This is not meant as an attack in any way, anyone can obvously buy whatever makes them happy.

I'm just really curious who buys consoles that aren't that old for such high prices.

I can see the appeal of holding childhood consoles in your hands again, and I can also see the appeal in collecting cool really old stuff. But I struggle to understand why someone would buy e.g. a New 2DS XL for €300 or more.

So just out of curiosity, if you are someone like that, what's the appeal that makes it worth spending so much money, instead of e.g. just going with a steam deck and an emulator instead?

Edit to avoid confusion: I am not talking about new reproduction systems (like the N64 Mini) or premium emulation/FPGA systems (like the Analogue Pocket or the MISTer), but about original game consoles that aren't supported any more but also aren't really old. Something like the DS/3DS, PSP, Wii U, Playstation 3. Some of them are now more expensive in mediocre second-hand condition than they were when they were new.

Hear me out:

The only, absolutely only reason why people don't generally marry on the first date is to figure out whether they DON'T fit together.

So if you manage to figure out that the relationship is not going to work out before you get into real commitments (kids, mortgage, ...) you successfully avoided trouble.

I see it so often that people think that dating is already a strong commitment and that ending a dead-end relationship is a failure.

There is no shame in realizing the relationship is going nowhere and ending it.

There's really no limit on what can be made to sound good with enough time and skill.

First, so I'm not misunderstood: Science does of course exist and it is not religion. But:

• Not all published science is, in fact, science. The Replication Crisis is a real problem, meaning that a significant portion of published science is actually incorrect.
• Only a very tiny portion of the population reads scientific papers and has the ability to understand them. That includes scientists and other well-educated people who don't have any expertise on the specific field. Being a renown physicist doesn't mean you know anything about psychology.
• Scientific papers are filtered through science journalists who might or might not have any expertise in the field and might or might not understand the papers they write about. They then publish what they understood in a more accessible format (e.g. popular science magazines).
• This is then read by minimum wage journalists with no understanding of any of the science, and they publish their misunderstandings in newspapers and other non-scientific publications.
• This is then read by the general public who usually lack the skills and/or the resources to fact-check anything at all.
• These members of the general public then take what they understood as fact and base their world view on it. At this point it hardly matters whether their source of incorrect information is the stack of Chinese whispers I wrote about above, or if it's just straight-up made up by some religious leader.

There's thousands of little (or big) misunderstandings in non-science that people believe and have faith in, that forms people's world views and even their political views. And people often defend their misconceptions, like they would defend some religious views.

(Again, just to make sure I'm not misunderstood: I am no exception to this either. I got my field where I have a lot of knowledge, but for most fields I blindly trust some experts, because I have no way to verify stuff. I, too, for example, put my faith in doctors to heal my illnesses, even though I have no way to verify whether anything they say is true or not.)

Recently I had quite a few softporn images popping up on lemmy.world, e.g. from boobs@lemmy.world or porngifs@lemmy.world.

Was there a rule change that I missed that allows that kind of content now?

The content on that community is also not marked as NSFW, which makes for awkward moments when scrolling lemmy.world on the bus or in the break at work.

Well, not exactly modern social media, but very similar mechanics. His dad wrote a book with him as a main character, and he got bullied for it and ended up resenting his parents and hating Winnie the Pooh.

And in keeping with modern-day influencer parents: He actually never really had a lot of a relationship with his parents to begin with. He was raised by a nanny and then put into a boarding school, and only had very little contact with his parents. Later in life, he only sporadically visited his parents, never returned to his childhood home (which was the books were based on) and after his dad died, he completely dropped contact with his mother.

I guess, the limit doesn't apply for every country, but at least in Europe it's quite common.

Using an exoskeletton would also get around the speed limit for the pedal assist.

Take that (not) Einstein!

If a country needs to overly emphasise an ideal, that's usually because that ideal doesn't apply in that country ("Land of the free", "Democratic people's republic of ...").

If a person needs to subscribe to patriotism, it's usually because they have never accomplished anything better in their life than being born in a specific place.