ZOMG I think I need this!!! I love my bookmarks but have a hell of a time sorting them.

I need this.

Referencing the recent comic “if everyone in the world thought like me it’d be a better place” except I’m actually right 😩

I am 10000% in the same boat. I can’t even talk to them about tech because like you, I’ll go insane trying to make them understand these issues and they just laugh it off, or I’m a crazy tinfoil hat person. Even though its documented 100% proven what big tech does.

A lot of them have given up as well. I mean, say you have a kid, then you forgo thinking about anything else in the world except that, who cares if zucc and thiel are destroying the world and surveiling you constantly to bring in a new era of authoritarianism that will result in mass suffering? Your kid needs food. Parents by and large do not care what is actually going on, theyre too busy (from what ive seen.) And I can’t really blame them.

So I prefer to have intelligent conversation online, and when around IRL folks I just act as dumb as them.

And this is the issue. People are lazy and dumb. No desire to learn.

Commodore is is fricken sweet dude. If I’d had that shit as a kid I’d have been flooored

I’d love a site full of sources of the real inventors of shit I can shove into the faces of people who think fucking musk is actual iron man 🙄🙄🙄🙄 the disinformation is so strong.

And yet none of my friends and family can see this blatantly right in front of them. Have people gotten stupider ? Its as obvious as the sun being hot.

Thats some dedication !

How to donate ???

Oh nah. Dont dig those flippers. Just people that truly love the hobby and want to share it.

Same boat…theres soooo much to enjoy from pre entshittification era, that I really have no fomo. And the friends and such ive made from console and game selling/trading are what really make it fun

Because the originals were just plain better.

Basically yes, because many are unnecessary updates. I don’t care about them. Its actually cringe for me when I open a game and see “gahhh NOW what did they fricken change ??”. For many games, its usually not a good thing either, just from games I’ve played. Thats of course not always true. A bug fix here and there isnt the worst. But it rarely stops there.

"Constant updates " and "required online for single player " are often (usually) tied together. They can be separate yes, and those examples exist and are fine.

I still stand by the fact that there were millions of games made before constant internet and updates were a thing, and maaaaany of them are very good. I mean, I also hate when software devs think moving around all our menu buttons and shit (also introducing more bugs) and re releasing a product makes it “better” when it worked just fine for years. Its like they feel the need to change unnessesary shit, probably because the CEO told their boss it needs to be done so line go up. Who knows. Changing stuff for the sake of change does nothing.

Its OK Sony. I only play ps2 anyway.

Nah. I’ll take a finished game with a few bugs over a "weekly update ".

Also, game updates aren’t even bug fixes a lot of the time, its doing some idiotic menu reorganizing or adding a new loot box. Games dont need any of that. They just have to be good.

And also, your game that is "supported for years " with its weekly updates is dead in the water after 5 years often when its no longer "profitable " and with bugs still unfixed. So does it really make sense ?

Again, I can throw crash in my ps1 and play through it with 0 issue and 0 internet. Can The Crew do that? Can any game do that in 30 years? No.

The real reason for data centers is obvious.

Just like self checkout. I’m now doing the work of an employee. So I’ll ring up everything as an apple now, can’t fire me.

We used to finish games. No update bullshit. A game was done when it was done. Humans can do this shit. Capitalism erodes our skills and our brains.

Just look at crash on ps1. Amazing.

We need Anonymous to do something about data centers.