I wasn’t really into metroidvanias, but I still loved Hollow Knight and put hundreds of hours into it.

Yeah, it’s not called goto, but it’s functionally the same.

Unless you’re programming in assembly

If rather hunt and fight wild animals.

Or just pick a place with online ordering.

It wasn’t a whole sentence entirely composed of shortened words. It was just some frequent words and expressions that were shortened. The reason there was a combination of writing speed and internet jargon.

Just through in some “yeah, that’s right” and “Oh yeah?”

You’re already asking too much from someone with social anxiety.

Just break the convo and start trying to sell them stuff.

Again, what use is this advice to someone who will spend the rest of the week losing sleep over whether that “yeah, that’s right” was used appropriately or not?

or check out yourself

Thanks CEO’s megayacht. I’ll always pick self checkout over forced human interaction.

There used to be a reason to do that. We did it because there were limits to text length and you didn’t want to get charged for multiple texts. Also writing on keypads was a pain. I don’t understand why anyone still does it today, especially people who were not texting back in those days.

My dad used to make those types of CDs. I remember one with 200 games on it. The first time I saw a non-pirated CD was MK Tilogy and I thought what a waste to use up a whole CD for just one 30MB game.

developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

Nowhere did I ever imply that ascii art was the only thing available

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If only ASCII art was available, then Windows 95 itself wouldn’t have been possible, being a graphical OS. Games in the 70s and 80s had non-ascii graphics.

I’ve played hundreds of games before Windows 95 came out and I’ve never actually played an ASCII art game. Not even text adventures that I’ve played used ASCII art.

developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

There was never such a time…

Or already unsubscribed (maybe clicked twice and UI did not prevent that?)

I like how this takes familiarity with the original xkcd comic as a given.

For me it’s the opposite. I remember getting stuck in a game for days or weeks in the 90s. I would get to a point where I would just try to click everything on the screen, use every item with everything else, try all possible item combinations, etc.

These days, if I’m stuck for more than an hour or two I’ll just Google it. I’d rather move on faster and get to play more games in the limited time I have for such things.

Absolutely. A site charging to read messages will most definitely censor out emails and phone numbers and will have it in their ToS that you’re not allowed to take conversations outside the platform.

There’s no such thing as a passing lane here (CA), the left lane is called the fast lane and staying in one lane is recommended (but of course, stay in the one that matches your speed, don’t go 60 in the fast lane on the highway) vs weaving in and out.

None of these points make any sense to me when I think about the pre-reddit internet. There were all kinds of communities everywhere on various forums across the internet. Some forums discussed specific topics, some very niche, other forums were for more general discussions. But hosting and setting up a forum was not always the easiest thing. So when reddit came, subreddits eventually replaced forums. Easy to set up, easy to discover, everything in one place.

Now the fediverse is to me pretty much like going back to the old forums, but a bit more organized. And all of the points in this article could have been made about forums if you decided to analyze forums as one big thing. But in the end, none of it has been a problem (and there are still some forums around today).