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That.... Is so incredibly disruptive mentally and emotionally. It's like being slapped in the face with a fish the size of a truck.

I can't believe that actually helped at all. Holy shit.

She's got dead people eyes. I never noticed that.

It has been an absolute gift to be part of and watching that/this growth. Seeing posts on a new platform go from something like 10/day to the, now, probably, hundreds, if not thousands per day.

I remember in late May/early June this year (2023, when this place really came alive, for archival sake), seeing the posts on Reddit about the ACTUAL api changes, then that evolving into a bit of vocal protest, which surprisingly evolved into an ACTUAL protest with a lot more information why. It was the last straw for me. Everything the world has shit on me and my generation and lifetime, all of it from selfishness and ignorance and greed. Then musk bought Twitter and immediately drove it face first into the ground at high speed and got support by most of the worst demographics on the face of the planet - and I didn't even care about Twitter. But, a long-standing media giant, brought down by a billionaire simply because he had the money? It was if all of our intuitive fears about the world being awful just came true in real time, over, and over, and over, and over. The past fifteen years have been so bad, it's actually insane, and it's nuts to think that it can still be way way worse.

And then along came this dried out, greedy ass, shameless, two faced, wannabe psychopath who IDOLIZED Musk, Hoffman/spez, and just shits in the faces of everybody on Reddit that ever cared about anything. The very people trying to make the world a better place at least for a little while, pleading with him not to be THAT greedy and shitty. And he just spread open his wonderbread buttcheeks, stared us all in the eyes, looked away, smiled into a mirror, and blasted out what was left of his rotten, liquefied spine. RIP Aaron.

Everybody saw it coming, yet we were still all shocked at how blatantly greedy and manipulative every single event was. Now, he's just trying to wait it out and let it quiet down.

I'm still convinced this or an evolution of this will be Web3.0. The evolution past megacorps as a result of direct abuse of power, anti-competitive and other dark behaviors, anti privacy, ultra-rich maximizations of profits, and late stage capitalism. Decentralization and a reinvigoration and re-emphasis on integrity and quality, put truly into the hands of the users by stripping abilities of people like musk to literally capitalize on and destroy is hugely paramount in the next step. We all want it, the world needs it, and maybe the Fediverse is it. Maybe, maybe not. It feels like the right direction and I've had enough bullshit to know it.

This made me actually just snort in bed, laughing, and woke up my partner.

It's THAT why I never got it to work? I always figured it was because it was a steaming pile of garbage and was actually just half baked tech on the same level as the NES and would just break and that was that. I still have my GBC somewhere and probably my Pokemon yellow cartridge in some box somewhere, hopefully without batteries still in it 😬 I should see if anybody else I know has one and try to get it to work with something very low data.

One time, we had remotes for televisions. We hated having to point them to get line of sight.

Did you know that some of the older Gameboys had this? I think it was the Gameboy color. Instead of a link cable, you'd just point two Gameboys at each other, and.... Well, they had to be on a level surface like a table. And also you basically couldn't ever move them or touch them, which was strange for a handheld. ...annnnd it basically didn't work. Ever. So Wi-Fi was pretty good!

But no, let's go and use line of sight tech, that seems like a great idea!

I kid, I kid. I'm sure it works fine enough within its limitations for a certain purpose, I just can't help but joke about making these connections.

There's something very satisfying about it being actually pixel-perfect.

However, there's also something to be said for a/b comparing for each sperate game and deciding what you think looks best for it. Having options is always best.

It's a hot take, but I agree with you.

Actually, I try to find a noise overlay that emotionally simulates the nostalgia effect, minimizes the looks-like-shit effect, but then also makes sure to impart the minimum amount of dither needed to technically have it look it's best.

Less is more, and even back in the day, a lot of these games on crappy CRTs looked like absolute trash. A lot of them were bright, colorful, and actually good, but a lot of them just looked like smeary poopoo.

If I can just squint my eyes and it looks better than your filter, you're doing it wrong. I think it takes a high nit display, vsync, with the right array of colors to hit the crt emulation just right.

Just go get an old tv at this point, damn. You'll get the buttons, the sound of it turning on, the high pitched whistle of it just being on, the smell of the burning dust, the ozone or whatever smell too, the brightness, the curve, the colors, the emotional risk of hitting the wrong channel and blasting yourself with full volume white noise and having to panic look for the volume buttons or the remote.... You can even use the in-tv speakers to output sound! Tv speakers were actually decent before flat screens.

Am I selling us all on this idea, yet? ;P

Oh yeah. I totally missed that because I've seen this before. That's actually pretty messed up.

Lol this is well put. Better than my response. Rip John snow. Did you read the ghost map? A wild guess, from your use of the cholera example. If you haven't, it was an interesting read.

There was an episode of vsauce or veritasium or cgpgrey several years ago that kind of talked about this a little bit. Basically, inside and outside of us, alongside covering all of our things and everything we touch and are around and other people, are all part of an extended network of poop particles and bacteria.

You get sick when new things get past your exterior & interior poop network of bacterial defenses. Same for anyone, anywhere. It's all just how much, how fast, and how far and how new, the new bacteria and viruses get. If it gets too far, too fast, we might die.

But, people are disgusting and COVERED IN POOP BACTERIA AND VIRUSES and so we're all fairly familiar with everything, and nothing is too different.

COVID-19, for example, was very different and spread in large amounts very quickly, I believe it's why it's called a "novel" virus. It was different enough that it just waltzed past all our defenses and killed millions of people. And then, it mutated enough, and quickly enough, that when it came back to us with the new form, our immune systems were like "damn this one virus came in here and caused a ton of damage, but for some reason we don't know exactly what it looks like. Are you that virus or it's relative?" And the mutation was like, "uhhh, no?" And the security guard/immune system was all, "okay, come on through." And it would get us sick again.

Biology is weird and epidemiology is incredibly difficult when half the population is fucking homeschooled and thinks horse dewormer helps this type of thing or that it's fake or something.