greenskye

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[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 27 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I've honestly been really surprised that this was the only 'real' assassination attempt in recent memory. I was surprised that no one went after Obama, nor Trump after him and Biden after him. The rage was so high, yet it's only now that anyone from either side makes a real attempt.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I mean they could. But just as Nintendo doesn't need to offer better hardware due to how much people want to play their games, Pokemon doesn't need to do better optimization because people play them anyway. It's honestly unlikely that a better optimized game would have significantly affected their sales numbers.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's an exclusive to Nintendo hardware. They only make these games for switch. If you want to play Pokemon, you have to buy a switch. My point was that people love games like Pokemon so much that they're more than willing to buy sub standard hardware to play it, even when the experience of playing is obviously hindered by that hardware. The IP overcomes any negatives from the poor console hardware.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 37 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Eh, I think this is more indicative of the power of Nintendo IPs. My wife has been playing a lot of Pokemon Scarlett lately and it visibly struggles and has crashed or frozen at least a couple of times. This isn't the only switch game to do this either (none of them ports too).

People are just willing to put up with a lot of jank in order to play Nintendo games. If Nintendo didn't have such strong titles and only released those titles on Nintendo hardware, the switch hardware probably would've failed. The winning move was to heavily invest in strong games and then lock those games into their walled garden.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

So in 16000 years humans will be fully domesticated by cats. I welcome our eventually cat overlords.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Also, I think it'd just be smarter to nationalize the tech. Have the government bid out new advancements and maintenance, but the actual IP is owned by the government. It's wild that we're letting a single company control effectively 80% of our agriculture. Huge national security risk.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You'd need an organization to manage the satellite assets at least. That's presumably the biggest barrier to overcome. They have a custom gps network specifically built for them

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

They're selling the software that makes all the shit actually work. So you'd get a tractor with a bunch of processing power and have to program it yourself.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Even like 'real' dildo manufactures tend to claim the toy is for novelty use only and don't recommend actually using the thing as an insertable object. Adult toys aren't really regulated, because that would mean legitimizing them which is icky to the government. So they'll never really be regulated for health and safety

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The government has ceded the entirety of modern currency exchange to private companies, which is still crazy to me, but I honestly don't see people even question it that often. As if it's just a given that online purchases (the increasing majority of all economic activity) is subject purely to a ToS and not the laws and protections granted to us by the government.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Because the lefties are essentially a loose coalition of every marginally sane political view that remains, containing the actual fiscal conservatives, the center, the progressives and the far left all in a single party.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I think it'd be pretty tricky to get a fire going at that size and get the photo taken before the thin plastic of the tent melted or burst into flames. The tent in the picture is fine, which I honestly think would be impossible with that setup, even if you tried to be quick

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