I kinda miss Flash because of the amount of interesting games made with it. Some very cool animations too, good thing Ruffle exists nowadays.

The problem (besides Adobe buying Macromedia) was every fucking business deciding to make their entire sites in Flash

Developers didn’t have access to mountains of open source code, online tutorials and stack overflow back then either. Compilers, like Turbo C, also used to be paid products.

Orkut, Flogão (kind of a precursor to instagram, it was mostly used by high schoolers around 2004-6), Skype, Internet Explorer and ActiveX

Me, watching this unfold from South America

So, Canadians are RL Warhammer Fantasy dorfs.

Normies do. They vastly outnumber the “barely computer literate”

The lawsuit specifically cites X’s “innovative approaches to human rights optional features” as making Nestlé’s own business practices appear “practically philanthropic.” Internal surveys show that after viewing X’s content moderation policies, 68% of consumers described Nestlé’s infant formula controversy as “practically heartwarming” and their water extraction policies as “basically a public service.”

The 420-page lawsuit repeatedly emphasizes X’s “unfair acceleration of ethical decline,” and includes a desperate plea to hire X’s PR team “to maintain competitive awfulness in an increasingly dystopian marketplace.”

The fact that you can only tell it’s not true due to the source speaks volumes 🤣

Also, the switch is a portable console, so the kid will want to take it everywhere. Oneser made a great point about a restricted use gift: it won’t actually belong to the child.

Unlike late 80s and 90s’ kids’ upbringing, current consoles and phones and whatnot don’t foster real social connections because of the internet. OP said they got a N64 in 1996 and friends would come over to play, that very rarely happens nowadays because you can play whatever free game, at home, with your friends. The internet also ruined playground game talk because every information is on the internet, so rumors and cheat sharing just don’t exist anymore, anyone can watch youtube videos on their consoles or phones.

I’m slightly older than OP, I grew up with games and if I had kids, I would NOT give them any consoles. I would let them play on a rpi3 emulator box with a very limited number of games: leaving a whole library of games available would immediately spoil them. Start out with only Super Mario World and Top Gear, maybe something with coop from the PSX era. They’ll know frustration and will get bored after a while, they won’t want to continue playing forever because the games aren’t meant for that.

See if it runs either Menuet OS or Kolibri OS, they’re about the smallest non-linux OSs I know of.

If he can’t, summoning a baguette and forcefully shoving it up their noses is perfectly valid

Levels of shading I currently can only dream of achieving

I do. It’s a cultural façade for both sides, one to pretend it cares, the other to pretend it’s being honest.

I’m fully expecting tumpty to change the cover of the latter book, slapping his face on it and the title “Mein Trumpf”, keeping the interior intact

Mark Zuckerberg did not address Meta’s $25 million settlement with Donald Trump that will see the company paying $22 million for the eventual establishment of the Trump Presidential Library.

My biggest surprise is that trump wants to establish a presidential library. Probably has some plan to steal the money from there.

I want to be able to be able to talk about stuff openly, but I am also trying to like, well, we’re trying to build stuff and create value in the world

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Hank actually cared about his workers, too.

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Hopefully we can also force him to use a 'murican hospital and have his healthcare plan deny paying anything. That would be fun

Care to hand down one? I only have free domains, like stuff that ends with cr.hf or whatever

Why wouldn’t it be? People’s interests don’t bring in money