I always get a little lol about how a perl script made by a snooty mac blogger in 2004 is the de facto way to write text on the internet, and every single implementation has its own quirks and bugs. there was an attempt made to standardize it as commonmark but everyone involved was kind of incompetent, and it has never reached 1.0 despite being used by almost every internet user. "fixing markdown" is a quest only for a foolish and everyone agrees it's better broken

Haha you've been markdowneded

If you want to have simple line breaks, instead of paragraph brakes, you can put two spaces at the end of a line

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MP4 with time powers would be cool but I think I'd rather just have a good ass normal Metroid Prime game.

No American has thought before they spoke in basically a century but maybe under pressure we'll actually learn, Lol

I took a lit class in high school, and I forget the term they used but there was a unit that was basically all just depressing short stories. Like bad things always happening, there's no light at the end of the tunnel, ending somehow worse than you thought it could get. The teacher made a point for us to take a look at the people struggling in these stories, and how they kept going despite the pointlessness. It's something that's weirdly stuck with me.

I'd like to think I'm someone who would keep doing the next right thing even as all the lights go out. Like I'm on a dying planet just crawling through the muck because it seems like the right thing to do. Or being Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia.

I'm not like an optimistic person but I think this attitude keeps me from really dooming out.

Our guiding deities

going back to the iPhone 3GS

bottom taskbars for mobile apps rule, it's nice having things within thumb reach

The boom-bust cycle of tech is well known, and the AI one we're going through is one of the most clearly prepared for I've ever seen. Microsoft in particular is set to cash out once the bust goes through, the terms of their investment in OpenAI is such that when they bust they essentially get the whole company with no fuss. Meta is the only company that seems to be hugely exposed to failure once the bust happens (massive investment but little to show for it, the rest of their company is hurting very badly) but they're the only company I can see actually being hurt. And I'd be surprised if they actually disappear, I'm sad to say.

The only thing that could actually hurt these companies is if Chinese technology is allowed to flow freely into the US, and the government is going to step in before that happens. This will fuck over everyone but major tech companies.

I will always wish for consequences, but I'm not expecting them this time.

board games are wild!!!

I shoveled my elderly neighbor's driveway and she was very thankful, love her

I appreciate the thoughtful response, thank you! I've definitely seen that kind of response before, and I get your need to vent about it, like holy shit.

Who are you talking to? There's like five people here and we're all saturated with things we're doing to help other people. I'm not sure where this is coming from.

If you're thinking about people in general, I think you're expressing a kind of general dislike for people in the world that I don't think is good for you or your activism. People right now are very isolated from one another, and you're not going to break through that with... whatever this is. If this is something your org is presenting to you as a normal way of thinking I'd be concerned.

Consider this an admin warning, you're at a level of aggro against others that we don't really want to be for jstpst. Please think before posting again and have a good evening!

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Different for each game. Mario Kart: rubber. Zelda: leather. Splatoon: paint.

C button is for cery funny

no it's DK '94

honestly in the game he gets stopped a lot

The way I get around feeling bad about this kind of stuff is to love the younger version of me like they're my lost child.

Tbh all Star Trek is very funny, Lol

Oh the Star Trek fans I know love Lower Decks, though it's funny that it started out as a parody and then just became more Star Trek

Over the past decade we've debated language and representation to a degree beyond what made actual progress. There were wins here and there but we've basically just given oppressive institutions a new way to look friendly, and they're not even trying to do that anymore.

I don't have a solution to the problem but for me personally I'll still watch what I say to reasonable degree. Like I hope I'm just ahead of the curve when I say "we need to get woke again".

The moderation rollback is one thing, particularly because it didn't seem to be working in the first place. Like there's multiple family members of mine who's lives have been made measurably worse due to facebook shit, I'm not sure how it could be worse. It's the weird gleeful rollback on everything else that gets to me, from employee support programs disappearing to removing pride themes from apps to removing pads from mens toilets (???). All this needless shit and conservatives still hate facebook

yeah the business model for Codenames is you spend $5 on it once, which is kind of crazy for a long term service game but it's working out fine

everything is on auto sleep