I love how you answered this with a regular expression.

If a hare ever got the chance he’d eat you and everyone you care about.

Also there’s that parasite that makes them look like they have horns. I think this inspired both the miraj and the jackalope

I like foxes, too. Red fox fathers help take care of their pups. Foxes also make all sorts of weird very un-doglike noises.

I want to pet a fox, especially with its winter coat. Probably not own one though. Speaking of things I want to touch but cant, I wanna pinch a male orangutan’s big flabby cheek pads.

You already have demodex mites living on your face.

Not domestication per se, but we should teach our ape cousins how to control fire and develop technology. Ascend, my brethren! Come and join your furless kin! Reach out your hands and grasp the tools that are your salvation! Reject the weakness of your flesh!

Hoestly same.

If linux meets your needs, cool. I’m even a little jealous, but please, linux guys, understand that not everyone has the same needs as you.

I need my personal computer to get out of the way and let me do other stuff, not be a project in itself. If you’re a developer, desktop Linux is pretty good at that. Lots of nice compilers and versioning systems and IDEs and runtime environments to play around with. If you’re literally anyone else it just doesn’t cut it.

I have been trying to use Linux since 2009. I keep trying, but it never gets any better for my needs. In fact it has gotten worse.

Guinea big

Apple is usually cited as the gold standard. VoiceOver even tells you which side the charging port is on when you rotate an iPhone.

Better accessibility. It’s actually gotten worse in the 15 years I’ve known about it.

And the politics invades what little else there is, and not in an organic way, either.

It’s a Reddit clone. What did you expect?

Isn’t that what hashtags are for. Tag your posts and people interested in those tags can find them.

I also thought the lack of algorithms was a selling point.

Absolutely not. If Lemmy is a content waterfall than Discord is Niagara. What I want is a forum. But nobody uses forums anymore.

Lemmy? the politics.

the fediverse? I know I’ve said this like a billion times to the same five people who come on here, but federated platforms still ape the format of big social media platforms, and inherit many of their pitfalls. I want long-term discussion and human connection, not an endless waterfall of content that quickly gets swept away.

These video game ones now have me wondering if anyone else was told they could unlock extra characters in Super Smash Bros (N64) by clicking certain names in the credits.

The methods for unlocking these supposed secret characters were always ridiculously convoluted, so if it didn’t work you were probably doing it wrong. Like beating the game 10 times on level 9 difficulty with 1 stock with Pikachu would unlock Mewtwo, etc.

But like I said above, the stuff that was legit was often so weird and seemingly arbitrary that the fake stuff sounded more plausible. Talk to a specific NPC, fly to a specific area and surf up and down a specific coast, and you’ll encounter a glitched pokemon that will duplicate the sixth item in your inventory. Yeah it was all about memory registers or whatever, but I didn’t know about that stuff at the time.

I’ve heard of this (way after the fact). IIRC it was part of some player’s guide, and may have been included either as a joke by the author or a copyright trap by the publisher.

Seems I was right. Per this wiki article Apologies for linking to Fandom.

No cootie insurance though

Man oh man I could probably have a whole thread just for video game urban legends from the late 90s. That’s when some of your friends had internet, but maybe you didn’t, so there was just enough legit info to make the fake stuff seem believable (looking at you, MissingNo). Luigi in SM64, all sorts of secret Smash 64 characters, literally the entirety of Pokemon.

Kingdom Hearts. People love it. I do not.

clarifying edit: the whole Disney meets Final Fantasy concept is just like peanut butter and pickles to me. I like (classic) FF, I don’t hate Disney, but the two just do not go together. From the plot summaries and fan videos I’ve come across, it strikes me that whoever writes this stuff loves to set things up but never knows how to resolve them, so I think I’d end up hating it even if I did find the concept appealing.

Oh and the fact Sora got into Smash over Waluigi still burns.