Straight from the playbook. Announce something terrible, then back off with something bad. Everyone calls it a win.

See: Wizards if the Coast, Unity

And a user replaceable battery!

Modern corpo playbook.

1. Go too far with something wildly unpopular on purpose
2. Everyone complains
3. Dial it back slightly
4. "We won!"

Torchlight and Torchlight II were great. It's a good thing they stopped there and never made a third.

Everytime I see this warning, I become hyper aware of every single one and it freaks me out.

Does anyone have friends that see more than 2-3 times a year?

I give small monthly donations to three things:

• Wikipedia
• EFF
• Internet Archive

Thank you for saying this. I used to judge parents of kids on screens until I had my own. You never know what's going on and there's a chance that the 30 minutes of quiet that family is getting from the iPad is the only peace they've had all day.

I kinda miss my BlackBerry.

Awesome!

... we'll never hear about this again.

I'd be interested in understanding if people who think Pokemon is becoming irrelevant spend any time outside of Lemmy or their own circles. I see so much hate for Nintendo and Pokemon specifically, but as a parent and someone who spends a lot of time at kids' activities, I see no sign of either slowing down.

I may not like Nintendo as a business and a lot of Pokemon games are too similar for my taste, but pretending they are in decline seems crazy to me.

Built an app and it accidentally got traction with a small but appreciative user base. Now they're distracting me from leaving it half finished and moving on to the next thing.

I had a massive consumption problem. Especially on hobby spending. This year I uninstalled every retail app and unsubscribed from every promotional email. No exceptions. No more notifications about limited time offers, sales, bundles, last chances, etc.

Tell yourself that if you really need it, you'll pay full price for it. If you aren't willing to pay full price for it, then ask yourself if you really need it. Force yourself to log into the site from your browser when you buy it rather than having it be two taps away.

I've also taken a more critical look at the YouTubers I follow to see which ones are spending more time talking about promoted products or the monetary value of things VS their quality and utility.

Almost every interaction on the internet is now designed to separate you from your money. Remember that and you'll realize how much we're being treated like lab rats.

I basically cut my spending in half, which was good because my income was lower this year. Despite that, I was able to save more.

Ok but I'm still afraid of quick sand.

You can accidentally make a person, but you can't accidentally make a pizza.

I have a little collection of these sitting on top of my refrigerator. No one knows it's there. It's my little secret.

There was a short time where my baby cousins and I connected on video games each Christmas but now they show up with their partners and are too cool to hang out.

It's not a good solution, and I'm not recommending it, but if you absolutely have to stay on Windows 10, you can enroll in the extended security updates program to get you to next year:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/extended-security-updates

If I could get over the crippling anxiety of meeting new people, I'd be happy to hang out with anyone regardless of who they like.

Was a OnePlus user for years. Had the original device, the 3, 5 and the 7 pro since launch. I replaced the battery in my 7 pro and put lineage on it just to keep it going.

My idiot brain jumped off a boat last week with it in my pocket and I assumed I would just get the new one. But no unlockable bootloader means I need to look elsewhere.