Technology
Lets talk search engine censorship at a wide scale how do specific search engines rank search resualts
rob299 10 months ago • 50%
Interesting. Is this happening in the u.s? If not there might be a law for those countries making them hide it there. If you can, try searching for sepia search, its a sesrch engine for almost all peertube intances basically its as if peertube was youtube, do those countries show that?
www.youtube.com
If over the air broadcast tv couldn't get any more free then this.
Technology
YouTube now allows monetization on videos with breastfeeding nudity and 'non-sexually graphic dancing' | TechCrunch
rob299 10 months ago • 36%
I actually didn't know that much about the term. I am a dem-sexual and support LGBTQ and I wouldn't want to be associated with people avocating against LGBTQ people or any marginalized people.
Technology
Lets talk search engine censorship at a wide scale how do specific search engines rank search resualts
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
I agree, what are some of them that are known by users of Lemmy? In particular when you compare larger search engines to each other.
Technology
YouTube now allows monetization on videos with breastfeeding nudity and 'non-sexually graphic dancing' | TechCrunch
rob299 10 months ago • 5%
I'm not too familiar with maps i've only herd about it like 2 times. if it's not a thing now could it become a thing a decade from now? atleast on the surface, on it's own, distant away from LGBT.
Technology
YouTube now allows monetization on videos with breastfeeding nudity and 'non-sexually graphic dancing' | TechCrunch
rob299 10 months ago • 5%
I think I get why they are actually are allowing it, they won't say why, but I get why. It might have something to do with maps. If you know what maps are then you'l understand, if you don't then there's always a chance of learning. Not like the tradition map, but it's another definition.
So after the Google anti trust situation that has occurred recently it got me wondering.. Do all major search engines censor resualts from independent sites? Let me define what I mean by censorship, if you were to search for some kind of content or news and Google never *ever* shows a site in the news results there is a chance of shadow banning. There also a chance that Google just doesn't know the site exists. but this isn't always the case. the main question for this post however is this, how do specific search engines handle resualts? it's no secret Google is known for not doing search resualts on YouTube or Google too well for the user experience. How do search engines like Bing, Yahoo, Google, Duckduckgo, metager, and others differenciate in their search rankings. Surely they aren't *all* moderating the exact same as Google, right? right..?
Privacyrob299 10 months ago • 100%
Ever heard of the game i spy? and with that they are advertising gaming for a Chromebook. This may all just be a coincidence.
While these tech comapnies have people look at the how users might see phrases like "hey guys." Not sure how Google thought people wouldn't do the same to them with this. Chromebook's don't sell as well so this is the worst product to do the worst with for marketing, but at the same time maybe they really do think this and think they can get away with this meme because no one is really buying a Chromebook unless it's like for school work. (although I actually do use my personal Chromebook on the daily i'm in that small minority.)
Technology
more and more news sites are pushing for paywalls even reuters now here are some sources that don't have pay walls and Npr *mentions* paywall in their own new pop-up?
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
as you say this big companies in recent times have been working on making the web less wide, and less accessible mostly for independent sites. search engines hide sites, sometimes Playstore will take down apps. I think this is a small issue slowly turning into a big issue. and a small handful that own a bunch of the sites you commonly see will take advantage of the changing landscape.
Technology
Your Chrome extensions may stop working in 2024
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
In other words, these older extentions work just fine, no one wants the new limited features, and google is force disabling older extentions despite any outcries from its users because it can.
Technology
more and more news sites are pushing for paywalls even reuters now here are some sources that don't have pay walls and Npr *mentions* paywall in their own new pop-up?
rob299 10 months ago • 60%
seems interesting, a news source from Germany. I'l bookmark it and check it out.
