Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6

Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I’m a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.

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They have people on talkshows every so often who claim to remember being born but they are clearly fantasists since consciousness doesn’t start in earnest until we are ~2.

Personally, it feels like I’ve got a limited amount of memory and the older I get the more years I cram into it. The early memories are starting to get crowded out.

I get your point that reddit nominally has more privacy. I only said “arguably” because I think privacy is an illusion in both cases (which, admittedly, is a bit of an orthogonal take). If there isn’t true privacy anywhere then there is the additional downside of reddit data being actively marketed/presented to 3rd parties.

Arguably, lemmy is going to be more private than reddit because your data are being queried, refined, quantified and categorised by reddit to be sold off to the highest bidder. If a different actor is just scraping activitypub they need to do all of that themselves.

More generally, I’m not sure if we should ever think about something posted online as being private. You can post form data that is secured to your bank or whatever but they are analysing all of that data on their side. Similarly the large email providers are aware of the contents of all your emails.

“Social media” is a really vague term. I think there are broadly 3 categories:

• Web2.0 social media: facebook, twitter, discord, reddit

• Forums: Old school web fora, (mastodon & lemmy?)

• Debateable social media: IRC, email chains/threads

Only the first category is relatively new and has captured the attention of the general public outside of nerds. The other two are either decentralised or are niche centralised sites. IMO it seems like the web 2.0 stuff is most problematic but not sure if it’s the hyper-centralisation or their general popularity that is the issue.

Mixture of people who use the same linux distro as me (gentoo), FOSS devs and people I find using hashtags with my interests in them (RPG & JRPG games, movies, sports, etc.)

Edit: also called steeznson on there, instance is glasgow.social if you want to find me

I don’t have a reddit account and only comment on lemmy. Although I do check the reddit frontpage every so often the actual communities I interact with are here.

Other than that, I have a mastodon account which I’m quite active on and a letterboxd too. Last thing would be linkedin but I don’t post there and maybe login to it once a quarter.

France is particularly patriotic out of Western countries I’ve visited. Not an expert but it’s a bit of a hangover from the French revolution, they have a strong focus on integration and preserving their shared culture.

Hard to have a nuanced opinion on this issue since I’m not directly affected by it. From what I can observe some of my gay friends use slurs in a humourous way to make light of the reality that not everyone in society is cool with them being themselves. They seem to enjoy being transgressive and think they have a license to do so in this case (I’d probably argue that they do). idk maybe “reclaiming” was the wrong phrase; it’s more like gallows humour or something.

Mike Jones had such a promising career after getting a fairly large segment of the population to remember a phone number he rapped - 218-330-8004.

He got sunk by a beef after releasing 1 album IIRC

I’ve noticed some of my gay friends try to “reclaim” slurs while others treat the words as taboo. Seems like a matter of personal preference to me.

I loved the bait and switch where all the marketing suggested it would be a John Wick rip off but the movie turned out to be a lot more original

I find handhelds like 3DS and Switch 1/2 have been the most convenient for gaming as an adult. In the evenings my wife often wants to use the tv so I can sit next to her on the sofa and play games without monopolising the tv myself.

mpv is worth a shout out as well

Yes, rich people tend to wear expensive but durable clothes that last a long time.

Have also noticed they tend to drive older cars too. I guess they have nothing to prove to anyone else.

Damn dude, sorry to hear that.

Upper back pain is quite unusual compared to lower back pain. Definitely worth getting checked out by a doctor when you can.

Anyway if you are working from home try to move to a different position every 30-40 mins. I find that standing up and putting the laptop on a chest of drawers or something similar for a while really helps with stopping the pain accruing in a certain area. If that’s too painful try to be on your feet semi-frequently, like taking a bathroom break and walking around the block.

You probably don’t want to do any strenuous exercise like pilates but some light yoga might help.

Somewhere in the OP you mentioned NSAID’s which are what I get prescribed - the one I have is called diclofenac and it’s stronger than ibuprofen but there are even stronger ones too.

What chronic pain condition do you suffer from? I’ve got a degenerative disease called Ankylosing Spondylitis that causes me a lot of pain. I might have some tips for working from home if you have similar symptoms.

I looks like it only allows 1 virtual machine at a time so docker-compose wouldn’t work