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Cake day: January 24th, 2026

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  • It’s really funmy how duolingo became a socio-cultural benchmark. And it isn’t even that good. But hey it’s something.

    /edit also don’t associate with that kid rock guy ever, he’s one of the worst thing i have ever heard, and i am not talking on a political sense, but on human terms.

    It is an affront to the greatness of the United States and does not represent our values of success, creativity, and excellence.

    ~Quite the opposite, the history of the US is, in fact, a history of migrations. Something the many if you used to be proud, especially in the 90’s, the idea that the ‘melting pot’ was open.

    I was thought the concept of melting pot in history classes, as the idea that a society that stays open can function as a gateway and not as a gatekeeper.

    The kkk and the racist religious and fanatical organisations have always acted as a regressive force, and it’s no news that these criminals thrived in poor or less developed areas. They are attempting to rewrite history there.





  • and we don’t try to moderate reviews based on accuracy

    Than, it’s not a review, it’s a social media feed. Calling that a review would imply that it must have passed some check. If there is none, it’s a post, on a social media. Even than they’d try to moderate that if they cared.

    Removing reviews, the response claimed, could be seen as “censorship”.

    Fact checkig and moderation isn’t censorship, it’s moderation.

    Recourse for developers is limited. Some are looking into their own security, shoring up protections for developers on their team against being doxxed or hacked by trolls. Or, in the case of the developers of Caves of Qud, paying their own moderators to handle forums and the hate that spills out of Steam

    Which is guess for small teams or single devs is less feasable the less resources they have. That is to say, you’re alone out there.






  • Not only that, many gaming memories, including console ones, and even for ancient people like me, are tied to modern online experiences. Just one example, that you all share and know and i believe this, is minecraft. But how much of that is multiplayer servers over single player worlds? Some of my finest memories are chrono trigger, popolocrois monogatari, final fantasy, earthbound. And i still like them. But playing for the fun of it, i can probably tell that some simple multiplayer is still fine. But many young (and adult) people are probably playing gacha, and these are highly manipulative games. Dopamine and serotonine driven. I find my enjoyment of a game dropping down to zero when I have a mandatory gacha system in the way.

    I will probably attempt to finish earthbound, I never got past the giant animated pile of puke. Sometimes later i found out that I needed to bring some fly honey for that*, or that i need to wait three real life minutes for a waterfall to open the path.

    This last example is comical in lisa: the paniful, where you are required to wait 30 real life minutes in a test of patience. 30. Minutes. And it’s still the most normal thing in the game.

    I need to finish lisa the painful too, come to think of it.



  • My own opinion of mods is that most of the times you won’t notice that, but at the same time you’re likely to notice that automated tools are effectively getekeeping the place much more than any human mod. Another issue is that obsessing over reddit or discord mods speaks volumes on one’s engagement with these social media. Like, we say that mods are ‘no lifing’ the site, but so are users who complain too much. Either way we have dozens of tools to make research or learn new things and we certainly don’t need reddit to do that.






  • And that’s why they keep ai free. Thedifference between losing 1 billion dollar and a billion dollar + 100 000 dollar is marginal. No to mention, they want us addicted, and ai is a perfect means to do so. At some point a virtual friend was a looser’s deal; looking at it now, there is an attempt to normalise virtual companionship. This is the last social media I have, almost all others are gone. I periodically wipe down things, too. And there is always a computer willing to ‘talk’ to me, truly a cyberpunk distopia.