Which phone?

That doesn’t justify it…

I don’t even see how it’s possible to stop someone from using social media until they’re 18 unless they truly don’t want to.

It’s a bit much

You badly underestimate the proportion of people who have never heard of Mastadon.

RIP Mario and Luigi

Oh you’re in for a treat. I’d really recommend playing the original Paper Mario first if you haven’t already.

Very prescient

Do they have reasonable competitors? I see them used so much.

Let’s all just use IPs

In nearly 17 years at Valve, Wood helped build and ship the company’s most notable titles, including Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, CS:GO and both episodes of Half-Life 2. He was a founding member of the CS:GO project and worked on that series for six years; he was pivotal in crafting Portal 2’s co-op mode, and he created choreography and combat scenes in Half-Life and Left 4 Dead. Level design was one of his specialties.

You have my attention.

“It really is more about cozy exploration,” Wood told Engadget. “The game has aspects of platforming, but it’s very light platforming. It’s more about exploring vertically, and exploring nooks and crannies. I’ve done a lot of things throughout my career, but one of the things I spent a lot of time doing was level design in video games, so I have a lot of personal interest in creating spaces that feel fun to explore, to sort of poke around in.”

Sold

there’s just nothing else which most of the people i talk to will “get”

The group here may be different from most of the people you talk to.

Try:

“the average person”

Or (mostly joking) “allistic”?

Some phones have more RAM than a Series S? Wow.

I have wonderful people in my life, but the first thing that comes to mind is music.

They can and should spend less on anti-piracy measures to become more profitable.

You mean by making a better service?

They forget pirating video is really really easy

Existing apps made switching pretty good and I’m now loving sync’s ability to apply custom themes. My beehaw acct has a nice honey tinge.

Accepting a ton of money from Google to make it the default search engine isn’t selling out to them. Any concerned user will know how to change the default.

Essentially, yeah.

My sh.itjust.works acct is my main so from my point of view* beehaw already isn’t federated. I have an acct here so I can always pop in for this kind of space so I don’t really mind if we defederated. But I agree it might be time to consider how long the half measures are going to stay in place.