Technology
more and more news sites are pushing for paywalls even reuters now here are some sources that don't have pay walls and Npr *mentions* paywall in their own new pop-up?
rob299 10 months ago • 32%
true, but i'm not signing up for something I check once in a blue moon. and I suppose technically it isn't a paywall, but it could turn into to one, or it might as well be one, what else does this pop up serve, to protect the site from bots?
also feel free to comment your own suggestions for news sites for tech updates that don't pay wall on the web page. New York times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology abc - https://abcnews.go.com/technology the hill - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/ BBC news - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology while nonprofit Npr doesn't pay wall, they have a new pop up that says something along the likes of "expected a paywall not our style please donate" that the user can dismiss and continue browsing the site. https://www.npr.org/sections/technology/ Reuters use to be a good source for me untill they started pay walling after a small amount of news article reads.
nypost.com
No idea.
thehill.com
Meta says blame should fall on appstores. What willl be next, web browsers? or *search engines* ?? will search engines have to vett people age to use Facebook too? edit: i'm changing the news article to one with no pay wall. went from Washingtonpost to the hill
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rob299 10 months ago • 100%
I'm glad you actually said that scrolling down the comment I was like, wait people are ok with this? and they don't see that it's a trap?
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rob299 10 months ago • 33%
It's a trap, this is all bad. standerlise the internet, and then they'l be able to charge you for Xbox live ons team and more
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rob299 10 months ago • 100%
This is not a good thing for Linux users, but it is for Windows users. It'l make using the internet for basic tasks more seamless. and I think this is generally what this is going for. Not to make it seamless, but to restrict, but make it seem seamless.
Technology
Search Engine Optimization
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
If I wanted to see ads I would go on youtube or like kotaku or something.
Fediverserob299 10 months ago • 100%
ok, but what about the fact that most of the instances have policies meant to protect these groups, which happens to be most of them if not all of them? Since it is a federated service alot of the instance most users use, will usually defederate from other instances not moderating to their standards once they are aware, but sadly not all of them. That's the point of federation so that one person can't control every single detail of what happens for their own gains. That's why the users on Mastodon broke away from Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.
Sure there are going to be instances that just so happen to exist that might not moderate for or even, appreciate these groups as much, at that point if you were to sign up to such an instance, you might want to switch instances to avoid such content.
Would I go as far as to say, that it is unsafe by design? No i'd say that the fediverse is meant to be safer by design for all people from all sorts of backgrounds with different viewpoints. and depending on where you join, then that will determine how safe the fediverse is for you as a person.
Did you know that if you find an instance that's not within your local instance while prowsing and searching say Mastodon, that you can block that instance from showing up entirely?
also that marginalized groups of people had even had better experiences on the fediverse than on Twitter and other places as some seem to even claimed on your own post here.
Why I think video gaming slowly became the most addictive entertainment media with no signs of stopping. What do lemmy users think of the subject? Video games can be addictive time wasters, sure you can say that a gamer should just manage their time better. As someone who's played some games from the last few years on various consoles, I can say some types of games are played more then others. so.. Why are games addictive? lets first start by looking at a game pong on the the Attari. A game with just paddles disguised as lines and dots bouncing back and forth. If a person is just playing the game alone against the cpu they'l more likely get bored playing quickly. While if they play with a friend it's a more fulfilling experience and they might play it for hours. However, at some point they would move on from it but they wouldn't have to they could keep playing their pong game as newer console would release, but as the game was just lines and dots, without their friends this game we then become played less as more and more people passed it by. How do games create a single player experience to keep people playing without their friends? Lets look at pacman, if you have a game that recreates the experience of being somewhere, where you can move an onscreen character and interact in certian situations with said characters you would then potentially have one person hooked to your game playing solo. This would work for awhile from the nes, to the snes to the n64 generations for gaming in regards to sells. Then the next step to hook players would be to mix single player with multiplayer, if the players 'friends' are playing it then they better be playing it too. The idea was that both players would had bought the game and practiced at their own houses solo. Think games like Super Smash Bros 64, Mortal Kombat, Mario Kart 64. The next and second to last step to addict players is with online gaming. Bonus points if a game is online but has *no* split screen local multiplayer. Because if your friend gets the new game then you better get it too or feel left behind. Other thing about online gaming is it can addict solo players the worst. Typically these games will have you feeling good collecting exp points and the games currency winning each match. Making you keep wanting to play it day after day back to back at its worst. last and final step to gaming addiction is vr, or virtual reality. While its still too early to say much about vr gaming, it brings a fake reality to the game universes, that players can enteract in with their physical hands. And they can physically turn around and look around envirorments. Gaming just keeps getting more addictive in nature.
