MudMan

Oh, man, care to point me to all that history I haven't heard of? Would love to read more about all the liberal regimes that collapsed into fascism democratically but were liberated by a civil war and everything was just fine afterwards. Bonus points if it's either pre- or post- cold war and there isn't a bloc system where they can act as a proxy for a remote superpower. Would have been so useful to know when our country descended into decades of fascism by the exact opposite method. We didn't know we were doing it wrong.

But hey, at least I can recognize that as accelerationist nonsense. The weird part is when normie Americans seem to have the same set of assumptions out of nowhere. That's where the real weirdness happens.

Anyway, I've had enough yankee for a day. I'm out. You guys enjoy your barbecue or civil war or however you decide to spend the weekend.

They will record full replays automatically you can use to practice and there's an "undo" button in some modes where you can trade time to fix a mistake.

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Tetris Effect Master Mode

Have you tried Tetris The Grand Master 4? Came out a just a few months ago.

I'm sorry/you're welcome.

I guess the car thing comes from the use of "pre-computerized". Cars have had computers in them much longer than they've been connected to the Internet by default. I guess my mistake was taking the panel at its word there.

Also, man, I appreciate the alignment, but the "millions of Americans" really made me feel icky. Beyond the moral and political refusal to give Americans primary decisionmaking power on these things, these trends and companies are global. Even in the US you probably would need tens of millions to make a dent, but some of these userbases are in the billions. Millions of Americans decided Facebook was for old people and left it and it's still the biggest social media platform on the planet by some margin. That'd be the collective inability to gauge scale in a dystopia of global monopolies I was talking about.

... so weird.

I genuinely believe history will struggle to explain American decay accurately, because who would ever stand in front of a classroom with a straight face to explain Americans were too lazy to not elect a fascist president twice into full control of the state's apparatus while actively fantasizing about a civil war to oppose him.

Like, you'd need to explain a century of main character syndrome fed by mass media and then degraded by social media, and even then it'd be a struggle. If anybody survives it's all going to be rationalizations about Citizens United and whatnot and history will do its best to forget how it all actually went down.

That last panel hit me like a truck because... yeah, that's what people think happens when they do their little personal choice things to pretend they matter.

They really buy like a paper book once and go "ah, yes, Bezos is fuming right now" while he makes another billion.

We have lost all sense of how to influence society and all ability to gauge scale. For all the folksy traditionalism in this (which includes driving a gas guzzler from the 70s, apparently?) the Internet has created this entirely disproportionate sense of our footprint on the world and this strip is as much a result of the hyperconnected dystopia as everything it's complaining about.

In my experience this is extra bad for Americans who, frankly, didn't need that much of a push to go from their individualist, self-centered perception of society to this vision of sitting on a couch listening to a walkman as activism.

Wait, is the civil war the better outcome here? I mean, you granted Trump control of all branches of the government and elected him president twice. How do you guys envision that playing out?

Ugh. Every time a US politics post gets through my blocklist I'm baffled at the surreal narratives in there. Americans are so weird.

It's actually much cheaper to buy MKW bundled with the console than standalone. There is really no good reason to buy one without the other unless you're extremely not into Mario Kart, and in that case there wasn't a reason to get the Switch 2 until Bananza came out (after the period being reported here).

Clearly the price was less of an issue than people were guessing on the Internet. Which makes sense. The Switch 2 is still cheaper than a Steam Deck OLED, a PS5 Pro or a mid to low range smartphone. People like to compare straight sticker prices, but it's been quite a ride for hardware prices since Covid.

So just so I'm clear, somebody decided that the way to handle this was... free advertising?

1 hour?

Is this privacy, security or both? Because honestly, in one hour to normies I don't think we'd ever get to proselytism of any kind. We'd barely get through explaining MFA properly.

I mean, all due respect to Firefox and adblockers, at that level you're concerned with people not having "password123" as their single password across all things with no fallbacks. Depending on the demographic you're talking to if you can get them to not do that and can explain to them what phishing looks like in a world of deepfakes and voice clones you're doing work.

Huh. I don't think it's come up in a game for me, but maybe I just don't use that input enough for those. You can remap it, anyway (including to the mouse shake thing, if that's your bag).

And for Windows people, there's a PowerToys thing where double clicking control highlights it.

Worth noting that on some setups the cursor can straight up disappear until it's moved. It's not even just that you're dumb and can't see it, it often gets hidden by certain types of content.