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  • I still think Gold/Silver/Crystal was the actual peak in terms of world design/mon design/storyline/characters, but I’m 100% willing to admit that could be my own particular age bracket of nostalgia talking.

    I do like some of the additional/revised gameplay mechanics from later games… team battles, weather, held items, that kind of stuff makes the games meaningfully more complex, as well as more detail and structure given to how breeding and heritability actually work.

    But a lot of the more… closer to current day stuff bssically just seems entirely like a gimmick that isn’t very well systemically thought out.



  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIs it worth it?
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    5 hours ago

    Man, I’m crippled. You’ve entirely missed the point.

    The concept here is the entire way a city or community is laid out and designed.

    You wanna see a solution to your problem?

    Look at any city that currently exists that has at least half decent public transit, or town where its reasonably safe to walk to common places you’d need to go.

    There are tons of these, by the way, places that have figured out how to do this.

    You’re mad that you live in a poorly designed and poorly funded exurb area.

    Howabout this?

    Sell your inconviently located home, at the current market rate, and move to somewhere that doesn’t have these problems.

    What, is too much of your net worth tied up in your home?

    Wow! How did that happen?

    I wonder why your community is built in such a way that that could happen… maybe decades and decades of giving handouts to homeowners and driving up their prices and requiring everything else in reality bend over backwards to subsidize them… has maybe just completely proven to be fundamentally economically unviable, with infrastructure needing to be spread too far and thin, constantly being subsidized by the urban core areas that generate the vast majority of jobs and tax revenue?

    If that doesn’t make sense…

    I’m sorry.

    In addition to your physical ailments…

    You also have terminal car brain. Yes, it’s fatal.


  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldMake some noise!
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    6 hours ago

    Hard disagree.

    Most people become dishinibited in enthusiastic crowd enviornments. They become more suggestible, trusting.

    Its a huge part of how group religious gatherings work.

    A large concert is in many ways a secular, mass ritual gathering.

    I think you could do something like this a considerable number of times.

    How many people ‘let loose’ and do something they wouldn’t otherwise normally do, at a concert?

    All of those people would be likely to both keep attending these kinds of events and also fall for the exact same schtick, unless or untill a very, very broad social backlash essentially shamed them into not doing so.






  • Been using gnome for years, literally cannot remember a single time the entirety of gnome crashed.

    I’ve used gnome tweaks for a long time as well.

    Whereas everytime I’ve tried to use a custom KDE theme of some kind, some part of it is broken in some fun new extremely specific way that I did not know KDE could be broken in.



  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTitle
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    19 hours ago

    IOUs based off of gold are a literally significant part of how many modern fiat currencies started.

    What in the hell do you need to spend $50M on, right away?

    Not to mention gold being around 1.4x more valuable per weight.

    Those weights of either gold or currrency are going to require a vault or armored car and a crew of people with a forklift to either store or hold or move anywhere.

    You’re gonna be bringing both to a bank.

    Suddenly showing up with or trying to spend or sell those volumes of either gold or cash is going to get you a visit from the IRS, Secret Service, and FBI, and maybe CIA.