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  • Nintendo: Consistently makes the most unique game systems of all time, leaning heavily into capabilities that other developers won’t touch like motion controls, portability, dual screens, 3D capability without the need for a headset. Puts out games that, while may be reusing the same IPs, regularly adds and introduces new gameplay mechanics that are highly praised and quickly become industry standards due to how well they work.

    Randoms on the internet: “tHEy dOnT REalLy CHanGe muCh oF aNyTHing”




  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlUSA elections be like
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    12 days ago

    Oh, so you managed to destroy the tracks last election? No? Hmm, sounds like you did nothing then and the trolley continued down the path its currently on. A path that numerous people tried to tell you was worse than the other path. But it’s ok! You chose to dismantle the system and operate outside of it!

    Except you didn’t do that. You had no ability to do that. Your actions are the exact same as someone who chose not to pull the lever, and the outcome is the exact same as if you chose not to pull the lever. To anyone observing, you are just as worthless as someone who didn’t pull the lever. Because at the end of the day, there WAS a lever and you DIDN’T pull it.



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    We get it. You chose not to pull the lever.

    You can try to ease your conscience by saying that at some vague point in the future you can destroy the trolley entirely, but that is the future. The trolley problem already occurred. It already went past the switch, there’s no going back and changing that. You chose not to pull it, you have to live with that.


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    The failure in understanding here is that “refusing to play along” is STILL playing along. You are making a choice that you’re ok with whatever the uneducated masses decide. This is like basic trolly problem shit. You are given two terrible choices, there is no option for a magical third choice. You can’t get out of it by saying you just refuse to participate, because that’s just choosing not to pull the lever.




  • I’m not in IT, just a lowly office grunt who is forced to use Windows on their laptop. I know most people here have forgotten that 99% of the working world has to use Windows, so let me remind you how much it sucks.

    It doesn’t matter how you change the laptop power settings, Windows will look at your settings and then just do whatever the fuck it wants when the lid closes.

    Sometimes it goes to sleep

    Sometimes it stays powered on and quietly overheats in your laptop bag.

    Sometimes it completely freezes up and forces you to hold down the power button.

    Sometimes it just logs you out and does nothing else.

    Sometimes it will go to sleep, but the moment you open it back up it decides what you REALLY wanted was to restart.

    Changing the settings has no effect on what Windows decides to do.

    I know people on this site like to sit on their gilded Linux throne and sneer at all the lowly peons forced to use “Microslop” instead of their clearly superior, self-hosted, FOSS, Linux distro; but it is a real problem with Windows laptops.


  • Baltimore’s comeback has been phenomenal. Decades of an (admittedly deserved) reputation as a shitty crime infested city have made people and the media turn a blind eye to the massive strides they have taken in recent years. It’s seriously like a whole new city. It’s also not getting talked about a lot because a lot of their success has come from their mayor enacting a lot of socialist policies, and we can’t have the public knowing things like that are a viable solution for reducing things like crime, drug use, and homelessness.

    Seriously, Baltimore is a hidden gem these days. It’s a city that’s seeing massive success and regrowth. The whole place just feels alive. Obviously, there are still some areas that are problematic, just like any major city; but the streets are now cleaner and safer than most cities it’s size, especially in the US. On the one hand, I wish more people were talking about it, because it is one hell of a success story. On the other, I also kinda hope it keeps getting ignored because I don’t want people to flock to it.