Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social), page 6

@feditips @tvler I feel like Nintendo might take exception to it being called that complete with even the same stylization and all. Though, on the other hand, it also would serve as a reminder that they didn't bother implementing a modern version if it and it makes people sad because it was a neat feature.

@luckytran Based on how the world handled COVID-19, I think if anything even worse comes out that may just be it for humanity. Of all the stupidest possible reasons to go extinct, we apparently pick stupiding away. At least an asteroid could be argued to be technologically difficult to prevent, but all we have to do with disease is test, isolate, and take basic precautions around each other. That's literally it.

@thomasfuchs Oh, I see a bunch of things wrong with this thing. You should send it to me to work on. I promise to get it back to you eventually. Probably.

😁 J/k, but, anyway, really nice stuff there. I can't afford to do a proper real retro system anymore, but just about any one of these would be amazing to have. I think I'd especially like that MU80. I always loved the sound of Yamaha XG for gaming back in the day. (Yeah, I know, it's meant for musicians, but it sounded good.)

@thomasfuchs I truly can't understand what is even going on in people's heads at this point. When SARS-CoV-2 first was discovered I thought we'd all do a proper lockdown, tracking, etc etc like any sane species with an average IQ higher than a brick would do. But lockdowns all ended early, testing was virtually non-existent, there was zero tracking, etc. It never got under control and now it's basically permanent. As a species humanity can only be called insane right now.

@nocontexttrek rofl, I forget how good the alt-text on this account so frequently is

@luckytran The irony is, if we had all worn masks and been generally careful just a bit longer until testing could get out there and then actually utilized it to track and control infections, COVID-19 could have been stopped in its tracks.

Unfortunately, now that it's endemic (and let's stop pretending it isn't -- it's now hopping animal reservoirs) all we can do is get immunity up with vaccines and mask to avoid catching it until we can not just treat it, but prevent/treat long COVID too.

@feditips @weirdwriter I was kind of wondering about this myself. As food for thought, might it not be useful for the interface to offer an option to automatically convert emoji? It gets tiresome selecting emoji from a list instead of just typing them.

@lilithsaintcrow It's such an overwhelmingly bad faith article *immediately* cited by a host of bad faith articles at the same time. Definitely more than a bit iffy on all accounts.

I don't know if it definitely was designed and coordinated by someone trying to keep people on centralized platforms, but what I do know is every one of the article writers who made exactly zero effort to actually write a proper article about this should be ashamed of themselves. I would say fired, but yeah.