Come to a good city that hasn’t fallen to the fascists. Here in Columbus, we’re fairly insulated from the psychopaths who don’t care who they hurt. That stuff doesn’t fly here. We actually have some compassion for our neighbors here.

This is Joel Pett’s cartoon for the USA Today on December 13, 2009. It’s the highlight of his career, and yet still it hasn’t reached the people who need to see it most.

Also classic MAGA: Never admit to doing anything wrong, even when all evidence and logic says you did it.

Out of curiosity, is that “someone” white?

Yeah… They’re white. It sucks that I need to think about it this way, but it’s probably true. This kind of jerk isn’t brave enough to “say it with her chest” to neighbors they’re stuck with.

Columbus is good, but the rest of Ohio has 2 million people who knew exactly what a second Trump administration would bring and voted in favor of it. I’m ashamed to call myself an Ohioan sometimes.

I won’t link to my Facebook post about this because it doxxes her, but… this lady got a well-deserved internet beatdown, and so did her husband’s electrical business.

Cazuela’s says they caught her on camera writing this on the check. In the past three days, she could have apologized or tried to prove her innocence in some way. Instead, she lied about her credit card being stolen.

I know someone who used to be her neighbor, and they say she was always nice to them, but that was a decade ago. It seems the Trump train ran this one over.

Yup, Japan says it’s ass-key.

A Retroid Pocket 4 Pro? That thing is an emulation beast. For me, I’d be right at home playing Dreamcast and PSP games with RetroAchievements turned on. But this thread isn’t about emulation.

I bet !skychildrenoflight@lemmy.world runs great on this thing. Dead Cells and Streets of Rage 4 seem to be popular picks too. I’d look into unofficial ports like RSDK, Ship of Harkinian, Open XCOM, Open Lara, and D1X-Redux. The Retroid front end can probably install some of those for you.

Which handheld do you have? The games depends on the screen size and buttons available. Without that information, !Balatro@lemm.ee is the only safe bet I have.

They got arrested first.

Oh! I didn’t know it was actually against the game’s code of conduct to ram like this. In that case, ramming is breaking a rule, and the offender should be reported and punished. What is the punishment for ramming like this, anyway? Is this win taken away from them?

If the developers don’t want players to ram each other, that rule should be enforced by the game itself. Either don’t have realistic collisions between players, or prevent cars from going offroad after a collision, or instantly take away the offender’s money or points.

Fighting game tournaments usually allow everything that’s possible in the game engine, but there are exceptions like intentionally crashing the game.

I like chess, but I can’t think that fast. At that speed, I can only do !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz : push pawns, fork things with knights, always take en passant, and try not to blunder away the queen.

Welcome to the real world.

Look, I come from fighting games and not racing games, so this actually looks OK to me. The goal is to win the race by hook or crook, and you are expected to use every means at your disposal to win. It’s dirty play, but it isn’t against the rules, and you should expect all of your serious opponents to ram you in this situation.

It’s like snaking in Mario Kart DS. It’s a weird counter-intuitive mechanic that makes you go faster by powersliding constantly, even on straightaways. If you’re playing without snaking, you’re not really playing Mario Kart DS.

Me too! My weekly stream is becoming more of a yearly stream. My work schedule doesn’t really allow for consistent streams, but maybe that’ll change soon.

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, practicing the any% route so I can play it onstream soon.

That’s when I’m not distracted with !Balatro@lemm.ee on my phone.

The fascists we’re talking about are strictly Trump and his followers. Other conservatives are also bad, but not bad enough to overthrow the government and install a dictator.

As for the argument that a vote for a third party is a vote for the bad guy, I’m not so sure. I voted against Biden in the primaries because we can do better. But when tens of millions of people are going to vote to install a dictator, the rest of us need to be united behind one candidate long enough to defeat them. Someday, third parties will be viable, but not this year.

This is true. There are two kinds of people who would vote orange. There are those too dumb to understand that he’d make himself dictator, and consequently too dumb to use the Fediverse. Then, there are those smart enough to understand those things and evil enough to want a dictatorship, and they’re mostly on those tankie/fascist instances everyone else defederated. Neither of those groups will ever see this thread.

The fascists want to convince you that your vote doesn’t matter. Defy the fascists and vote. Besides, the state and local races make more of a difference anyway, so at least show up for those.

Mine points to a Tumblr blog that I don’t really use anymore because I’m posting here instead. I ought to turn it into a more professional portfolio page and use some of the other ideas in this thread. I have email at that domain thanks to my legacy free Google Workspace I’ve had for like 15 years.

Entertainment-per-byte is an interesting problem. My solutions were tiny but highly replayable games. It’s been fun to see other people’s ideas, like writing things in Emacs.