Asklemmy
Is it better to eat eggs and oats cereal on separate days form eachother or together on the same day, although not together, side to side?
rob299 10 months ago • 60%
just a preference of eating them seperately on the same day together if it is healthy vs on different days
I'm trying to improve my breakfest generally, and I heard that these are some of the best of what's already popular to eat for health. How should these be ate, together or separate?
Technology
FCC votes in favor for rules that reduce 'digital discrimination' for communities with poor internet access
rob299 10 months ago • 87%
I am proud that one of my posts on this community has reached 100 upvotes.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
I did say ai. I said
"ai, but the bots." People in this thread were actually legitly saying their stance on bots. and also on ai. which, if I'm wrong then i'm wrong, I accept the critisism. personally this post could be a meme at this point. 27 downvotes, that's crazy on Lemmy. I hadn't seen a post on this communitywith as many, not sure if that's a record or not. for this community.
edit: now 26 and if any changes further, then that's where the number is .
Technology
Google paid Samsung $8 billion to be the default search engine, app store and voice assistant
rob299 10 months ago • 62%
How did this post get nearly 200 upvotes but fewer comments, then an average post with 75-100 upvotes I mean I get this this news is shocking because it's Samsung not apple, so it is a new leak regarding Gogole, but sheesh a lot of things this week was just about as 'shocking'
The numbers are impressive, so i'm not necesarilly complaining, but those numbers caught my eye. congratulations op
Ask Lemmy
Why does lemmy seem better for engagement and conversation then (I meant than) Mastodon
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
I am proud that one of my posts managed to get to 100 upvotes.
Technology
FCC votes in favor for rules that reduce 'digital discrimination' for communities with poor internet access
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
How much money are these companies sitting on, and yet they are still capping peoples wifi down to 1tb, which is a good amount acually but nothings changed for years in many areas regarding data caps, unless you have more money or happen to be in a good u.s state with competition for internet, like Ohio.
Technology
FCC votes in favor for rules that reduce 'digital discrimination' for communities with poor internet access
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
very true, i'm supportive of poorer areas getting internet service myself. The point of the internet was to be a free resource, supported by donations when it was invented. Google deserves to lose it's control that it's had and token advantage of for the last 8-7 years they have no right to have as much control. Same with ISPs, just because they so happen to own the pipes we use and with little competition.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 50%
actually I see what some of you mean, regarding bots can kill communities, because real users know what stories are worth sharing. When bots do it right though, i still believe it drives up conversation when people aren't posting, when real users engage in conversation in the comments and talk about the article that the bot shared. Which was my major point for bots, but not to really replace real users. which I feel some of you thought I meant it to that degree, of which I did not.
Technology
Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
meaining it's about a 50-50 split in the us. i'm still not really concerned. when you have only two smartphones, ad no one wants to make a 3rd commercial smart phone that is not based on andriod, resualts like this are bound to happen.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 20%
It might not or mightt be true, I know a lot of artist hate it, you'd be hard pressed to not find any that does not like ai, not saying that no one out of these groups could not appreciate it. I do think ai can be great, but it's all over the internet, that people just don't like ai. Might even be 50-50 60-40 who knows, but it's still a noticable amount.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 66%
I am totally ok with disagreements. I think people like to learn from others, even when they might just simply be wrong at times in the public opinion.
abcnews.go.com
Sounds like ones demands have changed, or atleast they got a hold of themselves. whatever lead to them walking back on this, it's the end of another battle for internet privacy, but not the end of the war. As apps continue to track you in new mysterious ways behind their closed sourced software, and the governments continue to crack down on encryption. Anonymous names are important for privacy too.
Technology
FCC votes in favor for rules that reduce 'digital discrimination' for communities with poor internet access
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
This is the best thing to happen to for internet, since the fediverse. or since hd video was made available for free streaming uncapped particularly by YouTube
and now more people can experience this. I consider this a win for all. Internet prices will go down. Did we lose anything from this proposal? I don't think so. but time will tell as of course the rules had only just now passed.
