oh thank goodness. An image of students typing their notes with the on screen keyboard flashed in my mind and i was scared

please tell me they have those little external keyboards which would make them basically a shitty laptop

is gemini on all androids? i remember there once was something called bixby, now when i accidentally hold the home button for too long it tells me to enable “circle”. i’ve disabled all of those “smart” features but fuck knows what is going to get automatically installed in an update next week

lmao, their tourism is going to shrivel and die so fast

i mean, yeah?

the cookies you accept, the addons you have, hell, even the size of your monitor when you maximalise the window is a part of your browser fingerprint

anyone who’s ever downloaded the Tor browser will know it. that browser screams at you if you try to maximalise or install addons exactly because of that

hmm, i do wonder which causes which. Depression makes you prone to addictions as you seek anything to give you the happy chemicals. But constant social media exposure is rather harmful when you just take it all in, and that can cause depression Especially if you don’t block keywords for war coverages and politics.

i stand firm in my opinion that human brains are straight up not designed to take in a constant stream of bad news from around the world, which sucks because we are designed to focus on negatives for our survival. Memories of accidents and deaths take priority over nice memories so that we can avoid dangers better. from evolution’s point of view you being happy is an afterthought, you just need to live long enough to fuck. and across history it worked! we never had to distinguish between dangers nearby and dangers so far away it literally does not matter for you, as all news were brought by foot or with an otherwise huge time delay - they were either nearby or already history, and only one or two at a time. well, never… until today, and our neuroplasticity doesn’t seem to be enough to counter this, and evolution doesn’t work fast enough to fix this

Could also be a vicious cycle where if you trip and fall once both will create a negative synergy where you try to drown your sorrows in addictive doomscrolling, which only makes you worse

o_ o

i have no words honestly. i wasn’t even talking about cities, so far all European cities i’ve visited were walkable, i was thinking mid size towns and even villages. Basically if your place of residence can’t be missed if you blink as you drive by there’s probably at least a grocery store in it, and more frequent a general store with most basics you’d need in a day-to-day life next to groceries

hi European here!

what the fuck?

i’m here complaining how it’s hard to walk to a big shopping mall or an ikea and you’re out there without even a small grocery store around most corners? how do you lot do that? i’d seriously just starve to death if i couldn’t get up, walk for 5min, and buy food for a whole meal (or a frozen pizza)

hah same, it was the first thing i did after getting some emulators. and yeah the emulation gives some lag that’s normally not noticable, but in rhythm games that require perfect timing it can make the whole experience miserable

you can skip a bar without loosing fever :) take things one at a time!

patapon 1 & 2 replay is releasing on steam soon as well! in case you didn’t know

oh heck yeah! as a patapon fan i finished the demo and i absolutely adore it! it feels like the natural evolution of patapon, we skipped a few games that’d make the transition smoother but the soul is there

ah yes, seeing deepweb market-esque exit scams on the surface web is a sign of a healthy system

as someone who hates turn based games, and heavily dislikes JRPGs and this game has both…

yeah it’s still amazing, even just the story, character writing, and world building can carry you through at peak investment in the game, for people who actually like the core mechanics it must be even better of an experience (thank god for storymode)

imo go watch the first ~10min of a silent gameplay (to watch the cutscenes)

i’m so tired of ai

that’s fair, i think i enjoyed Elden Ring the most of all soulslikes because if you can’t be asked to memorise a specific boss you can just go somewhere and come back strong enough to two hit the one that gave you trouble

have you considered playing with the approach that soulslikes are really rhythm games and boss battles are dance offs (to death)?

this perspective allowed me to enjoy soulslikes more