HG/SS for an RPG introduction. No crazy generation mechanics like dynamax, mega, or terrastilize that you need to learn. Yes full support for doubles and singles. G/S has a well designed difficulty curve with lots of extra content HG and SS expand on it.

Champions if you just care about the competitive battles and not the RPG elements. Straight to the point PvP only, no breeding and farming required. Format based (they call them Regulations) so there's a limited selection of pokemon+items in the game with an evolving and changing banlist.

Pretty sure he's not dead, just went to space.

Tech can be written off as a depreciating asset, and education budgets are strict about where money can be spent (surprise surprise its the tech companies lobbying the education department!). Chalk can't and there are no chalk lobbyists/grant money budget allocations.

The education system is rotten to the core, the maintainers are corrupt, the lobbyists tally the votes, all while the public blames the scapegoats.

So basically, the taller you are the more you can afford to embezzle. The entire NBA becomes corporate scapegoats overnight.

As terrifying as it is to finally merge the classical and cyber bullying space, that merely represents the creativity and capability of a child. No company has or ever will secure user data. Hyperbullying is very tame compared to the abuse having access to the perception of almost every single student in almost every high school at almost any time allows for. Social media is obliterating kids enough, they really don't need AI enhanced tech bro perverts teaming up with Hyperbullies to create the ultimate predatory environment on top of everything...

So basically, yeah it seems like we're in Hell right now and we certainly are in the thick of it, but don't worry. There's many more depths of horrors beyond mortal comprehension we can fall to.

On an adjacently related note, it must be impossibly frustrating to write about anything involving minors nowadays since you can't say any of the victim/perpetrator names or link to any of the footage. So the whole article has to use indirect evidence, pronouns, vague suggestions, and nondescript abstractions to describe anything, which makes the whole article sound like it could be some AI response from a prompt about an AI generated rage-bait trend.

I do believe that a human writer wrote this to the best of their ability using the facts they have available, but the form their prose must take because of required censorship laws can very easily allow for people to argue the whole thing is AI generated slop and ignore it.

If someone lacks skill, creativity, and the fundamental ability to learn new things, it doesn't matter how much money or time they are given. Slop Citizen lmao.

It's not bad, it's just not great and is also a mechanical deviation from what doom games usually are.

Thought to text

So writing and typing?

Good. Fuck these Republicans shippingt their side pieces into the country just so they can abuse birthright citizenship with green card marriages.

Just some casual A/B testing to see which policies will and won't trigger revolt.

And then there's the echo-chamber problem. It turns out that when people have an option to avoid dealing with ideas they disagree with (even slightly), very many of them choose that option. IMO this is a major (perhaps fatal) problem with social media. The fediverse is not magically immune from it.

Yeah. Federated social media is even more prone to this effect than centralized. This is the single reason why I believe Lemmy can't possibly become anything meaningful on a global scale. It is a purgatory built in the image of long dead websites where we all wait for the rotting corpses of old media to wither away.

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