voracitude
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- Comment on Remedy CEO Tero Virtala steps down after nine years 5 days ago:
I got Control: Ultimate Edition for $4 on sale recently and was really surprised by how good it is. One of the few games I’ve stuck with right through to beating it, and the DLC too. I’ve been considering Firebreak but the backlog is long and money is a little tight for frivolous promises right now. Sounds like I should play Alan Wake, though!
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 3 weeks ago:
What about people who buy the cards to play the game?
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 3 weeks ago:
So then all books are now mystery boxes, and so are movies, tv shows, music, etc? Unless you’ve memorized every word? That’s not ridiculous at all lol.
I think you might have missed this from my reply:
That said, I’ll concede the point that they’re not really equivalent despite the fact that they’re both games played with printed pieces of paper, because that mystery aspect to a pack of Magic cards makes them different
But yes it does kind of seem like you’re putting down those who collect “useless” things and your distinction of collecting to display vs collecting to play a game is tenuous at best.
Listen pal, I already told you that wasn’t my intention, and clarified again that the existence of the game is the thing I hold as the differentiator between Magic and quite literally everything else on that list. You can do me the courtesy of believing me, or you can fuck off. You don’t get to dictate my intentions or meaning.
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 3 weeks ago:
Apparently a lot of people are reading my comment as defensive which wasn’t intended at all, so don’t worry, I wasn’t taking it badly 😊 Like I said, I strongly agree with you generally!
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 3 weeks ago:
Who said anything about being “better” than anyone else? Jesus Christ, is that what people took from “this one is not like the others”? I see the mystery box nature of the packs, of course, but the existence of the game around Magic means there’s a literal difference between that and all the other examples, for fuck’s sake.
To the point about D&D rulebooks, do you not know you’re buying a pack of Magic cards? No, you just don’t know what’s in the pack. If you already knew exactly what was in the D&D rulebook, why would you need to buy the book? That said, I’ll concede the point that they’re not really equivalent despite the fact that they’re both games played with printed pieces of paper, because that mystery aspect to a pack of Magic cards makes them different. Just like the presence of a game makes Magic different than the other examples.
It doesn’t make people who collect Magic cards any better. It just means their collection has a practical use in addition to display.
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 4 weeks ago:
While most of your post is spot-on, I don’t think Magic: The Gathering belongs here. Magic is a (fun, to us) game that I’ve played with my friends for decades. The cards also have nice art on them most of the time. People can and do totally spend as much on Magic as the other fandoms listed, but what game are Labubus for, or baseball cards? Thus, I feel M:TG is the odd one out in this list.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 weeks ago:
This is how society corrects behavior
Followed by
Your office comparisons are insignificant here
Really? School is where we learn how to treat other people, and we learn it by example as much as being told (more than, I’d contend).
Claiming this will immediately lead to bullying or just the threat that it might do is to an extent quixotic to me
First off, quote where I claimed it would immediately lead to bullying (good luck). Secondly, yes, whether believe it or not a teacher engaging in this behaviour signals to the other children that it’s okay, there’s an extremely elevated chance that they will take that and run with it.
If a teacher telling a kid to get their feet off the table, to stop shooting spit wads at the row in front of them, to stop rocking back their chair because they might tip over and fall - if all these situations are okay for a teacher to say out loud in front of the class: “Kevin, stop it!” - and I think they are - then telling the kid not to chew on communally shared erasers is no different.
Telling, yes. They’ve already told them to stop it. Your suggestion, however, was
I would go for gentle peer pressure. Point it out in class, do a friendly dressing down how none of the other students want to use the chewed on eraser. If he won’t stop if you say so, maybe you can get other kids to do the trick. The unwanted public attention from his peers might be enough.
“peer pressure”, “dressing-down”, “maybe you can get other kids to do the trick”. That last one in particular. How exactly do you think the other kids would do the trick? Harass the child into stopping, yeah? Or are you gonna come out now claiming that kids are masters of nuance and they’ll be able to get him to stop without resorting to bullying? Your initial suggestion was bad, but at this point you are being absolutely ridiculous. OP “weighed in against the suggestion” with the words
Kids at that age are ruthless, I absolutely can’t do that
And yet you still want to act like I’m in the wrong for saying that it would open the child up to bullying. An absolutely mind-blowingly dumb argument. I sure hope you’re not responsible for children with this kind of thinking; I had a few teachers like you and I hated them for it.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 weeks ago:
I’d be curious for a follow-up post of you find a way to help him with this! I was this kid when I was little, and needed help and kindness, but there was no understanding for autistic behaviours back then so what I got instead was bullied. I appreciate that you went looking for help instead of just throwing up your hands.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 weeks ago:
I read your checklist, and I think you missed the bus where I said “when it seems like all other options have been exhausted”. There’s absolutely no need for the “peer pressure” component, it’s unnecessary to call out a kid on front of a class like that when you could just add easily have a private conversation with the kid about it, and I suggest you think about what it means to enable bullying without actively participating in it.