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rob299 10 months ago • 100%
wait, then how do youtube's ads on smart tvs generate money? something doesn't add up because on smart tvs you cannot click the ad in the same way or even at all.
abcnews.go.com
While I heard about this coming to a vote a few days ago, the FCC has voted in favor for the rules today.
rob299 10 months ago • 75%
wait what??~~ what??!! the fediverse has been nothing less than supportive of a lot of these marginalised groups. as soon as I saw the headline my jaw dropped. where.is.your.evidence.?
Technology
Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem
rob299 10 months ago • 25%
Chrome wasn't the problem, more or so Google being the defualt search engine everywhere you go except windows, and the degraded search experience on Google. Google chrome itself is actually a good fast speedy browser. whether it's the speediest is debatable. but it is a good one.
also Google Chrome is pre installed on Chromebooks and Android phones. while Chromebooks aren't as.. popular, android phones particularly dominate sales charts.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 50%
absolutely, so lets say for instance, a bot posts an article, what stops people from discussing that tech news arcticle in the comments, and a bot might not get every piece of news, so users can then creat posts to fill in those blanks. I guess an argument could be made that less people would make posts, but then if there are no bots at all, there that chance that at some point that people just stop using Lemmy and go back to tradition social platforms because they feel there isn't as much content.
so when you look at it on both sides; bots, or no bots, both have their potential bad sides. but also potential benefits.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 75%
I'm going to try the block all bots setting myself. perhaps it isn't as less active active when the bots don't just sometimes come in and post an article here or there. I'm gonna do a small personal test to see if it feels any different in a good or bad way over all.
another thing i'm confirming right now is that I don't want there to just be bots. I was just saying that sometimes bots can help start conversations when people aren't posting. when done right, it seems to work. sure it isn't always done right, but there have been times when it started good conversations with real people in the post.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 50%
I get that standpoint, if that's all you get but on this community, you get bots and also real users here that also creat posts, combine the two then factor in the conversations that form in the comments.
Technology
Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
eh, isn't safari using WebKit, wasn't that made open source at one point.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 75%
I feel people are just misunderstanding, I don't see why there's so much backlash, let me explain my thoughts process in more detail.
my idea was actually more like this.
sometimes a bot might post an article, sometimes a real person. if the article is relavent, then real people might join in to discuss the article, which on this community this happens.
Technology
Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem
rob299 10 months ago • 85%
the thing is apple devices aren't terrible, just over priced, they are better when it comes to less ads, or are they..? on most Android phones the ads come from the apps the user use, which are likely to be the same on an iphone anyways. YouTube anyone?
. and knowing how much free money apple gets from the search engine deal on the daily and yet they still charge $1000 for phones that right there, ends my trust for that company, forget about their privacy claims after that nonsense.
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rob299 10 months ago • 100%
About time, unlabeled ads isn't even a requirement to make money off of ads, or is it..?
clicking on an ad generates more revenue then just seeing one if I remember correctly. which seems to be why YouTube encourages users to get use to waiting and clicking on the skip button, if on the browser site theres a chance of a user clicking on the ad and opening it's link.
Technology
Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.
rob299 10 months ago • 9%
Good points, although they do tend to bring activity back to communities and give a reason to use them when people aren't posting. and while the bots aren't necesarily ai, they essentially do the same thing, automated tasks by a cpu.
Technology
‘But What Do We Do if Google Is Legitimately Just a Better Search Engine?’
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
in a perfect world, when it is the better search engine, and they didn't cheat then i'd say do nothing. they did no wrong so why even ask this question?
most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up. I mean- am I wrong here?thoughts? opinions?
Technology
Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem
rob299 10 months ago • 100%
Look at it like this, how many wanted the Playstation 3 when it was cool, then factor in how many people bought that at launch vs the ps2 at launch. Actual market share matter more then opinions on what's cool.
