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The Vita had far more problems than just memory cards. You came very close to identifying what the real problem was, Sony couldn't sustain supporting two separate platforms at once. And conversely, Nintendo unifying onto a single platform was what saved the Switch.

What "standards" are you comparing it to? The Switch 1 was behind home consoles, but that's not really a fair comparison. There was nothing similar on the market to appropriately compare it to, no "standard".

Five years later the Steam Deck outperformed the Switch, because of course hardware from five years later would. But the gap between the 2017 Switch and 2022 Deck is not so vast that you can definitively claim in advance to know that the 2025 Switch 2 definitely has to be worse. You don't know that and can't go claiming it as fact.

All we know so far is that the Switch 2 does beat the Deck in at least one major attribute: it has a 1080p120 screen, in contrast to the Deck's 800p60. And it is not unlikely to expect the rest of the hardware to reflect that.

I've been a gen III hater from the start. It's a major step down from GSC in so many ways. Bad region, bad soundtrack, horribly lopsided type representation, much less content, and you had to start all over with no way to link and trade over your GSC 'mons.

Ruby/Sapphire were even worse at release, as you only had 202 Pokemon in the Dex and no one knew yet that all of the missing species would eventually be obtainable by linking to the far too many additional games they split them up across.

Puyo Puyo Chronicle, the last good installment in the series, don't @ me. I'd like Sega to make a proper new game, but they're clearly never ever ever ever gonna do that, so the next best thing they could do is port a good one. What I need most is a game that's on all major platforms with crossplay.

Nothing you've just described has anything to do with genetics. You're talking about nurture, not nature.

The premise of Idiocracy, that this setting came about because dumb people had too much sex, is fundamentally flawed. That isn't how genetics work and it isn't how intelligence works.

And look, for a work of fiction I can suspend disbelief on the premise and still enjoy the story told in that setting, I'm not even saying it isn't a funny movie, but realistic is not a word that can be applied to any part of the film.

Honestly, I think the movie would've been improved if you chopped off the intro and just reduced it to "Man gets isekai'd into a world where everyone's stupid because that's just what this fictional world is."

We have a lot of problems to solve but AI is part of the solution, except that it's being done wrong. And expensively.

There's also a conversation to be had about which jobs shouldn't be automated, either because current technology isn't suitable, or because it might never be suitable. And I'd say that pretty much everything that we are calling 'AI' right now falls under that - I'll say that robots are part of the solution, but I don't think 'AI' is.

The idea of smart people going extinct is simply not how genetics works. That is flat out unscientific.

And what does the next paragraph say after that?

So we agree that it is a different network? It is not the network that is the Fediverse?

And what common protocol is that? If it doesn't talk to Fediverse servers using those servers' protocol, then it's not part of the same network.

Idiocracy is an entertaining comedy, but it isn't realistic in the slightest.

Idiocracy uses a eugenicist premise (and the problem with that premise is a whole can of worms unto itself) to set up a world where everyone is an idiot, no exceptions. But they're well-meaning idiots, and they have enough sense to be able to defer to the one and only smart guy in the room who ultimately saves the day.

The real world is suffering not because the people in power are stupid, but because the people in power are selfish and evil, and because they are smart enough to manipulate people who are dumber than them. There's only one exception here, but the one guy who is a true idiot is a puppet being controlled by smart evil people.

The Fediverse is ActivityPub, because ActivityPub is how Fediverse servers talk to each other. BlueSky does not talk to Fediverse servers, so it cannot be said to be part of the Fediverse.