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  • "site" does work still, I think, just plus a lot of irrelevant drivel - standard Google fare, you see it on Youtube too.

    I'd consider the most basic case to be, specifically, the "quotes for verbatim results", which definitely do not work anymore. Neither does + for a positively (hue hue) required term, a close second.

  • To be fair, back in the day you could get better results by relying on Google with site:foobar and the Boolean/"power user" stuff. A lot of built-in search boxes on sites were a bit dodgy, or at least less flexible than AND/OR/NOT and other "power user tricks".

    Of course, these days those seem to be ignored wholesale and even "verbatim quotes" are an utter crapshoot, this was back when Google didn't fucking blow.

  • N64 is my favorite console of all time, but yeah, the controller is truly batshit insane. I even had a game that intended you to hold the left and right... prongs instead of center right. In a shocking twist, it was... still pretty awkward.

    I do like PS5 controllers - mostly play N64 games on them, never even owned a PS. Used a PS4 controller before that.

  • Dpad for games that were intended for dpad, analog if the game was intended for analog.

    Analog for dpad games feels awkward in my experience, and dpad for analog games is not even an option.

  • No, I just try to. My blocklist is like forty miles at this point

    Edit: always entertaining to read rationalizations of "exposing myself to the constant depressing drudgery of political news coverage is like a moral imperative or some shit" btw

  • Scientists and other rationalists. If you wanted to be dramatic, their fight to save ourselves and the planet would be against the inertia of "common wisdom", known bugs in human psychology, the resistance of wanting to disregard the unknown or unpleasant, everyone for whom the truth (to the best of our knowledge) is economically inconvenient with the considerable economic and societal power they wield.

    They are not good odds, but it is correct against incorrect and often against malignantly incorrect, and they are all extremely formidable villains.