Refurbished Refurbisher

Basically Flat Lands

Can’t wait to simultaneously laugh my ass off and be sad at the same time while watching this.

The apps still have to be approved by Apple, and Apple still gets a cut. It’s not actual sideloading, and it’s all done through Apple-approved third party app stores.

You can’t just download an IPA file and install it.

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.

Ah, the student loan loophole

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.

And yet the mergers still went through

Sugar is an extremely addictive substance.

Granted, caffeine is as well, but sugar is more commonplace.

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

Owned by Match Group as of 2019

When basically all dating apps are owned by the same company (Match Group), you get enshittification of all of them.

Their goal is to get repeat customers, which is the polar opposite of what people actually want from these types of apps.

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

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?