Bears usually get violent when their cubs are nearby, so I’m gonna guess probably a momma bear.

I mean, would you rather a bear eat you or make love to you?

Either way, it’s better if you’re into bear stuff.

The issue is, as a kid, you had lots and lots of time, and also little access to Internet forums for general game info.

Back then, you got a game and that became your whole focus for a few days instead of a few weeks/months.

Games in general were less complex and less forgiving so you were more used to playing simple platformers in which you could die and lose 20 mins of progress.

So overall, the attitude was to put effort, invest and challenge yourself (not with online play) when it came to gaming.

So given all these factors, your attitude towards games and the type of games were difference, hence why a simple platformer without much story and repetitive gameplay was the shit back then.

Been feeling some FOMO about the books, FOMO gone!

Fascism isn’t about how convincing the leader is, it’s about how discontent the followers are.

What your experiencing is a kind of social decay due to people being squeeze more and more, and not just economically.

This isn’t specific to tech though, if there was no tech, they would just find other ways to make life harder.

This is just the journey we’ve been on since the Industrial Revolution where the market decides what our new environment is for the sake of profit.

The good news is that it’s a journey of ups and downs, so it could stop being dystopian soon.

I only serf Amazon on private without being logging in, if I find something I like, then I copy the link to my regular browser.

If you’re not gonna give a lurker a good price, I’m not interested.

Lemmy isn’t perfect but everything it does is the best users can do to benefit the users.

Over time that matters the most as instead of enshitification you end up getting a progressively optimized app.

It’s the slow and steady wins the race approach.

You should use the Internet to get info out of it, not put your info there. If you do want to put info, it should never be traceable to you.

I just don’t get why people want so much of their life online…

I think the next couple jumps were very good too.

Ps1 was just polygons, you could see all the edges and the games were not complex.

Then ps2 happened, now you get games like gta 3 and gran turismo. San Andreas was one of the longest and most in depth games in terms of all the mini games inside.

After that, came imo the peak of game graphics. Sure, some today might be technically better, but at the time, Crysis on very good hardware looked almost indistinguishable from reality. I remember seeing some highly detailed renders of people’s faces and thinking how it was just like real life.

After Crysis, there wasn’t really any other “big jump” unless you count the hard drive space requirements.

Having said that, bf3 and red dead 2 felt like milestones.

I was looking for this, thank you for your service!

But then there wouldn’t be much left, unfortunately.

Nice, comes with free ghosts too!

Would I curse in his name or praise him if I misspell something?

This is a pretty common challenge in philosophy with a very obvious solution:

Define the controversial word (or words) at the top. It’s done all the time in science articles or legal documents.

You can even compound it to point out it’s your version (like calling it Lefty-woke).

By avoiding it, imo, you let them win and “claim” the word, since in their worldview, everyone is now using it like them.

Having said that, this is just my approach, I think the issue with politics is that people assume everyone is using the same language. You got to affirm or confirm that first.

Also, ironically, I think we are talking about the same thing, just using different words lol.

How can we reach understanding when we don’t even agree on the definition of words?

I actually think this is the reason why there is so much polarization, we are literally talking different languages.

I’m not saying both sides are the same, the opposite actually, one side is willing to use standardized definitions or just use new ones specific to the discussion/debate.

The other side realized they can make people believe in a fascist fantasy by changing the meaning and more importantly, the emotional response behind the meaning.

And it’s not new, this is what it always comes down to. I argue for socialism because I am arguing for cooperating and equal ownership, others argue against it because they (for whatever fucking reason) hear tyranny cause you know, regulations means less freedom.

We already have a word for that, it’s called tribalism.

Woke is interestingly becoming a word that can easily trigger and be used to troll conservatives.

My favourite thing is asking them to define woke.

as soon as you say the word “woke” you have ruined the conversation.

And as soon as you have “banned” a word from conversation regardless of context, you have ruined your credibility (in my eyes, obviously).

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