“EA is EA, even if you fried it with butter.”

They are exclusively for Nintendo’s consoles, and it owns a third of the Pokemon company. Simple.

And here in Finland this guy is all ears when he hears that Iran needs a new Ayatollah.

Considering how the person replacing Spencer has been known from leading Microsoft’s AI division and isn’t much of a gamer, this doesn’t make Xbox’s future rosy. Dwindling sales, large layoffs and RAM prices skyrocketing… I highly doubt they can build a competitive console.

“Aave” is “ghost” in Finnish.

Germany’s user count is nice.

Who would have anything against British cuisine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVHbWHGVYaU

That user might as well donate to Lemmy’s or PieFed’s developers.

That’s true, there’s enough porn and shock content found elsewhere.

Exactly!

There is some innocence and optimism regarding the Internet.

EDIT: And the most important of them all: sincerity. Not everything was wrapped in over 9000 layers of irony.

From a Finnish perspective, the 2010s were a rather peaceful time, world events didn’t really affect my day-to-day life. But from 2020 onward every year has felt like survival.

And the modern game has no yellow paint, unlike the old one. How can you know where to go???

For those interested, this is a still from Ryan the Leader’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxnJcZvuRK8

• Yet another racism scandal in the Finnish parliament, PM Petteri Orpo gets to clean the mess again
• Still no peace deal in Ukraine
• Yet another impeachment attempt on Trump that goes as well as the previous ones
• Some AAA game company releases a big-budget title that turns out to be a complete buggy mess (like MindsEye)
• Some Big Tech social media platform falls victim to enshittification, leading to a refugee wave to the Fediverse
• The civil war among Republicans continues, maybe leads into abandoning Trump?

Oh, who could have guessed???

Well, it wasn’t intended for kids but I watched it regardless, same with many other movies on my list.

Basically many movies from the 90s Disney Renaissance era:

• Hercules
• Aladdin
• Pocahontas
• Tarzan
• Mulan

And of course the Pixar movies from that era:

• Toy Story
• A Bug’s Life

James Bond flicks:

• GoldenEye
• Tomorrow Never Dies
• The World is Not Enough
• Die Another Day

Other movies:

• The Mask
• Home Alone 1 & 2
• Ace Ventura
• Spirited Away
• The first Pokemon movie
• The Matrix 1–3
• Kummeli Kultakuume
• Pahat Pojat
• Pitkä Kuuma Kesä
• South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
• Jurassic Park
• Jurassic Park: The Lost World

Note that several of these movies weren’t for kids, but I got to watch them regardless.

I don’t think libertarianism works, it relies naively on how the free market is omnipotent, how freedom is everything and how having a small government is somehow good. There are no countries that are entirely libertarian, that also tells a lot about the ideology’s applicability in practice. A brilliant book about why libertarianism doesn’t work is a book “A Libertarian Walks into a Bear”. In the book, a group of libertarians decides to take over the small town of Grafton in New Hampshire en masse as part of their “Free Town Project”. Of course this group cares neither about the town’s original inhabitants nor their rights. What’s the result? They hollow out pretty much everything from the library, to the school, the fire department and the police. No regard is given to any laws on hunting or food disposal, and that lures in bears, who turn so aggressive that they invade people’s homes. In addition to bears, sex offenders and all kinds of criminals are also lured into Grafton. It’s pretty entertaining book, I recommend it.

Another reason why I dislike libertarianism is that it can function as a gateway to fascism. This is a known phenomenon. Several key figures in the alt-right for example used to be libertarians. I stumbled into a clip from some American Libertarian Party convention where Richard Spencer was with Ron Paul. I had to rub my eyes a bit.