Games writers maybe. There haven’t been 1200 games journalists operating at the same time ever. There were a lot of people at a lot of sites simply regurgitating news, but that is definitely not what a journalist is. They are extremely different disciplines.

Yeah that’s a really good example, this entire comment right here. Don’t do this.

A trash heap where it fucking belongs.

There isn’t a thing that you can put ketchup on that a good BBQ sauce or hot sauce isn’t better on. I will die on this hill.

Well. My child is that age and I very much relate to the protagonist. Was not expecting a gut-punch this afternoon.

The Jaunt by Steven King

One of my favorites short sci-fi stories ever.

Nope. I’m in Canada and it happens here too.

Boy do I have a treat for you.

Hey, wake up! The new Clippy skin just dropped!

Absolutely! It’s the first community I’ve run on Lemmy, so I’ll definitely have to pull from how you post it if that’s okay.

Maybe something like: “If you like Casual Conversation instead of Competitive Ranked conversation, try !casualconversation@lemmy.world !”

Was going to start doing a few topics today, actually. Slept like garbage though so they may be… dumber than standard.

Yeah, it may be hard to set the tone at first without alienating anyone. I’m hoping that I’m up for it.

I’m okay with political and encourage it as long as people have sound reasoning to back it up.

I’ve changed my mind on many political topics after a good discussion!

The I.T. firm I run does this except we donate them to nonprofits.

That might be what you wish they are learning, but I assure you that’s not the case. There may be more of those Highway blocking protests that you’re thinking about, but you’re simply hearing about them spread across many, many locations. They are not occurring frequently enough in one location to warrant a change to the way people commute. I have never even heard of anybody linking those two points together before.

If they’re blocking a highway, it’s not like you can just see the protest up ahead and turn off instead instead of choosing to be stuck. Often they are held in the middle of long stretches where they will trap as man cars as they are able on both sides.

And the lesson most people learned from COVID was that there was absolutely no reason why we couldn’t work from home. Although I could potentially see a link between working from home and, when the time comes to replace the infrastructure, replacing it with something more environmentally sane… but they’d have to convince big business owners to not force people to come into work for no reason, and good luck with that.

It seems like there’s a lot of wishful thinking to get from “those protesters are blocking this street” to “man, we should completely redo the entire infrastructure of North America because of these protests.”

My favorite Star Trek game of all time was the video board game with the Klingon host. I had everything from the Nightmare games so this was the next logical step and we loved it to even though it was cheesy as all get out.

No matter the outcome of this, nobody is learning that lesson from this demonstration.

If you want to take a (more obvious) environmental bent, this is a terrible idea for them to do because all they’re doing is causing vehicles to have to run substantially longer.

Well that’s a terrifying prospect if you have any sort of opinion outside of the groupthink.

I mean, we were just fine before them. Some would even go so far as to say “way, way the fuck better.”

And maybe a less brutally aged console to play it on.

If I may ask, what would you be running if you had to pick today?