Bystander syndrome. YOU are the one that has to call 911!

That whole thing with James Bond was a private matter. Hank Scorpio made sure his employees were absolutely cared for.

Nintendo has never attempted to be a graphical competitor to Sony or Microsoft. It wasn’t their MO in the 90s, 00s, 10s, or 20s. Assuming that buying a Nintendo console should put you into a game market that looks like Playstations or Xbox’s is foolhardy. You buy a Nintendo console because you like Nintendo games. Their library is not lacking whatsoever. There are dozens and dozens of quality 1st party titles for the Switch. How you feel about their corporate persona is a different conversation.

The 9th generation has largely been a failure. Sales of consoles can be explained by FOMO and mid-pandemic desperation for anything new. The rate at which people are buying games, compared to the rate at which quality AAA games get developed, contrasted by the price of new AAA games, and you are literally choking out the industry. People have never been less interested in graphical fidelity as they are in 2024, and more and more people are becoming familiar with the PC ecosystem having spent a lot of time using one for remote work and school. People are finally starting to understand that digital only games are not a great investment. Games like Minecraft and Fortnite have never been more popular. Interest in the Switch 2 is middling at best. And most people see Xbox’s days being numbered. AMD only wins if people buy more consoles, and at this point, the PS5 pro isn’t really winning anyone over and those that wanted a regular PS5 already have one.

Traditionally, a 9-5 included an hour long lunch break and as many coffee/smoke breaks as you wanted.

They have no idea how shitty their company has always looked to prospective employees. Be careful what you wish for.

More like man made negligent oil spill.

GTA3

It’s been the norm now for about a decade.

They’re more or less the ones in control, so yeah, that’s apt.

When did we go from “oil companies and tech oligarchs want to exercise their influence over governments to clandestinely achieve greater wealth” to “THE PRESIDENT IS A MONOLITHIC DICTATOR THAT DECIDES ALL FOREIGN POLICY UNILATERALLY”?

An effective alternative in every sense of the word to Reddit? Nope, not by a long shot, but that’s mostly a function of time and general awareness that the platform exists. For now, it’s a great place for better political debate than what Reddit offers, and in general the memes feel more intimate, like you’re viewing something that a lemmy user might have made rather than triple deepfried imgur vomit all over Reddit.

There are backdoors for the NSA on all consumer goods that use telephony or internet services.

Making no money to own the libs. Classic.

Is it only 500,000 lines?

What if I told you that almost every person living in Western society walks around with a device that is constantly listening to you and relaying key words you utter to the NSA? I know I know, it sounds like science fiction.

Which people are you talking about? There aren’t any elected officials in the USA that are nepo hires. By definition.

According to reports from witnesses in the hotel room, he was trashing the place and displaying erratic behavior. Mental health and addiction are so fucking serious.

I’m sure there are people out there that will leap at the opportunity to buy one of these, but between emulation with modern controller mapping, and og hardware on a CRT, I’ve never stopped playing N64 games since 1996 and the prospect of buying another $250+ piece of hardware just doesn’t appeal to me. I guess if you totally missed out on the 64 era, this is a great way to bypass the tinkering emulation requires to get to a playable state (N64 peeps already know), while getting the technically best image quality possible, and be a buy. The N64 has a fantastic (albeit sort of small) library of bangers. The issue now is finding carts that aren’t priced to the moon.

I mean, yeah, he was generally always a villain in things. It wasn’t until Goof Troop that he just became simply “Abusive father and obnoxious neighbor”. He transformed from being Gul Dukat pre-DS9 to Gul Dukat in season 4.