The general difference is that these bookmarks go away when re-opened. They’re an alternative to leaving a buttload of tabs open.

Not that guy. But: what people were promised was smartphone guts in a set-top box, for all the novel PSP-grade mobile titles that were limited by touchscreen controls and battery life. What was delivered was Not That. They turned the Kickstarter into a custom microconsole, which is a vulgar word in any context, because it means there’s no goddamn software. The central fucking point was to take advantage of everything on Google Play… or whatever the hell it was called that month. Instead you got a tiny selection of games which were forced to provide free demos. And you could play them with an abysmal controller, which was the one thing these geniuses were supposed to get right for free.

Considering I’ve seen it printed on booty shorts, yeah, probably not.

I only recently tossed a Handbook Of Christian Apologetics by Tacelli & Kreeft. I was never devout, let alone outright brainwashed into anti-science nonsense, but at the cusp of my reddit atheist phase I figured a question this big deserved a fair shake. So I got a big ol’ book of the best arguments anyone had. They all sucked. So that was that.

The one that made me put the book down and go ‘yep, atheist’ was “the argument from magic.” You think about moving your hand. Your hand moves by thought alone. Magic! Therefore, Jesus. I fucking wish I was exaggerating.

Took another decade to figure out the people pushing these arguments don’t actually give a shit about being right. The point is performing loyalty to the ingroup. There’s a conclusion, and it comes from people above you, so your job is to make whatever mouth noises get there. A monotheistic god is only the purest expression of that tribalist worldview.

I don’t care if the robot that speaks English read the entire library.

How else was it going to happen?

All while aiming to be cash you can e-mail, and failing at that because its high volatility and low speed make it a completely artificial commodities market with nearly zero real-world applications. It’s a technology that took off because Paypal is the devil and it is arguably worse.

Ban them.

Get rid of the entire business model. It’s an abuse. Games make you value arbitrary worthless nonsense - that is what makes them games. Attaching a dollar price to that imaginary form of value is a scam.

Situation: there are 14 competing editors.

Sodium-ion batteries are likely to be the obvious answer in another decade. Dirt cheap, abundant materials, competitive density.

I had great internet, and it was still frustrating bullshit.

Valve really abused their big-ass sequel to force their DRM’d marketplace upon PC gaming. We just got used to it because they’re competent at UI development and happy with console-level gouging of publishers.

All three of them were right, but one of them was doing the wrong amount of cocaine.

Infantalizing people for their own good --> infantalizing people as an insult.

More behavior you need to cut the fuck out.

Nobody’s stopping you.

You should stop.

This is not a contradiction.

It’s bullshit and you should stop.

It’s a pattern of destroying information over puritanical nonsense. Treat people like adults.

Why, in the name of god, does Lemmy’s obsession with censorship include the word “jerk?”

“How do people manage to play and chat online with random people?”

Fuck every form of this. Website: you deliver the document, and I decide if it works.

Tangentially, see Mike Montiero’s talk, How Designers Destroyed The World. His prime example is Facebook changing everyone’s visibility settings by default… leading at least one closeted lesbian teenager to receive death threats from her own goddamn father.

Malice is not required for these decisions to become catastrophes.

Yeah well no shit. Information alone has never killed anyone. But if information gets people killed, the distinction from their perspective is pretty fuckin’ moot.

Addressing exactly one of those things: GBA Jam 2024 runs for another two months.