zalgotext @ zalgotext @sh.itjust.works

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I think you mean the best industry of all

Unrelated, I'm getting hungry, anyone else kinda hungry?

They used to encourage people to use a serial cable to program them. I remember when I got my Roomba nearly ten years ago, it came with a little pamphlet advertising their educational platform robot, which was basically a Roomba without the vacuum cleaning stuff. I think they intended it to be sort of the next step up from LEGO Mindstorm or something. But at the bottom of that pamphlet, there was a paragraph that basically said "hey you can get this educational robot, buuuut, the one you just bought has the exact same connections, firmware, and hardware 👀👀👀"

Sigh... it's never safe to assume you don't need the /s these days huh

You realize that "lawyer up, hit the gym" was a silly overgeneralization that eventually turned into a meme, right?

Is the Lemmy version of "lawyer up, hit the gym" basically just "cut contact with family at the slightest insult"?

You know what, it's better than writing all his passwords down in a little notebook in his filing cabinet

Right, no one does the amount of steroids Joe Rogan does without having a severe case of body dysmorphia or something similar

Huh, I just realized why I like the Fast and Furious franchise so much

They were given bootstraps to pull themselves up by, so everyone else should be able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps too!

I can't answer for anyone but myself, and I'm not European, but I absolutely trust government more than anonymous obsessive Internet people. At least governments are theoretically held in check by those they govern. Internet randos don't play by anyone's rules but their own.

Right, and I'm not arguing that cryptocurrency doesn't have value, just that it's value is based on a much less solid foundation than the value of fiat currency.

Sure, and that would make that cryptocurrency a fiat currency.

*Also, it's not even close to being new, the idea of distributed ledgers has been around for decades at this point.

Ok I'm talking about fiat currency as a concept though, not the USD specifically.

If your point is that fiat currencies are still vulnerable to some instability, then sure, I guess I agree, but fiat currencies are still orders of magnitude more stable than cryptocurrencies.

Eh, it's also the thing that makes it so vulnerable to speculation, shitcoin, scams, and nft bullshit

Why did my dumb ass think this was a cute lil baby guillotine at first

Basically all modern money is based on faith, including crypto.

Ok, sure, however, fiat currencies are based on the faith that there's at least one entire nation that you can use your currency in, and is motivated to ensure their currency is worth something, and has some semblance of stability. Crypto is based on the faith that there's other dumbasses out there that will agree with you that these particular bits hold value for some reason.

or open athletic engagement

Why did my dumb ass immediately think "what, like challenge them to a triathlon or something?" when I read that

Can't fucking wait for real life Water Wars

It feels like the plot of an episode of Parks and Rec, but like, stupider, and not funny at all

I think Wreck It Ralph was a success because it explicitly wasn't based on a real video game, more just the idea of video games, with cute little references to real games. Starting off with original IP means you don't have an incredibly dedicated fanbase that can pick apart all the inaccuracies in your lore and character portrayals, which lowers the stakes a ton.

Making a Zelda game is risky because there are a ton of people out there with preconceived notions of how Zelda and Link are supposed to be portrayed, how the world is supposed to be portrayed, and the history of that world. If they get any of that wrong, those people are gonna be big mad. The stakes are much higher there.