Minecraft is mostly popular with people who were 5 - 12 years old 10 years ago.

There’s definitely a relationship between the marginalization of dark skinned people (men and women) and the view of dark skinned people as more masculine (therefore more dangerous.)

Star Wars belongs firmly in the “science fantasy” category; it’s a work that draws on both sci-fi and fantasy tropes.

Game Pass is a profoundly stupid decision. It doesn’t make it’s money back and now Xbox users are used to not paying for games. And from a consumer perspective, enshittification always eventually happens with subscriptions.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Kirby Planet Robobot for the same reason: while not the most innovative games and not necessarily my favorites in their respective franchises, they represent nearly flawless implementations of their respective franchise’s ideas.

Sometimes I feel like Mario and a couple popular indie games are the only platformers that get taken seriously honestly.

Terraria.

Because to me Terraria feels more like a freer version of a Metroidvania than a survival game. And while you start weak you get downright overpowered.

If the game has a good enough character creator I’ll play a male. But most games and especially most Western games with character creators don’t allow me to make a male character I’d actually want to look like or at.

They were originally on Gamepedia, which got bought out by Fandom.

I'm about as old as OP, but every time I remember that my generation grew up on mostly 360/PS3 it reminds me that I was weird, my dad got an Original Xbox when it came out, which was the year I was born, and even though we had a Wii, I think we actually played games on OG Xbox more (we relied on the Wii to access the internet through neighbors' unprotected Wi-Fi for a while though.)

I could see there being fatigue with particular genres of indie games (Metroidvanias, Rougelites, First-Person Horror without combat, speedrunner-oriented 2D platformers) but not with the very concept.

I really think they should bring back Starlight, possibly outside the Coke brand. To me, it tasted like graham cracker.

I don’t think the majority of the populace…anywhere makes app decisions based on morality. WhatsApp is basically nonexistent in USA and Canada (and while Facebook and Instagram are present they are far from omnipresent) but I don’t think it has anything to do with people making informed decisions about the moral issues with tech companies.

I cannot be friends with DeSantis supporters. Even moreso since I live in a major city in a US state where, despite being a swing state, DeSantis’ ideas have proven a losing position (Doug Mastriano pledged to make PA “the Florida of the North.” That’s how the Democratic nominee won that year.)

I’d hate to suggest that, but it’d set an example.

I still think the N64’s overall technical superiority over the PS1 is very visible. Notice how much more closed in most PS1 games’ environments are. Spyro is the main exception, but that needed a lot of special tricks where N64 just does that. I say this as someone who doesn’t really like the N64 library.

1. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

2. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play

3. Pink Floyd - Animals

4. Paramore - Brand New Eyes

5. Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-LA DEE DA

6. Yes - Drama

7. Yellowcard - Yellowcard

8. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

9. Mariya Takeuchi - Love Songs (I’ve never actually listened to this in full but I love “September” off this album)

10. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Same as above, I love “Stan” but have never actually listened to this in full, I picked the last two because I wanted some non-rock picks but I’m not much of an album guy in genres that aren’t rock.)

If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

Disagree. Paint’s function is to be the Notepad of images, something not very powerful but quick and dead simple.

GIMP is needlessly hard to use.

For how relatively well known it is (it’s probably like the next most well known piece of FOSS after Linux and Blender) I can’t believe how bad a piece of software GIMP is.

I think it’s good for broad, serious/informative discussion but lacking for more niche or casual stuff. Niche is just because there’s not enough users. Casual is probably partially that, but also because Lemmy just attracts a more serious crowd. Even the general gaming communities disproportionately trend towards serious discussion of industry problems. And a Lemmy that’s better for casual stuff is probably worse for serious stuff.

There were a few attempts to make metric time. Revolutionary France tried it and Swatch Internet Time was an attempt by a Swiss watch company during early internet days, honestly it was probably a promo stunt rather than an earnest attempt, but a few things supported it, including PHP and the MMO Phantasy Star Online.