noticing it more and more. i like to play retro video games but i don't actually do it that often. 5 years or so ago i got a SNES mini and a playstation classic and one of those anbernac handhelds in the span of a year or two, so I was spending a lot of time reading lists online of games people thought were notable, underrated, good games for genre newbies, etc.
i have been playing games again recently so i have again been looking up games and the difference in content you get now is astounding. five years ago if you searched something like "best nes RPGs" or "obscure ps1 games" you would find lovingly handcrafted lists and articles by people who were passionate about it and wanted to share, make readers laugh, or ignite interest in something. Now there's like 20 different sites that each have ai generated "best (genre) games for (system)" lists for every system and genre combination possible, with generic game descriptions, list orders likely cribbed from one of those ranking sites, and nonsensical filler copy ("every RPG enthusiast loves the N64" type words just mashed together)
photographs are also no fun to take or look at anymore, accelerated by new ai image generation but honestly ever since smartphone cameras started automatically editing the shot out of your picture before it even showed it to you.
when i was a kid i wanted to be an author, glad i just got depressed and useless and never pursued it, considering what that space looks like today.
internet was a mistake
When I am asked what my favourite game is I usually immediately think of FTL and the original DOOM.
40 bucks a week, you aren't buying packs of camels from a real store, you're buying a freezer bag full from the trunk of a car
realism is brown
magic, spirit-world, tech-future, etc are all TEAL
You should check out the trs-80 game draconian. Its like bosconian but with defender (you rescue people from the bases) and sinistar (you are chased by a boss enemy if you take too long.) If you like the atmosphere of sinistar you will also like draconian. The boss enemy is indestructible so the feeling of knowing its coming is really exciting. This game absolutely blew my mind when I played it as a kid in a similar way to sinister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZh-n-VeM9s
You can download it and other trs-80 ROMs here: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Disks/Games/
I don't know anything about trs-80 emulators, although I have played it on emulator in the past, I mainly played it on the actual hardware when I was a kid. Given what you wrote here I would really recommend checking it out!
I like this version the best. CW: the video has some old photos including an enslaved persons scars from lashes.
Typical North Korea propaganda, they even gave them fake (paper mache?) luggage to trick us into thinking they can afford personal items!
I have a large CRT that looks pretty good but honestly still pretty fuzzy, its been years since I tried that tho so I don't know if it would be a lot better than what I have now. Then I used a really small old ass flat screen for a while that honestly looked really good, I think just because it was so small it had to look pretty sharp. It stopped working tho :(
I have the n64 in my kitchen and use a thrift store flat screen TV I just got as both a second monitor and n64 TV. Its pretty old and has a hell of a lot of different inputs. Unfortunately the n64 looked like total shit on it... BUT I just got a s-video cable hoping it would make it a bit more bearable and at least on this TV its a huge improvement! It really fixed the image quite a bit, there's still a bit of checkerboarding with the pixels of different colours sort of hashing together instead of blurring together as they would on CRT. But its way more playable. I should try the s-video cable with the CRT sometime just for fun, but I think the reason why its such a huge improvement is mostly because the TV interpreted the composite image terribly.
All that to say, its still fuzzy as fuck, because its an n64 lol.
I've been playing my n64 a lot lately and its way fuzzier than I remember, maybe they are just trying to recapture that magic
Like a little wiggly feeling all over your body, that doesn't last very long? Or do you mean like dizziness?
alcohol is really bad for your physical and mental health. i'd say about a year of my alcoholism was productively staving off depression and suicide, but then maybe 13 years of alcohol gradually erroding my brain and soul and body. its not bad as a temporary distraction from your troubles bit prolonged use will seriously compromise your ability to be healthy and sane in the future.
SALT you fucking idiots! it's so crazy that everybody is mad about the suggestion that it needs spices when they left out fucking SALT. have you had slices of grocery store tomato without salt??? have you had bocconcini or fresh mozzarella or similar kind of cheese without salt??? like i PUT pepper and i PUT olive oil on it, what more do these people want?
maybe dont completely fuck up the dish by leaving out SALT and you won't have people being like "this sucks, why doesn't it taste like anything" like sure adding cumin isn't a good solution but at least they recognize that there's no flavour.
instead its used as an opportunity to be defensive about being white on reddit
FUCK you
FUCK these people
please im so upset that i don't have it, i need it to show one of my best friends ever who is jewish and inclined to believe israel that they aren't on his side.
Redditors: Rare! Interesting as fuck!
oops, wait, this isn't my journal
male presenting anglo canadian here, every interaction i have ever had is in some way tinged with white supremacy and male privilege. i've been treated better and assumed by default to be more competent than non-whites pretty much every day.
also like have you ever talked to another white person? if a white person or man talks to someone they assume shares their values they say the worst shit. i thought it was funny when libs were condemning trumps "locker room talk" defense like it's so unbelievable to them that men would discuss sexual assault like that in a male space. "i've never heard anything like that in a locker room." you are lying. most white men are thinking and saying the worst possible things at any given moment.
non-white people can tell by the way they are treated by white people and western society that white supremacy is the thread that binds the western world together. but if you look like them, they will just tell you straight up their terrible ideas assuming you will agree. if you cant figure it out when you actively benefit from it daily, if you cant notice that you're being held to a different standard by other white people daily, if you cant figure it out when they LOOK FOR EXCUSES TO TELL YOU, than i dunno how much self-crit is gonna help. at that point it seems like an empathy problem
if you identify as an anarchist or a communist and also identify with your whiteness, you missed something, probably a lot of things, along the way. try to be more perceptive geez.
love to my comrades of every skin colour and gender identity, death to the first world and any framework including race used to justify it
i read that thread on lemmy.word or w/e with the person posting about how they got banned from here for supporting trans people "in the wrong way" and then i read the bit about how they were lamenting about "trans issues" are the reason why we have culture war and shouldn't focus on them.
i couldn't post there because im not making an account for lemmy.world so please just imagine i posted a good pigpoopballs in there.
thanks!
