Well, time to get some very inflamiatory deepfakes of Elon out there, then

I bet door-to-door salespeople would make way more money if they could just break into your homes, leave their junk on your table, and steal your credit card, and yet we don’t let them do that.

Right. But when the bar is owned by a Nazi, your options for pushing them out of the bar becomes a lot more limited.

It didn’t. It’s 90.5 AU from us, and us is Earth. Or do you live on the Sun?

“Reviewers” need to understand that, unless they paid their own money, from a bog-standard store, on or after release day, they are not reviewers, they are hired spokespeople.

JXL is my favourite squadron.

Fuck 'em. Communication is a two-way street, and if they’re only ever willing to communicate on their own terms, then they’re not sctually interested in communicating.

I know that often, the people being discussed in these sorts of conversations are people we feel we cannot avoid, e.g, parents, bosses, partners, etc., but these people can be excised from our lives. We can move away from home when old enough, we can find new jobs, and we can find new partners. It’s work, and it’s not easy, but there are good people out there who will genuinely want to try, and you can find them.

You gotta dedide that part of your struggles today, though, are that others actually are demanding more of you than you are of them, and that they’re deciding they don’t care enough to do their part in bridging the gap.

That hurts in its own right, but it’s a different kind of hurt. It’s a fuck them kind of hurt.

This just boils down to “don’t disucuss social power dynamics” at some point, though, and that’s how social power dynamics remain unchallenged, and only ever evolve towards reinforcing the social hegemony.

People need to be able to criticise others’ words and actions when they perpetuate injustice, regardless of whether they are a part of the affected minority, and this criticism should not be viewed through the lens of taking offence.

One can criticise without being personally offended.

You understand that this is an admission that the US is just flat out a fascist country, right? A fascist democracy is still a fascist country.

I reallly like Trilian, but if you’re looking for something to help your memory, a physical pocket notebook can’t be beat. I highly recommend keeping one on hand.

I wonder when we’ll finally revoke that license.

My dad smoked for years. But so did a huge percentage of boomers. Where I grew up, poor and rural, the majority of people smoked.

You know what the majority of people didn’t have, but which I did? An epileptic grandparent. And a family history of epilepsy is associated with autism diagnoses.

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Same. Honestly, even in college things were OK until social relationships got in the way, and then I couldn’t manage. Things fell apart so fast…

The fact that there has been so much noise over $80 video games makes me question the thesis here. There are a huge number of video games out there now, it’s true, but if gamers truly gave a shit about them, I think everyone would be rather quiet about the prices from the big publishers.

All of the noise tells me that gamers will continue to prioritize big name, big dollar releases, rather than actually even glance at their backlog of Steam games. And $80 spent on games you never, ever play is not a better investment.

There is no reason to even suggest that AI ‘means well’. It doesn’t mean anything, let alone well.

The game prices I’m ok with. When I was a kid, video games cost $70 CAD, and that’s almost $200 now. I’m perfectly OK with going back to buying fewer games. I have too many of them I shouldn’t have bought in the first place.

I’m wildly upset with the console price, in no small part because Nintendo and other electronics manufacturers seem to be trying to smooth over the shock of Dorito Don’s tariffs by increasing prices globally.

The Americans made their own bed. I’m not willing to lie in it with them.

It remains so incredibly alarming to me the number of “business leaders” who looked at consumer spending in 2020/2021, looked at the global context of 2020/2021, and then went “things will now be like this forevermore,” even as other “business leaders”, and even, very often, themselves, were doing everything possible to force everyone back into a pre-COVID context.

My own employer was one of these businesses, and every time I’ve brought it up, I’ve been firmly told “everyone else thought the same thing we did, too”.

I didn’t have a whole lot of respect for business people before that, but I at least – naively, it turned out – believed they knew how to operate businesses. I now have no respect for such people whatsoever, as they’ve demonstrated completely and thoroughly, even to the point where my dumb ass can notice, that the only thing that ever “qualified” them to “run a business” was having money.

The fact that tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs because the ownership class chose to believe that they’d stumbled into an infinite growth hack is shameful, and these “leaders” deserve to be stripped of all that they own and tossed into the street.

Yup. The author is juuuuust missed in identifying the issue. The alt-right doesn’t take gaming, or gamers, seriously. But they do see angry young men as recruitment targets, and understand that a lot of gamers are much, much bigger losers than most of us imagine, and that they have a lot of pent up anger at not being taken seriously.

The basement dwelling CHUDs don’t realize that Bannon’s brigade is laughing at them whenever they’re not in the room. They’re just that desperate for any kind of attention and validation, even if it’s painfully disingenuous.

Unpopular opinion, I know, but downvotes are an anti-feature, designed to excuse big, for-profit social media from actually moderating their platforms. They have no place in real social spaces.