I boycott Amazon years ago already, when a warehouse of people died because employees were told that the government’s tornado warning was just hyperbole.

Amazon is an evil company that treats its workers like garbage, and practices some of the most vile anti-union practices.

I cancelled my Amazon Prime account and never bought a single item through Amazon anymore. I don’t buy anything from Temu either, by the way.

And yet there’s an incredibly high demand for playing old Nintendo games. When Nintendo occasionally sells emulated old games on newer consoles, they tend to sell pretty well. The NES and the SNES mini were much sought after and best-sellers.

So imagine if Nintendo offers the games in their entire retro library (that they are licensed to offer) with an official emulator for people to buy. That would evaporate the piracy of retro Nintendo games pretty quickly.

However, Nintendo doesn’t want that. They like completely manufactured, artificial scarcity. And so there’s piracy. A lot of piracy.

I might. Was quite a number of years ago when this was a hot topic on GBATemp when someone looked at the code of the NES mini.

They don’t want people to play their old games either. Nintendo creates an artificial scarcity by only occasionally releasing older titles to their newer consoles, despite that those older titles are quite literally running on emulators… Emulators that use a lot of the open source code the community they hate has created.

The only way it’s going to die down is if it gets replaced with the next tech bro buzzword.

The previous one was “smart”, and it stuck around for a very long time.

Warframe is a hell of a drug.

I going to padentic here, but the guy’s name was Julius. Cesar was his title. We’ve also had other Cesars, like Augustus and Trajanus. And since the salad isn’t called “Julius Salad…”

Føtex in Denmark is to start marking American products, so now it’s easier to know if you’re buying something American or something European.

I think Canada is also going to make a few trade deals with us.

How heavy are you talking about? Pretty sure that, here in Denmark at least, there are rules to giving a back-breaking amount of books and homework to carry.

If it’s not back-break… walk.

Both can be true. I love public transport, but I wouldn’t take the bus for 1.5 km. I’d walk or, at most, take my bike.

Yes, also if it’s a little rainy outside.

Yeah… You know, there is something being said here, but you’re completely missing the point.

Let me put it another way; the cop is Goliath, symbolically. A big, giant, well armed brute that beats down on a minority. Get it now?

Yes. I caught on to this waaaaaaaayyyy back when League just starting getting traction, esports weren’t really a thing, and I also played some Yu Gi Oh.

Both has the same sort of design, as ilæustrated nicely by this meme; the match is nearly always decided early, and for the rest of the game you’re either just styling on the opponents, or you are getting styles on.

Victories didn’t feel good, losses felt even worse, and I began to understand why people rage and break their keyboard. Games like these fuel such behaviour.

I mean, it’s true… From a certain point of view.

“Do or do lot. There is no try.”

• Yoda.

Someone needs to see Measure of a Man. :)

Except Vision isn’t a robot, he’s an android. Or maybe more than that; a synthetic life form. He is his own person, with his own wants and needs. He can feel and develop opinions on things. He’s not merely a computer with a personality algorithm.

That very optimistic, considering what Musk is doing g with AfD, and how they are distressingly gaining power.

Or the right wing situation in France…

I’m up for it, down for it, up for it, down for it. This is me jumping in excitement.

Runs water along it. Washing you ass, with your hand.

No, a bottle of water. Actually wash your ass.