It’s gonna end up with me buying a moped or small motorcycle to get to work at reasonable cost
Actually glad to hear that. That’s one positive outcome from this aggressive nationalist bullshit decision from Biden. Electric cars (even cheaper, smaller ones from China) aren’t an appropriate way to address climate change. Converting car drivers to two wheelers is way more of a positive move and will also have major benefits to traffic and pedestrian safety. Way better than buying a big fucking American electric pickup truck or SUV.
Definitely not a conspiracy theory, but this comes coincidentally at the same time the UK considers breaking from EU requirement for pedals on ebikes lol.
Era can be defined as a console generation, a decade, one specific year, whatever you want. I’d encourage you to give a list of your favourite games from the generation of choice and why it was the best to you. Nostalgia is a totally viable reason too....
I realize I’m biased having experienced this era at my most influential (as another user easily defined it as ages 12 - 22), but this was definitely it for me. I only had a Gameboy before I finally had a PS2. The big mascot character games of this console were formative for me. Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper. Kingdom Hearts and Shadow of the Colossus were everything to me. Tons of other huge titles made this generation.
But it’s the weird little games that I think about fondly. Katamari became a franchise, but it was just a funny novel idea when it dropped on the PS2. Kya: Dark Lineage, an adventure/fighting game absolutely packed with fun ideas from a studio that just made racing games prior. Magic Pengel - basically DIY Pokemon - was pretty much everything I wanted in a game. Even Eye Toy, which completely sucked and barely worked, offered a new way to play games.
Things were just different then. I think it was maybe the last time we thought of games by their budgets. Most titles were what we would maybe call AA these days, something that almost doesn’t exist anymore. Where indie games didn’t exist yet, but small studios were prolific. For me, any game that let you run around as a fairly detailed 3D character in a cool setting was magic to me in a way the flat, pixelated worlds on my GBC never were. The worlds in my PS2 were believable.
As a vegetarian who’s been excited for lab grown meat since I’d heard of the concept a decade ago, I wouldn’t hold your breath. It’s looking like one of those things that sounds great on paper, but isn’t viable at larger scale.
The very first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants “Help Wanted”, in which SpongeBob applies for a job at the Krusty Krab, premiered on May 1, 1999. The episode was written by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, storyboard artist Derek Drymon, and Tim Hill....
Jeff Bridges' addition to the Tron: Ares cast marks his first return to a feature film since 2018's Bad Times at the El Royale. The acclaimed actor has starred in nearly 100 different films and television series since he made his onscreen appearance in the classic television series Sea Hunt (1958 - 1961) alongside his father,...
Jeff Bridges is one of the best parts of Tron, but his story in this world is over. If he only returns in flashbacks as uncanny de-aged Flynn again, that’s almost worse.
There are already huge arbitrary tariffs on these. That’s why you can’t get one in the US. The manufacturers don’t even bother with our bullshit market.
They’re bound to come to the US eventually, certainly within the decade. Chinese auto makers have their hands full with Europe now, but they’ll jump through a few hoops for the chance to squash the US market, too. Hopefully right on time for my next car, as well.
lol right. The secret service, FBI, and every other agency in the country with the express objective of maintaining the status quo are just gonna let a president get killed. This isn’t the 60s.
This is fucking nonsense. You don’t need to be at “president orders legal hits on political rivals” level of corrupt for a country’s electoral system to be in absolute shambles.
But holy shit do we have a ton of big actual nightmare problems in the US to worry about, and the health and safety of its eldest active war criminal is easily near the bottom of the pile. You know what, I hope you’re right. I hope Biden is fucking terrified for his life. Maybe that will scare him into doing the one god damn thing he needs to do to get elected.
From my experience, switching diets doesn’t require turning your world view upside down. Maybe if your reason for going vegan is some life-altering epiphany? But I think most people already understand at this point, they just don’t want to change. I’m not speaking here with judgment.
I’m vegan at home, though I’ll sometimes make some exceptions for dairy when I’m out. Explaining that to anyone who wants to share a meal with me ranges anywhere from a brief heads up to a full on ethics debate initiated by the other person. It’s weirdly common how often non-vegans feel challenged just by the existence of a vegan in their presence. Like I’m not trying to have a conversation about it. This is a very practical thing for me and that’s mostly how I see this “lifestyle choice.” It made sense for me to stop eating meat, so I did. No internal struggles or questions about my place in the world. Just logistics about how to navigate our meat-centric food culture. So yeah, I think the biggest challenge isn’t overcoming some personal hurdles, but simply pushback from people and other external factors that make it harder to change.
I like the spoiler opening line. Movies like this, you already know what you’re getting into. Any flashes of violence and chaos in the back end reveals just as much as that one line and those pretty much have to be there to make for an interesting trailer. Might as well show your hand and not pretend we don’t know that it all goes to hell. The mystery isn’t what happens to the characters, but how and why.
Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles (www.theguardian.com)
White House levy to protect US makers from cheap imports likely to inflame trade tensions...
UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways (www.theguardian.com)
Device in development fires electromagnetic pulse that tricks ebikes and scooters into shutting off
Students walk out during Jerry Seinfeld’s commencement speech at Duke (www.independent.co.uk)
Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive (www.youtube.com)
Anon makes money (sh.itjust.works)
What's your favourite era for video games?
Era can be defined as a console generation, a decade, one specific year, whatever you want. I’d encourage you to give a list of your favourite games from the generation of choice and why it was the best to you. Nostalgia is a totally viable reason too....
World Bank’s climate plan: Pricier red meat and dairy, cheaper chicken and veggies (www.politico.eu)
“We have to stop destroying the planet as we feed ourselves,” a World Bank official said, as red meat and dairy drive CO2 emissions....
May 13, 1985 (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15035901...
Voyager 1 (mander.xyz)
Magneto is definitely worse at branding than Charles X. Xavier (lemmy.world)
On this day 25 years ago, the very first episode of "SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS" aired on TV. (lemmy.ml)
The very first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants “Help Wanted”, in which SpongeBob applies for a job at the Krusty Krab, premiered on May 1, 1999. The episode was written by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, storyboard artist Derek Drymon, and Tim Hill....
Jeff Bridges’ Tron 3 Update Is A Much Bigger Deal Than I Thought (screenrant.com)
Jeff Bridges' addition to the Tron: Ares cast marks his first return to a feature film since 2018's Bad Times at the El Royale. The acclaimed actor has starred in nearly 100 different films and television series since he made his onscreen appearance in the classic television series Sea Hunt (1958 - 1961) alongside his father,...
Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15089465...
The Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie (www.salon.com)
What is the fucking point of living if everything you believed in can be taken from you by some old white fucks
When I die, turn me into soup (lemmy.world)
Riot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin. (slrpnk.net)
Edit: Name of University fixed.
NewPipe v0.27.0 released (github.com)
BLINK TWICE | Official Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Did they just spoil it at the beginning ? Anyway seems interesting .
Don't care what the reason is. (lemmy.world)
Best deal you ever got?
What’s the best game deal you ever got?...