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@ArugulaZ@kbin.social

Gaming enthusiast, writer, artist, and social media ronin. Current denizen of the Dork Web, aka federated media. Doesn't play well with others.

Boomers won’t part with their homes, and that’s a problem for young families (www.cnn.com)

Buying a family-sized home with three or more bedrooms used to be manageable for young people with children. But with home prices climbing faster than wages, mortgage rates still close to 23-year highs and a shortage of homes nationwide, many Millennials with kids can’t afford it. And Gen Z adults with kids? Even harder....

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Gee, boomers are being selfish! Who would have guessed?

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That just sounds like an even scarier prehistoric version of Donald Trump. "Unga bunga! Me Make Poland great again!"

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Is it just me, or does Super Mario look more Italian as an elephant?

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And kung fu grip, like all plastic action figures!

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Double KOs do happen from time to time in fighting games...

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I'm putting fifty quatloos on the android!

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What is that, a box turtle?

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My Gen X brother is, in his own son's words, "a way way way better father" than our own dad had been.

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Now see, if you're looking at things from a biological point of view, it's important to recognize the forest from the trees. A few trees are, well, just a few trees. But a great many trees together constitutes a forest, and becomes more than the sum of its parts. I feel the same way about the human brain. Yes, it's a series of electrical and chemical impulses, but there are so many of these working in tandem that it becomes exponentially more complex, akin to ever-advancing computer technology. It's complex enough that we think, we talk, we make decisions. And those decisions aren't based solely on instinctional drive, and can even be made in opposition to them.

It's true that human behavior can be accurately predicted based on an individual's natural tendencies, but there are never any guarantees. There's always a choice, a chance to veer off course. Decisions can be prudently made after careful research, or made on a frivolous impulse. Maybe you even realize that you would ordinarily take one action in a given situation, but do the exact opposite. You consciously chose to ignore your first impulse. If free will is an illusion, it's a damned convincing one.

A starting guide to kbin.social + support thread for new users

Frequently seeing users expressing confusion about the workings of kbin.social and the larger fediverse. Thought it was worth making an intro guide to iron out some of the wrinkles in the understanding of how all of this works in hopes of diminishing the barrier to entry the idea of federated content seems to pose. Some of this...

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I've got negative reputation, which is unfair as my likes far outweigh my dislikes. I wish this would change.

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Well, that's a bit of a surprise! Last time we saw Max Headroom, he was being wheeled around Canada on a CRT, complaining of backpain. (No, really, they brought him back thirty years later for a skit on YouTube.)

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I've been to Destructoid. They don't hire talented human writers. They barely hire human writers.

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"The power of Competitron lies in the boardroom, not the product, Nygma!"

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"Chode" is more like.

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THANK YOU.

Nintendo Direct in a Nutshell, by the SwitchUp Team (www.youtube.com)

British gaming YouTube channel SwitchUp (really, they're British enough that they talk about saveloys, and frequently) has offered a brief recap of Nintendo's recent Direct presentation, discussing everything from a Super Mario RPG remake with vastly improved graphics to the peculiar Super Mario Wonder, which really leans into...

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Greetings to all, and welcome to Old Games for Old Gamers, classic video game discussion for those of us who remember the 80s and 90s, and have the gray hairs to prove it! I thought I'd start this as a response to both the recent upheaval at Reddit and the general lack of video game conversation on the retrogaming subreddit. So you just bought an NES at a yard sale for $30? Great find, but what do you think of the system itself? Those are the kinds of discussions I want to start here... reviews, observations, hypotheticals, (polite!) debates. You're encouraged to offer your two cents... and a quarter for the Donkey Kong machine in the back room.

Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit is Remarkable (www.youtube.com)

What FrameRater said. This Metroid Zero Mission-style overhaul of Sonic Triple Trouble is a full-featured, Genesis-quality Sonic game, with Tails as an onscreen sidekick, exciting 3D bonus stages, and new content that was either missing from or not even possible on the Game Gear. Could this be the next Sonic Mania?

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