I don’t have a clue why we do MM-DD-YYYY and personally I hate how dates are done in the west, to a degree.

For a maths course I’ve been taking at college, I never use MM-DD in my notebook because that and DD-MM are stupid in my opinion. I always spell out the month first to ensure I don’t get mixed up. I honestly envy that some languages like Chinese and Japanese have an individual character to help distinguish between month and day.

Also, I would love if every country using the MM-DD or vice versa format could all agree on which format to use for everyday things.

I can almost guarantee the current regime gets wind of this and has yt shadow ban the livestream or does some other thing to kill it, like forcing ads every 10 seconds to detract people from wanting to watch.

I actually really like this one. I might start using it.

Sonic and Knuckles special stages are so much better, in my opinion. Maybe I’m just not good at the Lost World special stages on 3DS, but I somehow struggle because they use motion controls ( moving myself and the whole system to move in a 3D environment ). Moving along in a straight line to collect balls is so much easier, in my opinion.

Also, joycons are an alright enough setup, but I personally don’t like how small they are. My hands were not made for extended unattached usage of those things.

Completely forgot there are profile avatars on Lemmy. BRB, gotta hop on my desktop to see if I have one set up. Cannot find any settings about it in Voyager ( probably didn’t look hard enough or my eyes glossed over it ).

Edit: editing on my browser and I have my favorite Tiny Toons character as my profile avatar. All is good. I don’t have many images I use as profile avatars, so Dizzy Devil Ducky it was. At least that;s what I imagine was going through my head.

These are some more lighthearted things, but here goes:

• Sonic the Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ) wouldn’t be as fun of a game if all the bugs and glitches were gone. I live for a good glitch or six sometimes. Same without the highly difficult and janky super speed sections.

• Sonic Unleashed is an amazing game ( but the xbox/ps3 versions are the superior versions, as someone who has beat it on ps2 and xbox360 ).

• Due to the janky turn left/right movements on Sonic Lost World and just general movement jank, I am absolutely glad they have the run button to occasionally slow me down and stop me from dying.

• Also an extreme believer that the special stages ( on the 3DS version of Lost World ) are absolute cancer.

• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was nowhere near as good as The Wrong Trousers. I absolutely hated how they made Wallace absolutely incompetent and idiotic when it comes to normal things ( like how to use a non-electric tea pot ) when he didn’t have any technology.

• Xbox style controllers with BAXY ( right, down, left, up ) button layout are the way to go. The only exception to that belief right now is my 3rd party wired switch controller because it has a headphone jack.

Baby don’t hurt me!

I cannot recall any specific programs besides a game called Feudal Tactics, but I swear I’ve seen software while looking through EasyFlatpak that surprised me.

If you know some tells if AI speech, then it, to me, becomes a little bit of a coin flip on who’s real and who isn’t. Some of my favorite tells are grammar that is just way too perfect or using words/phrases you would never hear someone talk about ( for example with Claude: “furrowed brows” or “brows furrowed” seems to be used any and almost all times anything related to a task you concentrate on comes up ).

As for how to tell for other instances, absolutely no clue. It’s a toss-up as to whether another instance will allow bots and if so, will the instance you’re on defederate with said instance? Also, what happens if we somehow end up in a future where AI is somehow miraculously able to mimic humans to a degree where not even the smart folk can tell the difference? These questions need solutions that we clearly don’t have yet, at least for federated services.

This type of stuff is a problem for any public instance anybody can federate with. I’m just glad that if I set up a private Mastodon instance for certain people at the college I attend that I can hopefully blacklist all instances from connecting and require PII like a valid college ID/some form of voucher from an active member to be able to sign up. Ironic considering it’s the fediverse, but whatever. Gotta do what you gotta do to reduce the risk of bots interacting with your instance if you don’t want them.

I don’t know how exactly to describe the ticking, what to compare it to. I can always hear it, but that’s probably because it’s an internal noise for me. I cannot say exactly how loud it is to other people. One time when it was quiet enough and I was right next to my brother, many years ago, he thought he was hearing some sort of time bomb ( probably because he was playing The Godfather ), but you can hear it a lot more clearly and more easily if you stick your head to to my chest. I presume it mixes with the sound of my heartbeat.

I can only think of 2 that would count that I wouldn’t be cheating: They Might Be Giants and Weird Al. If it’s their full discography and any other releases they’ve done, that’s already way too much music for me to ever listen to in my lifetime with my listening habits.

I would love to cheat with something like Hatsune Miku, but that wouldn’t be fair considering it’s tons of people using software to create songs with that specific voice rather than a single singer/band performing.

I cannot think of anyone else I listen to with nearly as expensive of a list of music as TMBG or Weird Al, so I’d probably end up going to the next best thing: Jam Hsiao. He’s got a lot of music, so I’d have a lot to choose from. Choice would be the spice of life for me.

Absolutely no clue for the 4th, so I’d probably pick a group that I like at least a couple of their songs and think they have a large amount of music: Meat Puppets.

In the end, due to their probably high song count, these would probably be my top picks right now.

Definitely They Might have Giants just due to the sheer amount of music they’ve done over the years. Even if you don’t like them, you’ll probably end up finding a least one song from their vast catalog you can enjoy.

I got to start a furry visual novel I found on itch(dot)io called Promises to Keep. It’s not complete yet, but so far I’m loving it. The character art is nice and the backgrounds are pretty good and I’m really liking the music.

I am absolutely glad I randomly found it on itch.

I’d probably be burned for witchcraft or be shot for it, but let people listen to my mechanical heart valve.

I imagine the average person would 100% freak out over hearing it. A ticking sound? Inside a person’s heart? In a time when mechanical body parts aren’t normal or really all that existent? That’s a burning as a wizard or being shot as an overreaction.

Reminds me of the story of the people working on running a business in their apartment, for whatever Linux distro it was, in the 2000s that was caught and had to move the servers for obvious reasons.

Heart attack, stroke, blood clot, or bleeding out. Being on blood thinners, I’d say those are probably likely things that will kill me.

• Sonic the Hedgehog ( Genesis/Mega Drive )

• Chuzzle Deluxe

• Borderlands

• Baba Is You

Those would be some picks I would say are objective masterpieces, but that’s subjective, I guess.

They’re technically not wrong. It’s 3x faster at stealing your data, so it’s 3x as faster at something.

Don’t 100% sure whether it is or not. Also, I couldn’t tell you anything about it since I haven’t watched it as someone who doesn’t play League.

Absolutely. I didn’t realize they did more of a story arc until I ended up seeing clips on yt. I definitely remember some of the lore episodes but I definitely wasn’t smart enough to piece together any lore. I might have to suffer through the occasional “lol random” episodes just to see the lore through.