#kbin works like this: Upvotes/downvotes do not cross instances. Lets say this post has 100 upvotes on kbin.social and no one on kbin.social votes on it ever again. Over on anotherInstance.net it gets 222 upvotes. Those votes only stay on anotheInstance.net and kbin.social continues to show only 100 upvotes. Do I have that right?
I could see that being a dual-edged sword: if your instance is big enough and matches your personal tastes, then the upvote scores are more useful than a broader metric.
On the other hand, it means you're prone to echo-chamberism. The big dramatic global event that got 200,000 upvotes elsewhere got 75 on the local instance and you missed it.
The angling between 6 and 7 is interesting. I suspect the entire conversation is going to see a lot of sliding between the two.
7 was a breakthrough in its time- I recall getting the demo for it on the PC Gamer CD; the Windows demo required a 3DFx card of some sort, no better way to say "Yeah, everything is going to be triangles and 3-D from here on out." But, being very much a product of the PS1/Pentium II era, it didn't quite have the technical chops to deliver what it promised graphically.
Conversely, 6 is the fully matured "this is as good as we're going to see from pixel art and a four-megahertz 65C816" It aged well even if it was only a little better aesthetically than other peak-SNES-JRPG era title. Even today, it's the obvious benchmark for any new pixel-art JRPG-inspired game.
We can sort of linearly assume what FF7 would look like with more hardware-- as if Square didn't actually start selling it to us recently. But where would FF6 have gone if it arrived 5 or 10 years later, with PS1 or PS2 hardware to play with? Would it be like Neo-Geo fighter games where more hardware just turned into more/bigger sprites but sticking with pixel art, or would they try to go 3D?
The board is the third generation of a design I call the "Overton130". The PCB has now been designed to accept either MX or Alps switches, and either a Teensy++ or a nanoCH32V305. This example is built with Box White v2 switches and various cheap stabilizers (originally Everglide Pandas, but I had to replace a few sets that were damaged from overly enthusiastically removing keycaps).
The main red keycaps are from a G-MKY "Pega" knockoff; the colour's a little darker, so it needs more light to really shine, and the typography isn't as classy as real Pega-- it's clearly aping the Cherry font-- but it's actually available and like $25 per set off AliExpress.
The white keys are generic OEM profile PBT caps, marked with a laser engraver to sear dry-erase market ink onto the cap; it's not the most durable thing in the world, but good enough for occasional hints like media control. The blue "Rawr" key is from the GMK a run.
Many of the keys in the top row are bound to unique features of the CH32v-Keyboard firmware: adjustable "mode" for the OLED display, tuning the debounce and post-debounce hysteresis thresholds, and activating the mini-RPN-calculator mode. The six on the top left are just vanity "Walter Mitty effect" legends until I find use for the extra bindings. Despite the labelling, "Rawr" does nothing, but "Less Rawr" is "Stop" and "Run Stop" is play-pause.
Personally, I'd throw my vote behind Orville Reddenbacher. The amount of popcorn this primary season is going to sell should let him pull a fully-financed Mike Bloomberg expedition.
People want scapegoats when life doesn't go well, and there's an entire industry devoted to manufacturing them. However, in normal conditions, they don't get a lot of traction. People used to point and laugh when some of the more "outspoken" TV preachers would blame $latest_tragedy on the existence of homosexuality.
I suspect the LGBTQ+ community is the current easy "easy target" because the social acceptability of blaming a clear "skin colour/nation of origin/religion" groups have faded. It's also probably easier because you can add a blame component-- many people still treat sexual and gender preferences as choices rather than innate, so it's more viable to say "Blame Steve: he chose to be gay/trans/etc" where you can't say "Frank CHOSE to be Black".
However, I suspect we have a secondary force that turbocharges these messages these days. We're not dealing with a one-off crisis anymore-- it's systemic problems (stagnating wages, climate change, student loan debt) which require major economic changes to fix. There are plenty of people who obviously want to avoid that discussion, so it's in their interest to pick at social disputes and demonizing a minority because it keeps them off the radar. They can bankroll the campaigns of candidates who spit hate, and steer the focus of the media in ways that encourage polarization.
Every day we're arguing about taking out books from the school library because they have LGBTQ+ character is a day we're not asking "are our schools producing students who can compete with China/Japan/Korea/Uzbekistan?"
Every argument we have about "should insurers pay for HRT" is time not spent asking "why don't we have national health care and pay UK or Canadian prices for meds?"
Every minute spent debating transgendered people in the bathroom is a minute ignoring the cishet white men in the boardroom shipping your job from Topeka to Tijuana.
The 7 Best Final Fantasy Games, Ranked (gamerant.com)
The best Final Fantasy games have influenced countless titles over the years and have also left an indelible mark on many of those who played them.
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Trump’s Indictment Is Worse Than You Think It Is (www.nationalreview.com)
Come and see why the former president is nailed dead to rights.
why are we so hated outside the community?
Why do people hate us for who we are? I don't get it