If you're like me, you would join one Lemmy instance, and then join a community by one of the following ways, 1. through a 3rd party search 2. on the server you are on 3. a link to the community Let's say you find a community you like hosted from a different Lemmy instance, you bookmark it and find out that you have to make another account, which you don't, in order to post, interact and save settings. We can fix this by modifying or editing the URL in the bookmark. say my main account is in Lemmy world, I click a link to another community and it acts as if I should have an account on there and I can't log into my account through new instance! How do I make it just work with just my original account? using https://lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming as example (not in the screenshot but same concept) 1. at the beginning of the url, I would want to change the lemmy.ml to lemmy.world this tells "them" i'm on the instance that I signed up on. 2. at the end of the url right after the name of the instance lastly I would want to add @lemmy.ml. This is useful with communities with double names in different instances! Sometimes what will happen without that included in the url is "they'l" will take to the community you asked for but only if it's from that community at the start of the url, so be sure to have that in the bookmarked URL. 3. the bookmarked URL in my case should end up looking like this, https://lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
If you're like me, you would join one Lemmy instance, and then join a community by one of the following ways, 1. through a 3rd party search 2. on the server you are on 3. a link to the community Let's say you find a community you like hosted from a different Lemmy instance, you bookmark it and find out that you have to make another account, which you don't, in order to post, interact and save settings. We can fix this by modifying or editing the URL in the bookmark. say my main account is in Lemmy world, I click a link to another community and it acts as if I should have an account on there and I can't log into my account through new instance! How do I make it just work with just my original account? using https://lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming as example (not in the screenshot but same concept) 1. at the beginning of the url, I would want to change the lemmy.ml to lemmy.world this tells "them" i'm on the instance that I signed up on. 2. at the end of the url right after the name of the instance lastly I would want to add @lemmy.ml. This is useful with communities with double names in different instances! Sometimes what will happen without that included in the url is "they'l" will take to the community you asked for but only if it's from that community at the start of the url, so be sure to have that in the bookmarked URL. 3. the bookmarked URL in my case should end up looking like this, https://lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
An easily accessible list of communities with links and inputted descriptions from the op poster. edit: changed gaming community from beehaw to Lemmy.ml hopefully it'll be more easilly accessible. tech/gaming news related communities: 1. [!technology@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/technology) Keep up with the latest technology news 2. [!fediverse@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) Keep up with the latest fediverse updates 3. [!linux@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/linux) Linux content, could be news or something random 4. !gaming[!gaming@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming) Keep up with the latest gaming news content fun and amusement communities: 1. [!foodporn@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/foodporn) random pictures of food, could help inspire a meal. don't worry it is safe for work despite the potentially misleading name. 2. [!asklemmy@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy) ask whatever floats your boat to Lemmy users available to answer your questions. 3. [!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/lemmybewholesome) post or consume some wholesome material. 4. [!bestoflemmy@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/bestoflemmy) a currated list of some of the best Lemmy content. Lemmy help and support 1. [!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca](https://lemmy.ca/c/newtolemmy) For if you're really really new to Lemmy. 2. [!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) free costumer support for Lemmy? 3. [!lemmyapps@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyapps) learn, discuss or ask about Lemmy apps.
An easily accessible list of communities with links and inputted descriptions from the op poster. edit: changed gaming community from beehaw to Lemmy.ml hopefully it'll be more easilly accessible tech/gaming news related communities: 1. [!technology@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/technology) Keep up with the latest technology news 2. [!fediverse@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) Keep up with the latest fediverse updates 3. [!linux@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/linux) Linux content, could be news or something random 4. !gaming[!gaming@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming) Keep up with the latest gaming news content fun and amusement communities: 1. [!foodporn@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/foodporn) random pictures of food, could help inspire a meal. don't worry it is safe for work despite the potentially misleading name. 2. [!asklemmy@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy) ask whatever floats your boat to Lemmy users available to answer your questions. 3. [!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/lemmybewholesome) post or consume some wholesome material. 4. [!bestoflemmy@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/bestoflemmy) a currated list of some of the best Lemmy content. Lemmy help and support 1. [!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca](https://lemmy.ca/c/newtolemmy) For if you're really really new to Lemmy. 2. [!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) free costumer support for Lemmy? 3. [!lemmyapps@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyapps) learn, discuss or ask about Lemmy apps.
