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  • I live in Rome so you'd think I'd see more asshole tourists but surprisingly I've never seen anyone being outright awful! Maybe all the crazies just go to Venice lol. The ones that irk me the most though, as someone who takes public transit, is people with 0 train/bus manners, stop trying to get on while other people are getting off!! Step the fuck out of the way oh my god some of us are trying to get to work!!

  • Ohh interesting! So would her chromosomes be XXY?

  • They're gorgeous!! I'm curious, what do you mean by hermaphrodite?

  • Immediately thought of Sonic Adventure 2 lol I've never met anyone who actually owned a pair (I don't think they ever made it to Europe but I might be wrong)

  • Huh I actually never considered that, thanks! I'll chuck it in the machine next time I wash my dog's harness

  • I got one this morning!! Immediately clocked it as a scam lol. I didn't delete it but it disappeared from my inbox so I guess the account was closed

    I feel like of all places to try and scam people lemmy is... Not a good choice? From what I've seen (and I haven't been around too long tbf) the community gravitates towards more tech-savvy and educated people, so unlikely to fall for scams like these. They'd have better luck on Facebook probably, just attach an AI-generated Jesus and they'd make mad cash lmao

  • I got a wired wired XBox360 controller at GameStop 10 years ago for a really good price and it works wonders! I'm on Windows 8.1 and for most games it doesn't require any sort of configuration either, I just plug it in and it works right away

  • Mh, not sure how I feel about these. On one hand, as someone who mostly buys games secondhand, I appreciate they can be resold unlike actual digital releases. But what's going to happen in 15-20 years when Nintendo pulls the plug on the Switch servers and eShop? Won't these stop working? So at that point it's just a piece of plastic whereas physical cartridges would still let you play games. Feel free to correct me if I'm misunderstanding how they work!

  • Not sarcasm just a poor choice of words haha. You're right in that the internet wasn't safer, what I was trying to get across was that at least when there were sites for children they had a curated space where they wouldn't be exposed to anything inappropriate, whereas now they're on sites that don't cater to children (and nor should they!) where they're exposed to lots of things they shouldn't be exposed to

  • You're right, the word safe there was a poor choice lol. But I still do think the internet was at least better for children when there were designated sites/communities for them with appropriate moderation, instead of children being on social media. Though of course the ideal would be for them to be playing outside but that's a whole different discussion

  • Issues with Flash and the actual quality of those games aside, what I really miss from that period of the internet was that children could use it safely. There's no spaces for children on the internet anymore and I think that's really sad, nine year old should be playing Hannah Montana dress-up not get eating disorders from TikTok influencers

    Edit for clarity: I didn't mean to come off as though I think the internet was ever safe for unsupervised children because that's not what I believe. What I was trying to say is that the loss of spaces made for children, with adequate content curation and moderation, pushed children on social media which is awful for them

  • Good post op!! My first Pokemon game was FireRed and bulbasaur was my first choice too - one day I want to restart my save and soft reset for a shiny one!

  • I keep two windows side by side: the left one has my email, youtube and sometimes a comic I'm reading or audiobook; the right one has a browser virtual pet game I check every few hours and is where I open new tabs to check lemmy, imgur, etc. Pretty clean! But then the moment I work on either art or coding I open a third window that usually gets to 10+ tabs oops

  • Every time I hear a new piece of news about the Switch 2 it's disappointing. Bummer

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  • My grandmother's great uncle (so talking about the late 1800s) was killed by lightning while out on horseback during a storm. Pretty crazy odds huh?

    For something spicier, around the end of Italy's involvement in WWII Mussolini called his followers to move to the north of Italy. My aunt's family were fascists (my aunt was a child at the time) and they were planning on going there too with this bus that was gathering fascists to move them all north. My aunt's family had one massive trunk with all their belongings and it didn't fit into the bus so they were forced to stay... Which was ultimately a good thing because that bus was stopped by the partisans who gunned everyone down before reaching Milan. So my aunt dodged a bullet, both figuratively and literally oof

  • To be fair to the DS, playing 3D platformers with a d-pad isn't great lol so I can see why developers mostly stuck to 2D games

  • Oof I feel you there, I never got any event distribution that was tied to a real life location because they just never did them in the countries I lived in. ;; The wi-fi ones imo mitigated this a bit since you could get them anywhere so long as you had a wi-fi connection, but it is a bummer so many things in these games are now forever locked away due to time

  • It's also worth mentioning you can get most (if not all?) event pokemon through wiimmfi! It's also a lot more reliable than I first assumed, I still regularly play Animal Crossing Wild World with a friend through it and never had a single connection issue

  • Skies of Arcadia!! So much of the Dreamcast library is on Steam it's crazy to me they skipped out on this one. Yes I know I can just emulate it but I'd love to see it on Steam haha

    Tales of Xillia 1 and 2 as well, as far as I know they've yet to be released from the PS3 prison. I do have some semblance of hope for these ones though seeing as Bandai Namco are pretty good about remasters/rereleases