MossyFeathers

I've been thinking more, and I think the Internet would be better off if it was segregated into two, mutually incompatible lanes. Lane 01: slow lane for webpages, online games, general web usage. Lane 02: high speed but exclusively for filesharing. Lane 01 content can provide links to Lane 02 content for filesharing purposes, but Lane 02 is set up so it can't actually be embedded.

Lol no, Sony was trying to use as many of their own parents as they could so they could fuck Nintendo over on royalties. They'd set up the Nintendo PlayStation's hardware so that Nintendo was having to pay royalties multiple times for a single device. Sony is literally scum. Nintendo is barely better, but at least they don't have a history of trying to pass off literal malware as drm.

Edit: Sony is one of those companies, where if there's something you hate in life, they probably had a hand in making it somehow.

The wendigo is trying to stop the opossum from unleashing true horrors upon the world.

(Also that's not a "real" wendigo. The "real" wendigo look nothing like that)

Maybe don't let them outside then? Outdoor cats are absolutely horrid for native ecosystems. The amount of destruction they can cause is insane.

Thank god they cleared that one up. I was worried there for a moment.

Reminder that the original PS1 controller was almost literally a SNES controller with handlebars and extra shoulder buttons. The only reason why the PlayStation is a thing is because Nintendo fucked over Sony after Sony tried to fuck over Nintendo.

A rat? That, my confused friend, is an opossum!

(It looks too big to be a rat)

(Edit: also, that's not a "real" wendigo, "real" wendigo don't look like that)

Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, made its foray into Jarvis-like territory when it launched on Thursday the Zhixiaobao app – a so-called life assistant that can help users order meals, hail taxis, book tickets, and discover local dining and entertainment options, while accessing third-party services in the firm’s Alipay payment platform more easily. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

Waow, that's amazing! So cool, so exciting! We've never seen anyone try anything like this ever before!

Damn, we'll see if this new edging strategy works out for them. I bet they're gonna be real hard when Iran is stuffing them full of their ballistic missiles. Gonna be pretty difficult to keep edging then. They'll need all the luck they can get.

Idk, more options? It's a self-balancing thing-a-ma-bob that takes you places when you stand on it. It's cool and more options are nice. Also, I find it kinda amusing that you think a Segway-compatible city wouldn't also be bike-compatible. They max out at like, 12mph. You're not building a sprawling city around Segways like you would with cars.

Spicy take: high speed Internet (specifically high-speed) and cell phones.

What the fuck am I smoking?

Listen. Look around you. People expect for you to be connected 24/7. Your boss, your friends, family, they all expect you to be connected nowadays. Hell, Australia had to pass a law stopping employers from contacting you outside of work hours.

Then everyone has an opinion and they all want to share it (me too!), and if you don't have an opinion, you're a fucking weirdo, a dirty centrist, ignorant, or many other things (you're probably a Nazi or something, shithead).

Social media is designed to make you feel like shit and you're antisocial if you're not on some social media site.

Everyone is depressed and tormented by the constant flow of negative information on their pocket squares that they feel obligated to subject themselves to, all because someone they care about will get mad or be disappointed if they don't know or have an opinion about everything that happens every second of every minute of every hour of every day. I have a pocket square (which I'm using right now) because I feel like I have to have one nowadays. A significant amount of this is enabled by widespread high-speed Internet. Some of it would still exist, but a lot of it would become unfeasible due to the Internet being too slow. Doesn't matter if you have some crazy 32core phone with 64gb of ram and 2tb of ssd storage if you're limited to T-1 speeds or slower.

Sigh I'm doing the "old enby yells at clouds" thing aren't I?

Yes, the Internet is great and has done a lot of good things, and quite honestly, at the end of the day I honestly think it's done more good than bad. But I also think it's massively overrated at this point.

Cell phones kinda fit into the same category of, "everyone expects you to always be reachable"; and with the same conclusion (still good but overrated). I don't know how I feel about non-cellular tablets.

I was legitimately sad it didn't take off. It was a really cool piece of tech but it got mocked for being nerdy or geeky.

I wonder how much of that was encouraged by oil and car companies.