A real government would look into ways to just give basic income to creatives (and anyone else) so even if they didn’t have to slave away illustrating for corps, they could focus efforts on art. That’s how you operate in a post-scarcity world.

But nah. Capitalism.

There’s certainly some improvement. I’ve played Sunshine recently on an emulator and it’s not as refined as Odyssey and yes, the physics jump a bit from 64 to Sunshine to Galaxy to Odyssey. They’re all quite enjoyable, just the Switch admits to only being a slight step up from a Wii U, lol. They all use tricks to look better, same with Zelda BotW artistic blur, etc.

In any case, Mario doesn’t exactly need picture perfect ray traced lit graphics where you can see every fiber of his mustache or how his overalls reflect light just right so you can see the denim texture. Then again … Lol

I think what’s more interesting is Mario today doesn’t even look much different than Mario 20 years ago. The Switch just never bothered, plus graphics in general are flattening out.

Can China demand regime change? Please?

Can they at least keep it as the logo? That’s a very trustworthy, confident looking dragon, after all.

Gotcha. So yes, it’s misleading headline, mostly for the first part since you can probably pull up 200 “cities” where you’d be nuts to find your first home. You aren’t getting your first home in Malibu, that’s just silly.

Well… define starter home. I got a starter for about half that in LA but I have a shared wall townhome. Not great, but if we’re talking no shared walls and a yard, ya I can see that costing more… Except I also saw those for about this price, only with like… 600sq ft? Pick you battles, but those aren’t a million even in the city.

Now, maybe the 200 cities are specific neighborhoods, like how Santa Monica isn’t technically Los Angeles since it’s got it’s own city government. Same with Beverly Hills, Bel Air, etc. You sure as hell ain’t getting a place for 1 mil there, even if it’s a small “starter home.”

Yup. Fussing around in Desktop mode (aka handheld Arch) got me into it. It was weirdly easy to get Phantasy Star Online Ephinea working with luteix, and that game was easily one of my favorite Deck experiences running on 3W of power lol.

Ugh. I hate this timeline.

My 8bitdo story, back when they’re we’re just starting to put joysticks on their SNES style controllers, I used mine to the point that the joysticks were falling apart. I sent them a support email, and even though it wasn’t covered by any warranty or anything, a very nice Chinese person working there sent me a spare set of joysticks in the mail, plus words of encouragement (in somewhat broken English) since I wasn’t shy about fixing the thing myself.

Can’t imagine that today, but it was a nice gesture and I’m glad they’re still making stuff today.

Note: home studio is a fancy way to say a tablet attached to your day job computer… likely in a studio apartment.

In the older civ games, unit stacking was a thing. The maintenance would be costly and you might break the game with some kind of unit cap, but I think the trebuchets would eventually win.

The train headed for the Mystic Ruins will be departing soon.

Sure this is fine but when I try “flash photography” I get arrested over indecent exposure.

I’ll have those people know, my exposure settings were fine.

I mean, or murder the ones who won’t have a tea party with me.

Lands on me, although I hated Leno as a kid (and still do, lol)

I still find it funny it thinks my 3 year old is interested in solar panels.

The more concerning one was a divorce lawyer for fathers. That shit wasn’t even on my account or my computer, it just assumed daytime watching of kids stuff means a guys going through a divorce, lol.

There can be multiple factors, we call it intersectionality. You’re feeling unsafe because of social class or nationality or another factor. That does not mean you do not benefit from being male in a world ultimately built around men. That’s why people use the term privilege, since you have at least one advantage (others could include health, straightness, etc). And fortunately it’s less of an advantage today than it was a hundred years ago.

And that’s not to say life is perfect under that category-- I literally just mentioned some men’s issues. I’m just not exactly worried about someone stalking or kidnapping me over it.

Will confirm, I don’t work out and am also tired.

Life is tiresome, especially in 2025.

Also AI is still worse than a human on things like essay writing. Why do I know? Cause I just finished grading midterms!

This is the kind of comment I love on Lemmy.