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I’m glad to see that we’re not all addicts here

Check out other Assassin’s Creed games! I agree that Red Dead Redemption is anther good suggestion. I suggest the first one as well. Maybe Fable? The second one was my favorite, but people rave about the first one as well. I didn’t play the first one until I didn’t have as much time to game.

This might be a miss, but the Sims can be insane with mods. You can cheat their needs and not worry about those. Sims 3 is open world and the best of the series, but I’m not as familiar with the mods available for it. There are Sims 4 mods that introduce murder (guns and knives provided of course), drugs and gangs, zombies, prostitution, murderous toddlers, and much more that I can’t think of right now.

Modders are fucking lunatics when it comes to the Sims. Someone made a mod for Sims 3 where you could grill and eat a baby. EA stepped in to shut that down…

That is interesting. I’m not surprised Japan was ahead, but not by over a decade.

My dad had a landline until probably 2018. I’m guessing it must have been bundled with some network package because he had two smart phones by then.

The timeline of technology is absolutely crazy, especially phones. Like you mentioned, it hasn’t even been that long. I got my first “smartphone” in maybe 2012.

I’m pretty sure only the director’s cut has the excerpts from the book. It still takes at least two watches and some pausing.

I could have sworn that there was some blockbuster 90s media invention that was first created like a decade before it was commonly used.

I can’t remember when I traded pirating music for my zune/iTouch for Spotify, but I know back in 2008 we were still using MP3 players. We were still in relatively early years with MP3 players, too. In 2010 I was still using my jailbroke iTouch 3, so we were still in the MP3 era until at least 2010. People also joked back then about vinyl snobs who made “audiophile” part of their personality. Records were cool and record shops were able to stay in business. Cassette sales were down on the other hand, because we were still getting over the trauma of them getting jammed and the excitement of having high quality digital music.

OP must be very young and just looked up what year things came out, not what year things were used. Weren’t DVDs invented in the 80s?

What are you using?

Donnie Darko leaves more questions than answers

I’d say that’s the correct take on drug use. Are you trying to argue that you’re not addicted?

Me, too. I’ve checked on multiple apps and they’re gone.

Can he buy Pintrest next?

I could see this actually gaining popularity from their Instagram user base. Twitter doesn’t attract younger people or influencers. It’ll be like discovering Facebook for gen z, where they can also share text posts. Maybe that’ll attract the people who left Twitter for turning alt-right. If it gets big enough, public figures could even leave Twitter. I’d be shocked if that happened, but a gal can hope.

This isn’t something I have any interest and I hate meta as much as anyone else here, but I’m interested in seeing how it will play out. If we can’t escape capitalism, at least we can watch it as a social experiment.

I have a cheap bidet that I got on Amazon for maybe $30. I love it. It gets you way cleaner compared to just wiping because the water can flush you out a bit. The downside is that you have to dry yourself off (unless you get a drying model) and there’s more cleaning involved because of the bidet and the powerwashed poop particles that don’t fall straight down into the bowl.

Getting a bidet + squatty potty changed my life, especially as someone with a very poor and inconsistent diet.

Twitter isn’t allowing posts to be viewed if you’re not signed in, which is now resulting in Google removing Twitter links from search results. That alone is doing more harm than any other stupid moves by Musk. Him implementing caps on user activity doesn’t need any further elaboration.

Reddit is going to have some dead links that might deter a small percentage of potential new users who find them through a Google search. I think we’ll get a better picture of how reddit will move forward after they replace mods and reopen large subreddits.