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Likewise. I used to get 3-4 cold DMs or connection requests from recruiters per week just a couple years ago. Now I maybe get 1 per month.

It's nice for me specifically, but definitely a symptom of the times and worrysome for anybody trying to find a job in this economy now while also having to compete with fucking AI slop generators doing all the menial and entry level work.

I swear, this time I'm going to build tall and do a federation-focused, fanatic pacifist ethic! Honest!

10.5 hours later - I'm becoming the crisis whether I like it or not.

I owned a Virtual Boy back in the day and... yeah. It sucked. I bring it up every time people think Nintendo are infallible - they do have shit ideas from time to time.

I also owned a PSP and I just didn't use it much. I know it's a well beloved console but I didn't really like anything that I played on it.

The Wii was just okay, I just got tired of the gimmick too quickly, and the library was just atrocious. If you don't like movie tie-in games, you miss out on like 3/4ths of the entire catalogue of titles.

I think I'm just tired of console gaming at this point. The only reason I would buy a console is if it were a mobile console that I can take with me when I want to game away from my PC, and so far the only companies that are interested in developing mobile consoles are Nintendo and Steam.

What I meant by that is the ability to access the entire world interconnectivity - obviously cutting those cables would not affect domestic internet access but people who live elsewhere would not be able to access content hosted overseas in gulf states.

I don't think Iran cares if their citizens can access the internet or not. I presume their military uses satellites for that sort of thing so they won't be negatively affected by it.

The rest of the world, on the other hand, gets their access to worldwide connectivity held hostage.

Good read, but I think the author touched on something that is way more troubling. Sure, you can get reliable information from regular people who are living in other parts of the world, but spreading that information with any kind of veracity is almost impossible due to the collapse in public trust of mainstream media.

If I say something with any degree of authority or confidence, someone in the comments will inevitably chant the ancestral magic spell "Source?!" and suddenly my evidence of a conversation with a stranger on the internet is reduced to merely anecdotal at best. Able to be dismissed outright without thought or care.

However, if I post a link to some legacy media rag, existing in the modern day as a mere husk being puppeteered by corporate oligarchs, wearing the skin of a legitimate and trustworthy news source, the credibility of the information is then called into question by anybody reasonable - knowing full well that right-wing governments have managed to capture most of the remaining independent reporting, or at least have threatened them with who-knows-what in an attempt to influence their press releases that would otherwise paint the government or any of their cronies in a negative light. If someone decides that the provided source doesn't line up with their narrative, it's hilariously easy to attack the reporting itself as being "fake news".

The brain shuts off, and information gets siloed. Objective reality is no longer shared. We are still living in a state of simply believing whatever we want to believe and the few people who are able to break out of that are not going to be influential enough to have an effect on anything. We can pat ourselves on the back for not being a group of people concerned with being brand-builders, I guess, but in the end it's a meaningless victory.

Not buying a Switch 2 for a game I already played 29 years ago.

I fucking love Star Fox but it hurts to see the franchise rotting on the vine. I know Nintendo's philosophy is that they only want to make a sequel if they can advance some new mechanics or hardware tech, and clearly they saw the mouse mode and 2-player co-op as the impetus to even make this in the first place, but god damn would I love to see a new story with the exact same gameplay.

Sometimes you just come up on a formula that works and you can let the writers take the wheel for a bit. Not every game needs to push the envelope in terms of graphics or mechanical complexity or never-before-seen gameplay loops.

Lmao 🤣

I would not buy one. I would not use one if my current phone exploded into tiny pieces and the only convenient replacement was a free OpenAI phone - I'd much rather inconvenience myself.

This is quite a common occurrence for regulars who order delivery like pizzas often enough for the staff to take notice and even get on a first name basis with the delivery driver. If they expect an order for a large mushroom and sausage to come in every Friday at 7pm sharp and it's not there, someone usually checks on them just to make sure they are okay.

Every time I see this image I swear his eyes get smaller every time.

Take my word for it Brits, don't let this toxic tipping culture sneak in. Once it's in place it will be impossible for it to go away.