Would they actually lose those customers though? I prefer to buy physical whenever possible, but I still buy games that are only available digitally, or sometimes games that I just can’t get the physical copy of at a reasonable price. Sony’s banking on the expectation that people aren’t just going to stop buying games altogether in an all-digital future, they’ll buy digital once they no longer have a choice.

Decompliation projects are cool when they’re used to extend functionality beyond what could be done in the original game and romhacks. It’s awesome to see Super Mario 64 with uncapped framerate and a modern camera.

But a lot of these projects kinda seem like they’re not adding anything that can’t already be emulated. I suppose just having a decompilation is step one that can enable future enhancements, but it seems like recently there are far more of these being slopped out than there are modders interested in doing anything with them.

The fact that a lot of them are just slop now is kind of the problem.

J.K. Rowling is alive and doing active harm with the money she makes. And if you financially support her, whether directly or indirectly, you are helping her do harm.

Lovecraft is dead, meaning he can’t hurt anyone. Rowling actively uses the money she makes off the franchise to hurt people, and even the most indirect forms of advertisement for her IP ultimately help her profit and then use those profits to do harm.

They basically told us that if we don’t reopen they’ll simply remove us as moderators of the sub and reopen it themselves.

I moderated a large sub that participated in the blackout. Our mod team was threatened by the admins into reopening, and that’s when I knew I was done with the platform.

Why would you do that? What did you think would happen?

Outside of hearing brand new slang for the first time, t’s pretty rare for me to come across an English word I don’t already know. But if I were to read a dictionary cover-to-cover I would certainly find some. But those would be extremely rare and esoteric words, if I don’t know them it’s because I’ve never seen anyone use them.

People don’t learn their native language by memorizing a dictionary. They learn it from being immersed in it their whole lives. When hearing a unknown word for the first time, if you understood every other word in the sentence then nine times out of ten you’ll be able to infer the missing word from context.

Maybe sometimes you occasionally come across a rare word that’s not obvious from context, but the longer you’ve been using a language the rarer this is - you get better at picking things up from context and it gets rarer how often you even encounter unknown words to begin with.

There will always be words out there you’ve never heard, but if they’re rare enough for you to have never encountered them when using your native language your whole life, they might be rare enough for you to never encounter them in the future - unless you just read a dictionary to find them.

To be fair, English spelling already is pretty damn disconnected from pronunciation.

Also to be fair, two of those writing systems are entirely phonetic, and aren’t that much bigger than our alphabet. It’s really only Kanji that’s the hard one.

Porter Robinson and Madeon - Shelter

I think that’s just Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Crunch got steadily worse and worse, until I just couldn’t take it anymore.

I have to be that guy and point out that the Threadiverse isn’t just Lemmy, and microblog-Fedi isn’t just Mastodon.

It’s meant to keep the Switch 2 affordable in Japan in spite of the weak yen, without importers buying up the entire stock of cheaper JP Switch 2s.

One thing to bear in mind is that JP Switches are sold in two SKUs, a cheaper region/language-locked model and a more expensive unlocked model, and I’m assuming this is the cheap one. That means you won’t be able to access NA/EU eShops or play NA/EU cartridges, and games can’t be set to English language. If you’re fluent you may be fine with that, but do know that this is a thing.

Probably the biggest thing to keep in mind is that if you want to buy physical, that means you have to import all your games too. Which will probably end up costing you more in the long run.

That’s little more than cartoonish at worst. No one in the film is truly evil the way that real world oligarchs are evil.

Some nonzero amount, sure. But there’s never going to be a mass exodus where the entire userbase jumps ship.

Look at how many people still use Twitter even now.

https://youtu.be/szybEhqUmVI

No one complains when someone they don’t like gets into trouble for reasons that are obviously justified. The term “cancel culture” only gets invoked when someone on their side is in trouble for reasons they don’t agree with, in order to spin it into a persecution complex. But that’s all it is. And even the people who most loudly complain about “cancel culture” are always the first jump to cancel anyone on the opposing side - because they’re obviously always in the right, so it’s only “cancel culture” when the other side does it.

Even your dictionary link can’t clearly define an actual line, because there isn’t one.

I’m actually going to say this nonsarcastically. In its defense most of the movie is still pretty funny, but the eugenicist intro is really bad. It would’ve been better if you’d chopped that off and said he’d just been isekai’d to a world of stupid people.

Really though I’d say the part that’s aged worse is maybe not even the film itself but the way that people keep trying to compare it to the present day. Idiocracy is a world of well-meaning idiots who still have hearts of gold, and the day is saved when they step aside and let the smartest guy in the room figure things out. That is the exact opposite of the problem we’re facing today, where the villains at the top are very smart and very evil, smart enough to know how to use stupid people as puppets for their selfish aims. Idiocracy doesn’t even have any true villain in it.

Communities that are about actively looking for things to get mad at. Cringe, lolcows, ragebait, etc. It’s not healthy and it quickly devolves into bullying.