Even if you’ve been immunized against measles, check your immunity status. I had to get a booster because the scheduled one didn’t stick.

Reddit never came up in daily conversation for me. It came up only occasionally, and it actually seemed to do so more often after it went public.

It was a weird coincidence

Was it “notoriously bad” or just lacklustre? That makes a difference! Lol

Video games. Retro video games. All of it.

Sure, we have Steam sales and those are still cheap. But physical games? Gone bonkers since covid.

This is the first time in the history of the world that current Gen consoles have gone UP in price. Games hardly go down in price anymore.

Retro games used to be cheap. Now everyone and their mother knows they’re not just old children’s toys, and think everything is a collectible. And these days, they might not even be wrong! Not to mention thrift stores and sometimes even garage salers are trying to charge eBay prices for everything they have.

I’m just holding onto digital games and Steam sales and such…and, well, piracy of course. (But storage is expensive too…)

Same here! That’s exactly why I buy foldable phones!

What is the context of zero? What are you trying to learn?

Is it math? English? Social skills? Household maintenance? Sports trivia? A bachelor’s degree in a specific field?

It would make it easier to know how to answer if we knew more about you and your reasons for asking this. The advice for a 16-year old American boy heading out into “the real world” for the first time would be different from a 30-year old German woman who escaped a bad marriage where she was confined to the home.

What are your goals? That’ll decide what people would recommend you learn.

It was fine as it was

A ton of old game controllers and handheld consoles!

I play a lot of retro games, and use adapters to connect them to my PC for that extra bit of authenticity in emulation

“I’m not anti-vax, I’m just anti-SOME vaccines”

Congratulations, you’re winning!

Man, people downvoted this like you didn’t post it in NoStupidQuestions! Lol

Why would/did that result in you getting fired?

Is it not impossible that your information was discovered in another way?

I guess nobody in the room was familiar with French, or ever had the curiosity to wonder what CÔTE D’IVOIRE means.

I almost wish the AI threw in some fake countries.

Kalmiba.

Marwambo.

And they’d just happily talk about the happenings in those countries.

Oh yes, the country called “Ivory Coast” is a land-locked nation…

I can’t believe nobody caught at least that.

He’s not the reason why the civilised world sneers at 'Murica, but he’s a huge symptom of it

As a Canadian, I used to sneer at the US like one would sneer at an immature sibling.

Now, “Made in the USA” feels dirty. I don’t feel like the USA can recover its place of former global respect in my lifetime.

With a lot of companies no longer doing physical games, then would that give rise to more Piracy?

Probably about the same. People always find a way.

How will video game preservation work then?

Games are just data, whether physical or digital. What gets lost is the servers for online functionality an such.

“Potato is and noodles” of course.

Ah, thanks. Didn’t realize it was a list.

What is PA, MD?

Darn. Old Reddit is the last way to access NSFW subreddits without logging into Reddit.

I think you missed the conversation thread or something?