Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.

Googling that, it doesn’t look like it. The first one I mentioned was completely rectangular, not an odd shape. It’s the Bandai Digimon toy.

The second one I think may have been Scannerz, which I’m guessing used the same connector as the Digimon toy just because it was what was available. But it’s possible (at an outside chance) that I’m misremembering and it was the D-Scanner, a Digimon-branded equivalent to Scannerz. No useful data was being transferred when connecting the two together, just power.

A third possibility is that there was some third toy I’m forgetting about which is what I was able to connect to the Digimon toy to power it.

I never had a Tamagotchi, but the little rectangular Digimon versions of them were all the rage when I was like 8. I kinda miss those things.

And I recall a year or two later getting another toy…may or may not have been Digimon branded…that had the same connector on the top, but was more rounded in shape. I remember after my battery on one died, holding the two together to try and keep it alive through the power the other one was sending it. Of course it only worked as long as I was physically holding them, and would then reset.

The preferred term in the study of cults is “high demand religion”.

Australia, Germany, Canada, Russia, India, Brazil, and a bunch more countries are gonna disagree with you there.

Oh, and Gene Roddenberry.

Lemmy ⊂ Threadiverse ⊂ Fediverse

I was once playing in a classical concert. In one piece that my instrument wasn’t needed for, I was given the job of controlling the volume knob on the amplifier we used to connect to the keyboard (with organ sounds), so the organist could play a range of dynamics.

I had not turned off my phone.

I got a text during the middle of the concert. Sitting right next to the amplifier.

There are two separate issues with lootboxes.

First, children. Porn games (and videos) have never been marketed at children. Lootboxes have. It’s not an age-gating issue, it’s an issue of actively promoting gambling for children. Games with gambling elements should be illegal to sell or market to children, and platforms can back this up with parental controls tools, without the need for any privacy-invading ID or facial recognition.

The second is relevant to adults. General things around lootboxes being exploitative bad game design, regardless of the audience. You don’t have to support banning it to be able to say it’s really shitty. Personally, I would advocate very strict reporting on odds of success, and mandate the implementation of self-exclusion features, the same as the law requires (at least here in Australia) for casinos.

I’ve followed this probably closer than the average gamer, but I still wouldn’t say I’ve followed it very closely.

The sense I get is that once TCR took it over, they moved the game in a direction that allows less personalisation in terms of roleplay. You’re no longer playing some newly-embraced nobody, you’re playing a hundred-year-old character with a very specific backstory. But it’s honestly still not completely clear. I’ll be interested to see feedback from people after its release.

Yeah I was honestly surprised to see how many people in this thread interpret “plotting” as inherently negative.

I’ve felt this about a lot of things over the past few years.

My point was that the dates can stay the same regardless of where you go, even if the stereotypes change.

What it seems like you were saying is that the dates themselves become irrelevant if you leave America. If that’s not what you meant, your comment lacked clarity.

not every Western country was on the same side of WW2, and not all of them had the fighting happen in their territory, which means not all of them were levelled. And not all of them were Marshall planned after.

This isn’t actually relevant to my point. They didn’t have the same experience as other Boomers (or whichever generation) in other countries, but did have a notably different experience from Xers (or whatever) in their own country. Because it may not have been in identical ways, but yes, every western country was affected by WWII in some ways. Even those like my own that never saw conflict at home. So the experience of being born in the immediate aftermath of the war is a handy generation-defining experience, even if what that experience translates into is different for a German compared to a Brit, or to an Australian.

Of course, it’s also fair to say that there’s a much bigger difference between a German born in 1946 and one born in 1963 than there is between two Germans born in 1963 and 1965, even though one case has two “boomers” and the other a boomer and gen X. And in either case, the experience of someone in West Berlin is probably extremely different from someone from Hamburg, from someone born in the small town of Deesdorf. And for someone born to wealthy parents or poor. Generations help categorise, and the rough boundaries we use are roughly useful, but that’s a lot of rough.

You’re a little younger than me (young millennial), and a little older than my sister (old Z). And yeah, there’s definitely a fuzzy border. We grew up with technology, which sounds like a gen Z experience, but that technology was not pervasive and everywhere, it was more like appointment viewing. We had the experience of really noticing the technology improving, which is more millennial. I relate to some of the typical millennial children’s shows, like early Pokemon, Batman TOS, X-Men, and I’m familiar with many more even if I didn’t like them myself (like Rugrats, Hey Arthur, Doug). But the shows that made up more of my core viewing are a little too recent to be called millennial, like Avatar, Kim Possible, and Lilo & Stich the series.

Also, while you had a millennial parent, I did not. Heck, I didn’t even have gen X parents. My old folks are both younger boomers. Which I’m sure introduces its own variable to the equation.

I don’t think the names are particularly relevant, but the idea that people born in those years have done shared experience notably different from other times is—to the extent it can ever be true for any specified dates (which is a very low extent)—fairly consistent across at least western countries and their colonies.

It’s because the backslash is a special character called an “escape” character. The same way you make italics by putting *asterisks* around something, you can use backslashes to tell the system to ignore other special characters and use them literally. In this case, the underscore, which if you had no backslash would cause the face to be italic, becomes “escaped” by the backslash so we see the underscores as normal. But then you don’t see the backslash.

So you need to “escape” the backslash itself. Put two backslashes, and you’ll see one. ¯\(ツ)/¯ ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

But then you’re no longer escaping the underscores. So now you’ve got one backslash, but the face is italic and you don’t see any underscores.

So instead, as a final step, add a third backslash. The first backslash escapes the second one, so we see the second one. Then the third escapes the underscore, so we see the underscore. (For a bit of extra security, you can optionally also escape the second underscore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

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you brought up top month and I don’t see how you’d want that to work

The truth is I don’t want “top month”. What I really want is “best result, filtered by this month”. But unfortunately that doesn’t exist, and in the absence of that, I use “top month”.

I’ve been trying to keep [email protected] alive but it only has 356 members

omg I had no idea! I was doing that early on but I got tired of it and stopped checking. Looking forward to the new Jet Lag season!

Isn’t that Atlas?

I mean, based on the source, they’re still even on Twitter which is a lot more overtly fascist than WhatsApp. So…yeah…