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@noyoushutthefuckupdad I knew it was inevitable given that it was a popular service for sending in bomb threats.

You are probably better off actually paying for an email address as it makes it much harder for fedposters (fedsenders?) to make throw away accounts.

This seems like a good choice. They only charge 1 EUR/Month and accept cash via mail, including USD.
posteo.de/en

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After a 64-year-old pensioner retweeted a meme of Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck, in which Habeck was described as an “idiot,” Bavarian police raided the man’s house and arrested him.
https://activistpost.com/2024/11/germany-police-raid-pensioners-house-drag-him-to-court-after-he-retweets-meme-calling-green-minister-idiot.html
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As President-elect Donald Trump moves forward with plans to shake up the federal establishment, precious metals markets are experiencing a price shakeout.
https://activistpost.com/2024/11/gold-prices-soften-as-trump-makes-remarkable-cabinet-picks.html

@Rocket @coolboymew I've heard that the story isn't fleshed out unless you have the expansion pack installed.

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Apparently Epic has officially declared Unreal and Unreal Tournament abandonware and has given their okay to the Internet Archive hosting of it
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Scientists at the University of Texas, Dallas recently discovered that a common food additive can make flesh translucent - literally.
https://naturalblaze.com/2024/11/food-additives-exposed-what-lies-beneath-americas-food-supply.html
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@Disa @RehnSturm256 It's definitely the degradation of a hobby meme but again.

Something you might only use to block servers posting illegal content yet again gets used to ban anyone the owner doesn't like, and it's worse when you have people literally on substances running instances.
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@RehnSturm256 I’ve noticed fedi becoming like that too. It feels like when I started using fedi there were 2 sides of fedi. The “Canceldon instances”, and “Dark Fedi” ones. With a rare few fedi instances which managed to stay in contact with both somehow.

Now it feels like “Dark Fedi” is starting to get just as defederation happy as the rest of fedi which they would make fun of. So now you’re getting these weird subgroups of fedi, everyone forming their own little echo chambers.

It feels like being defederated by association used to be exclusively a “canceldon” thing pretty much, but now I’m noticing “based” “free speech” “dark fedi” instances doing it.

Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become to villain.

It’s kinda funny, I never started Shota House with the intention of being a “Free Speech Instance” always wanted to be a little cozier and slightly more moderated. Though it’s starting to seem like with baest gone, we’re one of the more light-touch free speech leaning instances.

not sure how I feel about that.

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@Forestofenchantment @PurpCat @djsumdog @branman65 There are still malls in my area but the arcades in them are empty (in terms of people).

Though claw machine and stack type games seemed to fall out of fashion. They made sense back when it was a luxury to own something like a smartphone or even an iPod Touch which is why they were popular choices for prizes, but everyone owns those things now.

Oh yeah. I didn't include the best one.

inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IJb4VG0

(Yeah these are over a year old now, but I still find it pathetic)

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@PurpCat @Forestofenchantment @djsumdog @branman65 Yeah, I'm well aware of the Flappy Bird and Fruit Ninja cabinets, but I never see anyone play those.

The only new arcade games with any effort put in to them seem to be Japan-only, but it seems to be mostly rhythm games.

I was mostly talking about the 6th gen when arcade games truly started to decline and consoles still primarily used memory cards. It would've at least incentivize people to go to arcades because they could unlock and download new content for their console games that way.

@Forestofenchantment @PurpCat @djsumdog @branman65 Arcade games should've taken a page from F-Zero AX (connectivity with console games via memory cards) to keep themselves relevant.

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>My guess is that there is a level of nuance that is missed when viewed through a modern lens, especially as English speakers.

I don't know what else it could be. Was she an actual (biological) female mistaken for male at birth? Did she somehow changed biological sex at some point in her life? Was she too tomboyish that she was called a male by her peers? I never played the game. I only know about it through DYKGaming.

A lot of people think that Japanese media has always been socially conservative, but when you really look at it, they were including subtle LGBT themes before the west embraced it. Most of it was just removed during localization. Phantasy Star II had a piano teacher that was heavily implied to be gay, but his dialogue was butchered in the NA release. One of the DS Harvest Moon games had same-sex marriage in the Japanese version. Phoenix Wright apparently had some gay chef whose lines were altered in international releases.

Maybe it could just be that the Japanese being somewhat more open to sexual themes in otherwise family-friendly content meant that they could sneak in some (implied) LGBT characters in their media.

>I bet if the remake came out two years from now that would have been scrapped due to how the social climate is shifting. Or maybe not... I'm willing to bet that the ttyd superfans either fully support that shit or at the very least are fine with it.

I think it would still be the same result if it was released two years later. This IS the type of game that attracts the autistic, trans/enby, terminally online types. I've been told that the Mario RPG games attract A LOT of trannies, which should be obvious because they are clearly the most autistic RPGs you'll ever come across.

And I don't think transgenderism will go back to being underground anytime soon. Trump promising to ban HRT and SRS for minors and AOC removing pronouns from her bio (implying that Democrats are throwing trannies under the bus) means jack shit. We don't know what is actually going to happen. If anything, I see states attempting to nullify any laws being passed kind of like how many states nullify federal raw milk bans. Illinois is already planning to do that.

@beardalaxy I wonder if the original devs knew what transgender even is when designing the original character.

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