Mantis_Toboggan

joined 1 year ago
[–] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah, for decades I’ve heard that theory too. I’ve always thought of it as an urban myth.

[–] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So Alaska gives out Hi-Chews? As in the ones you find at convenience stores in Japan? (ハイチュウ)

[–] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As a child in the 90s, I remember Saturday and Sunday afternoons being incredibly boring if we didn’t go out. TV was shit (still is), and on rainy afternoons you were basically locked at home.

By the late 90s, at age 10, with no internet access in my county, I was mapping ways to beat the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time. I remember scheming for hours, using Farore’s Wind to take me to the beginning of the dungeon and jumping to the platform on the 2nd floor. This way, I was not using the only key I had on the middle pillar, which is what almost everyone got stuck on.

But yeah, I remember the tail-end of this at that time and starting a whole new game to try this out. And it worked. Still proud of 10 year old me. It’s interesting but I hadn’t felt boredom in a really long time.

[–] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More like forced into it by these multiple “once-in-a-lifetime” economic crisis.

BofA deez nutz!

[–] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I had read this in another thread, but radio was one of the first (if not first) media form to be entshittified. Decades before we even had a term for it.

[–] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm about to hear a lot more of José "hongos mágicos" Rogan outside of the internet now.

[–] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just hope it gives them ideas. fingers crossed

 
[–] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I posted one yesterday on a major Subreddit. It did get a bit of hate. Couple of people signed up. Some of that hate seems to be bots, complaining that there’s no mobile app, and that it looks like old Reddit.

I’ll keep monitoring, to see if it gets shadow removed. I bet a lot of the major subreddits are running on skeleton crews, so they can’t get everything.