That’s what tax is.

Yeah, a good example of auto-correct being - as is more typical - useless.

Well, mimics. It messes with receptors or something like that. I’m not a biologist! You probably shouldn’t do that.

Just yesterday! A tree trimming truck full of pine tree branches pulled up next to me while I was walking. BOOM! My childhood farting around in the woods with my dad hits me. I get similar from diesel fumes like his tractor made. Woohoo brain damage!

FYI, BPS mimics estrogen in the human body. Messes with your hormones. Fun stuff!

I feel like it’s gotten better. I certainly don’t miss the days of “definately”. I feel like that one was everywhere. Its death is maybe the one good thing auto-correct did for the world.

It’s good, but beware the OG DS version. There’s a tacked-on minigame when you beat a boss that requires you draw a symbol on the screen to finish the fight. If you mess it up, the boss comes back to life (not full anyway) and you have to kill them again. Early bosses aren’t so bad, but later bosses have some ridiculously complex symbols to draw. It’s infuriating and stupid. I’m sure the new release does away with them in some manner.

I’ve emulated the GBA games in the past. I think the port is actually very well put-together as far as emulated games go. I do wish the menu with savestates were a little snappier.

I only tried to emulate the DS games once or twice. I’m sure DS emulation is better now, but it was really rough, then.

Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow are the standouts here for sure. Not that the others are bad, but those two are just exceptional.

I just checked and oh crap, me too! Almost 20 years ago…

Let’s hope we make it there!

We’re as far away from the 90s as the 90s were from the 60s.

Ugh…

It only relatively recently occurred to me that the vast majority of people use the Internet either solely or mostly with a mobile phone. It blew my mind since I grew up with PCs and modems and the Internet is so much better on a large screen that’s not half full of ads.

I used to use Google assistant to spell words I couldn’t remember the spelling of in my English classes (without looking at my phone) so the students could also hear the spelling out loud in a voice other than mine.

Me: “Hey Google, how do you spell millennium?” GA: “Millennium is spelled M-I-L-L-E-N-N-I-U-M.”

Now, I ask Gemini: “Hey Google, how do you spell millennium.” Gemini: “Millennium”.

Utterly useless.

Well, that’s depressing. Where’s my Star Trek future?

Not only that, but Google assistant is getting consistently less reliable. Like half the time now I ask it a question and it just does an image search or something or completely misunderstands me in some other manner. They deserted working, decent tech for unreliable, unwanted tech because ???

The Grammys are awards for whoever spent the most money on recording and marketing anyway. They have little to do with any kind of artistic or technical merit or musicianship. Maybe never did.

“The year 2000!!!” still sounds like the future to me in my head.

Haha! Top of the page currently for me.

He made brief appearances, I think. She-Ra is He-Man’s sister who lives in another dimension, and I vaguely remember occasional crossovers. Hordak was her regular big-bad, though. I’m sure there’s a MotU nerd in here somewhere who knows better than me.