuries earlier also count as scifi, and she’s out of the discussion again.

But I’m glad you understand now.

In the 2nd century some guy wrote about travelling to the moon…

Where he found Moon people who were at war with the sun people.

By your definition, isn’t that also SciFi?

If we count stuff earlier than 1898 your statement is false from the jump

I never said we should…

I view the begining of scif as the 60s maybe late 50s.

My point was if you’re taking it back to Shelly, by the same logic we’d have to take it back further. Which you apparently agree with?

If we count Frankenstein as scifi…

Then stuff centuries earlier also count as scifi, and she’s out of the discussion again.

But she was reasonably well-adjusted

Bruh…

She kept her dead husbands heart and would carry it around with her

No, it was invented by poverty ridden meth addicts…

It’s not ancient history

The issue is if they’re not plugged in all the way…

At least one manufacturer set it up so if the power cord isnt fully seated, an error light comes on and the GPU doesn’t work.

And I have zero idea why Nvidia didn’t do it themselves so it’s on all cards.

There’s 4 seasons…

Buddy, if you can’t tell this is satire by the end…

5. The Switch 2 runs Mario Kart and I hate Mario Kart because my friend Nathan always beats me at it Why should the best driver be determined by the contents of magic boxes, it’s a stupid game

I think the only reason they took off in the first place was it’s free to play.

It’s common sense that PvP and mods don’t mix but because there was a zero investment people did it, which made them popular enough people who do t know better thought it was fine.

Glad to see they just disabled them instead of banning accounts for using them.

Goldman for “son of gold”.

And Sachs as the same Germanic root of “Saxon” one of the groups who conquered England.

Two insanely wealthy old money names.

When they say “started next to a coal chute” it makes it sound like it was a small business…

But Goldman was insanely wealthy and the company’s first investments were “IOUs”.

It was basically a loan racket, the “office” was where the poor people were who needed high interest loans because a bank wouldn’t loan.

They “started from the bottom” as much as Drake did when he went into rapping.