Chozo

PDSes and relays exist at the whim of Bluesky’s corporate entity. Having all of the endpoints on the network controlled by a single agent is what makes Bluesky centralized. If Bluesky decided so, your server can be removed from their network and is functionally useless at that point. They decide who is and is not allowed to be a part of Bluesky.

For contrast, no such governing body exists with ActivityPub networks. Nobody can decide whether or not an instance should be removed from the network, they can only choose whether or not to federate with that instance. If you wanted to truly silence a Lemmy instance, for example, it would take the cooperation of all the major Lemmy admins to defederate, and is an entirely democratic process as a result.

EDIT: To clarify, ATProto is not what is centralized, “Bluesky” the platform utilizing ATProto, is what’s centralized.

Wow, that audio is super unsettling. On its own it would seem innocuous, but with the context of trying to contact somebody in a country that’s on the verge of being nuked, it’s downright horrifying.

Back in the olden days, it was “here is my product, and this is the price, if you like it buy from this store”

When exactly are these olden days you refer to? I ask because most “modern” advertising practices have long-since been in place for over a century now; the only things that’ve changed are the delivery method and frequency.

In that case, I’m even more confused. Who do you think is going around just rebuying games they already own?

nobody wants to buy a full price game that they already own on steam that they got on sale 3 years ago.

How many Nintendo games are on Steam?

Or Star Trek movies.

It’s an absolutely beautiful love letter to Zelda, and I wish I finished it while it was still free on PSN. So much thought and attention went into every little detail you see and hear. Tunic teaches so many lessons about game design that I wish AAA studios would hear.

I couldn’t find the rabbit on Friendica’s website, but I did find it here: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_mascots#Flaxy_O’Hare

You’re right, it’s awful lol.

What’s crazy is that all I really want out of a social platform is 2010’s Facebook. That was perfect. I was keeping in touch with friends and staying updated with their lives. I want that back so bad.

knowing that you gotta call Customer Service to get the car to stop in case of emergency is pretty bad design, safety wise.

You don’t. He didn’t want to push the button, himself, because he expected customer service to do something different. But there’s a button on the screen right in front of him, as well as in his app, that will make the car immediately pull over and unlock the doors. You can hear the rep trying to direct him to push the button, and he refuses because he wants to be stubborn for his video.

I’m not sure about the Switch 2, but with the Switch 1, hardware bricking was very possible. There’s a chip on the Switch 1 with a series of fuses, which intentionally burn out after after certain firmware updates. There’s a finite number of fuses (500+, I believe), based on the update schedule Nintendo had planned for the console, and the number of burnt fuses needs to match the firmware version you’re on, otherwise you can’t downgrade the firmware. If Nintendo wanted to, they could target a device to receive several “dummy” updates to burn the remaining fuses, effectively blocking any further firmware updates.

I zi what you’re doing there, and no.

I ended up digging up my old Switch 1 box after reading this story, and it’s packaged very similarly. It was screen-up, with nothing covering it but a plastic baggie and the cardboard layer of the box. Though it was slightly more recessed, there wasn’t much stopping anything that would’ve punctured the box from damaging the screen on that model, either.

I think the lack of any major packaging issues from the Switch 1, and that there aren’t reports of other mass damages on the Switch 2 outside of this particular store, should tell us that the packaging is fine. Not ideal (clearly), but fine for 99.999% of units shipped. I can’t imagine that they didn’t do stress-testing on the packaging designs before shipping and accounted for being kicked around in a FedEx truck, but I doubt they accounted for somebody deliberately puncturing the packaging.

How is the way Nintendo boxed them “weird”? If anything, stapling the receipt to the box is weird, that’s so unnecessary. No other store is doing that.

Update 6/5/2025 12:42 p.m. ET: A customer who was impacted by the stapling issue says they were told that replacement units are on there way from a neighboring store. How did the staples become a thing to begin with? According to what they were told, the store’s air conditioner was broken and it had gotten hot enough in the store that the receipts weren’t staying taped to the boxes. To avoid mixed up paper work they were stapled on instead.

It was too hot for tape? That’s bullshit, it was only 85 fahrenheit in Staten Island today, what kind of tape are they using that stops working at 85 degrees? WHY DID YOU NEED TO TAPE THE RECEIPTS, THEN??? JUST PUT IT IN THE BAG. WHY ARE YOU OVER-COMPLICATING THIS???

Nintendo makes a lot of dumb decisions. But stapling a receipt to the box wasn’t one of them. Don’t blame Nintendo for this, blame the morons working at the Staten Island GameStop.

I really want this to do well. I’ve lost a lot of faith in Konami in recent years, but the SH2 remake gives me a bit of hope, and I’d like to see them ride that momentum and breathe some new life into Silent Hill.

I’m excited, as I loved the first one. I’m not in love with the disconnect between visual designs in the the pre-rendered scenes and the gameplay, though; the cutscenes look like they’re for a completely different title altogether.

Also, no Miriam?

This dude has lived a post-Tubgirl life and thinks he’s tough.

im sick of mods. nobody likes mods!

Then self-host your own instance.

Yeah, Discord whales exist. Some people are REALLY proud of their profiles.

Yeah. I mean, they even put wheels on it.