Fair. I never played. Time to go find a rom!

Fight accepted. Silver/Gold were the epitome. You had two areas, mother-fucking Lugia, and could battle the elite four and as a bonus, wipe the floor with your rival on specific days of the week. Plus, I can memorize about 252 pokemon. More than that and it’s just a slog. Also, newly introduced day/night cycle with time passing actually meaning something? Hot damn, son, that’s lighting a Ho-oh under someone’s ass.

It’s interesting to me. We saw a similar evolution in facebook, where it went from silly posts about your status, to image posts that people argued over, and now (as I saw when I visited my aging mother) it’s just an endless scrolling of short videos.

People have been conditioned over the past decade to not engage with long replies or complex thoughts

I think this has two parts. One, it’s just so easy for any long/complex comment to attract ‘attacks’ that will target some small minutia. The internet in general seems to find pedantry of grammar and small inconsistencies (in an allegory, for instance, which is not supposed to be an exact match for the tale it’s telling) to be the height of humor and the best way to ‘counter’ an argument.

Second, I think people in general are more demanding of having their space be as comfortable and similar to them as possible. My friends of nearly three decades and I have plenty of things we disagree about, and even argue about, but it seems as if differences are no longer accepted. Let’s pick a common and slightly humorous one from Lemmy: if you and I were to disagree about the extent of how evil a conservative is (not even that they are evil, or do evil, or whatever else), one or the other of us would be blocking the other, haranguing the moral turpitude that is said different belief, etc.

It combines to make anything but short, bland or ‘act like they are acting’ comments a headache to actually post. I’ve found myself typing up a response to a biology article somebody had posted, and eventually just hit the cancel button because it wasn’t worth the bother.

I understand the criticisms of manjaro, and don’t recommend it to people, but it seems to be the only distro to work with my hardware/software without issue. So for now, here I am.

I think you flipped the order of the wording/url, or the exclamation mark is causing issues.

I’m pretty sure that my girlfriend’s pussy has eaten some of her underwear. There’s always new holes where it’s been chewing.

Maybe we can’t do race, but what about racemic?

You’ll also be more likely to get gout. Fun chain of events, it is.

You mean you don’t pronounce it “GNU’s Not Unix” to all of your compatriots?

They do more than just the phone number and name. https://www.howtogeek.com/768652/what-are-facebook-shadow-profiles-and-should-you-be-worried/

It talks about the use of photos, people mentioning you in a post, etc. Sure, facetook publicly said they would be backing off of visual recognition, but how much do you really trust that company to do jack-diddly if there is potential profit? Anyway. If you change your phone number, but the same group of people still have you in a ‘field of contacts,’ their tools can almost certainly fit those puzzle pieces together. Same if you change the phone number. Identifying people is easy if you have metadata.

And the metadata is enough to get convictions. A person was convicted back in 2019 or so based on the metadata of her whatsapp conversation with a reporter. Natalie something, I think.

I’m pretty sure that I’m smart because I avoid both. I base my personality on the ancient dinosaurs test.

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml and ctrl+f music. Stay on your instance, folks.

Nah. We’ve had that conversation before, with SCSI files. No one pronounces those as “sexy” despite the creator’s insistence on that being the correct pronunciation.

Hmmm, still wouldn’t do it for the majority of the male population. You’ll need to make the fighting occur because neither of them wants to be saddled with the pathetic excuse for a craven coward that the ‘prophetic hero’ turned out to be, and they’re being told they have to make the prophecy happen so the world could be saved. Then, over the course of the story, it turns out the werewolf girl has magical properties in her blood that allow the vampire chick to power up and defeat the BBEG. The twist? The powers in the blood only activate when she experiences the bond of human love from the pathetic hero they’re now dragging towards destiny, so the two women folk monsters must team up to win the heart of said pathetic hero despite his raging craven fear of them. Obviously there will be a sensual scene of the vampire sucking blood from the werewolf.

Boom. I just wrote the next hollywood flick. Good thing the strike is over.

Never caught it, or never tested positive… or even bothered to be tested. I’m pretty sure I just had one of the mild cases, because I’ve had ‘generic respiratory illness’ with sniffles and congestion a few times since COVID-19 became a concern. I’m betting there is a large group of people who fit into my category.

I’m hoping your brother was 3-5. Anything after that should have been slapped out of him.