Personally when i'm looking for a community I sort it by top month instead of new because since i'm looking for an active community, it'l sort based on rankings of the posts in the community. (I assume based on the guide) By sorting by month I feel it's a good balence of good activity in a community vs ensuring that if tides change then fairly over time I can switch to another community based on rankings for the next month or the next and etc. What do you all do?
On average if I make a post on Mastodon whether I get a comment, and a continued conversation is either hit or miss. On Lemy if I make a post it's almost insane the probalility of actual comments, conversation and discusion with many users that can occur in a single post compared to Mastodon. Is this because of the communities on Lemy making things more seamless and simple to find content I might want to consume and discuss as a user? Because say I join a Mastodon server, nothings really organized by topics or anything. Sure there are hashtags but, the user would have to know to search a specific hashtag and there's the chance of even missing somes post that may be related even if the topic is similar to a hashtag searched for. Who knows, what are Lemy users thoughts on this? I know one thing, if you can make a good platform, then you can get great conversations in anything that people are interested in. It seems to me Lemy is the best at this for most users. While on Mastodon, while i'm not saying I hadn't had people comment on my posts, it seems less likely then Lemmy. I don't think I made a single post where no one has commented atleast something on Lemy.
It needs to be said, but I want to know how some of you view Mario games and where they started and ended at. My take- I feel that Nintendo hasn't made a good Mario game since.. 3D world on the 3DS/wiiU and before that.. Mario Galexy and then.. since Paper Mario on the original Wii. those games were in my opinion the best of what Mario has to offer as it was originally intended. Fun, colorful cartoony, and exciteing. If I had to tell you to play between Paper Mario Wii edition (not Wii U) or New Super Mario Bros Wii. I would suggest Paper Mario for the over all better experience for a Mario game. Granted it's considered a spinoff, it's more colorful and you could tell the devs actually cared about making a good game there. Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Sunshine are games that make me wonder the following. They chose the water flood gimmick over a real sequal to Super Mario 64 with fixed physics camera, and everything. Then on the Wii, they chose to not make a good Mario 64 sequal there they kept everything small and simplified, and focused on the gimick of the console. Think of how we went from Super Mario bros 1 to 3, and from 3 to world. But that never happened going from the N64 to the Gamecube. For the longest to time, it's been the spinoffs keeping Mario alive, super smash bros,, Mario Kart.. paper Mario if not for those all we would have right now would be dumped down Mario games like new super Mario bros u or the Mario 3d world (even tho its one of the best, it's not as good as it should be) with no real innovation for Mario or excitment. If they don't make a real Mario game for next gen, as they did during the N64 erra, Mario will never be good again. Mario Wonder is not a next gen game, they held back all their best, and finally now they make a good looking 2d game. This is what we should had gotten on the Wii U launch. Edit: the idea of a perfect next gen Mario game would be something that plays like like Super Mario 64 , but then the moving/running and jumping physics of what you get in the new super Mario bros including the wall jumping, and with character models looking more like something you'd see in Super Smash Bros Brawl for the best modern approach for what Mario is suppose to look like graphically. Odyessee, while the graphics are good, i'm not saying they are bad. For a Mario game they are out of place. Lastly as for the camera, the camea should control more freely with the right stick, kinda like how the camera in Rayman 3 would control as a comparison for 3d platformers. Of course my opinion isn't the absolute solution.
Typically i'l pick 2 sources from each political leaning 2 news sources from the far alt left, 2 others from center and lastly two others from the alt right, and il just scroll past the news articles for that day on all them once every day to get mainstreem news from all perspectives. I feel Center leaning news alone isn't enough but can be useful at times to get straight facts with little political bias. While left leaning news sources are pro for lgbt I hadn't seemed to find any far left sites that actively cover tech news. I had to make a sacrifise and make one of my sites a site that just leans to the left. Nbc news. Just to get some new content. Wheres the news for tech left sites? Or am I missing a concept here? I dont really like the alt right sites thaat much but sometimes they can have a good point when they are *not* talking against lgbtq+:people. Obviosly I wont agree with everything as I look at the news from left to right as a whole. In short I follow abit of everything from left to alt right not just the center. What do you all choose for news?