It’s also a really fun song to play. I used to know how to do the intro when I was younger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2evIg-aYw8

That’s my favorite instrument’s name to say.

Takes one to know one, I guess?

How is the way Nintendo boxed them “weird”? If anything, stapling the receipt to the box is weird, that’s so unnecessary. No other store is doing that.

Update 6/5/2025 12:42 p.m. ET: A customer who was impacted by the stapling issue says they were told that replacement units are on there way from a neighboring store. How did the staples become a thing to begin with? According to what they were told, the store’s air conditioner was broken and it had gotten hot enough in the store that the receipts weren’t staying taped to the boxes. To avoid mixed up paper work they were stapled on instead.

It was too hot for tape? That’s bullshit, it was only 85 fahrenheit in Staten Island today, what kind of tape are they using that stops working at 85 degrees? WHY DID YOU NEED TO TAPE THE RECEIPTS, THEN??? JUST PUT IT IN THE BAG. WHY ARE YOU OVER-COMPLICATING THIS???

Nintendo makes a lot of dumb decisions. But stapling a receipt to the box wasn’t one of them. Don’t blame Nintendo for this, blame the morons working at the Staten Island GameStop.

I really want this to do well. I’ve lost a lot of faith in Konami in recent years, but the SH2 remake gives me a bit of hope, and I’d like to see them ride that momentum and breathe some new life into Silent Hill.

I’m excited, as I loved the first one. I’m not in love with the disconnect between visual designs in the the pre-rendered scenes and the gameplay, though; the cutscenes look like they’re for a completely different title altogether.

Also, no Miriam?

This dude has lived a post-Tubgirl life and thinks he’s tough.

im sick of mods. nobody likes mods!

Then self-host your own instance.

Having dealt with similar situations before, that definitely sounds like schizophrenia. Unfortunately, short of just moving, there won’t be much that you can do directly, as ultimately getting any real solution for anybody involved is going to require professional intervention. You very likely won’t be able to convince him out of whatever incorrect beliefs he’s dug his heels into.

I would try seeing if he has any family you could reach out to. It’s likely not safe for him to be living alone anymore, and he needs somebody to help care for him. If not family, it may be worth putting in a call to whatever social services you have in your area.

Mental disorders like this generally don’t get better on their own. Especially not at his age. He needs help before he hurts himself or somebody else.

This sucks. I use Catbox quite heavily. I’ll probably buy a sub to help support them, but I hope they’re able to recoup enough to stay afloat. It’s been really great having access to a non-enshittified, login-free host for video files and I’d hate to lose it.

I’m just surprised that there are still people using Tinder.

Robin Williams for me, too. I’ve often used comedy as a coping mechanism for depression, so I always looked up to comedians who spoke openly about their mental struggles. His death hit me really hard, because I thought to myself “if he - with his wealth and fame and success and adoration and near-infinite support system - couldn’t make it, then what hope do I have with none of that?” That news really made me spiral for a bit.

I later learned about the Lewy body dementia diagnosis, and that definitely changed things for me.

Kinda echoing other comments in here, to say that lengthy segments where the author is describing the appearance of something can be rather annoying to me. I can’t see it. No matter how many flowery words you use, I can’t see it. I know what it is that you’re describing, I already got a good-enough understanding with the first few sentences. But I can’t see it. Please, please just move on to the actual story.

I really wanted to get into Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. I made it to the point in the first book where two characters spend an extended amount of time in a pitch black tunnel. Oh. My. Fucking. God. I can only take so many pages of “Boy it sure is dark in here” before I lose my patience. I’ve started that book at least 5 times, and could never manage to make it past that section because it’s just so infuriating to read. It’s almost like the book is mocking me, as if to say “Hah hah, get a load of this goober, can’t even see the darkness!”

I don’t blame authors for this, though. It’s not their responsibility to cater their art to my neurodivergence. It’s just a minor frustration I’ve learned to live with. But it’s also part of the reason why I don’t read much for leisure. I think this is why I’m generally more tolerant of films that aren’t as good as the books they’re adapted from, because the alternative is that I’ll likely otherwise never experience the story at all, so I’ll take what I can get.

They’ve been adding AI chatbot integrations into the browser lately.

Unless you wrote it yourself, never assume that an app won’t inevitably enshittify itself. People thought that about Firefox, too.

For those who can’t easily see the full URL in their Lemmy client:

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/baby-woman-sentenced-brutal-killing-friends-nonverbal-toddler-autism-spectrum-disorder-autistic-child-iesha-harris-detroit-michigan-killed-harmoni-henderson-babysitting-babysitter-murder-murdered-abuse-guilty-plea-drugs-weed-smoking-cincinnati

Seems like a rather archaic SEO technique.

“Phobia” doesn’t mean “fear”, necessarily. Fear can absolutely be a factor of a phobia, but not a requirement. Technically, “phobia” just means “aversion to”. For instance, hydrophobic materials aren’t “afraid” of water, they just don’t interact with it.

That said, when it comes to homophobes, fear is definitely a common factor. Misinformation about human sexuality leads to people being afraid of being “converted”. But there are plenty of homophobes who aren’t as much afraid, as much as they are just plain hateful.

I want an emergency shutdown of Musk.

Honestly, Best Buy’s service plans are slept on. I had to use them for a couple TVs that both started failing a few months after the manufacturer warranty ended. Ended up getting a free upgrade on both units because they stopped making that particular model (I wonder why) so they replaced both TVs with a slightly bigger display.

Sounds like insurance fraud to me. They keep the fucking shampoo under tighter lockdown. They’re low-key encouraging somebody to steal these.