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Of course plenty of American schools offer Chinese language courses. It’s odd that you assumed with total confidence that the opposite was true.

I bet that’s a slightly unfair representation of what it actually looked like. Graphics back then were purposely designed for how they would look on CRT tvs which add a lot of specific distortions to images. So taking a screenshot of a game running in an emulator without using a high quality crt filter added to the image will be a very untrue representation of what the game actually looked like.

(Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it actually looked great when displayed correctly, but i am saying it would’ve looked considerably better than this emulator screenshot)

You’re mixing up two very different things. In your post you asked how you should respond in the general situation of someone asking if you could do them a favor, and so that’s the question that people answered on this page. But then in your replies you try to apply those answers to a totally different situation.

Here’s the answer to the question you asked, and then the answer to the question you were trying to ask:

• If a person simply asks if you could do them a favor, then all the replies on this page apply.

BUT

• If a person is rude to you first then you are justified in being rude back to them.

I was giving an example, you aren’t limited to just that exact response

You think it’s strange to ask a stranger for help? That sounds like a cold world to me

To be not rude, all you have to do is be polite.

If a stranger politely asks if you can do them a favor, you don’t have to say yes, and you don’t even have to ask what the favor is, but to be polite you do have to non-offensively respond to what they said. Like you can just reply “sorry, I’m busy right now” and keep walking on your way

Fyi due to the way the fediverse works all votes and comments etc. are essentially public information. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard people say

Yup this is a typical symptom of adhd. This alone doesn’t mean you have adhd, but it means you should put it on the possibility list and maybe get evaluated by a professional

I’m not being pedantic, you just don’t know what the word means.

That’s literally what reporting means. You don’t have to be a news outlet to do a report.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reporting

Yes, you’re really the one here contributing to the topical discussion 🙄

Nobody said it was, and is irrelevant. I will quote my other reply to explain the intended point:

If the only media reporting about a new technology is a video then that thing is significantly more likely to be bullshit

What he goes into has nothing to do with anything. You don’t seem to understand my comment, it’s very possible that i worded it poorly, so I’ll reiterate:

If the only media reporting about a new technology is a video then that thing is significantly more likely to be bullshit

Thanks, it’s weird how some people are reacting to this comment. Is this their first day on the Internet? I’m not saying this device IS bullshit, I’m saying from a long history of experience that if the only 3rd party media you can find about a device is a video then that device is significantly more likely to be bullshit. It’s simple and clearly true.

i.e. he is reporting about a technology. Again, if the only media reporting about a new technology is a video then that thing is significantly more likely to be bullshit

I will quote my other reply:

What their job is has nothing to do with my statement. If the only media reporting about a new technology is a video then that thing is significantly more likely to be bullshit

What their job is has nothing to do with my statement. If the only media reporting about a new technology is a video then that thing is significantly more likely to be bullshit

Why is this a video and not an article? Makes me think it’s just bullshit

Slack does the same thing as discord i believe

Here’s one:

Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity

This is a meaningless statement, especially the first half of it