My mom is in her late 70s, still working and flying around for gigs, and she always has her Switch and Breath of the Wild or TOKT with her on flights.

Gaming transcends any age.

I think the long-term sales of the games you just cited is at odds with your opinions. At this point, Bethesda has made a name for themselves with janky, bug-riddled games with big story, that excel at giving the players a feeling agency. At this point that is Bethesda’s brand image and they seem to be just going with it. Like why would they bother spending more money to fix bugs and exploits that have become a signature to a lot of people? Also it’s costs them less to leave their titles unpolished and let the modders fix it.

Right, we get it, but if you tried attracting people to veganism with amazing recipes, and annecdotes of how much healthier you feel, people might come have a conversation and try making some vegan food. Instead these communities drive anyone non-vegan right out the door.

What’s the expression? Honey will catch more flies?

The mod logs don’t lie and LWA has responded in this thread acknowledging the issue.

https://lemm.ee/post/41044575

The news@lemmyworld mods admins have been banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot, so yeah, let’s just keep using bans until this place looks like Reddit again.

Edit: mods, not admins

Say anything negative about that stupid mbfc bot in !news and you’ll get a ban.

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Umm… I am an American, and never said anything about hating the place. I dislike the American attitude I encounter daily that everything happening here has more importance and everywhere else is irrelevant.

FWIW, Apple has 28% of the global market share compared to Google at 70%. By the numbers, one is far closer to being a monopoly than the other.

40%+ of the world

That’s dillusional American-centric thinking. Apple only has a 28% market share globally while Android still dominates over 70%.

I haven’t bought Elden Ring for this exact reason, but I love watching other people struggle and then succeed at it.

I have one friend who uninstalled Elden Ring completely after they reduced the difficulty of the new expansion DLC because he felt like they watered down his achievement of beating it.

Ultimately games are a form of art and their designers and developers have the ultimate say in how accessable (or not) they want to make the experience. I have also seen games with way too much ease of play features that completely destroy any challenge to the point of making it unplayable (looks a Ubisoft).

Researching games before you buy has become a critical skill to avoid feeling burned, because social media does an amazing job of selling you games through FOMO.

I think part of that is how many echo chamber instances have defederated from each other.

It’s actually a “test things first and have a proper change control process” thing. Doesn’t matter if it’s open source, closed source scummy bullshit or even coded by God: you always test it first before hitting deploy.

While I would normally agree loudly with you because he is human trash and the show sucked, it’s kinda the perfect level of trash and suck for this meme.

VLC can play analog tape?

Yeah, I totally get that, but how are there FOSS applications on iOS that aren’t side loaded? At best you can get paid ports/skins of open source software through the app store, but Apple changes developers a small fortune to put apps in the store, which generally equates to no free apps that don’t rely on ads or in-app purchases.

Please excuse my non-iOS using ignorance, but isn’t FOSS antithetical to Apple’s closed ecosystem and extreme limitations on side-loading?

Yeah, we’ve got ammo vending machines in grocery stores, I’m just waiting for the disposable single-use SMGs in vending machines.

Keywords there are ‘old Android’. I haven’t had a phone do that classic android slowdown in years.

o7 captain. Fly safe.

Also super cute cat.