DrAnthony @ DrAnthony @lemmy.world

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I seriously doubt Nintendo would get into a situation where they are less than a year away from a new console without even soft announcing it's coming in an investor meeting or anything. They announced Switch (as the upcoming NX) in April 2016 for a March 2017 launch. WiiU was announced April 2011, for a November_{Dec 2012 launch. The Wii was hyped 2 years in a row in 2004 and 2005 before releasing in 2006, and the Gamecube was announced August 2000 before a Sept}Nov 2001 release. Nintendo may very well be launching new hardware early next year, but history points more to a Switch Pro unless they announce VERY soon and the release window is more late summer~fall 2024.

That's true, but you also have to consider that the 65+ block is a smaller chunk of the population, currently pegged at 16.8% whereas 18 to 44 accounts for 35.9%. The moves the GOP are making are definitely upsetting the 30-somethings too, especially since they have been on the student loan treadmill for over a decade in a lot of cases. Depending on where you look (my quick glance was from Pew) the millennial voting block was roughly equal to the 65+ in sheer count. It just makes zero logical sense to keep pushing way past the point of diminishing returns on trying to get more of the boomer vote at the cost of nearly every other demographic.

I think it's less a change in sentiment and more if they've driven away all but the "true believers". I know the sub I modded lost almost all their long time active mods and are down to the bottom of barrel with a few exceptions (whom all don't seem long for the sub either at least at the time of my exit).

but you won’t convince me that there weren’t some kind of backdoor deals which gave them money or other perks from advertisers.

I was a mod for r/games for years and never got a single perk. I must have been doing it wrong.

I feel your pain there. I made the switch during the pandemic thanks to my lectures all being recorded. Hearing myself start every single class with "Okay guys let's get started" was just so cringey that I had to do something.

I feel like there's still an acceptable way to do this as long as you keep it respectful and follow the mantra of "say more with less". For example, let's say we were at a cookout and I came by and said "Hey dude, have you seen Josh Allen's girlfriend? She's absolutely stunning". You pull your phone out Google her we both nod and then move on to something else. If it lingers more than that or wades into the more murky waters of specifics then I agree it's totally over the line.

So how many hours did you spend in there? There's just so much interesting stuff and the mini restaurants inside are solid too! I think the first trip my wife and I made in there went for like 2~3 hours and we left with a wild assortment of stuff you just won't find anywhere else.

I'm just thankful that Firefox still exists. I switched over back in 2003 and got hooked on Thunderbird as well.

It's sad that there's absolutely nothing at the Cincinnati Zoo dedicated to or even slightly hinting at Harambe ever even existing. The closest thing to a memorial is a statue of him outside of Jungle Jim's all the way over in Eastgate.

I think perspective is key here. Setting aside the low barrier of entry that can't possible keep the truly dreadful garbage out, on mobile you're super limited on your input method (touch screen and not so great motion controls). This tends leads to devs gravitating towards the sort of genres that were historically plagued with low quality shovel-ware on platforms like the Wii. As others have said, true gems exist, although I'd argue that the best of the best do tend to ports from more capable platforms. Titles like Dicey Dungeons, Slay the Spire, and others along those lines have rich play mechanics underneath of the simple touch interface. It really all depends on how how far you want to dig, and how deep of an experience you want (there are hundreds of good enough match 3 games if that's your jam).

I'll have to go check them out, thanks

If that is who I think you're referring to, we didn't overlap. The founders were gone and made persona non grata (the group gets their feelings hurt when people leave) a VERY long time ago so I'm effectively a stranger to them that's associated with a group that was hostile to them even if I believe there was complete turnover. Have a look at the mod list now, the longest tenured member is probably at the 4 year mark with the bulk of the team at a year or less. It's a toxic meat grinder.

Well that and we've (as in the scientific community) been beating the drum of beta amyloid for decades with little evidence to support causation rather than correlation. In fact, there's stronger data supporting monomers or short chains as the toxic element and that they just get big and crash out later after the damage was done.

Thank you! If you know of any communities in Tech/STEM (I'm a phd biochemist btw) that need some help just point me in their direction.

Compare the mod list today to from say January, or some time last year via the internet wayback machine. It's quite sad. Also, for obvious reasons I'm using a different username here.

Yeah, if that place dies it'll be a wither on the vine situation with a somewhat slow negative feedback loop rather than anything overnight. Or it might limp along a wounded and lesser animal ala twiiter.

Thanks, sadly it was a lot easier than you may think. Unless they make major changes there I can't see them lasting.

I didn't plan on naming names, but it was r/games

I cut ties today. I had been a mod in a sub of over 3 million users for years. All reasonable folk on the mod team were gone and a huge fight broke out because I suggested that we "Try to be decent to each other" as if it was the most offensive statement they had ever heard. I have zero regrets leaving that kind of toxicity behind.

It's not like they haven't tried in the (admittedly distant) past. The PC Madden ports of the mid 2000's even supported ATI Truform tessellation. I can't think of any other titles that weren't built using Idtech engines (or relatives like Goldsrc) that did, so they clearly tried.