Stovetop @ Stovetop @lemmy.world

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At first I was like "Why would anyone want to change OoT's art and mess with perfection?", but I do have to admit that I have really been craving a modern Zelda game in the vein of the N64 releases, which is a formula they haven't touched since Skyward Sword in 2011. And Oblivion just recently showed me that sometimes a new coat of paint really is all you need.

Wind Waker at least is a game that (visually) aged very gracefully and I think can still stand against newer games even now, but I've played it to death and just wish we had something new.

Also not to discredit BotW/TotK or anything, I think they are still great games and I also really enjoyed them, but they're just built different. Zelda is now a franchise of 3 distinct styles, but only two of them (2D and open world) are still getting new releases.

I dunno, this may just be my own sensibilities clouding reality, but I don't think the "onus" should be on anyone.

The process of "courtship", if you want to call it that, is definitely something that has changed dramatically between generations.

Your parents never had to bother with things like a woman specifying a time to "debut", meeting with suitors under the supervision of an elder, the taboo of an unmarried couple being alone before marriage, the obligation for a woman's family to put together a dowry, etc.

I mean, women in most of the west have only had political agency for just shy of 100 years, and even less than that as "equal" members of the workforce. Social dynamics have radically changed over the past several generations, and are continuing to change even now.

There was some indeterminate point in western society when advice like "You know what would really win her over? Duel her most eligible suitor" universally stopped being good advice, and the same is happening today with many of the dating strategies our parents grew up with.

I do want to be sympathetic, but I have to be honest in that this seems like incel rhetoric to me.

Women are under no obligation to accept the advances of any random person in public, and framing that as a "them" problem is super disrespectful.

This is the video I didn't know I was looking for in life.

I've been very into Zelda rando stuff lately, but the mod support shown here just seems above and beyond what I've seen so far from my limited experience with Ship/2Ship.

Elon Musk is definitely the kind of person to look at Rapture and think "Hey that looks like a great idea" while missing the point entirely.

Thank you for saying what needs to be said. Imperialism in all its forms is indefensible, yet I've never been able to understand the cognitive dissonance that can condemn Israel's genocide while simultaneously trying to justify what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

I think we must have different experience with .world in that case. I haven't seen the pro-Israel sentiment echoed around here, nor would I ever hold such principles myself.

I have seen some folks also hold a negative opinion of Hamas, but no one pro-Israel unless they were trolling or something.

Is this similar to the Ship of Harkinian recompiles, just as a different project?

Agreed. I'd like to support continued development of Lemmy, but I'm hesitant to do so knowing that part of those donations go to lemmy.ml's server upkeep.

I am all for coordinated movements, but organize with who, plan what, act how?

I see this kind of sentiment all the time on Lemmy and generally agree with it, but it feels like platitudes at this point when no one can recommend any concrete action.

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The cease fire they did work out which Israel repeatedly violated anyways?

Of course he did, since his boss said it was just a 3-day special military operation to begin with. How was Trump to know there would be more to it than that?

I don't think that is how the song went, the guy who was afraid to fly ended up getting on a plane, which crashed just like he was afraid it would.

Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down
He thought, "Well, isn't this nice?"

My family members complain all the time about how many robocalls and how much spam they receive each day. I have almost none.

My phone, meanwhile, has only the barebone essential apps I need, while they're still in the mindset of "I need an app for anything and everything."

I don't even know how they manage to find anything in their 10 completely full home screen pages of apps.

Similar hope here, but even then I feel like it's a lost cause.

Right now houses are expensive because land and materials are expensive, and so no one is building. You've also got investment firms and landlords buying up whatever properties they can find so they can just lease them to people and make more money over time doing basically nothing.

The economy could tank, but I don't think that would help. There would still be no one building houses, and corporations and landlords will still have more money than me. The coming die-off of the Boomers might be a better chance, but even then I don't have too much hope.

Wonder what would happen if some region passed a law capping corporations and landlords from owning no more than 2 residential properties.