Probably my first account on newgrounds, must've made it back in 2003.
I lost the password to the email I registered with and with that any chances for password recovery of said account and a bunch of other stuff of my teenage years.
Also, bots that automate play have existed since the old MUD days, this patent must be like the many that are "something that already exists, but on a computer with AI"
At times like these I'm kinda ok with portuguese lacking a "proper" word for berry. "Bago" or "baga" isn't really used, at least not in everyday life, everyone will always refer to them as fruits
For some reason, you made me think of 4chan and how it's always been a cesspool, no capitalism needed. Little did we know how most corporate social media would devolve into "4chan, but with ad-friendly moderation"
Took me a while to realize that for most people, it's less about religion and more about maintaining rituals and, more importantly, belonging to a community. To my knowledge, atheists don't have the latter outside the internet.
That a dictatorship led by a "good, strong leader" would be enough to fix any country. Held that belief from ages 16-22. With time, I understood that it would devolve into a bad strong leader anyway, especially because any one single person cannot realistically do everything at such a large scale, nor can they ensure that everyone down the chain of command is "good". Paranoia would seep in, more and more resources would be spent hunting "the bad ones", innocents would be wrongfully accused either by honest mistake or by malicious enemies.
Nowadays, I really enjoy the idea of "Do not take for yourself any power that you would loathe your worst enemy to have" and I wish it could be applied to all levels of politics.
Entertainment is a "social lubricant", so it's not entirely useless. A live show, a party, a sports game or a theater play are great for bringing people together and give them something common to talk about.
The problem is that a lot of the electronic entertainment (games, movies, series, internet) in the past 30 or so years has become fully individual.
Now now, we don't use that kind of language here, this is a family company, because our bonds create greater amplification of the synergies between the aligned areas. HR Family Relations will have a constructive discussion about your behavior paradigm within the family
Gamewinners. While GameFaqs has largely taken over and a lot of games no longer offer actual built in cheat codes, GW was one of the best resources and even had cheats that aren't on GF. Thank god archive.org still lets me browse GW
Also CMGSCCC which had soooooo many gameshark codes! It still kinda exists as codetwink now
I supposed the alternative would be browsing i2p or freenet sites, pretty much nothing but weird small blogs, almost all of them focused on security and privacy tho
Mine happened over the phone back in 2012. One of the best decisions I've made was to break up with her. We were arguing about something (no idea about what, anymore) and I angrily shouted (in ptbr) "You don't need to call me anymore, ever again, it's over for us! Good bye!" - She was very angry at me and tried to call me back several times, I turned off my cell phone and disconnected the cord of the home phone. Since those weren't working, she called my mom, to which I replied "Whatever you have to say, I don't want to hear.", finishing the call without letting her speak.
I played it out of morbid curiosity after everyone started talking how bad it was. I went in like "It can't be THAT bad, can it?" - and indeed, it can. I'm still amazed that menus are fucking .swf files (Adobe Flash for those too young to recognize it)
It's one of the least credible scifi settings I've ever seen. Also, despite the whole "multiverse" the main story tries to paint, it's much closer to a time loop, given how nothing changes and effectively none of your actions are acknowledged by anyone. City NPCs won't even react to your dragon shoutsForce use totally unique space magic, unless it hits them, then it's just like being shot. Even Oblivion guards would tell you to holster your weapons, Starfield guards won't even grunt if you shoot around like a maniac (but hit nobody)
I played DNF shortly after release 🏴☠️ , but I was already an adult by then and was aware of the development hell that the game went thru. Started playing not expecting much and I was still disappointed.
"Power armor is for pussies!" - says the guy whose game is almost literally a shitty Halo: only 2 weapons, limited ammo, regenerating shield ego.
Probably my first account on newgrounds, must've made it back in 2003.
I lost the password to the email I registered with and with that any chances for password recovery of said account and a bunch of other stuff of my teenage years.