Uncommon in my culture: Makoto (disclaimer: I think Makoto might still be more common in my culture than my real name)
Uncommon in general: Kitty
At least two communities I use are on Beehaw, but I wouldn't be super affected.
Most Americans do not live nearly as well as it is portrayed on TV or in movies.
I think American TV in the last ten years has started to portray people as richer than it did in the 90s and 00s even. Is there anything like Everybody Hates Chris or My Name is Earl on? Shit, even Malcolm in the Middle they were clearly middle class but I feel like most American TV now is about upper middle class people or Hollywood. (I've heard of Abbot Elementary but haven't watched it.)
I think it's a coin flip. You could point to ten reasons it's "obvious" Trump will win and I could give you ten reasons it's "obvious" he won't.
Both Mario Odyssey and SMB Wonder are only innovative in a vacuum where Mario is the only platformer franchise. Which for a lot of people I imagine is the extent of their knowledge about platformers.
The things people call "innovative" about Mario Odyssey are just half Kirby and half Banjo-Kazooie. Yeah Odyssey's biggest maps are way bigger than Banjo-Kazooie, but SMO runs on hardware that can emulate the N64, and it still has quite a few maps on the smaller side
SMB Wonder... I don't actually know what people call "innovative" about SMB Wonder, but I've seen people call it "innovative." It's the best 2D Mario made in the 21st century and it has a pretty cool gimmick. What's innovative about this?
Until it actually boils over or we get rid of first past the post (and you'll need MASSIVE protests to do the latter.)
Fuck accelerationists. They're either dumbfucks who think their Apocalypse Badass Man fantasies will come true (and contrary to popular belief this person absolutely exists on the left,) or yuppies who know they have an easy out in the form of either a work visa in somewhere like Canada or leeching from a developing country working remotely and not contributing to where they live at all (and so many of these yuppies are self-proclaimed collectivists.) The rest of us are getting out of here in a casket or a refugee boat if it boils over. So how about we take at least a modicum of effort to take care of our society. Voting is the bare minimum.
All rhythm games and fighting games.
I'll vote for a non-Zionist candidate in the primaries with no real expectation of them winning. But I will vote blue no matter who for national and state politics, and Working Families Party for local if any run.
Is "Genocide Joe" an accurate nickname? Yeah. But fuck that, it's not like Trump will be any less zionist and third parties/independents don't work in FPTP. I'm mixed race, I'm bisexual, I'm worried about worst case scenarios with a second Trump presidency (which is basically "what Trump is saying out loud" at this point,) and I am willing to vote in enlightened self-interest.
Metaverse. People literally only ever cared because Mark Zuckerberg was talking about it.
I'm certain dense human populations are better for the environment than non-dense human populations, because dense human populations need to be moved around less.
You're basically advocating for human extinction in this comment.
It's always the fuckin' IQ tests with our friends in the "more civilized" world.
Those of us who don't live in an "out of sight out of mind" fairytale and aren't ignorant of the world enough to not realize the Internet has become an essential utility now, know that this would harm many of the groups negatively affected by hate speech probably more than hate speech does; many oppressed minority groups do not have access to quality education. Some of us are from countries or of ethnicities that have history with minimum IQ requirements for, say, voting. To say nothing of how IQ tests contain Western cultural biases and might not even actually be good at measuring intelligence.
Blend S. The theme song and associated meme is all this show has going for it. (In fact the theme song's first few seconds contain the whole point honestly.)
Believe me, I'm not the kind of person who hates this kind of thing on a conceptual level. I watch more anime than any other type of TV show (granted I don't watch much TV in general) and I'm not the kind of anime fan who acts "above" slice of life, wish fulfillment, or ecchi, I love shows way more "degen" than Blend S. But Blend S is just so boring I can't actually think of anything to say. It's the kind of show that is the reason why slice of life anime got shit on so much before isekai became oversaturated.
More and more American cities are removing them too!
Michael Eisner once called himself "the last of the creative types in Hollywood" after he left Disney, and I can't help but see what he meant when he said that when I look at the current American film and TV landscape. It's like today's Hollywood bigwigs don't even understand why people watch TV and movies.
I kinda think this happened to Western video games too (yeah Sony is a Japanese company...but PlayStation has shown a pretty square focus on the Western market in the past 10 years.) From a consumer perspective I don't think a new CEO is the answer. It wasn't for Disney's fans with Bob Chapek.
To be clear, "part of me" is really doing a lot of work here.
Haiku feels more "rigid." GNU/Linux is ultimately, a pile of parts instead of a cohesive whole, and it shows in the user experience even in distros made with user friendliness in mind. GNU/Linux's modularity is a good thing for many uses, but it also makes GNU/Linux feel incoherent to use at times and just means the Linux ecosystem will always be fragmented. FreeBSD has the rigidity, but isn't developed with average end users in mind and is particularly unusable as a gaming OS. Currently Haiku isn't really usable for much of anything, but Haiku's vision of a cohesive open source OS that is designed with a laser focus on personal computing users makes sense and I could see being recommended over Linux if it were achieved (though, I don't believe Haiku in the real world where we can't just fast forward development ten years can achieve this.)
(I explain and link to the ones that I don't think everyone here would know about)
Lemmy
ActivityPub
Firefox (Chromium should go the way of IE)
Godot
WINE
Cinnamon (the desktop environment developed for Linux Mint, so we can get Wayland support)
Box86/Box64
Darling (macOS compatibility layer for Linux, plans to support running iOS apps when running on on ARM machines in the future, I want this primarily for iOS preservation purposes)
Xemu (Original Xbox emulator, OG Xboxes are some of the most failure prone consoles and a game I want to play still has serious issues)
Haiku (mostly for really nerdy shits and giggles honestly, but there's a part of me that thinks it could be a better consumer grade FOSS OS than GNU/Linux if it were more developed and had any actual software support. As it stands, like it's proprietary predecessor BeOS, it's just a toy. It's no less stupid than investing your theoretical time in Hurd IMO)
The increased normalization of stereotyping. I try to stop myself, but I don't think I'm immune either. It just feels like people are just more okay with seeing that someone is a certain nationality or race and assuming things than they were 5 - 10 years ago, regardless of political orientation. Some communities dislike it when you don't play into the stereotype, even.
The notion that books are "of the past" has done harm to many.
Playdate (handheld console.)
I almost bought one, but I cancelled the order because my phone broke that evening.
If Stone Temple Pilots ever does that acoustic tour focusing on their softer songs they cancelled due to COVID (they've toured since but not that particular idea.) Perdida is one of my favorite "post-prime" albums from any band, and in general STP's softer material is what makes them one of my favorites.
I'll go to see My Chemical Romance if they put out a new album.
David Gilmour.
Weezer in a theater (I went to the Hella Mega Tour but Weezer I've heard is way better in a theater than an arena.)