@xianc78 yeah I always keep in mind that he relied heavily on public $$. (Since I don't lean into cults of personality anyway, I've never researched the extent of his reliance.)
Doesn't mean that I'm not thankful for a few things he's done, though.
Mother 1/Earthbound Zero/Earthbound Beginnings is the best and the only truly great Mother game because it actually feels like a late 20th century road trip movie adapted into an RPG.
Earthbound/Mother 2 is way too goofy and is mostly a retelling of the first game without the Giygas backstory. And Mother 3 is a very shallow critique of capitalism, modernity, and western culture which goes against the premise of the first two games, and it might as well be a Final Fantasy game.
I think the series in general is overrated, but if one game is deserving of the hidden gem status, it would be the first one.
@theorytoe @nozaki @animepfp
>also alot of the new momentum in the development side of things is putting a mastodon-adjacent gay retarded governing body behind the ""standards"" (if you can even call them anything beyond a suggestion) so I dont expect it to improve with time
I made a post about it the other night, but Mastodon's competition going forward is going to be bsky and not Twitter/similar as much.
Not having quote tweets fucked them over hard because it was a battle of the 2017 post-CVille leftists who felt "if this feature can cause harassment, it shouldn't exist" vs the 2025 "Dude, where's my quotes" Twitter refugees.
For anyone still using Android / Apple you'd be advised to stop. Google just added a program to scan your device for content the government deems unacceptable (my summary not having fully read the story yet): https://www.protectstar.com/en/blog/android-system-safetycore-hidden-installation-and-what-you-should-know
" it’s distributed via Google Play Services or the Play Store in the background, without requiring any additional confirmation from you."
If you need a phone that doesn't ship with Google Play Services, the Play Store, or Android (ie core) I'm still selling at least basic smart phones with LineageOS 22.1. And assuming people remain interested in such phones at some point probably Pixel and/or some other models with GrapheneOS (again).
This is literally worse than the freetard purity spiraling I saw back on 8chan/tech/.
https://freesoftwareextremist.com/objects/3445d005-7ffd-4224-a7bc-6eebad960a4c
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Dude, it's fiction.
I feel like I'm making lolicon discussion type arguments but the fucking proprietary software in the anime isn't real bro...