I promise that we're not all bigots that think our shit doesn't stink, just most of us. But I just want to add that it's unfortunately not just white people. Look up the 'Marikana massacre' that likely happened under the direction of our current president, considering that he was one of the shareholders pressuring the police to take action.

This place is fucked, top to bottom. The real freedom fighters like Mandela are all dead and gone and we're left with businessmen and openly corrupt freeloaders. People that say things like "I didn't join the struggle to be poor" while being more than happy to sit back and watch as the country they supposedly fought for collapses under the weight of poverty.

I embarked on a mission to play as many of the Sonic games as my aging laptop will handle last year some time. So far, the only Classic era games I either haven't started or 100%ed are the odd ones out, like Sonic Eraser, the SegaSonic games and Tails' Skypatrol. Not sure I'm even gonna bother with Sonic Eraser because it's actually just a shitty little match 3 game that obviously used Sonic for marketing.

As far as the Modern era goes, I haven't got too far in yet because I've been pretty hooked on Sonic Adventure. Going to be doing my 3rd run of Sonic Adventure soon, this time with the Japanese voice tracks and the retranslated subtitles mod. I got to the Biolizard in SA2, took a break and haven't returned to it yet. Honestly a little disappointed with SA2 because I was hoping for more of what we got in SA1 but better, like a hub world to run around in that actually has more to do than just go from point A to point B, like side missions and shit. And I've started Sonic Heroes, which is honestly pretty fun so far.

And the game that I fired up as recently as today was Sonic Advance, where I've completed Sonic's basic run but haven't collected all the Chaos Emeralds yet. And I've just started an Amy Rose run.

I go through obsessions. My previous mission was to watch every DC Comics adaptation, which has now faded into the background and provides me with something to watch when I can't find anything else. Just because there's so damn much of it. And I can see my Sonic the Hedgehog run going the same way because I can already feel that I'm starting to burn myself out with it.

The next non-Sonic game that I'll probably get into soon is an indie game called Unsighted that's been on my to play list for a while now. RPGs are usually my jam but it's been nice having a break from the lists and endless pinned wiki tabs that usually go along with them.

Thespians

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Ah yes, Fox News. The company that is simultaneously 'news' or 'entertainment', depending on which description serves them better at the time. These are perfect representatives for the era where billionaires are supposedly 'anti-establishment' and book burners that police other people's identities and force their religion onto others are supposedly all for free speech and freedom of expression.

I just don't know anymore. How do you deal with people who will point at a fly and tell you that it's a bird, while sincerely believing it?

That's one game that I never got into the hype train with and still haven't got around to trying, even though it looks like it's right up my alley. So I might be mistaken but wasn't Minecraft originally an indie effort? I don't like it but I can understand and appreciate giving indie devs support while they're still working on things a lot more than paying the mega corporation for the privilege of being a beta tester.

NOW only it's finished? When did it become normal for these companies to release half finished trash and use their paying customers as beta testers?

Most of their design choices from 8 onwards have been pretty questionable. To me, the way they just slapped the new UI on top of the old UI with different things and ways to access them in each, just comes across as seriously half assed. Like they're just not interested in putting the effort in anymore.

Even on Windows 11 (which I don't use personally but have worked with), they ruined the old right click menu by slapping a new menu on top of it that has half the options. So you need to click "show more options" every damn time. Instead of cleaning up or upgrading the old menu a bit and maybe offering the option of customising it, they just hid it with a new, useless menu. And still haven't learnt from Windows 8 because it still has that two different UI designs, half / half, new / old thing going for it.

As far as modern, nice looking, well designed desktop environments go, KDE puts Windows absolutely to shame these days.

Social media.

I don't know if it's just my server / app combo. Since I've been starting out here, certain things are hard to tell if they're network issues or software issues, so I apologise if I'm wrong. But I'm starting to lose count of threads that I've visited that apparently have x amount of comments but absolutely nothing when I actually open the thread. Real Reddit moderator shit. Surprised they haven't locked it and given no reason whatsoever. I think I need to start taking notice of the instances that this happens with, to see if there's repeat offenders because there's zero reason to even try participate when they're running things like this.

I too was interested in knowing the meaning of these symbols. But apparently this platform kinda sucks.