abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

3000 years is a lot. You can't imagine how profoundly, unbelievably long that is. In just 65 years we went from the Wright brothers' first flight to landing on the moon. And technological progress is exponential. Assuming people don't all kill each other, in a couple hundred years, maybe a thousand, it will likely cost the humanity next to nothing to go pick them up, if they so desire.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't making it sound bad. I'm just saying how it is. We wouldn't tolerate game mechanics like those nowadays. That's all I'm saying.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a possibility, if they really wanna play the game. Nowadays we are so spoiled for choice that we would just either switch to another game or pick up the phone.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

You're clearly just trying to pick a fight, but care to point out what I said wrong?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sure, however you choose to call it, it's not "original hardware".

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's still emulation. Yes, it's emulating hardware, as close as possible and often indistinguishably close, but it's still emulation.

For example, my EDGB X7 runs fine on any real Game Boy I have, but can't switch games on an Analogue Pocket.
Another weird issue that I had was that if I launched my Pokemon Crystal save on Pocket it would, for some reason, permanently change my character from a boy into a girl (without saving the game!). This wasn't happening on my Game Boys (I restored the save a couple of times to test it).

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a communist thing. Fair distribution of wealth and suffering.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I vote for fair distribution of suffering, instead of to just 100 people.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My brother and I were, like, 7 and 10, respectively, when we played this. Some things on the list were obvious, others (the heck is a "slalom"?!) we had to guess just by doing every possible thing you could do with a car. A couple day's work, bada-bing bada-boom.

People definitely would've given up nowadays.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Down here, salt is a way of life.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but that's not at all what we are discussing here. We are discussing the perception and overall approval of corporal punishment in conservative cultures.

And while methods that can actually inflict permanent damage to children would be perceived negatively even in conservative cultures, slaps would be approved by most.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that's not an action. That's inaction. I mean, what needs to be done to stop him from actively compromising EU interests? Letting him do whatever he wants doesn't sound like an effective strategy.

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