Yeah, a lot of shops have gone off the rails with prices. The same thing happened with the vintage clothing market. All these folks started selling old shirts on eBay for like $50 minimum, and now all of the thrift stores are picked clean, or are selling those items at crazy prices themselves.

I tend to get games that aren’t in the sought after list and get lucky sometimes. You can still find games at thrift stores if you’re lucky. You just have to hunt and be okay with disappointment lol.

You get lucky sometimes, but you’re right. Some shops are insane. It really depends on what you’re looking for.

Hell, I want to try it now! Especially if you can find games that are generally rare at shops.

Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.

It feels like they’ve been reclaimed in the past few years. My wife and I thought the same thing, but find them actually pretty funny now. The minion memes swept Facebook boomer feeds for a while though and probably still do.

Even snowflakes are all straight lines! I remember seeing close-up images of them in the science magazines we had in school.

>accidentally leaks your identity data

>sells u the product that secures ur identity data

I hadn’t heard of Steam being dragged into this. Just let us have some nice things!

[…] and just to clear this up right away: what she said was nonsense. You can, literally right now, head over to the official Minecraft website and download a .jar file to let you run your own private server.

I love how confidently stupid and wrong she was here.

What I fucking hate is this pattern of attacks on open source and self-hosting we’ve been seeing. Anthropic’s CEO saying that open source self-hosted LLMs are “dangerous” for example.

Not entirely sure. I think it’s to gain adoption and it helps subsidize node operators.

I’ve been a Mullvad user for probably about a year but I’m considering Nym.

Editing for further context: their board includes Chelsea Manning which bodes well, I like that they use decentralized nodes, and that all of their code is open for review. The $NYM stuff is a little weird, but to me it comes off like an attempt to decentralize currency, which can anonymize in its own way (with an asterisk). Just not sure what that landscape looks like, since a person’s identity can often be figured out by looking at the public ledger. I’m still learning about Nym though.

And it’s a woman living in the shadow of a man, which seems completely counterintuitive to supporting women. Like I want it to exist because we absolutely need more feminine voices, faces, and ideas in the comic and movie spaces, but this comes off like opportunistic 1:1 copypasta written by a man and a focus group.

I’ll also preface that I’m not familiar with the Supergirl comics but I’m sure they’re far better and more nuanced. Perhaps the whole point is that she’s taking back a normally masculine symbol and making it her own. But based on what I’ve seen of the film, it’s not doing a stellar job of conveying that.

BDS has been a thing for years. It works.

I don’t even care. I’d honestly do that now instead of programming. It gets me outdoors!

I think my main criticism of it all is that we’re still leaving the reigns in the hands of politicians and organizations. We sit back and wait for moneyed orgs to do the work, when it really needs to be worker-lead. But at the same time it’s also nice to see Mamdani knocking things out that no prior mayor bothered to do. It’s sad how low the bar is in Amerika.

I don’t know why we can’t at least acknowledge a smidge of progress in a good direction, even if it’s not a full on revolution like we should’ve had years ago. People are addicted to the negativity involved in shooting everything down because it doesn’t meet their manufactured expectations.

I don’t know how to reply to this.

This tells me they have never truly understood nor cared much about their audience.

This is what happens when you vibe-code your OS.

When the whataboutism falls flat.