Knew this sort of thing would happen eventually, glad I made the switch away a while back.

When Nova was bought out by Branch, we all knew it couldn’t lead to anything good. But it sucks to switch away, and I know people kept using Nova because they could say “it’s not doing anything sketchy yet.”

With this news, seems safe to say that “yet” is finally “now.” Tim to switch if you haven’t already. I’m happily using Niagara now.

You gotta throw me a bone here Mickey, what am I even looking at?

Thanks, count me as a new happy subscriber!

To be honest, Elden Ring is the only Souls game I’ve played and so it’s the only one of any real interest to me for now, but I am appreciative of the tags used in the post titles that allow me to filter out the content from other games I’m not interested in seeing. Glad to see content is alive somewhere!

Based on their name, I assume OP’s raison d’etre is only to share articles from this source.

Surely we can believe articles from an outlet with no named authors that is posted only to a glorified op-ed website. I mean, they have “News” in the name, surely it must all be real.

For the more specific example, for any curious, the character Switch from the first movie was originally meant to be trans.

Switch was intended to be biologically male outside of the Matrix but then be female inside the Matrix, based on the way the system represents people by their self-image.

The production studio axed that idea, and the actress who was originally intended to only play 1/2 of the character ended up playing them outside the Matrix as well. The best they could do was keep the name and make Switch look androgynous.

I think people just miss their niche interest communities.

For example, I love Elden Ring, but [email protected] hasn’t had any new posts in almost a year. Meanwhile the Elden Ring subreddit has a bunch of posts just from the last few minutes.

Still not enough to make me go back to Reddit, but I admit it’s something I miss and something that just can’t be recreated without more people.

I wanted to build a computer a couple years ago, but the prices they were charging for individual components even then just didn’t make sense compared to buying a more affordable, comparably strong pre-built.

I can’t imagine trying to build one now with these RAM prices, it’s insane.

Did the GPU shortages ever really end, though? We just have more shortages on top of it.

No way, Gowron has more honor in his pinky toe than that man has in his entire body.

Yep, it’s wild how long the work of Galen was still considered to be relevant to medicine. If someone needed any work bordering on “surgery” in the 1600’s, they’d likely still be referencing concepts developed in the 3rd century.

Oh yeah. Sometimes I entertain those sorts of “what if” scenarios where, if I were to be transported back to some arbitrary historical time and place, what could I do with what I have to kickstart social/scientific progress.

But underneath every single one of these thought experiments is the ultimate anxiety of “pray you don’t get a bad cut or eat some bad food, then die painfully and horribly of infection or illness.”

There are just substantially fewer safeguards, so you’re at greater risk of everything. Even thinking about having to go to a hospital at the time of my grandparents’ childhood terrifies me. It’s crazy how much medicine has improved just over the past few decades, and has me wondering just how barbaric our own practices today might seem to others in the future.

I don’t believe the default Lemmy interface supports it, yeah. I sometimes use Alexandrite and I don’t think it does, but not 100% certain. Haven’t tried Photon or any of the other options that may be out there.

If you’re on Lemmy.world, try:

Aledandrite - https://a.lemmy.world/

Voyager - https://m.lemmy.world/

Old Reddit - https://old.lemmy.world/

Photon - https://p.lemmy.world/

Tesseract - https://t.lemmy.world/

Not sure what others may be out there, but maybe one of them has the setting you’re looking for.

Edit: Alexandrite does seem to have a “system default” option, so if your system automatically updates theme based on time of day, that may work.

Edit 2: Seeing similar on each of the others, though how well each works, I’m not certain.

To be honest, those tools look like the types of surgical tools I’d still expect to see up until the late 1800’s. It seems like it took a long time for Europe to make improvements in medicine between antiquity and the modern period.

Booba and Cocky

Are you using an app, or one of the additional Lemmy frontends like Alexandrite or Photon?

With this version to compare with, it looks like someone went out of their way to edit the eyes of the one in the post to make it more of a racist caricature…

That was my understanding. Dad wants to make his kid’s dream of being a pop star come true, so he spends tons of money to make it happen, and she became a meme because all the money can’t make up for lack of talent. There was probably also some schadenfreude when held against all of the other artificially boosted Disney pop star kids who were still in the internet’s collective memory at the time.

I should also say that I have no opinions on Rebecca Black as a person, she could be a really lovely and genuine person for all I know. And apparently she is still out there making music, which is fine if it makes her happy.

But damn did I hate hearing that song. Still do. It’s just a bad song.

Definitely something to be said about how gender isn’t “real,” but people’s perception of it is.

There’s no pattern of masculine or feminine behavior/style that is consistent across cultures and throughout history. It’s all arbitrary.

But that binary perception of masculine/feminine is nevertheless all around us, even if it’s not consistently represented.

I’d like to think that not much would change about my style or mannerisms if I had been born with different parts, and I find it odd how unnecessarily gendered so many aspects of society are. I’m just “me,” what else would I want to be? But I also need to remind myself that I only think that way because I’ve never had to worry about being seen as something other than what I am, even if I don’t feel that strongly about it. It’s easy to overlook just how much of my life experience has been colored by my effortless gender presentation.

Not everyone gets that by default, and it’s hard to put myself in those shoes because I simply can’t understand what it’s like to be viewed as the opposite gender, or why it might cause discomfort.

If I were airlifted to some other culture that viewed pants as feminine and skirts as masculine, would I toss all of my jeans to conform? I’d like to think I wouldn’t, because I like the comfort of pants and attributing a gender standard to clothes has always seemed silly to me. But if it affected the way people saw me, I just might.

The article just says Switch, but that doesn’t seem worth killing anyone over.

Those Switch 2 prices, on the other hand…

The updated Forerunner architecture designs seem directly lifted out of Tron. I can’t imagine it’s a coincidence that Halo 4 released just 2 years after Tron Legacy.