“Woke” has had a consistent meaning since its introduction into the English language almost a hundred years ago. It means “Aware of systemic racism.”

When blues legend Lead Belly ended a show in 1938 by saying, “Stay woke,” he meant: “Stay aware of systemic racism.”

When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says “‘Woke’ is ruining gaming,” he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.

And when an American politician calls himself “anti-woke”, he’s saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he’d prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.

I had great, loving parents who tried their best to get me interested in my education. It didn’t matter. ADHD meant I was never going to be a good student.

A lot of the game is scanning planets, gathering resources, and upgrading your ship. The upgrades allow you to gather more resources, explore further, and get better weapons so you can survive hostile alien encounters.

If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend giving it a try.

Disco Elysium gave me this experience in a new context. But better, because it blurs the line between success and failure.

Star Flight. I played it on Genesis, and it’s still one of the greatest games I’ve ever played.

One space ship, 270 solar systems, and 800 planets. The manual included a captain’s log that was sent back in time from the future, but without that you’d just be scouring the stars for clues, interrogating aliens, digging through ancient ruins, and watching slowly as a rash of planet-destroying solar flares spreads through the galaxy.

So fucking good.

I’m not convinced some people aren’t just statistical language algorithms. And I don’t just mean online; I mean that seems to be how some people’s brains work.

Would it be so bad if it follows the same path as Twitter? If it connects people and organizations in an honest and helpful way for fifteen years?

Or we could all just keep shitting on it while it facilitates social and political movements and enables rapid communication across the planet. Then more than a decade from now when some Ultra-Nazi trillionaire buys it, we can all say “I told you so,” and be real smug about it.

You’ve never seen a cockroach in a restaurant? I’m guessing you live somewhere cold, because in warm places cockroaches are just a part of life. I’ll still avoid anyplace I’ve seen a cockroach, but it’s not like those places get shut down. They just need to up their pest control.

The joy of working from home is that my work time becomes shitpost time, and my shitpost time becomes leisure time.

Does the drug cost me two hours that I could be using to do something fun or productive?

That’s why he said start with Google Translate. Because Google Translate isn’t giving gibberish like vegetative electron microscopy.

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of comments coming from that instance that are indistinguishable from the ones I see from .ml.

Any criticism of conservatism is grounds for removal now. I can’t believe it’s gotten this far.

Is there any Sonic community on Lemmy? Did you make one? I’m a casual fan, but I’d join.

This is definitely an objective opinion based on facts and universal experiences: the best multiplayer experience was Halo 1, when we ran ethernet cables between our dorm rooms. I’d wake up to someone slamming on my door telling me to turn my Xbox on, and I’d jump right into a death match.

The elite controller has customizable back buttons, which are awesome.

PS5 had Spider-Man 2.

For Xbox Series X there’s Starfield.

For the generation as a whole, it was worth upgrading for Baldur’s Gate 3.

lamenting

I believe you mean “lambasting”.

So what’s the damage here? I can’t find anything about the targets. Is this why my Xbox is having server issues?

Ugh.

None of that affects me, but if I switch, which one should I switch to?