On the one hand you’re right, but on the other I feel like a lot of stuff has become browser based (like text editors, code editors, even music editors and perhaps video editors someday), all thanks to Web Assembly and how complex a lot of web apps have become.

It feels like people use everyday stuff through apps, and more complex stuff through browsers nowadays. Roles may slowly invert at some point if it keeps going this way.

Ah yeah, I go to concerts pretty often. Radiohead, Green Day, Gorillaz, plenty of local rock, jazz and hip hop bands. But I don’t really count that as “partying” as I usually go for the music first.

No, I get you. I’m sure that’s fun. I mean, I have awesome fun when I go to concerts I like, like Green Day or Gorillaz (yeah, I like old music lol).

But if you don’t do drugs, and you don’t even enjoy electronic music all that much, I don’t really see much point to raves, clubs and that stuff. Especially if most of your friends aren’t into that stuff either.

I’m 25, so nah, not really. I enjoy spending time with my friends, but more like, going to get coffee or playing tabletop games. Maybe playing online games and cursing each other out.

But I can’t remember the last time I went to a bar or a club. I was probably in college. I don’t find much interesting to do when I go to places like that, so I just leave work early and go hang out at my friend’s place with a couple beers, or something. We rarely go out to clubs at all anymore.

I’m relatively young and yeah, I barely ever party. Never did it much as a teen, and I do it even less as an adult in my 20’s. It’s just not all that fun to me.

It’s probably both if we’re being honest. A lot of services definitely don’t want bots. But they also want to take as much of your personal info as possible.

I was playing Splatoon until like 10 minutes ago. It’s 2:30am right now.

It’s not. I’m from a third world country and almost everybody no matter what has at least a smartphone, a motorcycle, a TV and booze.

People from developed nations tend to not have the slightest understanding of what third world countries look like and generally just think of those pictures of subsaharan African children starving near huts in the savannah.

The reality of it is that living in a third world country doesn’t immediately mean you have no access to commodities or modern items. It’s not living in the past. Usually it means you have to work your ass harder than anybody in a first world country to afford some imported or more globalised items. Your labour rights are poorer, your working hours longer and your career growth more limited, but I’m sick of all the American (and to some extent European) exceptionalism where people think citizens of third world countries can’t even have a smartphone.

You can even enjoy relative luxury without being part of corrupt government circles or even rich. Like… most people can at least afford to go to vacation to national parks or popular destinations. And sure, they go by bus, or they have to save longer for it, but this notion that third world citizens are necessarily in a constant state of misery and extreme poverty is actually quite harmful. It prevents professionals and highly qualified workers from being taken seriously or from getting rid of negative stigma surrounding their country of origin.

Sounds like a universal experience for pretty much all fields of work.

Government and policy? Climate change? A fucking pandemic?!

We’ve seen it all happen time and time again. People in positions of authority get overconfident that if things are working right now, they’ll keep working indefinitely. And then despite being warned for decades, when things finally break, they’ll claim no one could have foreseen the consequences of their lack of responsibility. Some people will even chime in and begin theorising that surely, those that warned them, had to be responsible for all the chaos. It was an act of sabotage, and not of foresight.

Yeah same. I’ve lived most of my life surrounded by cats, and I thought they were enough until I moved in with my partner+dog, and I realised I was wrong. Now I’m 100% a dog person, though I still enjoy a cat’s company, but it’s just not the same.

Absolutely. I just don’t think we need a new gimmick. I don’t think I want or need a new gimmick. The Switch hit the right spot for me as a console. It’s by far the console I’ve used the most in my life, and it’s just too convenient.

Tbh, I buy Nintendo because I like their games, and I don’t play any other AAA games either, with most of my time spent on stuff like Cities:Skylines or indie steam titles.

So… I don’t really care about the specs in the slightest, and I think a lot of Nintendo’s playerbase is like that as well. The Steamdeck and PlayStation getting super powerful isn’t going to get me to buy them over a Nintendo console because I like Nintendo’s games and not… the next big Last of Us, Elder Scrolls or Dark Souls clone, to be honest.

Competition is good I guess, but with every passing day, it feels like Nintendo and PlayStation are getting further away from being direct competitors and more them catering to completely different niches and subcultures.

I think this is good. The world where “gaming” was this monolithic and culturally unified activity monopolised by mostly male teens was kind of boring and extremely toxic a lot of the time. With a more diverse playerbase in terms of age, gender and socioeconomic background, the “gamer” label seems to be getting kind of obsolete, and now it feels like people follow genres, developers or trends rather than gaming as an industry. It became truly mainstream I guess.