That’s cool! My grandmother was similar–discovered email in her early 80s and loved it, got herself a printer to print out letters to send to people. Last I saw her before she died, she asked me to help set up her phone so she could answer emails on it.

She loved getting emails from people too. It made me remember how exciting that stuff was when I first started using it and it still felt like a great, new thing to make it easier to connect with folks and explore the world.

This occurred about 20ish years ago. Mom had never touched a computer in her life before getting the laptop.

And, this is the same woman who got a new phone and sent me a text that said ‘do you like my new phone?’

How many games and studios do you think have been ruined by uncreative people who do ‘business’ with things like non-competes and non-disclosure agreements?

I set up my mom on Microsoft Outlook many years ago, back when you had to set the server and so on.

She called me a few days later and said her email wasn’t working, so I walked her through looking at the options, making sure the right addresses and preferences were checked, etc.

After about 45 minutes, I remembered that I already set everything up correctly and it was working. Then I decided to ask, “are you typing the @ symbol, or are you typing the word at in the email address?”

Yep.

I was just thinking while I drove aimlessly that the internet used to be a real way for real people to communicate real information to one another, often when they had no other way to do so.

This is a perfect example of that. We must all know the many faces of JD Vance so we can recognize him at the kids’ table in the country club and ask him about his big-boy suit or if he’s enjoying the Jell-O®

Ublock Origin in Firefox is my choice among all possible ‘sponsors.’

uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger plugins in the Firefox browser have me feeling relatively secure with most regular internet traffic.

Thanks for the clarification because that headline sure is worrisome.

I even got a post removed from Lemmy earlier today because it included a ‘call for violence’ against Trump and Leon.

But, I didn’t get banned, so that’s a plus.

On the OP’s topic–is anyone in the world really gonna feel bereft if a total cunt like this Chris Wright guy goes missing?

And from the paragraph you cited: “Berlin police confirmed the incident on their official X account…insisting that the officers had no choice but to use force against protesters who they claim were acting violently.”

They say shit like this even when there are hours of video demonstrating otherwise. I’m sure afterward they’ll investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

The story is really what makes it so good–you start to feel invested in the character, in the world, and that helps with getting deeply immersed in the gameplay. It’s an incredibly well written game.

Beyond that, the screenshots show a lot–it’s a world that feels very lived-in.

Also the gameplay is a ton of fun. Open world, lots of places to explore–some of them beautiful, others treacherous, some both.

I don’t think Saleh is saying anything about all police being this way.

But the fact that any of them are like this, and that there are enough of them like this, is a genuine problem for the well-being of regular people.

This isn’t an all-or-nothing situation. We can recognize that there are a significant number of police using violence to accomplish political ends without having to make a disclaimer about not all individual police being this way, because there are clearly enough of them behaving this way that there is real cause for concern.

Wouldn’t you agree?

I agree.

I also just can’t really play games that force me to think about my bank account while I’m playing, charging fees or subscription rates just to fully participate in the game, like seeing a bounty hunting mission that requires me to send money before I can start it. Totally breaks the immersion–I play games so I don’t have to think about the real world for a bit. Making me enter bank details wrecks that.

Pro-Palestine protestors really seem to get the pigs into a rage. They must believe that they’ll be able to get away with it.

And so far, it looks like they have. Right now, in the U.S., the Trumplicans (and Leon) are revoking the visas of international students who took part in protests to support Palestine. I’d guess for every couple we hear about there are a hundred more we don’t.

It seems strange the countries all over the world are using similar violence against anyone protesting the Zionist genocide.

I loved playing this game.

The online version of it fucking sucks though.

Is this a free trial followed by a monthly subscription?