I don't really think there are 'series' in the Mario saga. There's basically two streams of Mario game that have co-existed since Mario 64 - the 2D games and the 3D games.
Mario Wonder is the best 2D one I've played in years. Right back to SNES Mario World.
I'm more than happy to have more 2D ones like this.
Lae'zel all the way. Freak in the sheets.
I guess that advertising has been around for 100s of years. For the vast majority of history it's been something people accept - nobody could avoid posters on the street, adverts in store windows and later it was adverts on the radio, in the cinema, then ads on TV... It's only incredibly recently that people have had even the possibility of blocking ads, and even then it's only a small subset of online adverts that can be blocked. Most ads (TV, radio, billboards, print...) are just as unavoidable and unblockqble as before.
Which basically means advertising has been part of people's lives since the day all of us were born. Mostly folks just accept it, like we accept we have to spent 2 minutes every single morning brushing our teeth even though we wish there was a better way.
It's just one of those tradeoffs. You can avoid that 2min every day but your life would be massively inconvenienced as a result (people would avoid you and you'd be in pain every day), and you can avoid ads by not using the internet, but life is inconvenienced as a result.
Facebook are an advertising platform. They only offer a paid tier because they now legally have to. They don't really want you to take the paid tier, they want you to explicitly opt in to the ad-supported 'free' one. - because by specifically agreeing to "I want the free Facebook with ads' option it means you're actively choosing to be served ads, which is what all the recent lawsuits have been about - users giving explicit consent to be targeted for advertising.
No, you get automatically issues them. About 1 invite every 2 weeks once you've been on there for a few weeks.
Interesting. I might give it a go, thanks.
Yeah I know, but it's such an 'all or nothing' approach. I don't dislike the idea of boosting. I like to be exposed to other people's content. I just wish it wasn't so constant. Kind of feels like people do 1 post of their own and then 10 boosts.
I have both but drifted away from Mastodon. It seems to lack the anarchic wild humour I want. Plus the culture of excessive boosting was too much and just meant my timeline was full of posts from people I don't follow because they'd been boosted by the people I do follow. I follow folks because I want to hear what they have to say, not what the people they follow have to say.
Also all the servers had too strict rules. Having to post content-warnings if you mention food or other innocuous stuff.
I far prefer Bluesky. It's a lot more liberal and far more more chill. Plus there's lots of nonsense that keeps things fun. The feeds are a great way to find new people (you don't need to beg for followers, just find people you dig and things will grow organically anyway). It takes the good things about Mastodon (decentralisation and open) and the parts of Twitter that were fun (people over brands, weird humour). I hope it keeps growing and opens up to more people, but I don't mind it taking its time while it stabilises and adds features.
Or alternatively not taking the mobile operators side - being able to charge £10000 data costs to stream a couple of football matches worth of data shouldn't be allowed.
In what possible way does that price come anywhere close to the costs of the providers in servicing that data?
Everything should be pirated, never use any Google or Microsoft service, use an email server you've built yourself, only get your social media access through obscure Mastodon servers, write your code in assembly language, only eat food you've caught or grown yourself, avoid the rental market by just building a hut in the woods.
Ah interesting option, thanks! I've occasionally watched a few speedruns of it but I didn't realise there's whole first time playthroughs.
All the advances in toothcare seems to be around fancier electric brushes or other gadgets, but regardless we've never been able to move away from 'brush for 2 minutes'. I want some fancy device I just bite down on and it zaps my whole mouth clean in 5 seconds.