Plenty of places don’t have HOAs, like my neighborhood. We just bitch at each other. If things got really bad you could just call the city.

I wonder if they’re betting on other people being as shitty as they are

All right then let’s establish a neutral war crimes tribunal and prosecute some war crimes — on both sides, obviously.

Legitimately wtf

I see right, yeah, it’s the conditions social and material that give rise to the “disorder” whereas if we fix the conditions, it just evaporates. Like abolishing slavery or private property.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania

Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that […] hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity.

I could make some guesses, but I’m not sure what you meant by this. What did you mean?

That was a fun day

I’m becoming convinced it’s an actual mental disease, or at least grossly maladaptive

Here’s a little sample https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/99258/why-do-corporate-mergers-require-the-approval-of-foreign-governments

Same thing with open concept offices. To extraverts it feels more productive and collaborative, but it’s actually the oppo to anyone engaged in any kind of focus work.

That’s great. It’s like you were temporarily a worker’s co-op.

I remember my company at the time also admitted that COVID was threatening the bottom line and many in the all hands and public chats suggested just what your company did.

Instead we got multiple rounds of gutting layoffs mid-pandemic, a mass exodus of core talent, and the founders selling out to some B tier silicon valley fucks who fly in every now and then to complain about morale.

I only had a 360 back in the day, and I feel like I got in and out at the absolute peak. So many great couch coop with roommates memories.

Companies used to need approval to do such things

Only the high profile ones

Username tells me you know your stuff

I never had one but sounds like I missed out. I also wasn’t thinking of rereleases or emulation.

I’ve had two standouts bad interactions too, but chalked it up to luck.

Perhaps this is a weird part to single out, but it surprised me

I mainly played on the 3DS from when I was 6 until I was 15, so I don’t have as much experience with other consoles.
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The 3DS was simply Nintendo’s best era, and I don’t think we’ll see anything like that again given the current direction of their latest consoles…

Curious if others agree. I would’ve thought that it would be the SNES era, but that’s probably betraying my age more than anything.

Great article! On par with gaming publications, and actually probably better than most Nintendo Power articles I remember from back in the day. Great job!!