People without sense want to get rid of central park, and turn all the subway lines into underground roadways.

Those companies do everything they can to make it as hard as legally possible.

I’m happy to use mobile apps in the fediverse. Begrudgingly I’ll use mobile banking apps as needed.

I go back and forth between the YouTube app and mobile website. Mobile web is nice because SponsorBlock and Dearrow both work on it.

The Pope is Hamas /s

Dumb engagement quizzes they everyone completes and then shares and feeds the data brokers are indeed mildly infuriating. Also more !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

It’s nice to see gaming covered in NYT at all. The article generally rings hollow to me. I’m not an industry expert, but:

• It’s easy to be profitable when you’re just making a sandbox and your players make the games, but at that point are you a game developer? (Roblox)
• High end graphics cards have become so expensive that people can’t afford gaming with good graphics
• AAA developers aren’t optimizing games as well as they used to, so only high end hardware would even run them
• AAA is more focused on loot boxes, microtransactions, season passes, and cinematics all wrapped up in great visuals. That’s at the expense of innovative gameplay and interesting stories. Making the graphics worse won’t get execs to greenlight better games, just uglier ones. And they’ll still be $70.
• Even when games are huge successes and profitable, studios are getting bought and shut down (EA, Microsoft, Sony?), so it’s hard to say the corps are hurting.

Yeah that’s all of them. Game of Tones makes me the most emotional. 🥹

Edit: just thinking about it is doing it right now lol

Yeppp that’s another one

Edit: still not the biggest one for me

That’s one for sure.

Edit: but not the biggest culprit for me

A few episodes of Futurama. You can guess which ones.

While we still have problems with female representation in games and in the industry, ohhh boy the 90s were…problematic.

As the article says, since his comments were run through machine translation, it’s possible they’re meant more in jest rather than seriously. I’ll keep a charitable perspective on this until we learn more.

Upgrading my computer’s primary storage from a hard disk (HDD) to a solid state drive (SSD). Really young folks on here have no idea how amazing it was for computers to go from taking minutes to start up to taking seconds.

Buying my first cell phone, which was a Nokia smartphone, in 2003. Having email and useful applications in my pocket, including maps and web search.