I would hope, but on the whole you’d almost think they deliberately purged home computing from the mainstream consciousness, with how tragically ignorant the average person is about anything that isn’t a little poke-driven rectangle that screams at you all day.

anime without dimming

So that’s the secret! When I first noticed this happening I thought I was a little bit crazy lol.

I used to love those Kairosoft simulator games. They get a little samey after a while but you get the whole game which is cool

Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others.

Space Trader and Dope Wars, all the way. Still worth playing today! You can emulate it on Archive.org or there’s Android ports for Space Trader. Still a fun game. :D

It probably sounds a little weird, but while I was sitting at the safety of my “occupy a desk until someone asks questions” job that sapped my soul, I often would research places I really, really wouldn’t want to be.

In a weird way I find this “Dark tourism behind a screen” to be a bit fascinating in a "safe danger " kind of way.

Reading the state department’s notices on some countries really puts in perspective. They’re like “Don’t go here without an armored vehicle, armed security detail, and most preferably a good friggin reason. Even still, have a next of kin lined up and ransom plans.”

Edit: also “Oh yeah, if everything goes bad off embassy grounds (if there even is one) our ability to intervene is limited. Don’t expect direct support to come save you.”

Like. Damn.

I’d say inside the country, it’s not as bad as the news makes it sound, because cameras are only pointing at the worst events. It’s a pretty big country and most people are content to just leave each other alone.

…But a huge radius around the borders or airports are “Constitution-free” zones where nobody has any rights, and our borders/customs folks have a reputation for being less than kind. And those zones, bad enough as they are, are so freakishly large that most people in any populated area are within those zones…so…

…Yeah, maybe wait. . .

before I learned about the Dubai porta potty

I was expecting some sort of ridiculous public sanitation custom. I knew about suspicious weird stories about models “getting on flights and never coming back” but the details make it even worse.

Wish there were people like John Wick to move through these grotesque billionaire circles and purge the monsters entirely.

I have always had zero interest of travelling to or supporting the place, and this only reinforces that.

Hehe me sitting here with my 9800 GTX++ wondering what the heck to do with it. 😂

Kinda wanted to make a retro gaming machine but, sheesh I bet it’s such a power hog these days!

Stability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.”

I wish they had kept with that into later versions.

Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D

Dunno if she wrote “thumbs” or the collab with Alan Walker, which I always thought were kinda based, but she was just starting to get popular then maybe. Really sad if she’s let the fame go to her head that badly.

A soul is a terrible thing to waste. :(

Thanks! Added. :D

BTW. . .

“On your left!”

• As you wish.
• If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!
• I rock… And rule!.. All day long! Sweet Susie! / I’m bleeding, which makes me the victor!
• I aim to misbehave.
• Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
• Come with me if you want to live!
• They mostly come at night…Mostly…
• You! SHALL NOT! PASS!!
• Whoever wrote this episode should die!
• Rebellions are built on hope.

Lol I could keep going all night if I don’t stop myself and I’ve work in the morning. XD

(Edit: Some new ones)

• I can do this all day.
• Puny god.
• I am…inevitable.
• Hold on to your butts.
• I’m a dude, playin’ a dude, disguised as another dude!

I saw it in my head just reading it. Absolutely moving.

I can’t get through

With dry eyes either. That speech has kept me going, so many times. I’ve even posted it in various places on Lemmy as a counter to the sheer hopelessness and defeatism (understandably) pervading a lot of threads.

I often consider getting it wholly or partially inscribed on me.

Haha yay, first time I got a “username checks out”! :D hahaha.

Reject predatory techbro products, return to monke! XD

I think the saddest part about this is the phenomenon where people who didn’t understand tech were scared of new stuff that was actually really neat and helpful…

…and nowadays they’re ridiculously trusting of shiny user-friendly corporate garbage that spies on them and manipulates them.

Bwoop! Is this it?

https://ia800505.us.archive.org/3/items/1570719797-658/1570719797-658.pdf

Excellent quote and deeply, tragically profound.

l’ve noticed the modern philosophizing kids have distilled this mentality down to the mocking phrase:

“One day I’ll get to be the one wearing the boot! :D”

Beware The Dread Gazebo!!!

I straight up told him it’s ridiculous and that he needs to get off the internet…

Which is especially crazy when I imagine I’m not the only one who was constantly told my personally developed views were influenced purely from “listening to all those liberals on the internet.”

Confirmation bias is a helluva drug, pops. :(

This mentality and reinforced culture is a big reason inhuman corporate ideals and customs have festered throughout our society like a fungal infection.

It’s so difficult to organize because plenty of fellow workers will simply be passive and complacent with whatever increasingly bad lot they’re given, or worse, will be straight up class traitors looking to be rewarded by ruthless masters.