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• I wanna ah I wanna ah I wanna…
• SHE HAS A STROKE!

Yeah, but it was mostly some early-soviet-nostalgy nerds who would talk to you about taking the power back while you were drinking cheap beer in the backalley.

It is a great natural camouflage if you crawl through mud or a kindergarten

Well, I once got a callback from a mobile operator support rep, and she was speaking so perfectly (tone, pauses, the way she built sentences, everything), that our conversation came out like:

• Booooring! Give me human. Human operator. O-pe-ra-tor! Person!
• I’m sorry, but you will have to deal with the fact I’m real lol
• !!!
  I don’t know what she was doing at a call center, because that was a professional voiceover or advertisement level

Yeah, apple always hated the “(any device) is a thing with folders and files inside” paradigm - it was always “I got this app that plays music, I don’t know how”. So it would be crazy if they would just make any device show the contents of the drive.

I was selling smartphones and smartphone accessories when they were just emerging, ending PDA era, and we had FM transmitters - it is powered from car, you plug in your device through aux, and the transmitter sends out the sound in FM, so you can catch it on your effin radio (the frequency were either fixed or selectable). This was the future!

“I’m an old man, and I am a trusting person. Best trusting person there is. You gotta trust young people, they are the future of our great country! And this highwayman took advantage of it, he robbed me, he robbed America! And he’s the one who took that papers, you’ll hear about 'em, not me!”

All over them!

The US breasts are so unremarkable, they have to import from Brazil now!

Oh, I have two independent kids, and we’re good.

I tend to write a list of bullet points whenever I think, and it’s a good thing. Also, I got no one to save now.

I’m sick at home so I don’t have much to do :)
And Shitpost is one of the places on Lemmy which make surprisingly more sense.

On subject: A better answer from the dad - yes, completely justified.

Yeah, we know that he’s away (I’d assume he’s not fishing from his backyard, then he is definitely the asshole).
I got heavily downvoted, but just to collect the facts and assumptions:

1. The kid is not a child, it is an adult who is able to drive.
2. He (she?) is saying that they’re okay, so they are not endangered anymore
3. Dad is out fishing. And places where people fiah are usually not 5 minutes from home
4. Mom’s car is wrecked - that’s the most probable reason to write dad, as he has an “non-wrecked” car
5. As it’s Mom’s car that is wrecked, she probably needs to know that, arrive at the spot anyway, because insurance, police, stuff like that. The “child” probably doesn’t want to call her because she could be quite upset.
6. There are taxis.
7. If mom is at work, I think a wrecked car and a “child” at the roadside is a good enough reason to leave for the day.
   Summarizing all that, I don’t see how mom is out of the picture where she has one more reason to know about the situation, and how the adult offspring didn’t leave home in a taxi.

A child who drives, nice. It looks like it is an adult. And he’s saying that he’s fine, so from now it’s an economical, not a life-saving problem.
“Dad is fishing” sounds like he’s more “remote” himself

“My dad should magically make himself available and unfuck the situation I’ve created”. Well, no. At least call mom first and own the problem.

WHO ARE YOU, teije9? WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

The market did change in the end of 90s-start of 2000s - before, games were mostly done for “nerds with PCs”, because usually only well-off adults had something decent at home. Then, mass adoption of PCs, PS3and XBox, led to age of an average gamer drop to a teenager, for the first time in history. So many games were, in general, “dumbed down”. Now we see a great picture of market coming back, and there is a shitton of everything engineering/economics.. I’m not saying that middle schoolers don’t deserve to play games - they do, and I did. It’s just, for example, WoW’s “account bound” and “char bound” stuff wasn’t a good thing, but it then became a standard, and started an age of microtransactions (will you argue itcs a bad thing?)

I talk shit about “not doing shit” people

Absolutely - for me it’s not about making games “scary”, it’s about having “extreme reward/extreme punishment” mechanics which change players behaviors in interesting ways. But specifically, punishing unrealistic behaviours when you are afk and your character is in a scary forest, or when you are in a deadly desert choosing emojis in the chat

Oh, of course in case of two examples I made, there are safe areas, stuff to do if you want to live in peace, etc. In Ultima, only you could unlock the door of your own house so hiding inside would work. And inside towns you could call npc quards (so everyone would have it as a shortcut).
In Eve there are many protected systems, it’s just getting stuff from nullsec (lawless/unowned) systems could be more lucrative, so you learn to take your risks.
I know it’s not always that way - as I see from Rust memes, everyone is just chaotically running around killing new players - but maybe it doesn’t show the real picture