xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@berkberkman I remembered that infamous gas scene. I thought that I was crazy for thinking that scene was real, but thank God for archival footage.

@0vtcast @rlier23 Digital media is still fine as long as it's DRM-free. They can't touch any of the MP3 files on my MP3 player for example. Streaming services are the only problem here.

So I just learned that the Spongebob episode where Spongebob and Patrick tried to get Mr. Krabs to feel young again is not on Paramount+ and has also been taken off of re-run circulation on Nick because the episode featured a "panty raid".

I've also learned that many episodes of 90s and 2000s TV shows have been taken out of circulation and off streaming services because they used the word "gypped".

I'm so fucking sick and tired of this bullshit. I would have never thought that early 2000s humor or media that used certain words, even taken in a non-derogatory context would be on the same level as racist cartoons from the 1950s.

@WWIII_ENJOYER @PurpCat @beardalaxy @DC5FAN I heard that guy wrote SNES games on an Apple II.

@beardalaxy @DC5FAN @PurpCat Nintendo had to rely on foreigners (British) during their early 3D era.

@Charles_in_Charge But given that in-fighting and purity spiraling is inevitable in any political camp, it's just going to lead to right-wingers cancelling each other. That's my main concern. I don't care about leftists who have been cancelling the right for over a decade now.

@LukeAlmighty My biggest concern is right-wingers cancelling other right-wingers for not being in the same camp. I could see neocons cancelling right-wingers who are critical of America's military overreach for example.

@beardalaxy @magicalthinking We all know that neocons will be the ones doing the cancelling.

@beardalaxy I don't think they involved using a phone directly, but you had BBS door games, games played over TeleType, and early online console games (they weren't played over the Internet, but instead via dialing directly to the other player).

I don't think phone menu games were ever a thing. I may be wrong, but if they were I should see some YouTube video or a podcast on it.

I don't know what to say about conservatives embracing cancel culture. You may argue that these leftists deserve the taste of their own medicine, but I don't think it's going to stop at Charlie Kirk.

This wouldn't be the first time conservatives embraced cancel culture either. I think Ben Shapiro is known for calling people to cut ties to people he doesn't like which is ironic coming from someone who is prominent in the "anti-woke" movement.

My only concern is that many of these conservatives consider you to be on the side of antifa if you are critical of the US military or at least America's military overreach and I can see many people losing their jobs because some conservative accused them of shitting on American troops.

@cjd @Dagnar @Matty If the underclass are going to be the only ones eating the bugs then we shouldn't be seeing an increase of lone-star tick bites that have been going on in the Eastern and Southern United States after academic papers were being published about allowing them to spread.

@Spooke @zeroraining107 @Kyonko802 I really think "Live and let live" only works if you have individual communities where people can associate based on culture, lifestyle, politics, etc and people can freely choose which community to live in.

In other words, it only works if freedom of association also exists and that there will be a community somewhere that will accept you. It doesn't work when everyone has to put up with everyone else.