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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never count your chickens before they hatch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Unless the kid was planning on a single shot per partner, he would need more than 3 condoms. Pharmacist should have warned him smh, lost business opportunity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

You are in essence gatekeeping enjoying a video game as a concept. Like people must enjoy them the way you envision.

What an incredibly inaccurate statement. I love modding video games, I spend more time modding video games than I spend playing video games. I understand that the vision developers have doesn’t often align with what I want from their product.

I don’t agree that developers should be spending dev cycles making a game functional for a user that turns off any configuration of gameplay mechanics.

Saying you can just set a variable from “true to false” is so laughably misunderstanding what goes into software development much less game development that it sounds entitled. What gameplay mechanics are you even saying should be configurable? All of them? Just turn off the combat in a fighting game? At what point is a gameplay mechanic integral to the genre/experience? And who is the person or persons that decide?

Developers should be free to create what they want, and the end user is free to mod it however they want. That includes, for the devs, not purposefully obfuscating things so that modding is more diffcult.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of “electronic commodity” and outright despises a development group’s artistry.

Sure, not every game is trying to be art. But games have long gone beyond the realm of simply “entertain me”. That opinion is like saying “books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want.” It is something you can do but there’s no imperative to cater to it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m confused why you’re confused? Their position is just don’t vet the games. That’s what they’re saying. It doesn’t presume some “magical way to tell the difference”. You just don’t check the games.

Now, this part is just my interpretation, but I believe they’re operating on a “caveat emptor” methodology. They shouldn’t let malware through obviously, but they might believe it’s on the purchaser to not buy games that look like slop.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But the context of the Game of Throne quote is diminishing.

It might seem like I’m trying to make you out as a bad person; I apologize because that’s not my intention. That comment was just the latest one I saw using it and it stood out even more because I didn’t get the sense that you were trying to be rude.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Beyond how dreadfully overused it’s become, I think people should acknowledge how explicitly patronizing the phrase “you sweet summer child” is. If you’re not actively trying to demean someone, it’s strange to essentially tell someone “it’s cute how naive you are.” If you were trying to demean the other person, then that’s a different issue but I’m assuming you aren’t that type of person.

I decided to leave a comment instead of passively downvoting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine is huge for indie development⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think we should see what it’s priced at before we start making proclamations about the Steam Machine being the “standard gaming PC”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I don’t know why this would translate to mental illness?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I wasn’t talking about people.

I’m talking about me.

I don’t want needles (or any sharp objects) close to my genitals.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is the syringe in the dong? Because that’s a beeg no for me. I’m not squeamish around needles but am squeamish about the dong and dings.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What in the fuck does this even mean?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta get those tickets!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve seen a number of comments coming in defense of the mother but I didn’t read the OP as a critique in the first place.

The caption is just a funny “rationalization” for the scenario we’re seeing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Acquire food from supermarkets and then leave. They just leave it sitting around all over the place, in there!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
First reaction: fear.

Second: I chuckled. Because I thought of some VP-level enforcing this joke as SOP.

And then a little more fear, as a treat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’d believe them if they said they tested small- scale locally. Even good software/designs can implode when they get scaled up, and I doubt this was good design or software.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s what it seems. I try not to write everyone off immediately and gave them space to explain themself because some people’s brains are a mass of wet noodles that don’t do logic good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Indie and AA.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve gotten release copies of games for review. Unless they have another secret tier of pressers, this is nonsense. If anything, review copies are more likely to have bugs that making completing the game harder.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

It’s kinda like saying housing would be a lot better if there were more forest rangers.

How is that at all the same?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
AC2
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Then they redwoods should be sending aid to the Amazons, because they are losing hold.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great business idea, tbh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Dom’t worry. His services are not mandatory.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Gotta up the drone strikes to set a spectrum. More strikes is more serious.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Kill his whole family and then build my bunker for the “inevitable” apocalypse that I willfully helped to create!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
“Silence 2: This Time It’s Quieter”?

Is that anything?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe I’m suddenly shite at games but parrying feels like happenstance rather than a technique. The block windup is too long for me to react to the quick strike they throw out. It feels like Skyrim combat, from a “battle flow” standpoint.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*squints*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Dat’s caked up heels
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Potential partners don’t have to be rapists or murderers to be worth avoiding. They could have anti-social tendencies, explosive tempers, or violent reactions. Or, just be generally unpleasant. Like you.

I wouldn’t have discovered I’m not much a fan of you, if I hadn’t made an innocuous comment about not holding it against women if they do a single smoke test for bad actors. We might have otherwise been buddy-buddy, with years of casual friendship, before something else triggered this, or a similar, conversation. And then, months or years down the road, I’d have to grapple with whether the friendship is salvageable. Because I don’t think shrugging at women who have to play russian roulette for love is very cool.

But, as I said, I’m lucky. I can say we’re done here, right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That is so utterly devoid of empathy that I have nothing left to say to you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It might seem like a game to you but that’s someone’s life.

Do you have an alternative for how they should determine if a potential partner is a danger? Besides hiring a private detective or rolling the dice by finding out after they’re invested?