There’s a Bluesky thread (yes I know) going where people are contributing things that have gotten better in their lifetimes, and there really are a lot of things there. Things are still improving, there will always be setbacks and things left to fight for, but it isn’t impossible, things aren’t hopeless.

It leaves Trump with doing what he’s doing now, using the Executive’s considerable power to wreck whatever he likes, plus executive orders and his willingness to ignore any law that doesn’t suit him.

Judging by the Star Wars Holiday Special, this must be Chewbacca’s uncle.

AT THIS MOMENT

• The localization of the first Mystery Dungeon, Torneko’s Great Adventure, despite it having some implementation issues. It hasn’t been remade so much as ported with better graphics.
• The remake of Romancing SaGa 2, which is great.
• A new web browser roguelike, Naqbu. It’s really new and on the easy side, but I enjoyed it.

This is 22 days later but just noticed it. The Shiren the Wanderer games are true roguelikes, and great. Please try them!

Reddit has been exodusing for multiple years now. At some point, people are going to have to stop caring about the gorilla down the road and just be good, and I think Lemmy is good. Posts that make it to the front page often have over 1K reputation! It’s far from Reddit big, but it’s still big!

Disagree. This is a case of the brand actually not meaning much. “Reddit” isn’t great either, but people think it does because it’s well known.

I’m reminded of the person who said Mario was a character designed from the ground up to be marketable, when it was literally created to make a graphic of a person readable in a 16x16 sprite with three colors.

I’m sure that popes react well to being told to (adjusts glasses) “shut the fuck up.”

I mean, the sucky genre of news article that’s all “here’s an extremely rich person’s opinion” is still sucky when it’s good news. We should know what he’s doing, but shouldn’t have to care what he thinks.

A link to an article on AOL?!

Shiren 6 exists, why would I play that?

I just installed Windows 11 in a virtual machine for software development purposes.

• This machine has a valid Windows 11 Pro license, but it didn’t recognize it because it’s running in a VM.
• It installed a bunch of stuff I didn’t need and had to uninstall, because Microsoft assumed my use case.
• I had to log into a Microsoft account that I use for nothing else, using my phone’s two-factor authentication.
• I had to flip a bunch of switches NO to opt (as far as possible) out of Microsoft’s tracking.
• I had to do the updates overnight.
• When it was done, I then began the process of clearing all the crap off the computer and out of the taskbar. That’s ongoing.

Simple!