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Just nineties people killing time with their public access channels and cathodic TVs and phone landlines.

Sometimes I game on keyboard + mouse, sometimes on controller, depending on the game. I love my keyboard, but being able to slouch with controller in hand is welcome as well. Unfortunately I've played so many games over the years with a controller that I struggle immensely to tap the right buttons when shit gets real. It's like my muscle memory is muddied with countless mappings. As a matter of fact there's no way I can switch between two games back and forth if they are even remotely similar in terms of perspective.

Have you experienced high levels of "typos" with game controllers too? Do you know of strategies to get more precise?

The widely held belief of the echo chamber has been bothering me for a while now. I don't question the phenomenon itself. It's happened often enough; I totally agree this is a thing. What bugs me though is the idea that the root cause is members of a group agreeing too much.

Agreement is good wtf. Consensus should be a welcome occasional checkpoint. How are you even supposed to build healthy communities if you don't share some common ground, like say equality for all. Sealioning is not a vaccine against radicalization. If anything the constant bickering from contrarians has the opposite effect.

Diversity may be a better sign of healthy community. Diversity of age, origins, gender, whatever. I don't believe such a community turns into a radicalization timebomb for being like-minded. We need shared values to build upon, lest loneliness swallows us all.

Nevertheless I feel that obsessing over the homogeneous aspect of an echo chamber is mistaking the symptoms for the essence. My intuition is that the danger is in the discourse itself and to a certain extent in the platform used. I can't say I've made up my mind on the specifics though.

What do you think? It's OK if you disagree lol 🤪

[alt text: Due to the sick and twisted nature of people in this group I am not leaving.]

Every Friday https://www.youtube.com/@shironekoshiro streams hours of their cats sleeping. It’s so relaxing.

Un autre chapitre dans la saga de la toiture du stade

Dominique Lalonde partage quotidiennement des petites séquences vidéo de nature québécoise. C’est relaxant de prendre une minute pour chaque jour pour regarder.

Love the dark autumnal vibes. Music that takes its time.

Inquiet de la « crise des services publics » et en rupture avec les orientations du gouvernement, le député caquiste Youri Chassin claque la porte du caucus de la CAQ et siégera désormais comme indépendant.

Salamander (Life Force in the USA) is an arcade scrolling shmup developed by Konami in 1986 as a spin-off of Gradius.

I never actually played. I just enjoy that artwork 🔥

This one has a special place for me. The lushness and the other-worldliness is so appeasing.