I really don’t trust BlueSky. I feel like they call themselves federated as a marketing gimmick to convince people they’re better than every other corporate social network, but they’ve deliberately set it up so that 99.9% of everything is going through their central server anyway. And it frustrates me that a lot of people have bought into that lie. Fediverse has been here delivering on everything BlueSky promised to be and did so long before BlueSky even existed, and yet no one cares because BlueSky had the venture capital to push a bigger marketing campaign.

Unfortunately, people jumping ship from BlueSky still aren’t coming over here. So I don’t know what to make of this news really, I know it doesn’t mean what I wish it would mean.

Trying to reach into the middle for the stick doesn’t sound super ergonomic.

I got my degree in Computer Science a decade ago, but never got my foot in the door. I feel like my degree is not worth the paper its printed on, recruiters only want experience, but I can’t get experience because I don’t have experience.

I spent the last seven years working an unrelated dead-end data entry job, but they kept increasing the workload until I couldn’t handle it anymore. I’ve spent over a year sending resumes out into the void and haven’t even gotten a single interview yet.

It might not be the single worst degree of all, but at least in terms of degrees you’d expect to be worth something, I think CS has the biggest gap between expectation and reality.

The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife was the most adorable show I watched all year. I’m a sucker for positive representation.

South Park has had some really good moments. The last season was especially fantastic.

But South Park has also had many equally terrible moments. They’ve been pretty awful on trans issues. The whole PC Principal arc really said a lot about who Matt and Trey are as people. And even if they eventually walked it back, the fact that they tried to deny climate change has to be brought up in conversations like this.

For the most part, I’d say the show has been at its best when it’s kids getting into hijinks and at its worst when Matt and Trey use the show as their mouthpiece.

Some third-party games are Game Key Cards. Some are properly on the cartridge.

Sounds a hell of a lot better than the dead end job I just left.

These are just Game Key Cards. Kinda misses the point of physical media.

I saw a positon labeled Junior Developer, looked inside, and it asked for five years of experience.

I’m starting to think my bachelor’s degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

Splatoon 3 is peer-to-peer. Servers only handle matchmaking.

It’s possible Raiders brought in an influx of casual players with worse connections than the average regular?

You’re telling me PPMD wasn’t a real MD?

Let me spell this out for you.

Discount on self-checkout passes.

Stores raise prices so that the price after the discount is the same as it was before.

Consumers continue to pay the prices they’ve been paying.

‘Discount’ evaporates into the aether.

What do you mean maximum? There’s no cap, as we’ve seen from the way prices have already been rising.

Play niche indie/retro multiplayer games, join a community small and tight-knit enough that everybody knows everybody, so you can easily become a regular in the scene.

And have you played Splatoon 3/Raiders, Metroid Dread/Prime 4, Kirby Air Riders, Donkey Kong Bananza, Rhythm Heaven Groove, etc?

Do remember that the vast majority of these kinds of patents never end up getting used, I doubt this one will be.

We learned this lesson from the early days of mobile gaming. Many games tried to emulate on-screen controllers, and it was pretty awful. Developers realized it was awful and shifted towards designing control schemes from the ground up with touchscreens in mind.

Though now that I say this, I suppose it’s entirely possible that a controller like this could be used not to emulate or replace a DualShock, but as a peripheral that new kinds of games can be designed around. That feels even more unlikely though, I miss the glory days of games built around goofy peripherals (Boktai my beloved), but those days are so far behind us that I don’t see them ever coming back.

Frieren might be a little too violent for age 12. Definitely have her come back to it when she’s older though.

Senpai

Bonus points if you make an overly exaggerated effort to talk like a caricature of an anime romcom protagonist.

• Little Witch Academia - I think this is probably my top recommendation for this age group, and if she likes Sabrina then this is probably perfect too. Beautifully colorful art style.
• Spy x Family - This one starts off leading you to think it’s a high stakes action series, then bait-and-switches you into a wholesome sitcom about two bozos trying to be good parents to their adopted daughter. So maybe a little bit of Modern Family vibes, though much much sillier.
• Teen Titans (original, not Go) - Definitely one to watch if she liked Avatar.
• Bocchi the Rock! - This one might be a stretch because it’s entirely dependent on whether she’s alright with subtitles. If that’s cool with her, watch Bocchi.

I begrudgingly put up with Puyo Puyo Tetris back when it was the only way to officially play Puyo Puyo in the west, but it is the worst thing that ever happened to the franchise. Only thing I hate more than the game itself is the impact it had on the series, because Sega has done nothing but lazily rehash it four times. It’s been a full decade since the last proper main series game and there’s still no word on when or if we’ll ever get another.