Needs to tap phones with a real friend? I guess I’ll never be able to use it then :D

Also, no android app…?

Also, also, it was not the first social media. Irc-galleria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC-Galleria) and other were first :)

Luckily it seems to be making Europe and Canada stronger as well. Putin can weaken the US all he wants, but as long as Europe and Canada are not just standing around with their hands in their pockets, doing nothing, it wont benefit russia too much.

Yeah I didn’t mean to say that its been that bad forever. Its gotten worse in the last 10-15 years. But it started ages ago, back in the ancient times. I remember my 1987 Volkswagen had a buzzer if I had lights on when the ignition was off. That was a good thing to have tbh, especially back then. But now you get a warning bong just because you have a kilogram of apples on the back seat.

Yeah the beeps and bongs are not a new thing. Clarkson raged about it 20+ years ago. “I KNOW THE DOOR IS OPEN THERES A HUGE GAP NEXT TO ME”

What car is that? So that I know never to buy or suggest one

Thats why I cant use my google accounts anymore. No gmail, no youtube. Because they want my phone number. Fine, I’ll use Freetube and Protonmail. Thats completely fine for me lol.

Requested account deletion but they’re ignoring that mail.

According to the news article here, you need to post pro-LGBTQ stuff and they will delete your account.

The one thing FIA did correctly was not tither about the decision to cancel the russian GP and Mazepin’s racing license when the 2022 escalation happened.

Though the fact that the russian GP happened at all when Crimea and shit was happening was a farce of its own… So +5 and -20 points to FIA for all that.

I’m glad to hear it. And I would be very glad if my pessimism turns out to be false. But I really don’t have much hope anymore. I remember when the games were in Brazil and everyone was raging about how Brazil was cleaning up the areas with force and about the corruption etc… and then it turned out to be one of the most watched games (I may be misremembering this part but they were wildly popular).

Same thing with F1. So many people said they will stop watching because of all the Saudi, Qatar etc. races… But the sport is more popular than it has ever been.

But, I guess there is still hope. Trump has proven to be such a massive arsehole cunt that he might actually pull off a ace out of his shitty diapers and make the games be a massive failure. I really do hope that happens. But I’m a pessimist. Plaargh.

Do we have any examples where one nation vetoed something and it was good?

Like the opposite of Hungary using a veto to block Ukraine aid. Like Finland using the veto to prevent Sweden from exporting surströmming or some such thing

Who is actually going to watch this shit anyways?

Hopefully no one, but wouldn’t be the first time sports fans disappoint me. People want to see the ball bounce, people will watch the ball bounce.

I got tired of the new games being shit and/or not done when. I think last game I bought new was No Man’s Sky (yes I know, its decent now, I still play it sometimes), after that disappointment I just gave up. I haven’t been paying attention on whats coming, whats the newest big game… I just play emulators. I play the games that I wanted to play when I was a kid, but couldn’t. My gaming journey started with Amiga 500, then I got a NES, after that a Game Gear, then a Play Station 1. So I’ve been gaming a lot of SNES stuff lately, I downloaded a bunch of Atari titles. Sega games are next on the list.

Theres so much to play, I will die before I run out of stuff. I think I’ll never buy a new game ever again.

Same reason as why English speakers say “Finland” instead of “Suomi”, why French say “Allemange” instead of “Deutchland”, why Swedes say “Helsingfors” instead of “Helsinki”, why Finnish people say “Kiova” instead of “Kyiv” etc.

Same. I remember how everything seemed amazing and the future was exciting, you never knew what the next big and amazing thing would be. Then the next big amazing thing turned out to be facebook, google, advertising and personal data harvesting and after that everything has been complete shit.

But thats why the internet revival thing, is a thing. Thats why the amount of IRC users have started to go up. Thats why more and more people are looking into self hosting things… I’m all for that sort of stuff.

I haven’t bought a new-new game in… at least a decade. Last one was No Man’s Sky. You probably understand my reluctance to buy new games after that lol. These days I enjoy NMS quite a bit, but it did take them years of improvements. So the lesson I learned is to not buy a game until its at least 3-5 years old.

After realizing that there isn’t really games for me anymore, I’m not interested in running through 3000 zombies so I can get a new and better shotgun so I can run through 5000 zombies… I decided that I’m just gonna go back with a time machine. First I replayed stuff like Escape From Monkey Island, Jazz Jackrabbit and other classics. Then I started to go through games I didn’t get to play and tbh, its been great fun. A bit of a faff to set up the emulators and whatnot, but once that is done its easy going.

You can be my neighbor, as long as you are at least 1.5 shouting distances away :D

I’m a introverted Finn, I can’t deal with roommates :–D

Yup. I’m actually planning on getting a second phone that will be my daily driver, one that I can just try out different things, like whatever Linux OS’s there are available etc. Then have another phone that I will do the banking stuff and whatnot.

Yeah it probably really is that simple.

So lately I’ve been playing through games that I wanted to play when I was a kid, but couldn’t. I’m currently in the year 1992. I think I’ll be okay for a few decades. Other people can send their ID’s to their 800€ gaming consoles. I’ll be using my OG xbox as a emulator and Nintendo can go suck my dick about it.

I’m seriously gonna buy a good set of solar panels, build a log cabin in the woods and just live there. I’d probably starve to death but I’m suicidal anyway so it would be a nice adventure before the final release.

If that was how ours worked, I would have driven my sisters mad with that sort of super power.