Just Yellow and Platinum for now, except some FireRed 15 years ago. I’m not sure if I’ll play all of the games. I’ll see how it goes. I’m very much looking forward to romhacks though.

A while ago I posted about playing Pokémon Platinum and Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. I didn’t want to get into older games, because I felt they may be too ancient for me.

Well, now I’m playing Pokémon Yellow and the original NES Castlevania. Turns out I was completely wrong and these old ass games are a lot of fun.

I’m about to get the 5th badge in Pokémon, but my Pokédex is only at 41/151. As for Castlevania, I’m mostly hunting for achievements (retroachievements). Haven’t really felt like sitting down for 2-3 hours to beat the entire game yet, but will definitely do at some point.

EDIT: Also updated from an R36s to a Mangmi Air X. I’m absolutely in love with this retro handheld. Umbelievable value for the price.

I feel like we’re missing a lot of variants between ‘all possible sanctions instantly’ and ‘20 packages of sanctions over 4 years’.

I read the title as “Cats are” and was like what the fuck

To gain back Americans’ trust? Almost nothing.

To gain back other countries’ trust? Quite a lot.

To actually be a good president and make the country a reasonably decent place to live? Not realistic for one presidency.

Probably exactly why he needs a giant car. This, and perhaps the size of something else.

Crazy how long it takes for supposedly extremely brilliant scientists and engineers working at Evil LLC to realize that maybe their work is a net loss for humanity.

It’s almost as if… they just didn’t care and pretended to realize their mistakes once everything was well exposed. It’s like reading obviously satirical scientists’ memos in Resident Evil. Except it’s real life and they’re not satire.

I think the sole fact that there have been 20 sanction packages means the sanctions are weak and aren’t achieving their goal.

Unless you have aphantasia, in which case books are either just text or very limited images.

Sure, it’s not vital to our survival or freedom, but ownership over digital media is a pretty damn big deal in the current age.

Apparently he got bored after the 217th diaper. He needs a new toy to play with.

Last year the Catholic Church reportedly generated €1.23B ($1.45B) in income. Which is more than the GDP of 10-13 poorest countries in the world, depending on which source you use.

Donations accounted for €237M ($279M) and are the Church’s largest source of income.

It also had a budget deficit lately, until last year. Overall it’s pretty rich, but not nearly as rich as a lot of companies are and as some people would think.

It should also be noted that Pope Leo has been pope for less than a year, which isn’t exactly a whole lot of time to completely reform the Church and rid it of corruption. Assuming that’s at all possible, since the Catholic Church has been corrupt pretty much since the moment it was founded. I’m not saying he will ever do that or that he even wants to. However, so far he’s been a lot better than last few popes, so let’s give him some time.

Sources:

• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-27/vatican-budget-records-first-surplus-in-years/106072054
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
• https://companiesmarketcap.com/most-profitable-companies/

Same thousands of CEOs will continue implementing as much AI as possible, because it literally doesn’t matter to them whether or not it impacts employment or productivity.

A true homelab captain goes down with their ship.

Warcraft

I love the lore and story, especially Warcraft 3, but a story-driven RTS makes no sense to me. I like both separately, but not mixed together. Probably same thing with Starcraft, but I’ve never tried it.

Just applied to NASA with this code and they accepted me. Should have posted it under AGPL.

Just like with most open source code - I have absolutely no idea what to do with it, but I still love that it’s freely available.

Since when is Scam Altman on Lemmy??

Rich pedophiles really will close entire stores, losing 100% of profits from them, rather than let them unionize, losing potentially 5% of profits short-term.

Of course this is a major problem for the pedophile class. For the last 250 years the American Empire was able to function thanks to a countless number of uneducated people locked into perpetual poverty, having children at 14.