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IKEA meatballs took a step down in quality that day and they’ve never recovered.

The only justification I’ve ever been able to think of is Pokémon. The idea is supposed to be that every Pokémon is unique but there’s actually only a limited set of variables to define each individual ‘mon. I can trade you a Zubat I just caught and it can be identical to one that I first caught in Fire Red twenty years ago and have traded through every game since.

If each Pokémon was truly unique and on the blockchain, it could be meaningful in ways they currently aren’t. There could be only one Coalossal that Wolfe Glick won the Player’s Cup with. He could trade it away for charity and someone would pay for it. I could trade Pokémon away and track them as they’re traded around the world.

It’d be cool. But it would not meaningfully make the game more fun. And it’s Nintendo so they’re never going to do blockchain. And that is the best pitch I can give you.

How about Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained (it’s a two parter) by Peter F Hamilton? I remember having fun with that.

The UK government and technically inept internet legislation, name a more iconic combo.

Whenever the RedLetterMedia guys talk Trek it’s a good time. It’s not their bread and butter though.

Portal and Portal 2 must be on this list. If you’ve never played then, you must. It is that simple.

Did anyone else find this match a bit anticlimactic? Berna just totally took apart Malaviya and it wasn’t even close.

First standing-down announcement of the season that’s made me a little disappointed. I’m not Scottish and not a Scottish Nationalist, but we definitely need more young people involved in politics and it’s a shame that Black feels like she can’t stick around any longer.

Labour have been a strong second place in the elections she’s stood in, so maybe there’s an element of avoiding being kicked out? But I’d think he seat was still winnable.

This is very useful and I’ve added a few communities from this already, so thank you.

If you are taking feature requests, I would ask for the ability to filter out communities with zero posts, as it seems like some lemmys have gone nuts with creating communities that nobody is using yet.

A share link to e.g. a Mastodon instant post that was already created? Some future “share from my Mastodon instance” tor functionality that doesn’t currently exist? That’s just speculation though, I was trying to cover my bases and I’m really not sure on how something like that could work on a technical level.

Edit: TBH I expect those site-specific Share links to die off over time, as Facebook becomes more cringe it’ll look more dated to have their logo on every article on a news site.

Competitive Pokémon is something I’d definitely recommend. It’s similar to speed chess in that there’s a game timer but you have like 30 seconds per move to lock in. VGC is an incredibly deep and constantly evolving meta game. The NAIC tournament finished yesterday and is on YouTube if you want to see it being played at a top level with great commentary.

You can practice singles and doubles for free on pokemonshowdown.com. IRL contests held by The Pokémon Company are always doubles, played on Switch and will be played with Scarlet and Violet for the foreseeable future.

What Pokémon best represents federalised networks? Metagross? Klingklang? Wishiwashi school forme? I kinda like the last one.