Refurbished Refurbisher

This week on “every accusation is a confession”…

Always has been

That implies that he remembers how to read.

Or the American healthcare industry.

Ah. Makes sense. The early days of emulators were something I really enjoyed. One of the reasons I even got into computers was ZSNES (although glitching Pokemon 1st gen was another)

I don’t think an emulator bug (especially from a 90s emulator) should factor into how good a game is.

I’d recommend giving it another shot. It’s one of my favorite games of all time, and the only game I find myself replaying every year.

If you like DDLC, you should try Song of Saya. Just a warning, it can get quite graphic, but the storytelling is amazing.

Also Chrono Trigger if you’re a Final Fantasy fan.

If it’s surface level, you can use a melamine sponge (branded sometimes as “Magic Eraser”) to remove text from plastic. It works as essentially an extremely fine sandpaper.

Something that could also work is baking soda, a very small amount of water, and a toothbrush.

Please clap

What the overwhelming majority of Americans believe doesn’t matter, because the US is not a direct democracy; it is a representative republic. The representatives are elected, and are massively corrupt. The corruption comes in many different forms, like gerrymandering, first past the post voting leading to a two party system, private monetary donations to political campaigns leading to representatives doing their donors’ bidding, revolving door politics, the owner class having ownership over the means of production leading to massive consolidation of wealth which then ties back into private money in politics and the revolving door, etc.

When looking at polling data, the American people are pretty solidly social democrats, but US policy does not reflect that at all; instead, it reflects the will of the corporations and wealthy donors, except for very rare situations where there is a form of direct democracy, like direct ballot initiatives, for example. When looking at bills that are signed into law outside of direct ballot initiatives, 99.99% of the time, it reflects the interests of the wealthy or fascists (since the wealthy prefers fascism over any semblence of socialism, since it keeps them in power).

Does this mean Trump is also going to do a drug test?

I think the corporatization of the internet (marketed as Web 2.0) made making people addicted to platforms as the end goal. Best way to make people addicted to platforms is to piss them off, as Facebook showed with their psychological testing. Couple this with targeted advertisers being able to pay to promote their content over others, along with the fact that right wingers have more money to spend on this than left wingers (for obvious reasons), and it points to more authoritarian/fascist views becoming more prominent.

I think there’s hope with the fediverse, but I think it will take a lot of time to become more popular than the corporate internet. The corporate internet has been seen as the default for so many people for so long, so it will also take a lot of effort to kill it off.

Yeah. Web 2.0 was the beginning of the death of the democratized internet. When corporations took over, it all became about getting people addicted to platforms to then try to make money from those users, usually with targeted ads.

Web 1.0 was really the golden age, although that definitely also had its fair share of issues, like the majority of the internet relying on proprietary software like Flash or ActiveX plugins, although that isn’t much better nowadays with proprietary js running the web. Also pop-up ads weren’t exactly fun, and nowadays, sharing video is a lot easier, although it’s still mostly centralized to websites who have the capitol to host and distribute the video, like YouTube, TikTok, etc., which comes with the corporate issues.

I have hope in the fediverse, though.

You could always do:

1_Pics
2_New Folder
3_Music
4_Games

Yes, but I used the term individualism on purpose.

I think that a mostly individualist culture leads to more isolation, and we, as a society, should be encouraging more collectivism.

Isolation is a symptom of a bigger problem for most IMO

School shooti- oh wait.

When the poors get too close to the rich people.

Or better yet, do that and also prison time for all the criminals who were involved in the planning of this crime.

Hiding behing an LLC shouldn’t prevent criminals from going to prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxDRUoZCX0

Individualism is a good way to get depression. Meet new people, make friends, go to public places. Humans evolved as a social species.

Also, find some ways to chill in nature wherever you can. Humans didn’t evolve in a concrete and plastic environment.

You were at a… dungeon?