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  • To be fair, back in the day you could get better results by relying on Google with site:foobar and the Boolean/“power user” stuff. A lot of built-in search boxes on sites were a bit dodgy, or at least less flexible than AND/OR/NOT and other “power user tricks”.

    Of course, these days those seem to be ignored wholesale and even “verbatim quotes” are an utter crapshoot, this was back when Google didn’t fucking blow.


  • amio@kbin.socialtoGames@lemmy.worldFavourite controllers
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    2 months ago

    N64 is my favorite console of all time, but yeah, the controller is truly batshit insane. I even had a game that intended you to hold the left and right… prongs instead of center right. In a shocking twist, it was… still pretty awkward.

    I do like PS5 controllers - mostly play N64 games on them, never even owned a PS. Used a PS4 controller before that.







  • amio@kbin.socialtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldWTF Happened In 1971?
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    2 months ago

    This doesn’t explain shit. It tosses a bunch of graphs at you with the feeling of someone suggestively waggling their eyebrows. Some of the graphs have completely valid points. Some are of unclear relevance. Most of all, the page busily works to correlate all these in your mind while carefully not actually arguing anything. That should basically always make you thoroughly fucking suspicious - no matter what the message is.

    Maybe the site is completely right about whatever its carefully-only-implied point is: that’s the beauty of not really taking a clear stance at all, but just throwing information at people that is likely to allow them to extrapolate whatever you want them to. You also don’t have to do pesky things like providing citations, justifying your reasoning, or even explaining what that reasoning is.

    I would absolutely recommend against using this as a teaching tool. It could (generously…) be used as a reference for yourself, sure, if you can otherwise back up the implied connections in a way this site did not even try. The fact that its implied point, “wealth hoarding bad” (I assume) is a fairly good one, does not mean this is a good way of communicating it.