Libra00 @ libra00 @lemmy.world

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When I first started playing video games they were 320x200 in 4 colors, and they weren't even good colors, they were cyan, magenta, black, and white., so yeah, I'm not that fussed about graphics.

Yeah I've played it, I preferred Pirates! because it's more about the adventure than just endless combat. Honestly I rarely even shoot the cannons on my ship except to very occasionally chain-shot someone's sail or grape-shot their crew before I go board the ship and win it via fencing, so I'm not even all that into the combat.

I mean everybody has their own experience so I'm not gonna tell you you're wrong, but that's not been my experience.

I spent more than 10 years playing text-based roleplaying games (MUSHes) from like ~1993 on, and even people who had multiple scenes a day that were well beyond short story length were frequently just god-awful at spelling. I had a lot of bad habits I picked up from back then that I've had to break, some of which (misspelling 'separate' as 'seperate', f.ex) that still get me sometimes. So at the very least there has been no shortage of awful spelling in the early days of the internet.

By the same token I now spend at least an hour or two a day reading lemmy, reddit, etc and usually several more playing video games where I should've been exposed to all this awful typing going on and I have not noticed an increase, much less one worthy of capital letters.

So, I'm not saying it's impossible, just that as someone who has spent a significant portion of their life reading text on the internet it doesn't seem likely to me.

Does that even run on windows without a bunch of hoop-jumping and some jank-ass chunky qt-style UI elements? I seriously haven't looked at GIMP in like 25 years.

Holy shit that is cancer, the audio is so bad I can't even turn the volume on like 1%. I'm gonna go ahead and say I probably missed the boat on that one, but I appreciate the suggestion.

All I use paint for is like drawing red underlines under text in screen grabs and shit like that. The most 'pro' feature I ever use is when I sometimes misclick the rounded rectangle tool instead of the rectangle tool and I'm too lazy to fix it. I'll give that a shot tho, thanks.

I dunno if you've been paying attention, but we don't really do consequences for the rich in this country.

This is what I think of. https://m.youtube.com/@RareEarthSeries

Welp, time to delete that shit and find replacements. Notepad++ is a solid upgrade over notepad, there must be something similar for paint that doesn't have a steep learning curve?

By learning the hard way that holding onto grudges just makes me an angry person and that life is far more enjoyable if I just let that shit go. You're the only one bearing the toxic weight of that resentment, it doesn't affect them at all, so who are you holding onto it for? It only makes your life worse.

Gotta go with the old school here, Sid Meier's Pirates! No water physics, graphics from 2004, etc, but so much fun that I've been playing it since the original came out in 1987. Hell, i was playing the 2004 remake just last week even.

Sure, and I haven't used a telco in ~20 years unless you count cell carriers. But yeah I'm by no means saying bigger companies are necessarily better about this, as I said, just that this is a curious counter-example to your earlier claim that breaking up the telco monopoly didn't lead to nobody building telecom infrastructure.

Pretty much never these days. Don't like the crowds and noise. But in my 20s i went to concerts almost once a month, and I would buy a t-shirt at every one. Used to have large collection of bsnd shirts back in the day.

Heh, indeed.

Nor the more substantial argument I was making, it seems, since you didn't seem to take the time to understand it. Fair enough, I can respect the ability to walk away from a discussion you don't have a counter-argument for even if you don't seem to have the ability to admit it.

That's a fair point, I was just wondering if they had a specific theory as to why it suddenly changed since they were asserting that it had.

Ah, fair enough. My bad for assuming.

My guess is it's just the frequency illusion, because they're also super common among Americans who have only ever spoken English from birth. My theory is that these types of misspellings (like 'itsplain' instead of 'explain') are from folks who don't read a lot and therefore seem to be guessing on spelling based on what they've (mis)heard rather than having seen it on the page/screen enough to notice the correct spelling.

Oh, I thought you were saying there was some additional config. Cool, thanks.

What possible cause could there be for lots of people to suddenly start spelling worse? Wait, this isn't another of those 'smart phones are making us dumb!' posts is it? Cause people have said that about pretty much every invention since the printing press. It's probably just the frequency illusion, where you notice something for no particular reason and then start seeing it everywhere, especially if you're only noticing changes over the period of a few months. Spelling was every bit as bad in 1995 as it is in 2025. Maybe worse due to the lack of access to spell-checking, auto-correct, online dictionaries, etc, and you can notice it especially in people who don't read much (which is how you get spellings like 'itsplain' instead of 'explain', it seems like they're guessing based on what they've (mis)heard instead of seeing it on the page/screen) even long before smart phones were a thing.