TaiCrunch @ TaiCrunch @sh.itjust.works

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It's not even worth allowing the term "woke" any legitimacy at this point.

https://ioi-xd.net/files/wokeornot.html

As it turns out, not a lot.

Have you ever considered public speaking?

If you have, don't.

• ARMS
• Big Brain Academy: Brains Vs. Brain
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
• Game Builder Garage
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
• Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
• Super Mario Odyssey
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

So Pokemon is finally getting the patch it needs just to function properly. It's just tied to a $400 console.

The majority of the Switch 2's marketing has focused on ports and upgrades for old games. Which a Steam Deck still does better. And at least Valve won't brick my system when their profit margin is threatened.

I see what you mean. There's definitely been a lot of marketing overreach with the franchise. But there's something about Final Fantasy that makes it a money-printing machine. Maybe it's the long legacy, nostalgia, or the fact that they've been with it since the beginning, but FF marketing campaigns have (almost) always been wildly successful in a way that Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, or even Dragon Quest (in the US) can't live up to. Just look at Kingdom Hearts, Super Smash Bros, and even that Louis Vuitton promo with Lightning.

Not that I'm trying to sell you on this set. I get that a lot of people don't like Universes Beyond.

It's finally gotten way out-of-hand, even for me. Gen XI will be the first main series Pokémon games in 30 years I won't be pre-ordering, let alone even buying. First-party Switch games were already way too expensive, rarely ever going on sale, and now we may be moving to an $80 standard. And it seems the main selling point of the Switch 2 in the latest Direct was a bunch of ports. At that price point, there's no reason not to just get a Steam Deck and sail the high seas for first-party titles. At least Valve won't brick my device if I hurt their feelings.

FIN is the best-selling MtG set of all time and there hasn't even been a prerelease event yet. Blowing up the budget is plenty justified in this case.

Of course it's Mike Lee.

Fuck Mike Lee.

Experts need to stop being nice.

Everyone knows he already has what he's going to market as the "cause," and it's vaccines. Which he'll spend another three years telling the country that it's better that their children die in adolescence of a completely preventable disease than risk becoming autistic, no matter how many times that supposed link is disproven, siphoning resources away from our autistic kids that are doing well, even thriving, with the assistance and accomodations they're now at risk of losing.

It's not "unrealistic." It's fucking moronic and malicious. At best, this whole thing is part of some overall eugenics scheme to justify this administration's genocide goal. Call this shit out.

I had a long, exhausting conversation with my father-in-law last week where my son and I both had to explain to him the basic fundamentals of what science actually is, how the scientific method works, and why and how the NSF awards grants.

We also kept having to explain that just because there's some junk science put out by bad actors to line up with an agenda, that doesn't mean all science is junk. We also, also, kept having to explain that there isn't some "the government" conspiracy manipulating all science behind the scenes to push out things that will kill us (that's good old capitalism, baby!)

AND the fact that science rarely gives you a hard, definite answer one way or the other because it's not meant to. And that continuously changing scientific consensus is not only a good thing, but that's how it's supposed to work.

AND! why the Joe Rogan thought process of "every conclusion is equally as valid regardless of evidence or actual knowledge" is not only invalid but incredibly dangerous, and further explaining the idea of the hierarchy of evidence, and that individual people are not sources, even if they're a PhD at Harvard or Stanford.

All that to say he stills sees this as a great thing. Because Fox News and Newsmax.

I'd rather see Chrono Break revived.

I can say, at least in government, that open source is almost entirely used as a cost-saving measure, but it's implemented so poorly (by the time a piece of software makes it through the proper channels for verification, it's already several major releases behind. Which explains why CentOS is still so prevalent) that the general opinion becomes "open-source is just a cheap substitute for a superior commercial product."

The second a platform becomes a viable avenue for advertisement is when it stops being viable for any kind of quality.

Not that AI does a lot good at that, anyway.

Meh, it's a modern wholesome retelling of the ISIS was/was joke. It's acceptable.

Or just buy it.

Or a good old USB stick!

Were you looking in 2001?

Oh, it still is.

But sometimes I have mildly inconveniencing experiences with the postal service in my extremely rural town that require me to navigate my extremely rural town's nearly non-existent public services so we should absolutely surrender complete control to Amazon

My wife loves the shopping ads and always complains when the Pi-Hole blocks them.

Thankfully (weird to say), the current political climate has her worried about being tracked online and she's finally opening up to the idea of proper privacy.