You already have demodex mites living on your face.

Not domestication per se, but we should teach our ape cousins how to control fire and develop technology. Ascend, my brethren! Come and join your furless kin! Reach out your hands and grasp the tools that are your salvation! Reject the weakness of your flesh!

It’s a Reddit clone. What did you expect?

Lemmy? the politics.

the fediverse? I know I’ve said this like a billion times to the same five people who come on here, but federated platforms still ape the format of big social media platforms, and inherit many of their pitfalls. I want long-term discussion and human connection, not an endless waterfall of content that quickly gets swept away.

These video game ones now have me wondering if anyone else was told they could unlock extra characters in Super Smash Bros (N64) by clicking certain names in the credits.

The methods for unlocking these supposed secret characters were always ridiculously convoluted, so if it didn’t work you were probably doing it wrong. Like beating the game 10 times on level 9 difficulty with 1 stock with Pikachu would unlock Mewtwo, etc.

But like I said above, the stuff that was legit was often so weird and seemingly arbitrary that the fake stuff sounded more plausible. Talk to a specific NPC, fly to a specific area and surf up and down a specific coast, and you’ll encounter a glitched pokemon that will duplicate the sixth item in your inventory. Yeah it was all about memory registers or whatever, but I didn’t know about that stuff at the time.

I’ve heard of this (way after the fact). IIRC it was part of some player’s guide, and may have been included either as a joke by the author or a copyright trap by the publisher.

Seems I was right. Per this wiki article Apologies for linking to Fandom.

Kingdom Hearts. People love it. I do not.

clarifying edit: the whole Disney meets Final Fantasy concept is just like peanut butter and pickles to me. I like (classic) FF, I don’t hate Disney, but the two just do not go together. From the plot summaries and fan videos I’ve come across, it strikes me that whoever writes this stuff loves to set things up but never knows how to resolve them, so I think I’d end up hating it even if I did find the concept appealing.

Oh and the fact Sora got into Smash over Waluigi still burns.

No, mckids is a NES game. I played it when I was little and remember enjoying it. It had a gravity mechanic that was unique. AVGN did an episode on it.

And locally if you join a club. If there aren’t enough hams for a club there may be at least one you could seek out as an Elmer.

Hobbies. I got into ham radio for this very reason. It’s also adjacent to my job (IT), and it’s one of the quintessential “hobby hobbies” like stamp collecting and model trains.

When I think of vanity plates I think of the guy who registered his as “NULL” in the hopes that he could avoid traffic tickets by looking like a database error. But he ended up showing up every time anyone’s plate number was missing, so it showed him as having thousands of traffic violations.

Is that sort of thing relevant? I take the bus all the time and have never felt in danger (except for one time when the driver went off on another bus driver, but I just noped off the bus before it could escalate). Yes there are interesting characters, but if public transit were more common perhaps the crazies would become less predominant.

Around here there is a whole police department dedicated to monitoring public transit.

Done

I think the ray tracing drew a lot of people in. It certainly did me. I think it also rides on its reputation as a big-budget spiritual adaptation of the SCP Foundation.

Never played this game but I’m aware the same devs are involved with Pokopia in some way. Makes me worried.

It’s like they saw Minecraft’s complete and utter lack of direction and decided to overcorrect.

Any pokemon game after gen 2.

I started in 1999 with red. It was a childhood-defining experience. I spent all summer with my nose in that game boy. Keep in mind I had to use a loupe mounted in a glasses frame and had to hold the screen an inch from my eye, so the ergonomics weren’t ideal, but the experience was compelling enough for me to bear through it. Then I got gold in the summer of 2001, I think, and was blown away. It was an upgrade in every way. I personally think the series peaked with gen 2. To be absolutely clear I am not a “gen-wunner” or whatever the word is. I just think the combination of the game itself and the zeitgeist it created for those first few years came together to make something unrepeatable.

Gold and Silver came out while Pokemon was still everywhere, but by the time gen 3 released, the craze had ebbed. Yes it was still popular but it was no longer in everyone’s mouth. I was also in the latter half of high school, and most of my friends were no longer into it. I bought the game, so it’s not like I thought I was too old, but it just didn’t feel the same. They removed the day-night cycle and the calendar functionality. It felt like a downgrade.

I’ve tried several times since to rekindle that feeling I got in 1999. The closest was with Pokemon Go in 2016. For a few weeks it felt like the late 90s again, with everyone and their dog talking about Pokemon. I actually beat Pokemon Let’s Go, but I think the nostalgia is what kept me going. Tried with the first Legends game and just couldn’t stay interested. Ditto with Brilliant Diamond.

There has to be a word for not wanting something but wanting to want it. That’s how I feel. (Of course the nice thing about being a conlanger is I can make the word myself 😁)

sdC CB qGr qGrbfrp
0     sdC-0   CB-0   qGr-0  qGrbfr-p
[1sg] yearn-A want-A play-A video_game-3D
I miss wanting to play that video game.

1sg = 1st person singular (0 means it's dropped)
-A = authoritative verbal mood (-0 means a null morpheme that isn't pronounced)
-3D = 3rd person distal noun suffix ('that video game')

UPDATE:

I see Bookstack mentioned a lot, so I decided to try installing it. I took the better part of a day and I still can’t get it working. Pity since it looks a lot nicer than Dokuwiki and has access control unlike Mediawiki.

Vampires don’t suck, they scrape and lick

Texan here. 2 years in HS was required when I was there. I took Latin.

logseq

Forgot about logseq. It’s an outliner first and foremost, so not what I’m looking for.

silverbullet

This one’s almost there. No version history. For accessibility reasons I’d like something that clearly separates the acts of writing/editing and reading/consuming. It works better with screen readers. In silverbullet, headings only look like headings, but they’re just undifferentiated text to a screen reader. Obsidian has the same problem). I get why people want a seamless editing experience, but it’s very important to me to keep track of how my ideas change over time, and Obsidian and Silverbullet are constantly saving your edits, making versioning difficult.

Helix notes (mentioned recently in another post) tries to get past this by having a “save new version” button.

QOwnNotes

Very very simple. I can see why some would be attracted to it but I’m not.