Notices by Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social), page 2

why the hell do people keep saying "instances" rather than "servers" or "websites," is it just to confuse the noobs

@sinvega Do pls link me to this discussion of class, I've lived in the states for like ten years and I'm PARCHED.

Saw a metafilter thread once discussing an article about classism and the top result was literally "ctrl-f race -> 0 matches -> closed tab." They literally cannot talk about class, it bounces off them and spins into something else

@sinvega Good god the Amiga sound chips. SO GOOD. Compare SWIV on the Amiga vs the bleepybloopy SNES crap, the Amiga was a whole decade ahead.

Does your part of England have weird american-culture-creep faux-nostalgia for consoles nobody actually had?

@Maverynthia Yes, but these ads are special because they have a special MLM-culty fragrance

@kelbot On the one hand, phwoaarrr

On the other, I'm just about old enough to remember the Sinclair C5

@nyquildotorg Still annoyed at Mozilla for watching google try to kill RSS and just kinda shrugging and going right along with it