That leaves out how public opinion changed after motive was known.
The assassination brought the many social issues with the Unification Church under the spotlight again, as well as tumbled the approval of the ruling party. Under the public pressure, the responsible ministry decided to file a dissolution order against the UC with the Tokyo District Court on 13 October 2023, after nearly a year of investigation of wrongdoings
Japanese people cosplaying Yamagami's appearance during Abe's assassination were spotted at events like the rally against Abe's state funeral. These cosplayers held cardboard signs displaying the leaders they were against: Abe, Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
I have a similar issue... I have done slightly more than nothing, I really struggle trying to think of small projects that actually work for me.
The few things I've done I stop at a certain point because I have no motivation for the actual content or there are platform issues. One thing I made was maybe usable but was likely too much of a time sink for me.
Though I keep trying other things hoping enough pieces fit that I can think of something.
EDIT: I don't know if it is any help but what I've mentioned were text formats+loaders.
It is a free and easy way to experience 75% of the experience without even downloading it (data bloat has massively ballooned too, perhaps needlessly in some cases). Also linear stories, or procedural things not being as deep as they seem.
Even when it comes to indie-appearing stuff I often don't like the direction of the game design/difficulty, so it will likely be a more enjoyable experience in those cases too. The narrator also cuts boring bits or issues, also may do things I would not especially when it comes to skill or knowledge of said game. They may do silly things or tell a story. This may be 300% experience (of a new mix).
EDIT: Also never really been into the idea of multiplayer games, competitive or cooperative for different reasons. So watching is a new avenue for that.
Nintendo has increasingly become a problem over the last decade
Of the other related videos, one by Knowledge Husk (7FWyhlS3kvc) points to the CEOs being an issue and that they just had one (1) good CEO: Satoru Iwata (particularly because he was a computer scientist who was pro-consumer).
Now I doubt Nintendo was fully non-evil in 2002-2015 (considering Nintendo actions with 2010s-era Youtube) but I'm sure it was probably the better side of Nintendo.
Not just crushing fan games, but also issues with the Smash bros community, pricing and availability, eshops shutting down (+needing to buy those games again on new consoles or it's not even available at start), stick drift, fan content policy, also Youtube strikes/claims (both newer for specific reasons and an entire era for let's plays in general). 20 years of content removed from Gmod.
And no this isn't about Japanese law, they choose to be this way.
For actual specifics (and more issues) 2 videos: UKD_wnB9AMU and xgKY9hmbfgo
I check a lot of those boxes but have never had many points on most websites. The difference I think is that I don't often make posts/threads (comments alone usually don't get as many views/points, posts may get thousands of points).
Those with the most points often make posts multiple times an hour (often a dozen posts in a day) particularly if they become "known" for some theme/gimmick (which may add to ego). Also at that point they likely have parasocial users backing up their ego and buffoonery.
I don't know if any of those "no life" people are behind this or not. I suspect people posting like this, especially when it is blog-like (their job, some other interaction) are likely normal outgoing people who just have their phone with them to post whenever they have a spare moment. It may even be a similar archetype to "influencer" (one unlikely to show their face) especially if they are saving many things ahead of time to post later. That, and the inevitable monetization even if it's just gifts/favors from strangers.
Assuming the law doesn't mandate their desired beliefs, I am still waiting for the video of red-faced yelling at a school-board meeting after the tiniest mention (or perhaps a poorly-printed picture of the cover) of the Qur'an.
Just to add, there seems to be some issue with thumbnails on .cafe, from the admin:
Yes, there’s clearly some problem with the change introduced in lemmy 0.19.7 where thumbnail generation was changed to force a smaller size (and potentially something else). Still not entirely sure which part - lemmy or pict-rs - is misbehaving, but working on both fronts trying to find the culprit. Nothing so far, unfortunately
This sounds completely backwards, like if you are talking purely about investment.
If not it seems to completely ignore that high prices alone would discourage spending, particularly on non-essential things (even then, don't think for a second that there aren't people skipping healthcare or meals).
The only other way I could interpret would be that high prices force people to spend more money on just essentials (even if they're buying less than they otherwise would), somehow painting living paycheck-to-paycheck as a good thing because it means more money in the economy.
Yeah, I am at the point a med-sci student could convince me to let them attempt to preserve my brain.
My life now is such that life in a VR network ran by non-profit scientists in the future would be an improvement. Though I would like to have options for existence, so long as homeostasis is not an issue (ideally organic and symbiotic systems rather than fully tech). Toasters should get to enjoy nature once-in-a-while, too.
The problem I have is that preventing euthanasia does not mean there will be a significant effort to reduce the desire for it in the first place. If anything, I would say there are also perverse incentives (particularly in the US) for not allowing people to have that choice (also leaving isn't really viable for many suffering either). Ideally using those choices would push a government for some changes... although I know it probably would not fix malice, greed, or incompetence etc.
Personally I would take a chance to test (physical, cheap) brain preservation if it were an option (esp. if I could set some revival conditions/scenarios). I know there would be no guarantee, though it is the tiniest step up from non-existence and I do think it should make some difference in the tone.
Buy a house? Best I could hope for (assuming I could even make it to the border without a car) would be if they'd let me get into the MAID program. A tester for cheap brain preservation, if I'm lucky.
This is not a joke, I find the pearl-clutching about euthanasia silly when the alternative is business-as-usual (particularly here in the US where social programs are fought against).
Elo, who? What? Nooo, he's... uhh... Æléon 3000! Does it at all resemble a real set of events that happened? I sure hope not, that'd be an interesting coincidence.
That leaves out how public opinion changed after motive was known.