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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I also grew up in a similar situation (abusive parent, evangelical), but it’s a real gamble what with the default leanings of the algorithms I see these days, and I’ve seen enough kids fall deep into alt-right pipelines because of it. It’s not all doom, but I think we were pretty fortunate…

    On top of my main authority figure being physically and verbally abusive, talking to normal people and asking my parents questions they couldn’t answer about religion were what got me out. I do understand that everyone will have different situations, freedoms, and experiences, though. It might be easier for me but harder for someone else, or vice versa.











  • It can definitely be called a bigger jump when they started with terrible 2015 hardware in the first place…

    It’s just a shame that the vast majority of non first party games will never see these benefits because they’ll never get a revisit for updates and support, though. A higher resolution or framerate only means so much when it was already capped to 900p30 or something along those lines that was common for Switch 1.








  • Back when it started gaining popularity last year or so it happened a lot.

    There was, for example, a tweet (or maybe recycled tiktok, I don’t use those sites and get their content second hand) about a lady re-enacting Civil Rights* era racism in a diner, replacing African-Americans with robots and creating some uncomfortably creative insults. It just started to feel gross very quickly…