I don’t think they will go full Lord of the Flies on him
You have no way of accurately predicting this, because it’s children we’re talking about, and they are famously agents of chaos.
I can’t think of a single office I’ve worked where it would be considered professional to call someone out for minority problematic behaviour in front of all their colleagues, and I don’t see any reason it would be considered acceptable with children either.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it would be a good idea, that seems like it would only open up opportunities for bullying, without doing anything to address the source of the issue.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like it could be a stim thing - impulsive, you say? Any chance there’s (undiagnosed?) ASD there? The mentions of bitter spray reminded me of when my mother tried that to get me to stop biting my nails. I just stopped using my lips and tongue, and only used my teeth…
Anyway, if it’s a stimulation thing, maybe finding an alternative would be easier than getting him to stop entirely.
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 5 weeks ago:
Hey, I didn’t violate any rules. I just suggested an apparently-legal path to national heroism 🤷
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 1 month ago:
Time to go racist-hunting. If it’s legal to mow down “oxygen thieves” then whoever does this fuckhead in will be a national hero.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 1 month ago:
I agree, but for sightly different reasons. Life is collecting permanent injuries. No matter how good your diet, no matter how much you exercise, no matter how advanced medical technology gets, nothing that breaks will ever be quite the same.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 1 month ago:
First of all, I agree entirely. Now: Pounds, so you’re in the UK. Have a read about your options with the ombudsman service: …org.uk/…/how-to-use-an-ombudsman-in-england/
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If nothing else you’re putting them on blast with the government, and that contributes to the paper trail for eventual action. In the meantime it might get your complaint resolved. Did you try tweeting at their official account too? Sometimes that can help get things moving.
- Comment on Suggest some games according to my laptop's hardware 1 month ago:
Starsector (fractalsoftworks.com)
Uplink: Hacker Elite
KeeperRL
Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament (the originals) 😋
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hell yeah, I’m always down to hang out with my sister (I’m older but whatever, you said you’re adults so who was born first is kind of irrelevant). I hope you go and you guys have a blast!
- Comment on Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters 2 months ago:
Based on this, it sounds like he’s actually a fucking terrorist.
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 2 months ago:
So what’s really funny about this is those verses aren’t Biblical “too”, they’re just Biblical. I got played 😅 That’s okay though, the point stands.
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 2 months ago:
Misinformed. Someone probably thought they were making a point by labeling Biblical verses as from the Qur’an; unfortunately, violence and misogyny and paedophilia is not limited to the Abrahamic religions. I’ll update my original post so it doesn’t contain that misinformation.
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 2 months ago:
No arguments from me, but nobody so far has suggested Christianity would help the situation, so I fail to see the relevance.
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 2 months ago:
I don’t typically waste my time with fairy stories, but sure, I’ll give you some highlights:
“This is what Allah says… ‘Now go and strike the Infidel and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” Surah 27:63
If I have to do violence, I prefer to not as soon as possible. I do not do violence to children. And why would you kill the animals? At least with surviving family you could make the argument they’ll come for revenge. This is just bad advice, period.
“Happy is he who repays the infidel for what they have done to us – he who seizes their infants and dashes them against the rocks.” – Surah 34:12
Again with the child-killing. This is supposed to make you happy, is it?
“So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight. When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. He said to her, ‘Get up; let’s go.’ But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.” – Surah 135:27
Yeah… I don’t think I need to say why I disagree with this. It’s just disgusting.
“A Wife, must submit to her husband as to Allah.” – Surah 5:22
My wife is my equal. I live my life to lift her up. The idea that she should subjugate herself to me is repulsive and the exact opposite of how I want to live my life with her.
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.” – Surah 21: 7-8
Slavery and misogyny in one.
Maybe it’s time to retire that catchphrase, bud.
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 2 months ago:
Mohammed married a 9 year-old child; whatever other benefits you envision, I don’t think that religion is a model of the solution here.
- Comment on Children at Scouts camp mistaken for migrants 2 months ago:
Naming and shaming is something the UK does much better than the US. Put the vile creatures recording and threatening children on blast, let the public see them for what they are.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 2 months ago:
Free speech just means the government isn’t allowed to punish you for only saying things (and even that had a whole constellation of big fuckin asterisks on it). Free speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
- Comment on Mushroom murderer tried to kill husband with pasta, cookies and curry, court was told 2 months ago:
I thought Sean Bean would be up for the role, myself.
- Comment on A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth 2 months ago:
And, it should be treated like a loan, with the interest frontloaded.
- Comment on Sorry, America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you 2 months ago:
Nope, but Australian healthcare is looking more and more like US healthcare every day, and whose fault is that?
- Comment on I'm tired of people pretending Miss Maxwell isn't awesome 3 months ago:
Wowee, nope, a person trafficking children to be raped means they’re “not rad” you paedophile-apologist sicko.
