Then vacuous truth comes into play and all the YouTubers you watch are annoying shitheads.

Technology Contortions? The world’s biggest Wii U fan?

You want me to demonstrate my value by explaining this tried-and-true system to you?

Did you even try to follow the D.E.N.N.I.S. system?

Maybe the shitheads you watch on YouTube are annoying?

insert SM64 menu music as pannenkoek talks about half-childbirths

I actually don’t know that it excludes emulation (or to what extent it excludes it). Like I wouldn’t personally count emulating an NES game on a Switch, but when I pop an actual PS2 DVD into my computer, burn it to an ISO, and play it on PCSX2 – when I own two functioning PS2s, dumped the BIOS, and help work on the emulator – I would probably ultimately answer “yes” to this question.

But it also seems clear that the person writing it knew almost nothing about retro gaming to have not clarified this even a little.

2024 survey from Consumer Reports here. Representative sample of 2022 people.

“Still playing gaming systems released before 2000” in this case means “has used at least one gaming system released before 2000 at least once in the past year.”

What you probably imagined is probably very different from what the survey actually reported.

Also, appliances were way more expensive – both to purchase and (thanks to wasteful energy etc. usage) to operate. Bens Appliances and Junk has a good video on this that I imagine a lot of people are drawing on in this thread.

YET ANOTHER FAKED MOON LANDING PHOTO BY THE LIBERAL GLOBALIST CULTURAL MARXIST ELITE

Clearly referring to countries with three words in their name, like “Antigua and Barbuda” or “Central African Republic”.

Oh, okay, that’s interesting and a bit odd but benign. As for who it is, it’s from the American sitcom Married… with Children. I agree it doesn’t look like genAI given the base image since it’s just a cutout of a ski mask and a bandana pasted atop and then… man, I don’t understand the eyes and mouth thing, but I have to say it seems deliberate given the base image had a serviceable mouth and eyes. By the standard that art should elicit an emotional response, it succeeds; it leaves an impression, and I don’t even mean that in a disparaging way.

I’m pretty sure the foundations of it are elsewhere than “They stopped making citations.”

My perspective is that it’s complicated – not a singular foundation, but a major component in a disastrous feedback loop. Lemmy’s news comms, for example, require a (usually quality or quality-enough) source, yet there are constantly comments that aren’t just wrong in that they lacked additional outside context, misread part of the article, maybe stopped midway through, think the article is wrong, just have some overriding bias, etc., but that they read the headline, said “fuck it, we ball”, and wrote 300 words that are totally disproven by the first 100 words of the article; sources clearly aren’t a panacea.

A decade of editing Wikipedia, I think – not remotely some prestigious, exclusive, disciplined experience – has given me a unique perspective on sourcing that’s very divorced from the general public’s (which at best is usually “yeah, that’s a good thing to do because it’s a good thing to do”) but also somewhat divergent from traditionally citation-heavy fields like academia because of both the target audience and inherently near-zero-trust environment. It’s really weird, and the scare quotes around “traumatized” were kind of poking fun at my own experience. Ten years ago, I felt like citations were a tertiary concern that you tacked on at the end out of obligation if someone forced you to; nowadays, for a litany of reasons, sourcing to me is at least coequal with the contents of a work. I don’t think I’d be so ardent about it if I hadn’t undergone such a huge change.*

It’s hard sometimes to keep that passion in, so I try to let it shine through in the form of setting what I think is a positive example (or sometimes taking research way the fuck overboard in a way that’s probably an unrealistic example). However, in the case of the OP – for whom I don’t think “mainly one comm” holds any water given everything on the threadiverse shows up on ‘All’ – I don’t just hope they do better, but I outright expect them to if they’re going to be shoveling dozens of political propaganda leaflets onto the threadiverse’s front page every day. Regardless of their beliefs, this isn’t some casual “uwu I just want to share my politics” couple posts a day on a toilet break thing; this is a dedicated, months-long, obsessive propaganda effort with hundreds upon hundreds of posts. I wasn’t just being smarmy in my earlier comment about them having more time to include a source upon finding out they don’t make these. The fact that they’re not even creating these themselves makes it simultaneously more imperative they include a source (because I’mma be honest, chief, I don’t think they’re actually verifying almost any of this shit even for themselves) and even less onerous than it already minimally was.

