Lost_My_Mind @ Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world

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Back in 1997 there was a storyline in WWF with a professional wrestler named Bret Hart.

Bret is a Canadian. And the storyline was that he was a bad guy in the USA, because he bad mouthed USAs healthcare, and treatment of veterans.

He was a good guy everywhere in the world EXCEPT the USA.

He said things like "Back home in Canada, we still act like decent people. Where we take care of the sick, and the elderly. We honor our veterans who served our country. Not like here where you dump them in the streets and spit on them as they suffer. I can't wait to get back to Canada. A real country to be proud of. Not this fascade of an image that your country tries to project. All men are created equal, huh? Kind of hard to take that seriously, when the quotes author was a slave holder."

Yeah. Professional wrestling was WILD in the late 90s. But I bet you thought it was just muscle roided beefy boys beating their chests and shaking the ropes, huh?

My point is, we've NEVER taken care of our own people. Even a professional wrestler 30 years ago could see that.

Just going to leave this right here

.........ok, now, you say literally. Do you literally mean literally? As in we're shipping people there with the intention of killing them?

Because that's both shocking, but also believable. There is no floor for this administration.

Soooooo.......I don't WANT to believe the government is using official government resources to kill people. But at the same time, we literally have had two government officials do nazi salutes on tv this year.

A maga death camp would be shocking, but not surprising. As sad as that would be to say.

About 3 hours.

They built it so fast, I'm still not sure what these new buzzwords even mean. I've seen these terms for the past 7 days. Everyone but me seems to know them.

Before 7 days ago? Never heard that term before.

Their life is over unless they have all of their stuff!

I'm ok with these peoples lives ending.

Here's what we do. We all stop buying.

Stop buying what?

Yes.

Stop.

Line goes down until they stop.

My body is made of trees.

I can say that. I can offer no evidence. I can do no work to prove it. I can ignore how half the country knows I'm full of shit, and still have half the country believe my bullshit.

And if the situation changes, I can always move the goalposts.

Either way, I gain nothing by trying harder, and face no consequences either way.

What motivation do I have to even try to be more secret in my corruption?

Hell, why is sleep so hard for most humans?

raises hand

Literally in the top 1% of karma users in 2023. Banned in 2024 for.....

checks notes

........posting a comment that my bike was stolen when I was 7.

Reddit claims the ban was done by a human. However I just cannot see a human looking at the post I got banned for, and saying "This guy deserves to get banned".

My best theory, based on the timeline, is that they offered me a presale enter IPO offering before it went public. At the time I was on cancer treatment, and had $0 income, with my two sisters and mom paying for my apartment.

I had no ability to buy an IPO.

3 days after it went public, I still didn't own stock, and was banned. Because I said my bike was stolen 30+ years earlier.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa!

Cheeses? Meats? Sandwiches? AND a wife??? Buddy! Stop bragging! Next you'll tell me you own a home and have no debt!

......orally? Ew.

Fireworks sales are legal in Ohio. Setting them off is illegal.

However buying them and harvesting the gun powder seems pretty easy.

Eh, that depends. I feel like Boeing doesn't put much craftsmanship in. How hard could it possibly be to build a boeing quality aircraft? Some styrofoam and some duct tape, right?

I mean......I feel like that's enough, honestly. Jack Black voiced Bowser just because he can sing. Chris Pratt voiced Mario.....for reasons I still don't understand.

I was never a Charles Martinet fan, and Capt Lou Albano is dead. But at least Arin IS a voice actor. Shit, he could probably do what The Simpsons and Family Guy do, where one guy voices like half the characters.

He could do Mario, Toad, DK JR, and Sugar Bear. I know Sugar Bear isn't a Nintendo property, but fuck it, ya know? Have you seen him voicing Sugar Bear and Granny? I could legit watch a weekly 30 minute cheaply animated show where they keep having Sugar Bear steal Grannys cereal.

Although I do think he, and JackSepticeye, and Markiplier and Danny Sexbang all spread themselves a tad thin at times. Taking on too many projects at once.

I can't blame them though. Their lives look fun. Basically they wake up and get to ask themselves "Ok, what stupid shit do I want to do today?"

And then we get the 10 minute power hour, where they learn to do cirque del soil, or they order a bunch of kit kat flavors from amazon.

I'd be much fatter, but much happier if I was told "Your job today is to eat chocolate in the morning, and at 3pm you're going to talk in silly voices working for Nintendo.

Imagine living THAT life.

You think I'm AI? You realize I'm a mod at fuck_ai, right?

My butthole smells like fuck.

Good luck getting an AI to say THAT! Also, please hate the wealthy. Forget racism. Forget religious divides. Forget every other social divide there is......except fuck the wealthy, free Luigi, and fuck the police.

Blame Nintendo.

Back in the early 1980s fresh off the video game crash of 1983, Nintendo was on the verge of releasing the Famicom in Japan, and needed a way to market the console in America.

There was just one rule. In America, video games were dead. A fad. Disco was dead, and so were video games. So it wasn't a Famicom. It was a Nintendo Entertainment System.

In stores like Woolworths (think Walmart but not terrible) and Hills (think Target, but also a bit shady) they tried marketing the NES as an Entertainment system. It wasn't a video game. It was an appliance. Like a VCR. It was the only way to get stores to agree to stock the damn thing. No store wanted the risk of a video game.

Well, after a year of selling, and research Nintendo found kids were the main target of their product.

So they shifted away from the electronics section and into the toy isle. There was just one problem. Toy stores in America were divided. Some isles carried toys for boys, and the other half of the isles carried the toys for girls.

A bit of market research showed that interest in Nintendo shifted slightly more towards boys. 55%‐45%.

What happens next is the key to the PS2 ads.

Nintendo chose to carry the NES in the boys section of the toy isles. Which had an IMMEDIATE influence over not only the marketing in America, but also the direction developers took their games.

There was a clear shift towards the games AND the marketing being geared towards boys 5-13.

Nintendo then DOMINATED the video game landscape. Seriously. If your mom today is roughly 80 years old, theres a pretty good chance she calls all video games "Nintendos" (regardless of brand), the same way she calls all tissues "kleenex". Or if you're from the south (especially Georgia) all soft drinks "coke". Could be orange soda, it's a coke. Just like it's one of those Xbox 1080p Nintendos.

Well by the time of the PS2 days, that influence, even though Sony had nothing to do with it, had caked over. Video games were now very male centric, and the age range grew up with them.

In the late 80s, you were 5 years old playing super mario bros. In the mid 90s, you were 13 playing tomb raider and argueing with friends over the validity of a nude cheat code. And by 2001 you were 18 and horny, and....hey, look at these ads for the PS2. They're edgy!

And that is my TedTalk on why raunchy dreamcast ads, and raunchy PS2 ads goes all the way back to the atari 2600 game crashing the whole industry worldwide 20 years earlier.

That, and puberty.

Atari 2600

Tickle tickle!

Oh, thats ok. I can just live with you. I'll sleep in the master bedroom. And you can sleep....somewhere, I imagine.