Trump is almost 1:1 a character straight from Transmetropolitan.

Then you have people like Elon that are straight from any cyberpunk media corporate heads.

The parallels between the themes of a cyberpunk dystopia and the present are drawing pretty close.

We just don’t get any of the cool shit like cybernetic implants.

I noticed that too. It’s not even a good logo to steal, it’s always felt old.

I thought Teams was more of a curse than a competitor.

Kidding aside. It’d be nice if we stopped these massive corporations from hoovering up other businesses BEFORE antitrust complaints are needed. But that’ll never happen.

It’s going to piss off users and people trying to find Reddit info via Google. It will actively do the opposite of encouraging users to switch to Lemmy or something else because they won’t want to migrate over to a den of assholes. Just delete the comments.

The biggest issue though is that you’ll give Reddit an excuse to revert your comments. Unless you’re in Europe, it’s their data not yours. Reverting deleted comments makes them look bad to existing users, reverting or wiping out cesspool comments will give them actual justification.

I purposely bought the base dash on my Focus ST. Screen is smaller than a phone like 4 inches at most, has no apps. It Bluetooth syncs my phone for music and calls. There’s no touchscreen, all interactions are dedicated knobs and buttons.

For GPS I just use my phone and audio directions, my smart watch has the upcoming direction as well. If I really don’t know where I’m going I have a dash mount for my phone if I need it. But that’s not often.

It’s great honestly and the dash doesn’t blind me driving at night.

I was also looking at a Mazda before I got this car and their dash is absolutely horrendous. It’s like they just took a Alibaba knock off iPad and welded it on top of the dash. It’s literally in your view of the road causing a small blind spot.

Ignore past FF games. Think more a long the lines of God of War.

Things that it does a lot better than GoW imo: There’s a LOT of enemy variety. It’s actually impressive how much. 50% of the enemies aren’t rando zombies like GoW.

A lot of the fights are easy. But, kind of refreshing to steam roll trash mobs after GoW if I’m honest.

There’s a shit ton of amazing mini-boss and boss fights and the ratio between that and trash mobs is really high. Some of the bosses are hard at all of them at least require you to play close attention.

The writing and polish isn’t as good as God of War but…. It feels better for the game length. I personally felt like GoW overstayed it’s welcome in both games. While the FF writing isn’t as good it’s more fitting of a longer game. It’s still a good story, it just has some rough polish.

The RPG aspect is essentially identical to GoW. Gear and leveling. If you had swapped the systems both games I wouldn’t even notice. They’re both really shallow and unlock some basic combos.

There’s also little exploration, even compared to GoW. On the one hand I hated a lot of the GoW back tracking treasure hunt loop after a while. It’s nice to play linear games sometimes. On the other hand, it could’ve done with some well done reasons to explore the maps.

So long winded way of saying if you like the linear single player action adventure games that Sony is known for its fantastic. If you want some grand jrpg maybe don’t pick it up right now if you’re in the mood for that.

Putting salt in coffee is relatively common. Put a very small sprinkle in shitty coffee and it makes it a lot more tolerable. Think bad waiting room coffee etc.

So nuking a hurricane isn’t very realistic but what about bombing/nuking a tornado?

There’s nothing stopping them from harvesting data with or without Threads. They can just create their own hidden Lemmy, Mastadon servers and pull all the data that way. Sure, someone could catch on and block that server, but they could just spin more up wherever.

This is the main concern.

I create Threads. It gets 30 million users very quickly. Lemmy users only make up say, 1 million users.

I make changes to Threads that don’t follow the ActivityPub protocol to the T, this makes the Lemmy servers glitchy when interacting with Threads content until Lemmy can be patched, but I’ll just keep making these changes to Threads over and over.

User A likes Lemmy, but it’s really starting to glitch out all the time. They have a lot of friends they interact with on Threads and because Lemmy has so many issues they say fuck it, hop over to Threads so they can consistently keep up with their friends/community.

I’m not sure that’s what this is, but a Blade Runner L.A. Noir clone where you have to track down and question possible replicants would be exceptionally cool.

That wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing. Someone wrote a good article about how Google bullied their way to kill XMPP. Something to keep in mind with what Meta is planning.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Sorry I have to laugh at this. If you have to write a script for it even if the script is easy there’s no way I can consider it “not hard”. Not hard is just being able buy it like anything else.

I get what you’re saying though.