* I always have to recognize that this is partly because it is much easier for me now to find and cite sources because I’m so much more practiced than I was. I keep that at the front of my mind when I see others’ work and think it’s undercited.

Normally I’d agree and wouldn’t bitch about it elsewhere if someone were just posting, say, an interesting, innocuous history/science/etc. fact. I routinely try to supplement sourcing on posts where it seems lacking (helps me learn too; it’s mostly not altruistic), and in the rare event I criticize sourcing on those kinds of posts, I like to think it’s pretty tepid unless it’s blatantly egregious like “posting a Discord link to a news community”. I still think they should post it pre-emptively/give some context,* but I won’t begrudge them for not grasping an importance you kind of have to be “traumatized” into internalizing.

In the case of the OP, I know they’re “memes” and that makes it sound innocent, but what they post to Lemmy is a flood of ancom (ansoc?) propaganda – over 30 (not counting normal posts) in the last 24 hours, just as a sanity check that this isn’t a cognitive bias seeing more than there are. I align with OP ideologically in a lot of ways, and that won’t stop me from holding them to the same standard I’d hold any other propagandist to (which, again, is 90% of the reason they’re here). This kind of widespread, coddling, “just memes bro” treatment of digital propaganda leaflets is actively unraveling society; when used by the far-right, in the US alone, “just memes” got Trump elected twice and completely rotted whatever crumbs were left of Republicans’ brains. The profound intellectual laziness that this kind of junk food propaganda perpetuates is terrifying to me, and it even seems like the OP is themself a victim of that.

Sourcing isn’t just a crutch for the incurious and a shortcut for the curious; it establishes a standard whereby the incurious learn to appreciate sourcing – because they can easily access it if they may not know how, call out the OP if they’re wrong instead of blindly accepting, adopt good practices in their own posts, and expect others to do the same. It has a legitimate healing effect in the nigh-apocalyptic media literacy crisis we’re all living through. By contrast, not including sourcing in your barrage of political propaganda has a serious harmful effect on that standard – namely, normalizing a subconscious assumption that taking propaganda at face value as long as you agree with it is totally cool and not horrifically, societally dangeorus.

Like I know this sounds dramatic, but also *gestures broadly at the world on fire right now*

* (or slow down the pace of their posts if it’s that much of a burden; people vastly underestimate how important verifiability/the ability to dig deeper is, and you [general “you”; you have overall good practices] don’t have to spew an avalanche of posts if you can’t maintain quality)

but isn’t this ideology partially responsible for the situation we’re in now?

Welcome to the intent of the propaganda mills creating the easily digested, easily disseminated slop that gets spammed to this community repeatedly and uncritically.

sigh

bapanada

What’s up with his eyes, and why is she wearing a bandana over hers?

The motors make a surprising amount of noise when operating, so LG designed the phone to play a musical chime to hide the sound.

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You know what? Fuck off. You don’t know this cop; you don’t know that there’s not a black man handcuffed under that table having the life extinguished from him while the cop plans how best to beat his children when he gets home.

And so what if he isn’t extrajudicially murdering a black man in that image? You don’t know how many died by his hand that day before he sat down on his lunch break. Are cops not humans who deserve breaks now? “Defund the police” because they stopped for a few minutes to have a bite? They’re just supposed to be perfect?

You leftist loonies make me sick. #backtheblue

Oh, wow, that’s a real fucky optical illusion. I saw him holding a couple pieces of paper (like a speech script) sideways, but it also looks exactly like he’s writing on an invisible podium.

Edit: Wait, you meant the kid scribbling onto the stand. What the absolute fuck. lmao