The game was too memorable for me, dropped it quick. The same thing happened when I tried the Dead Space remaster.

There’s $140 saved. I miss demos, well, besides the indie scene embracing them I mean.

There are things like the Hydra… application found on github. I was gonna call it a store front.

Past tense? Get back in there!

I hear you but again I’ve left out an important detail. Those debate boards have moderators who are mostly checked out since the API drama, so the influx of morons using ChatGPT to “think” for them without getting banned has become intolerable and incredibly depressing when considering the long term implications of that among youth.

The positive feelings are an afterglow.

Honestly it’s two niche debate subs that kept me engaging that there’s no substitute for. I think with the reply button blocked I’ll be able to delete my account again soon. Yep I’ve relasped before.

…and I mainly used those subs to deprogram from my upbringing. That’s the real truth, I found it healing.

I’m almost there, I had to block the reply button with ublock origin. Quite the habitual addiction.

Youtube 3rd party apps do nothing but deal with privacy issues and still rely on YouTube infra which means also dealing with the censorship and copyright systems. Meanwhile you’re just seen as a leech, including by creators since they get no ad rev from you watching. I adblock too, so that includes myself.

What are the viewers watching on alternative platforms with no video creators besides crypto bros and political extremists too edgy for YouTube?

Realistically I don’t see anything happening besides the usual tried and true method now:

They self own their own website so hard with repeat scandals until an exodus happens and hope it’s your new decentralized platform instead of another corpo centralized platform… which is most likely because the way I see it done is with big bags of money and contracts with creators.

Even on old reddit they have these annoying and constant “achievement” notifications now.

Uh oh, did you suggest something that isn’t aligned with corporate status quo enforcement?

If you force no to low info non-voters to vote it doesn’t fix their ignorance. You just get Australian elections.

Viewers can’t do shit but watch where the creators are. Up to creators to organize. I see tubers bitching about payment and copyright. Can cry me a river, if they only offer videos on a single platform.

I was perfectly fine with YouTube before monetization.

I really want to jam a pick tool into gas station pump speakers that blare ads.

I probably will if the oldest shell station that never updates their pumps does.

It’s just funny now.

My parents bought laptops together around 2013 that they still use today, just with new batteries and SSD upgrades.

Windows 10 was already pushing it, I had to do some funky things to stop Windows from overwriting old drivers with newer versions that broke stuff like the trackpads. Now they have Fedora KDE spin. The GUI is similar enough when all you do is use Thunderbird, Firefox, and the File Explorer.

Changing OS was still scary to them, so I just brought over a live USB for them to test drive.

I want to say 2 because longest fork depth, but 4 has that round mouth feel with still good fork depth without being too aggressive about the curvature like 5. The thicker outer prongs grip slippery/heavy food better too.

I’m going 4.

Also because 2 has that annoying fin. The worst forks do that, and also curve down. Hurts my hands, but I’m a giant with bear paws so YMMV.

Muted in the English world. I argue junk food commercials draw a lot of parallels with cigarette commercials of the past. For some reason obesity isn’t worth prevention so the advertisements are pretty gross.

Soft drinks. Coca Cola especially really loves to tie emotions and sports/holidays to sugar water.

All I’ll say is I’ll be watching where fire bans are in effect if it ever comes to that.

If it was actually AI sure.

This is an unthinking machine algorithm chewing through mounds of stolen data.

Always weird to me they didn’t bother renaming the holiday they co-opted. They did it with Christmas.

It’s named after the goddess Ēostre.

I could be convinced to assemble some stuff, but we’d waste less of our time by asking what media formats you actually like.

Read, listen, watch, etc.

I can’t stand audio books for example.