I think for a lot of them, they must have come up with some cool looking sprites and then tried to make a game/story around that.

I wonder what kind of carer/child ratios they have. 1 to 10-20 seems unsafe.

I don’t think it’s entirely the app. I’ve had it happen to my Lemmy.world account using Jerboa and Connect, so I think this must be them working on stuff after the hack.

Aye aye captain!

Great write up! I’m amazed that I’ve never played this game. Although the first consoles that I played were the NES and especially the SNES, so maybe I was born too late.

All those old websites with basic html were golden. Not always in quality, but in heart.

It’s a weird feeling not being targeted with content and ads. I forgot what it was like.

I miss not having the expectation of every social media being so heavily moderated and sterile.

The old internet was like walking down a busy city street. You might walk by someone doing something absolutely batshit crazy, but you just think “Weird. Moving on.” and go about your day because getting emotionally invested would be dumb. The new internet feels like a workplace where people want to run to HR to report anyone who acts out so that they’ll get what’s coming to them.

It’s not all bad, but I miss the sort of “wild west” feeling where nothing on the internet mattered because it wasn’t real life.

Yeah, I miss finding some very barebones website called like “Gary’s Favorite Garlic Breads”, just run by Gary, who isn’t trying to turn a profit or be an influencer. He just loves garlic bread and wanted to share.

The fediverse came just in time. I wouldn’t have even heard about lemmy/kbin or mastodon if reddit hadn’t shut down 3rd party apps.

They seem like they’re trying to bleed a stone.

…surely there’s gotta be a better analogy

I agree. There’s a lot of fear-mongering about AI, but there’s no unopening that box.

We might as well see where it goes.

The popularity of this community might finally get me into pirating, lol. I subbed out of curiosity.

Pod racing when?