@gabriel I have a lot: * The Rebol Programming Language * Twtxt * ZeroNet * Beaker Browser - Used version control which might have been better than ZeroNet's Bittorrent solution * OpenBazaar * OpenNIC * JSON Feed * Gittorrent * MHTML * XHTML 2 * XHTML Modularization * PirateBoxes * Texti - Interesting web host that hosted simple web pages; not websites, web pages * Various attempts at network gaming for consoles (GameLine, Sega Channel, Satellaview, etc) * The Dreamcast VMU - Sega actually had plans to create enhanced versions that acted like pocket computers with MP3 functionality among other things * TempleOS - I would like to think it would've been something more if the dev didn't go schizo
@adiz@mischievoustomato@PurpCat@nemesis@arcana@phnt@sam@RustyCrab@Suiseiseki@waifu@branman65 It would probably be better if there were a few distros and Unix-like OSes that remain niche while certain Linux distros like Ubuntu or Mint went mainstream compared to having Windows be mainstream because there would be better compatibility between both the mainstream OSes and niche OSes.
Which is exactly why most of us are still forced to have a separate Windows computer, partition, or VM for work/school. Many software companies aren't going to waste time porting their software to an OS with less than 5% marketshare. Whatever normies use is going to affect you, whether you like it or not.
@PurpCat@sam@lewdthewides@nyanide@sunmcnukes@mischievoustomato He will never tell you to break the code if it involves some carbon-based social credit score or ULEZ cameras, but when it comes to software being used to deport illegals he will start calling for sabotage.
@wowaname@nicholas Most of his critiques don't even fit my definition of capitalism. State and corporate power working together to commit genocides is NOT capitalism, yet I've seen him blame capitalism for the genocide in Gaza.
@wowaname@Milo@PurpCat@S-Config I'm afraid that you can't have that kind of culture on a decentralized network in this political climate (which I don't think is going to change anytime soon). The only way you can have it is on a centralized network with moderation to keep all the political posters, blackpillers, etc out.
For example, there are a couple of imageboards and textboards out there that strive to be more comfy instead of complaining about how much they hate the world, but those admins realized that they either need to sacrifice freeze-peach and/or be relatively obscure in order to keep it that way.
The fediverse has neither of that going for it. Yes, there are more laid-back instances on here that try to replicate that pre-2014 experience, but it is inevitable that users get dogpiled by Poast and NCD users who think they own the network. You could also just have an isolated, webring-like network of whitelist instances, but that kind of defeats the purpose of decentralization in the first place. You might as well just have a Ning site.
@wowaname@Milo@PurpCat@S-Config >4chan i still regularly see plenty of people mature enough to ignore all that and save the threads with useful contributions anyway. hopefully that makes more sense. it isn't so much the moderation, it's the community's temperament. fedi has always eaten one another alive; we're schismatic and that's a shame
The difference here is that we have likes, reblogs, follows, blocks, etc and it's much easier to post a short meme and get a bunch of those than it is to make an effort post. On imageboards, all you have are (You)s and everyone is completely anonymous so nobody is building any positive or negative reputation (unless you make it obvious that all your posts are coming from the same person).
Microblogging is basically the polar opposite of imageboards. Everyone has accounts, followers, blocks, etc and therefore has a reputation. This enables personality cults and constantly picking sides. It also doesn't help that many people who came here after 2021 were on sites where such behavior was encouraged (like KiwiFarms). Part of the reason why I hate most Poast users is that they are the types that were spending most of their Internet time watching MisterMetokur videos back in the 2010s, so they've surrounded themselves with people who like to make lolcows out of those they disagree with or who they think are weaker than them.
So I've just read Ask Iwata, a book by Shigisato Itoi which has a collection of essays that Iwata made about his life and work ethic he made on Itoi's website (basically a posthumous autobiography) along with interviews with Miyamoto and Itoi about him and how he was different from other CEOs.
It was rather interesting. It seems like Iwata was truly different from other CEOs, but I guess that's mostly because Japan probably doesn't have an equivalent to the Ford vs Dodge ruling that puts shareholders as the top priority. That's why I compare him to Gabe Newell in that sense.
There were also some other interesting facts like how Iwata was inspired by Itoi marketing the Mother series for kids and adults which is why the Wii was heavily advertised as a family console.
However the one thing that resonated with me is one part when one Nintendo employee (can't remember which one) was talking about him. He said that he was nicknamed "Kirby" and that's because people will leave out boxes of candy and other junkfood for him and he will gobble all of it. No wonder he died from cancer at 55. Semi-related, but I've also heard that Masahiro Sakurai does not like the taste of water for some reason and he is a huge Diet Coke addict to the point that Nintendo leaves a mini-fridge of Diet Coke for him every time he directs a new Smash game.
Moral of the story: take pride in your work and enjoy your success, but please take care of your health.
So let's see here: >Marginally better graphics >Games that are enhanced with the Switch 2, but you have to pay extra for the enhancements >Only compatible with certain microSD cards >A Mario Kart that allows you to drive in between races >Even more unnecessary smartphone integration >PORTS PORTS PORTS >Deltatroon
The only good things I can say about it are the fact that Nintendo finally added built-in voice chat for their first-party games (not that shitty smartphone app) and the re-releasing of GameCube games.
Funny that when I was watching the Swtich 2 direct, I can clearly tell that the guy on the right with the curly hair was not excited about the thing. He probably agrees with me on this.
@beardalaxy I think they really wanted to focus AI because otherwise custom content would require users to have some basic scripting knowledge, which is extremely uncommon for the target demographic of this type of game. It's a brilliant idea in theory, but in practice it results in a ton of bugs and AI hallucination and as @SuperDicq said, if effectively renders the game SaaS, otherwise it would require a REALLY beefy PC to run.
Though AI facial animations are just some useless gimmick for creating social media videos.
It seems like I'm the only person who realizes that the Tesla riots are a psyop made to get people to actually buy those cars. No better way to get people to buy those backdoored, botnet cars then to make any opposition to them look cringe.