Yes.

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Sonic 3 came out in 1994.

…That’s because maybe you got them used or something? Like, name me one retail store back then selling games for $5 just out of the blue. I won’t wait because you wouldn’t come up with anything.

You are mixing used markets with retail prices here. Just stop embarrassing yourself.

And once news stopped covering it, that’s when shit hit the fan.

And they’ll probably be killed and that’ll be that. Yay, China… /s

Point still stands though.

If nobody finds your shit funny, they don’t find it funny. It isn’t because they’re a “snowflake” or that they “don’t get it”. Not everywhere and everyone needs to hear your shitty jokes because you feel you need to “lighten up” the world.

People just want to amuse themselves and blanket it as if it’s supposed to be some positive contribution. Who’re you trying to fool?

Yup, he’s already been working around the clock to make an even more scummier administration. I think he even wanted Vince McMahon involved too. Just more cushy jobs for people he finds friend in, through his fractured world perspective.

I don’t really know where you’re getting the idea that nobody can joke anymore on serious matters. I see it all of the time, go look at Reddit for example and browse r/news. There’s always at least 50 people making punchline jokes on otherwise serious matters.

The problem is when people expect their jokes to fly in the faces of communities that explicitly state that they don’t want that crap around. Then when the people who joke around are offended, in come cries about freedom of this and freedom of that. Dude, it’s one community, cut it out and go elsewhere. Not everyone should have to tolerate your low-hanging fruit kind of humor.

And a lot of the time too, is that people absolutely DO NOT know when something is stepping over the line. It’s the fault of the individual for not making the line apparent, but when they do, there’s a point where joking is not warranted.

Egg nog.

You’re like the very shining example of who I refer to when it comes to talking about issues people have a hard time discussing. You want to know why you may think not enough people are talking about things they should? It’s because of people who draw things down to generalization, like you. You think nothing but black and white.

You think that anything anyone says that is somewhat in what you feel is against your own narrative, they must be X for arbitrary reasons.

Nobody can say anything about other people of color or they’re racist.

Nobody can say anything about other people from different parts of the world or they’re xenophobic.

Nobody can say anything about the other gender or they’re sexist.

That’s how you think and I can’t ever imagine what it’s like in your shoes because it sounds like some internal misery is going on in your thinking process and the way you process what’s infront of you. It’s infantile, to me.

How about you call someone something when they’re actively working against the rights of or advocating the extermination of a certain group.

Just because they’re tired of something doesn’t mean they’re who you think they are. In otherwords, get a damn clue.

“Lost muh marriage”

“Lost muh job”

“Lost muh car”

“BUT AT LEAST THEM BEARS WON! WOOOOOOO!!!”

One would love renting because they’ve managed to find the sweet spot that is an area where things are relatively quiet and peaceful. Management actually cares. Tenants keep to themselves. Things are relatively retained in condition.

But if you’re living in a complex opposite of that, yeah you’ll hate everything about renting. Tenants who make you wonder how they scrounge enough money to pay monthly rents with how they behave. Management who you wonder how they keep their jobs with how they handle things and allow said problematic tenants to come rent from them. You’ll be getting e-mails of management telling you “oh, package room has to be monitored now because package theft is now a problem” or “we’ll be closing the pool down for the rest of the season because children and tenants can’t behave”

And just a bunch of other issues.

That’s quite frankly how it’s designed. Capitalism favors no one but those that have built it and continue building on it.

I’m glad we live in an era now where people finally realized that they can just not have children and for it to become more optional.

Having a kid and a family is not what it always take to have a fulfilling and happy life. For people to think that’s all it takes, would be devaluing all of their gains and the people that have helped them along the way aka friends.

Sums them up quite nicely. To include, a lot of them have a poor grasp in how the business is handled in the industry. They just think that whatever game that only like, 15 people remember will make “loads of money” if it only got a remaster. Like come on, we’ve seen mini-consoles released, we’ve seen what gets decided to be remade. It is all based on what the IP originally brought to the company in the first place.

Gamers have been awfully spoiled in the past 14 years that only gamers 20 or more years ago would have loved to dine into. So many sales. So many opportunities. So much choice.

But no, let’s throw all of that away because of a minor inconvenience or pretending to care about some game that they wouldn’t have liked anyways but pretend to now like because of some political issue.

Someone has already opened an opportunity for me to move to the UK, but for non-political reasons. Though it will remain an option.

I’ve long stopped engaging in long political debates. Namely because every time, someone is debating you for the sole purpose of winning the argument. There isn’t a lot of lee way made to admit fault or see the flaws of any arguments including their own. It just turns into a pointless debate that has no end.

Religion is the same.

It is hard sometimes to talk about the flaws about LGBTQ communities without being branded. There are flaws that I’ve seen with it and I know they’re there and continue to be there. But nobody wants to admit it and hear it, so they just go straight to labeling.

All that anyone ever wants to hear anymore is just a validated response that confirms their opinion. Because people long forgot that opinions are opinions and not any scientific source.

I was there for 9/11 like many others were growing up. Many born in 2001 and after would not understand the impact it has had on America.

I was there for the Boston Red Sox finally snapping a multi-decade streak of losing or not making it to a World Series in 2004. This is significant if you’re a sports fan, especially baseball.

I was there to see the rise of social media sites that many use today.

This is going to be hard to explain. So I’ll just simply say - go look for a show called 2 Sense, all of the episodes are available on Internet Archive. It was a very niche show that was hosted by a furry named 2 The Ranting Gryphon.

This is an online radio show that predates a tiny bit before podcasting as a term and as a form of entertainment began to gain ground. I’ll warn you that, yes some of the content on that show will not be what you’d expect. A lot of the content on that show will be politically incorrect. A lot of content on that show will come off as juvenile and immature at times, if not entire shows.

But this is the kind of show I listen to annually that just drives me back in time. Not because I particularly was in favor of the personalities of this show or anything. But it’s the things they cover and talk about that I reflect on sometimes compared to where things are now in the world and society.

I wasn’t even an active listener of this show until about 2008, towards the tail end of it’s second run. And quite frankly, listening to those episodes are very unbearable to me now because the content from 2007-2008 of the episodes are very loose and it really became a soapbox for the primary host, 2 Gryphon, to start airing out his most raw takes on how he feels about certain groups of people.

The thing people need to remind themselves is that - it’s subjective. You don’t really know how good a product is, unless it’s in your hands or you’ve got hands-on experience. It sucks, because we can’t demo everything and it forces us to sometimes take financial risks.

It just comes down to what you’re looking for out of a product. Is it X-free from Y chemicals? Does it meet a specific standard you’re looking for?

What pisses me off with reviews sometimes is how vague and scarce a review can be. Most of the time it’s people just going “It works! Thanks!” or “It sucks. Don’t buy!”. Like, I can’t evaluate a product on that alone, I need a little more to work with. And a lot of the time too is that people will just complain in a review of something that isn’t even about the product like “it didn’t arrive on time…0 stars”. How is that relevant to the product? Sounds more like a problem with the shipping service, two different things.

You don’t need to always write reviews spanning 10 paragraphs. But christ, just write more than “it sucks, don’t buy”. Why does it suck? What makes it suck? Come on, details.

Yeah but these days, if someone sets up mobile verification or 2FA, it’s not going to be that easy going through forgot password links. Codes will just be sent to a mobile phone or a recovery address that most likely won’t be seen and it’ll force the individual wanting access to go the route of hacking means.