No? I'm a dumb meat puppet like you

Depends on if you're Chinese abroad because they do try to exert pressure and have what are almost police in other countries

Attitudes about gays and transgenders actually got worse coming from the 1960s into the 1980s. The sexual revolution actually created a generation far more open and accepting, and the culture that lead to things like the Satanic panic, war on drugs, and resurgence of patriotism and religiosity in the United States actually made things worse for gay and trans.

It shows a bias to monotheistic religions. I don't understand how that's justifiably neutral enough.

I was working in the industry at the time and people absolutely talked about the implications of microtransactions and how it would result in more expensive games and being nickel and dimed.

Like, I distinctly remember conversations with actual human beings from exactly the horse armor DLC and maybe we didn't think it was going to result in, say the online shooter battle pass formula exactly, but we without ambiguity understood that meaningful in game items, and things like levels / experience would be monetized.

The biggest shocks to me were how patches would be used to reduce the game testing cycles, enabling companies to print incomplete or broken versions of games, requiring day one patches.

It's a disgusting practice now, and it was then too.

Yes, that's the implication, and it's certainly intentional for you to think of it like that.

Completely disagree, but if you haven't been around for at least a couple of sets of twenty years I can see why you would think this.

Someone else gave a great set of things that were different, but really, twenty years ago was almost completely different in nearly every dimension of life I can remember.

In 2003 not only was gay marriage not legal, gay sex and relationships were illegal where I live, and was punishable by prison time.

In 2003 most of the country wasn't online, pagers were more common than cell phones, and 3DFX VooDoo graphics cards were still a thing.

In 2003 I used to smoke inside my community college's cafeteria, where people ate because it was the designated smoking area.

In 2003 minimum wage was $5.15 nationwide, and gas was just a little over a dollar.

In 2003 people didn't use laptops in school and electronics were confiscated on site, sometimes teachers would 'lose' them and you never got it back, and somehow that was an expected outcome - I lost a laser pointer that way.

In 2003 casual homophobia was mainstream, all your friends, and probably you would be making gay jokes, and transphobia was not a concept. I thought transgender people were the same thing as intersex, I didn't know gender transition was possible.

American society was post 9/11 and highly patriotic, even liberal people were unusually patriotic, and politics were probably the most 'neutral' that I've ever seen, it was nothing like they are now, but in general things trended towards cultural conservatism.

I remember being an outcast because I didn't believe in God, and people would casually tell me I was going to go to Hell.

Nah, 20 years is an entirely different cultural paradigm.

I literally remember when sites like Reddit, Amazon, and even Google went down. We're so used to crazy uptimes that it's easy to forget that real servers and infrastructure have real problems.

The US attacks while Iran lashes out huh? I already hate the linguistic slant.

I watched with no sound and from pure behavior I'm certain he is aware it's there and is likely involved

I low key love it. It's unconventional, but it's not hard to read

Pharmacy Tech is not a stable or well paying job to be completely honest.

I just need to know which titles have it so I don't buy those games. It requires an always online connection and that's a major dealbreaker for me.

If you don't then you're either not paying attention or something is wrong with you. The correct response to the state of the world is depression and anxiety

What do we need to get this to %100?

Lemmy has almost half a million accounts ( 400k ) with over 1.5 million posts. lemmy.world grew by ~30k new accounts in June.

Others grew by single digit thousands, so the migration seems to be about ~50k new users to Lemmy.

That's not trivial, Reddit had those kind of numbers in like 2007. Give it time.

Even worse! You can't even have a PSN account everywhere you can have a Steam account with this game

I really want a Ken M Lemmy community

1999 CDs were typically $20 - $30 so it was actually worse. This was what you would pay at a Sam Goody, Camelot Music, FYE etc.

It wasn't until a few years later that CD prices were cheaper. You could go to Wal-Mart and get cheaper prices, but you would be buying censored or edited albums.

I remember the Wal-Mart release of Eminem's second album was missing the entire song of Kim for example, just completely replaced.

I think a lot of people who post about the nineties weren't spending their own money or something, because I remember how pricey music was, and cherished each CD.

I still have some of my CDs from the nineties.

This is the first country the US has attacked in my lifetime that can reasonably resist.

I am anxious.