I don't have a pulse on this like I used to, but are there still big new arcade games being developed and made?

If I went to an arcade, could I play new stuff from the past few years, or is it going to be primarily old cabinets that have been maintained?

How many arcades are still out there anyway? Have they been able to survive against the widespread proliferation of consoles, phone gaming, home VR, etc.?

I'm curious as to whether arcade gaming is still alive or if it's a dead or dying art.

Hey everyone.

Throughout my time of being active here, I've been using the "private messages" feature pretty extensively to chat with several Tilderiños I appreciate, when we don't share any other platform(s) to "chat" on. In every case until now, all conversations I'm in have taken part in a single messaging thread instead of creating multiple threads per topic of conversation because, yes, although technically this is misuse, conversations naturally flow from one topic to another

This has ended up causing UX issues, however: when opening a "private message" thread, you're practically greeted with a massive wall of text that you'll end up having to manually scroll through for several seconds until you reach the latest "end" of the conversation, which makes it pretty annoying for the user to have to do that every time they open the thread. Especially when you can't manage to reply when reading the message itself, but instead hours later

I know that the reason we don't have instant scrolling enabled in general on tildes is because it does not comply with tildes's philosophy - you have to first read the entire thread('s comments) before you create a new comment chain. However, I believe this philosophy does not extend naturally to private messages, as only two people will ever be viewing those threads, and there is zero incentive to read the entire message history before you reply to a private message

Therefore I'd like to suggest/discuss either of the following options:

1. Private message threads (and only message threads - not public posts) should have a "fast scroll" button instantly taking you to the bottom of the page, or
2. Private message threads (likewise) should always direct the user towards the latest messages & the textbox at the bottom of the page, rather than the first messages at the top of the page.

What do you all think?

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Most people here dislike AI, more specifically LLM generated content, for reasons such as environmental impact, stealing people's work, etc. Despite that, is there anything that you enjoy?

I've been listening to this artist's music for a while. It's mostly video game music "re-imagined by AI" into City Pop and other styles. Artist says they use AI to generate samples, then do the rest of the work like any producer would. I have no idea if it's true or not, but I gotta admit that most of it is really good.

Today I also watched some "AI ASMR" videos out of curiosity. It's stupid, I know. But watching a knife cut glass can be so damn satisfying. I'm sorry, planet.

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Inspired by a conversation with my mom about how our poor dog didn't get fed until 5:08 instead of 5:00, poor thing seemed convinced we forgot she needed food. Mom joked that Zoey would call the ASPCA to report animal abuse for starving her. And I realized it's really good animals can't call because the lines would be flooded with reports of their humans closing bedroom doors or daring to stop playing after 45 minutes outside on a snowy day.

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