I find it far less disturbing.

Yeah looking at the history it’s very problematic, but England has always retained a some sense of… morality. Fuck monarchy and all, but I find it very challenging to imagine the UK going as insane as the US is currently.

Like when you read shit like this, I know who I favour historically:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge

I’d assume there’d be at least someone there who’s job it is to “research” things to see if they’re to be banned or not.

Like the person who would’ve had to read the Harry Potters.

Are you aware Elon bought the title of “founder of Tesla”?

He’s not invented jack shit. Dude’s a moron.

Yeah.

Elon bought the title of founder of Tesla. He’s not a fucking inventor, he’s a leech.

It was weird in a Nintendo way, yeah, but imo there was hardly anything illogical about it. The triple handle setup was reasoned in the way that if there was a more “classic” control scheme in the game, you might use the d-pad instead of the joystick (which was shit in the way it wore out though). Most games did use the joystick, but not all, and not all the time.

I think the reasoning was to have more adaptability in traditional Nintendo sort of way.

Also, the Dreamcast controller looks very weird as well, has less buttons and came out two years after.

Carts a cutback?

Were you a kid when N64 came out?

Carts lasted ages longer than discs. Sure for some actually responsible adult player discs would probably have been better but for preteens fighting with their siblings on who’s turn it is and what will be played…?

(We once ruined a PS2 game because we had it upright and it fell and the disc took such a deep scratch it never worked past that point again. I still feel guilty and feel I missed out on HP2. And that was 5 years after we got a N64, so PS1 discs would’ve been even more at risk.)

The controller is weird by modern standards , yeah, but it wasn’t too weird at the time. It’s sort of like two controllers in one, a more classic form like the snes and the basic ps1 controller and a more modern one with a joystick with the middle-handle.

There was no weirdness at all using it when it came out. The “basic” model (think xbox controller) only came out a bit later.

But nowadays? Idk, I don’t have one, but we tried playing Goldeneye 64 with my brother and man the control schemes were all over the place and I couldn’t for the life of me get “in the groove” and we used to play 4 player deatmatch a ton for years and I was ace at it.

I’m waiting for more Bigscreen Beyond class weight headsets. 127 grams.

But it’s tethered and the headset itself is ~1000, and you need the stations and controllers as well.

One use of this I’m in favour of is recreating Majel Barret’s voice as an AI for computer systems.

Bots

Link to the Past is how I discovered Zelda.

Never got to play it through as a kid, but then we got OOT when N64 came out. There’s never gonna be a game I’ll have better memories from.

Sure, it’s the phones and not the fact the Earth is burning while all the people with power are too focused on growing their money piles by exploiting people.

People can’t afford houses, kids and the planet might not have a future.

But sure, yeah, it’s the phones.

“Am I legally liable or is logic to be applied here”

Oh c’mon, apply some logic, you know logic won’t be applied, money will.

Personally I think there’s a direct indirectness in everything you say to a person when alone in a dark room.

Nintendo got them alone in a dark room and told them that if they don’t settle, admit and pay something they might be able to pay off in their lifetimes (Nintendo doesn’t care about the money, 2.4 million is nothing to them), Nintendo would tie them up in legal battles for years, still making them broke and probably blocking them from doing something new.

Or something.

Fucking corporate shills. Why can’t we just all have fun gaming. Piracy increases sales.

My argument kinda relies on it.

Waking up at nine to do some light exercise with reggaeton at a mid level volume could easily wake up a person in another apartment.

So how on Earth would the person doing that know that it’s bothering someone if they don’t go and tell her?

Do you honestly think that if you had had a remote to your neighbours TV, it would’ve solved the issue? So when one of your devices suddenly turns off, you just go “oh well, guess I’m never watching TV again”? Or perhaps “oh the TV mysteriously turned off, that must mean that my neighbour is politely signaling I should lower the volume”?

I used to work night shifts, and a neighbour vacuuming at midday seriously pissed me off. Does that mean they were being unreasonable by not allowing me to sleep?

No. I asked her politely if she could vacuum later if there was nothing special she needed, and she agreed.

I know it’s easy to demonise neighbours as assholes, and lots of them are. My current one’s are fucking horrible, and I can’t fucking take it much more. But I still have went over to try and talk about it, like an adult.

contract of keeping noise at a reasonable level knowing where you live for potential harassment reasons.

“What is an anonymous letter”

Why would you say I “hate Americans”?

You live in a country that has a lot of issues and crime, yes, but as I always keep hearing in gun debates, “it’s not most of the country”. So are you really saying America is in such a state that trying to talk to a neighbour is too dangerous for anyone? That’s horrible. I would help if I could. Which is for instance why I very often argue for reasonable gun control which would help with your situation.

And again, doesn’t change that an anonymous letter informing someone that their morning music seems loud will work better than disconnecting a speaker.

The latter will only confuse the person who will fix the speaker connection or get a new one.

I dont know how you can recognize the problem with America, and still have the audacity to say such a bullshit line.

Because you’re exaggerating the issue, and the issue with Americans is exaggerating the risks of everything to justify having guns and invading other countries, which actually increase the problems you claim to try and avoid.

Its called common fucking sense. You know how loud you have your music, and you have some basic fucking decency to go “Oh shit” and turn it down.

You don’t know how loud it is. Having seen what sort of buildings you guys have, it really doesn’t need to be loud to be audible to another apartment. Not everyone is bothered as easily as others. That’s why it’s important to let the people know.

An anonymous letter in this specific instance would definitely be the first choice. Honestly, what the hell is hacking the BT gonna do? Make them buy a new, possibly even louder speaker? How would they know it doesn’t work because someone is annoyed at the level of noise in the morning?

I do it all the time.

Oh and you also read minds, so that you know for a fact that no-one is bothered by you clomping around to music they might hate, but they’re not coming to say anything, because they think there’s a “statistically significant” chance of getting murdered for doing it?

This isnt the 1950s. Asking assholes to have some consideration, no matter how polite, is a good way to get dead.

Perhaps for you Americans.

I live literally in the worst area of my city in Finland, and I don’t need to fear anything like that.

In my last apartment, my downstairs neighbour was a guy who had sat 14 years for 1st degree murder and he hustled meth. He was actually pretty chill, and I was never even the slightest bit worried about him.

I’ve driven a taxi on weekends and evenings, driving bikers from their clubhouses. One guy jumped in literally yelling “were gonna go kill people” into his phone “no I don’t have any money” and whatnot. I didn’t challenge him, thought it easier to just drive him where he wants to. Ended up going to his brother, who was a very normal family man, he talked the face tattooed biker down, then gave him money. It ended up being the best fare of my night.

All this because we have gun control. I really don’t have to be afraid. I mean, I have been, several times, as a younger person. But at least here in Finland, you don’t actually need to fear much more than perhaps getting a fist in the face.

So yeah, please tell me more about how hacking your possibly armed and unreasonable neighbour would be less upsetting to him than just asking them to? Or writing a polite letter?

Kids these days will do everything to avoid social interaction, honestly.

Waking up at 9, putting on some reggaeton for your morning routine isn’t that unreasonable and if no-one complains, how would you know you’re bothering someone? And if your BT speaker just cuts out, you’d definitely try to figure out why, and perhaps even try getting a new one, so hacking won’t actually solve the issue.

Idk maybe go over and knock on the door and have a conversation about it?

Seems easier.