Now that I think about it, a lot of the critique of Sonic 1 being too slow is more about not having the spin dash, which is a fair critique for the game engine but not a fair critique for level design. I honestly don’t know how the zones would play out if you can use spin dash.

spin dashing in Sonic 1

At least on the hardware side, a lot of things boil down to businesses needing a designated target to push responsibility to whenever shit hits the fan. Ultimately, Redhat et al get paid because they’re willing to be the designated target whenever some dumbass IT manager fucks up and doesn’t want to take the heat. That’s why they’ll toss 3 year old workstations even though those workstations just spend the last 3 years intermediately running Outlook and Teams. They do this because 3 years is usually how long the warranty lasts. But once the warranty is up, they would rather buy new machines and the warranty that comes with it than support those practically new machines.

This is incidentally a great way to get an almost brand new PC at bargain prices. Just find whatever Optiplex or equivalent model that was released 3-4 years ago and buy a refurbished one.

The biggest hole that 9/11 truthers can’t account for is the fact that the US basically invaded every single country except for the countries the hijackers came from. I guess the CIA intern accidentally printed out fake Saudi passports instead of fake Iranian ones, but the lead CIA case officer decided to just run with it.

No. This type of rhetoric slides close to anti-immigration bigotry which makes sense since anti-immigration bigotry is rampant in US society. They are not colonizing XHS for the simple reason that XHS is owned, managed, and moderated by Chinese people. US users have to abide by XHS rules and social norms just like how immigrants have to abide by the laws and social customs of the country they immigrate to.

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Adblockers have been around at least since the 00s, if not earlier. It’s a cat-and-mouse game between ads and adblockers, and adblockers are losing imo. Stuff like adblockers and noscript are ultimately attempts at debloating webpages which are reactive measures against webpages being ever more bloated.

I might be wrong, but it feels easier to get into Linux now.

This is 100% true. There’s a huge difference even between Linux now and Linux 5 years ago.

And as they say, hardware being ever faster is balanced by software being ever more bloated. The only exception is SSDs which makes booting a lot faster and solves a lot of issues inherent with HDDs being electromechanical instead of being pure electronics, but I don’t see a major difference in SSDs between 2015 and now outside of them becoming cheaper.

I was going to say Instant Pot, but that came out in 2010. Linux got better, but that’s mostly incremental changes rather than a really big change on top of Windows getting a lot shittier. I guess there’s RISC-V CPUs, but those aren’t commercial products, so at best, you can say that RISC-V CPUs can be the technological breakthrough that we’re missing.

All the Chinese diaspora I know just say 新年. And it reveals an important point: nobody cares about Solar New Years relative to Chinese New Years, so there’s no point to even talk about Solar New Years, meaning there’s no ambiguity when people say 新年. For Chinese New Years, there’s traditions that are still followed with various degrees of observance. Meanwhile, there’s no tradition associated with Solar New Years. What do you have to do exactly before 1/1? People have (Solar) New Years Eve parties, but that isn’t really a tradition either because it’s not like those parties have any act that you have to do right before 1/1. Food and beverages are basically Christmas leftovers or things already associated with Christmas like eggnog.

I suppose it makes sense since Christmas is technically 12 days (hence the Christmas carol 12 Days of Christmas). Christmas Day is the one people think when they hear Christmas because USians poor understanding of Christianity cause them to think Christmas is only one day instead of twelve, which eventually got exported to non-Christian countries like Japan. 1/1 is the 8th day of Christmas and the feast associated with it is the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ to commemorate when Jesus got circumcised.

This is just the default behavior in China (and most past and present AES countries). In China, saying you’re a communist means you’re a card-carrying member of a communist party. If you’re in the party for purely careerist aims or you cheated your way into becoming a member, people will say that you’re a shitty communist but a communist nonetheless. Meanwhile, nobody gives two shits if you think communism is cool and act like the perfect communist, whatever the hell that means, if you’re not a member of a party. China isn’t like the US where you can never go to church but still claim to be a Christian because you “have a personal relationship with Jesus.” China is a place where you can disbelief the existence of gods but if you perform the proper religious rites, people will say that you are devoutly religious.

There are people who are so disabled they can’t contribute, which means the people who are not that disabled should be working even harder to cover for them. From each to their abilities to each according to their needs.

've been a tech guy forever and despite knowing about it, I only know of 1 person that had actually experienced the Dreamcast internet. This is very much nostalgia bait vs actual how things were.

Since you’re in tech, you should know how for the 2010s, we went from skeuomorphism to flat design ie Windows 7 vs Windows 8. OP is really off base.

2010s was where the trend moved away from skeuomorphism and towards flat minimalist design. The timeline makes even more sense if you demarcate by US presidential terms, so 2013-2020 instead of 2010-2020. Once upon a time, it was considered good design to make whatever button your program had to actually look like a physical button that it was supposed to represent. Just compare Windows XP/Vista/7 and Windows 8. Logos also underwent this shift. Just look at how they massacred my boy.. 2010s was when “uh aktually, an entirely empty white room is the peak of aesthetics” became a thing. Marie “does this spark joy” Kondo released her book in 2011 after all. In the early 2010s, we still had flip phones and Blackberries that all had physical buttons, but those were pushed aside for “minimalist” smartphone which had few buttons. Before the 2010s, sleek minimalist design was purely an Apple thing, but throughout the 2010s, the Applefication of design spread until everything had to be flat and minimalist by the 2020s. Corporate Memphis is just the end result of this flat minimalist design and around the time when the public began to turn against it.

For US pop culture, it makes a lot more sense to demarcate based on presidential terms. So 1981-1985, 1993-1997, 2009-2013. I’ve noticed this with 1989-1992, which has a very particular vibe (watch the intro to Saved by the Bell or Do the Bartman to see what I mean) and which just so happened to be Bush Sr. term.

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The Internet should’ve just been FTP servers sending files to each other.

Meanwhile, the CIA has their version of COINTELPRO called Operation CHAOS and the FBI has oversea offices throughout the world.

i mean the fact that Allen Dulles was one of the seven commissioners appointed to the Warren Commission should really say it all.

Nkrumah didn’t bother reading that sack of horseshit when he saw Dulles’s name.

I’ve seen leftists online (seemingly) un-ironically say travel is oppressive and all people should never venture more than 50 miles from their place of birth.

Virgin Confucius: “It’s pleasing to see friends from afar”

Chad Laozi: “There’s no need to travel further than the sound of a village rooster’s cry”

They should’ve made the connection that Tupac had familial ties to the BPP, was part of the YCL, and was probably assassinated by the FBI.