british empire. i gotcha.

thank you I will Denver for next time. 🙏

edit: …remember. not denver. no idea where that came from in the autocorrect lol

“our society has pushed smart phones down our throats”

smartphones evolved from older methods of just getting through the day. taking notes, listening to music, calandars, date books, libraries, files, methods of communication.

you make the assumption that everyone is a slave to their device just because it’s a smart device.

some of us were alive before smart phones existed. and we’d prefer not to go back in tech. and would instead prefer the devices we have now.

you couldn’t pay me to go backwards in time, sorry!

see I was around before the age of the smartphone. growing up, I thought my cassette Walkman was the most revolutionary thing ever. and when PDAs were new, I would dreaammm about everything being on one electronic device.

smart phones have given me a freedom that younger me never had.

i no longer need to carry a notebook/memobook around, because I have powerful software on my phone that not only let’s me note-take, but index and SEARCH my own notes. from my pocket.

i don’t need to carry the 3 novels im reading at the moment because they’re on the ereader app in my pocket.

contacts, games, all my news sources, photos, videos, all my media.

to me, this is still revolutionary tech and it has only improved my life

i think we are seeing a rise now of adults who were raised as iPad kids who never had to carry all their shit around the way us older individuals have. so they naturally would want to get away from it because they’ve known no different and they never had to live another way before that point.

its an understandable mentality from that one standpoint. but no, I will never give up my smart phone. i understand the reasons for those that do, but some of us don’t really want to go backwards.

oh duuuuude. reading the whole cast is exciting. looking forward to it.

no joke, if I’m having issues with a fussy launcher I will just add the damn thing to steam and force run through proton experimental.

it tends to work like 7/10 times. but I typically only do that for launchers that are very problematic. as a last ditch effort.

all inputs are just run through hdmi. and I don’t use any internet based services on the device at all.

its basically the same as a computer monitor. as all my media is on computers now.

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what updates? this TV can’t use internet.

at all.

it can’t GET updates.

my roku TV can’t talk to the internet anymore because it was foolish enough to show me a banner ad while I was gaming

its a dumb TV now 🥰💕

yesssss!

“Now, get out of the Melinoë,”

it was a stretch, but I dig it. 🤘😎

religion is an issue. and its not difficult to define.

i agree with your second paragraph. its why i think its time to start being less hospitable to any and all religion.

the less religion the world has, the better that people can be educated as you’ve said.

i wish I could have got that working properly. it ran well in handheld, but I could never get a wireless controller to work with any real reliability.

that scene was so well done it made my stomach hurt a bit. No joke.

“M m m a a a r r r g g g e e e”

i think if less tolerance for religion became more commonplace, it might be better for mental health in general honestly.

worked fine for me for a couple decades. what’s painful about it exactly?

are you alright, man? did jellybeans kill your family or something?

i don’t think they called you out. they just made a request that you not flood the instance with multiple posts.

and the temp ban has expired already. i don’t believe this to be a power trip.