• Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I am so old I remember the Wii-mote being sold without the condom that they started selling after so many people broke their new expansive flatscreen tv’s. Tube tvs faired better

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    Am I the only one who still thinks the Wii is pretty futuristic feeling? C’mon you wave a controller around without pressing any buttons and shit on the screen moves that’s wild!

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    15·
    7 hours ago

    I guess I’m “this old”? I remember watching the Berlin wall get smashed on TV, and the collapse of the soviet Union a year or two later. I was a Lil kid in the U.S, so both events meant fuck all to me. I was busy being awesome in my MC Hammer parachute pants.

    • comador @lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      In sign language I cannot remember: “We are the World, we are the children…”

      That old…

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 hours ago

      I was really confused why my mom was crying because people were breaking a wall down.

      And then Knight Rider was there for some reason.

      And then we got a small bag of concrete in the mail that was apparently from the wall that made my mom cry.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.world
    42·
    13 hours ago

    I remember “ordering” those silicon Wii condoms (they were freely distributed as a measure of people breaking shit, hurting other family members, etc because people wouldn’t use the wrist straps), and was so proud of getting away with ordering 4 while I only had 3 Wiimotes. I really thought I stuck it to the big company :p

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      27·
      11 hours ago

      So it’s your fault Nintendo is still trying to play catch up financially and that’s why they are so aggressively going after emulators, modders, and content creators smh

      • Anivia@feddit.org
        32·
        8 hours ago

        So it’s your fault Nintendo is still trying to play catch up financially

        Are you aware of how much savings Nintendo has? Out of all Japanese companies they have the highest cash holding. They could literally go for 2 years without any income and still pay all of their employees wages and other expenses before running out of cash, and then they would still have all of their non-liquid assets.

        Nintendo doesn’t need to catch up financially, they are doing amazing

        • kautau@lemmy.world
          14·
          8 hours ago

          I didn’t think I would have to tag such an asinine comment as sarcasm but here we are

  • Zoldyck@lemmy.world
    684·
    14 hours ago

    And with a bit of luck we’ll see the fall of the Russian Federation within ten years.

    • Instantnudel@feddit.org
      21·
      13 hours ago

      Time for some speculation. What do you think will probally take over Russia when the Russian Federation falls.

      Im really not that sure. Will it be a neoliberal state like in most of Western world? Will it be a Dictatorship all over again? Will it try communism again? (Imo very unlikly) Or something completely new that wasnt really tried yet.

      Im really curious to see what will develop there. A fallen state is always new chance, but no clue if it gets better or maybe even worse. 🤔

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        14·
        13 hours ago

        World’s first country governed by an LLM. A racist one developed by xAI, of course. Grokcracy, if you will.

      • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
        8·
        12 hours ago

        Perhaps that behemoth of a nation will split? It’s kind of ridiculous that it’s one nation all the way from Europe over Siberia to neighboring japan

      • OBJECTION!
        71·
        12 hours ago

        I give it like a 40% chance of global thermonuclear annihilation and a 60% chance of chaos and warlordism, probably with a decades long US occupation on the justification of preventing nukes from falling into the hands of whoever this week’s Al Qaida is.