Since we aren’t capable of gaining absolute knowledge, we’re cursed with having to each set our personal threshold for skepticism/credulity. Setting it too low like your quiet uncle seems like it would be a confusing nightmare.

I tend to be skeptical, but I still went down a rabbit hole the other day re: aliens after indirectly reading about “sightings” in Europe in the 1600s. This one was fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1665_celestial_phenomenon_over_Stralsund

You’re the 2nd person to mention this game, and I haven’t heard of it. Time to look it up.

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Of course. You don’t get a map, but you get a big Crazy Taxi arrow.

Lol, it has to be BAD. My ps2 is so unreliable these days, even while not in a moving vehicle. I usually have to open+close the disc tray a dozen or so times before it finally reads the disc.

Is that who did this? Mad Mike must have good taste.

It’s easy to forget that there was a time that these types of “norms” weren’t established yet. I remember people learning to use WASD instead of the arrow keys in a similar way.

I can’t remember which ones they were now - it’s been years. I just remember laughing at how unrelated most were.

Whatever it was felt automated. It was very shortly after and all happened at once. I doubt any human looked at it.

I remember people talking about the bots at the time.

Once, years ago after a bad school shooting, I went to the conservative subreddit to argue with them about gun control (specifically improper storage and liability) because I was so bothered by the shooting and was feeling impassioned.

Didn’t get banned by the conservatives for that, but I got auto-banned from a whole list of unrelated subreddits for even speaking to them. What kind of mean-girls nonsense is that? It was like I was being ostracized for briefly sitting at the wrong lunch table.

That got me for the first time last night while I was relaxing before bed. I was not ready…

Skimming through the reviews, the negative ones I see seem to be mostly people struggling with the difficulty or the pixel art graphics.

Maybe this is a case of it being so popular that it’s bringing in people who wouldn’t otherwise play this type of game. I remember Elden Ring had a similar thing happen.

I’m surprised that’s possible!

I’m rocking the Gator Gallop in my underlab until I find something better, but I don’t see how that’s possible.

Link to the Past was my first Zelda game, and I played so much of it. I haven’t played a top-down RPG like it in many years, so this is refreshing. I think I’m over halfway through.

Maybe that’s why it’s not merch heavy

You don’t become the most profitable IP of all time without a few tricks, lol

It’s amazing how these tricks circulated pre-internet.

It was the only way to escape the park. You know, because of the “do not enter” sign in front of the exit.