Northeast United States, Great Lakes region in fact which is notorious for miserable winters. Not yet a flake!

Yo! I’m also a “fan” of his cousin’s company for the same reasons as you. The Nvidia stans have gaslit me into thinking I was some kind of freak

Your take needs to be in the history books that cover this fiasco

None of this is a genuine loss in value. The hype is just taking a breather before we see any real adjustments

I burned out on it so hard because I never got the hang of the dodge and parry mechanics. It’s a shame too, it has so much else going for it

Indeed. I had to remind people that this was the actual third/fourth act of a flagship title and I was among the many people who took it very seriously because it “changed gaming forever, it was art!”

I mean, I still love Metal Gear Solid, but we have to be able to see it with some objectivity

They’re critical of Marx precisely because it’s that scary to face the truth of alienation. I grew up in a household run by idiot centrist boomers who still can’t grasp this concept. They see the fact that I still struggle into my 40’s as a moral failing while I have been floundering through over two decades of being used up and underpaid. I’m literally in tech right now, making effectively the same amount of money that I brought home sweating in crowded kitchens but it is somehow my fault for… Not asking strongly enough to get paid more?

I don’t know, I guess what I’m trying to say is I feel for these kids because I definitely would have been primed to rely on chatbots for emotional support if I was born into their generation. This is a systemic problem that I fear no one will ever face in a meaningful way

This would have gotten me excited to finally give GTA a try … If they didn’t lose me for union busting!

That “medical research” as far as I can tell is hallucinating serious illnesses into diagnostic data so the insurance companies have even more reasons to deny care

There may be legitimate uses beyond that, but yet again this system built on greed that rewards genuinely psychopathic behavior is exactly the wrong sort of environment to foster this level of adoption

Looks like it

I like yours better than my suggestion because it has a sort of “Home Alone in Space” vibe to it!

The following is a reference and spoiler for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Easy!

Interesting parallel, there. His supporters will likely defend both

Exactly my take.
I’m vicariously happy for anyone from the generations after mine getting into Ocarina of Time for their first playthrough, but I’m personally more interested in getting the decomps to work and reliving my favorite Christmas present on my own terms

This pleases me

Ecosia feels like a greenwashed Bing, but I have stuck with it as my default for a few years now and it feels “good enough”

I have an instance of SearX for an alternative that I haven’t quite gotten the hang of, though

It feels really temperamental and apparently it just pulls from DDG anyway? Glad to be part of Lemmy so I can get some new suggestions for alternatives to Google

Coincidentally I was thinking about cancelling just for the financial benefit since I will be making significantly less money soon

Indeed. It started with Super Metroid, and it ended with SMT3: Nocturne

1994-2004 were the happiest years of gaming for me, but I guess I was growing up under the misrule of Bush Jr. Near the end of that decade

On a similar note, if Hunter S Thompson was still alive he would have killed himself all over again

We can’t have ONE ambitious fan mod project where the people involved are healthy and normal, can we?!