Mitch Hedberg

I liked the first Mario Kart for SNES, but honestly all the entries* after that haven’t done anything for me and frankly I think none of them even feel like full games.

*I haven’t played the newest for Switch 2, but it does look like it might have more to it maybe?

That is cereal, yes, but it’s not exclusively cereal. Oat and nuts and fruit, even oatmeal and hot porridges are cereal - in fact my grocery store labels this section “hot cereals.”

Okay actually too goddamn real

Tbh I think you can one time drop a very friendly but more direct: “hey have you guys thought about posting your stuff in a music community on Lemmy? It’s like reddit but smaller and with a very engaged audience. I think they’d dig you there!” Or something to that effect. Just don’t be a dick about it or spam them.

A lot of them don’t know about or don’t understand the fediverse. We need to be more proactive in asking this of the artists we love. I’ll try to be better about doing my part to mention the fediverse to artists in my sphere, an especially good fit given the DIY roots of the punk/hardcore lineage of much of it.

Absolutely, TT is scary and the take-over has been insanely obvious. Despite this people are still regularly making real content and connections on TT. Tiktok, the company and app themselves, are vile and disgusting, but Tiktok, the community, is still largely very decent, imo.

edit: misunderstood comment, thought it was replying to a later comment in the thread, sorry

Honestly Marketplace is the best argument for FB today. How it has usurped Craigslist I don’t understand, maybe because it’s easier to navigate, but you’re right that it is the defacto modern market.

I don’t use it so I forget about it, but this is a good counterpoint.

Tbh, I know this will be a hot take, but I do think Tiktok is a vastly better network. Tumblr too. These are still actual social media platforms.

Yes, they’re deeply algorithm-based, yes they’re for-profit, capitalist networks still, but I think they are miles better than FB/Insta or Twitter/X. Have you looked at somebody’s Facebook? 90%+ of posts are corporate, political, special interest. Almost nobody actually posts anything, they just reshare an endless stream of garbage content entirely divorced from the human experience.

At least Tiktok, despite its many legitimate problems and criticisms, is still largely a human-driven platform. It’s still a place where people are making, sharing, and consuming real human posts in the interest of connection.

Tiktok is still social media. I genuinely don’t think FB or X have been social media in many many years.

I’ve already blocked the loser in question.

If for some reason they can’t or won’t be banned, I just recommend the rest of you block them too.

Let them post their credit-stripped memes to an audience of no one.

It remains insane to me that it’s so hard for so many to just, not use them. Truly, your life is not being enriched by twitter or Facebook. You can delete your account and I promise you won’t find yourself missing them.

Honestly I think this would still work in his favor.

People would want to know just how bad is billboard bad

Ask him what specific conservative policies he supports. Don’t even push back at first, just make him try and articulate what principles he even believes in that aren’t in opposition to something. Like ask “if all the liberals vanished in an instant, what do you and your side believe in and want?”

So many of these people are so wrapped up in fighting boogymen they just truly haven’t even realized how hollow the cart they’ve attached their horse to is

Started getting popular… The original release of games in 1998 was an enormous success here in the US, Pokemon was popular from inception; when are you referring to?

I’m not sure David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart fits any of these.

Or Dear Hank & John either, for that matter.