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  • You should definitely go back, it’s so fun to learn about the inscrutable manual pages.

    Rather than feeling like I was four, my experience was more like as if I was a kid in the 90s and my Dad was a businessman who brought home Zelda from Japan but it was all in Japanese and I didn’t know Japanese lol.

    One thing to note about Tunic is that it has really good accessibility options. You can go in and give yourself extra hearts, or you can even turn on invincibility if you are really struggling and need to.get past a tough part sonyou can continue with the.story :)














  • The exact same trends go round and round in web design too (and now apps).

    At first things were square (because that was all the technology could do) then in the 2000s CSS exploded and everything went colour gradients and rounded corners, just because people could, then that became old-hat and everything went flat and square again, and then rounded came back (but without so many gradients)

    Everything is cyclical.


  • I agree. After all, they are still selling it, and people are still happily buying it. A friend got one about 3 months ago and he’s been very pleased.

    The Steam Deck is still under four years old, let’s remember. The Nintendo Switch is over eight! Of course that’s not an apples-to-oranges comparison as the Steam Deck aims to run any game, not just specifically optomised titles. But it’s an indicator.

    On the subject of being old, we get way more life out of PC hardware right now than we did back in the early 2000s. Nowadays if you buy a high end GPU you might get a decade of gaming out of it. Back then you’d get 2-3 years and it would be obsolete, because graphics tech was just evolving so fast. (Of course, cards now cost ten times what they did back then, but that’s another story…)

    Point is, there’s plenty of life left in the steam deck yet :)


  • The ship was one of the best parts for sure. Once you are competent it feels super liberating how nimbly you can zip around a planet.

    The other good parts of that game were progression, and death.

    I love that knowledge is the only thing retained between loops - the only currency of value. And I loved the feeling of making new discoveries.

    And with death as an expected mechanic, the game doesn’t have to put up any guiderails to save you from it. There are no training wheels. You want to go outside without a spacesuit? Bad idea but we’ll let you. You want to literally lose your ship so you can never get it back? Sure, go for it. You want to fall into a space anomaly and see what happens? Be our guest.

    Masterpiece game honestly.


  • You’re not wrong, but I only came here to try and explain the meme.

    Three quarters of a century ago, a different society than ours suggested flying cars as a possibility for the world, and now we make funny pictures about it.

    Whether that was at the time objectively right or wrong for them to believe is a whole new topic that I’m not equipped to get into.


  • Well yes it’s unrealistic.

    It was an imagined future based on boundless optimism that things would keep getting better and better, both technically and socially.

    Inventions and discoveries at that time were happening so rapidly it surely felt like some revolutionary new thing was always just around the corner. We’d probably invent some amazing new levitation technology that would let things hover without making any sound, and it would all be powered by individual nuclear generators in every car, because why not right, nuclear is the future!

    It was a dream from a time of optimism that never came to pass. The current day meme isn’t about literal flying cars, it’s about the contrast between this imagined world - no matter how realistic or not - and the reality we actually got.


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    When the 1950s thought flying cars would be real they didn’t mean military VTOLs or expensive and noisy helicopters.

    They meant flying cars that are efficient, quiet and affordable. Flying cars that are so ubiquitous they are parked on every driveway in the country. Flying cars where you go to the showroom and test-fly one in your favourite colour, and it only costs as much as an SUV does today.

    More importantly, it’s not really the car itself that matters for the meme, it’s the idea of the society that goes along with it. The imagined future where we have flying cars on every driveway is one where we also have robots doing all the menial labour, one of utopian prosperity, where everyone is educated, happy, and spends their days in fulfilment of personal pursuits.

    That’s what “flying cars” alludes to, and it’s a long way from a society where people have to be warned not to eat a sandwich wrapper.



  • The classic example we already have of this is when you are stopped at a side road about to enter the main road, and a car coming towards you on the main road signals to turn in.

    Many people take the fact the other car has their turn signal on as a guarantee that it’s safe to emerge, but any good driving instructor will tell you to wait until the car actually begins to turn before you yourself emerge.

    They had their signal on but that doesn’t mean they’re actually going to DO what the signal said they would.

    Same with the front brake light. It would be like “Well their front brake light came on, so I assumed it was safe to step into the crosswalk” NO. They could have just tapped the brake a second, doesn’t mean they saw you, or they will actually stop.