when we asked in the towns, none were from Tren de Aragua, none were drug traffickers

Both sides provided “trust me, bro” as their proof.

Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife

Read this three times until I realized he meant “Melania’s”. Unless he didn’t and he’s sending her as a sympathy gift.

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I wasn’t really into metroidvanias, but I still loved Hollow Knight and put hundreds of hours into it.

So you say 1m is 1000?

If you don’t know the language then you shouldn’t be involved in the translation at all… The current process requires both the translators and the proof-readers to know the language.

As long as you can verify it is an accurate translation

Unless the process has changed in the last decade, article translations are a multi-step process, which includes translators and proof-readers. It’s easier to get volunteer proof-readers than volunteer translators. Adding AI for the translation step, but keeping the proof-reading step should be a great help.

But you could probably also have used Google translate and then just fine tune the output yourself. Anyone could have done that at any point in the last 10 years.

Have you ever used Google translate? Putting an entire Wikipedia article through it and then “fine tuning” it would be more work than translating it from scratch. Absolutely no comparison between Google translate and AI translations.

You can try the Old Man’s War series, The Three-Body Problem series, Children of Time. Lots of great sci-fi out there.

My dad used to make those types of CDs. I remember one with 200 games on it. The first time I saw a non-pirated CD was MK Tilogy and I thought what a waste to use up a whole CD for just one 30MB game.

developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

Nowhere did I ever imply that ascii art was the only thing available

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If only ASCII art was available, then Windows 95 itself wouldn’t have been possible, being a graphical OS. Games in the 70s and 80s had non-ascii graphics.

I’ve played hundreds of games before Windows 95 came out and I’ve never actually played an ASCII art game. Not even text adventures that I’ve played used ASCII art.

developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

There was never such a time…

Just got a box of poppy seed almond muffins from Costco. Guess my whole family, kids included, would test positive for both heroin and cyanide.

I have that disk too. But I don’t need it if I want to install and play the game today. Same with my Elder Scrolls Online disk or my Assassin’s Creed Unity disk. Neither GW2 nor ESO will even play with just the data on the original disks, forcing updates before becoming playable. Not sure about ACU though.

None of these points make any sense to me when I think about the pre-reddit internet. There were all kinds of communities everywhere on various forums across the internet. Some forums discussed specific topics, some very niche, other forums were for more general discussions. But hosting and setting up a forum was not always the easiest thing. So when reddit came, subreddits eventually replaced forums. Easy to set up, easy to discover, everything in one place.

Now the fediverse is to me pretty much like going back to the old forums, but a bit more organized. And all of the points in this article could have been made about forums if you decided to analyze forums as one big thing. But in the end, none of it has been a problem (and there are still some forums around today).