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- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 5 days ago:
Yep that’s how taxes fucking work
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 week ago:
Sexy Beach 3
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 1 week ago:
The expression “it takes a village to raise a child” applies here. It’s impossible for a parent to be with their child at all times. Children aren’t always at home, and a lot of parents suck, don’t care, or are just misinformed. YouTube is available everywhere, including at schools and libraries. Look at it like smoking. We recognize that cigarettes are dangerous and cause cancer, therefore children can’t buy them. Social media companies - and let’s stop pretending YouTube isn’t social media, it very much is - are today’s big tobacco. They need regulated, and not doing so it’s causing tremendous societal harm.
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 1 week ago:
While all of that might be true, YouTube is also a for-profit cesspool of trash content, hate speech, and misinformation. An entire generation of gen z manosphere Nazi bootlickers got where they are watching “gaming videos” on YouTube.
It auto plays by default and their algorithms are dogshit, so you might start watching an educational video with your kid, but end up on a flat earth video fifteen minutes later, or much much worse.
When my son was younger, we severely limited his YouTube time and closely monitored what he was watching on it. Most parents don’t do that.
I dislike legislation like this too, but we’re not talking about PBS or a library here. Kids truly shouldn’t be on YouTube unattended.
- Comment on Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Clocks Up 114,000+ Concurrent Player Peak On Launch Day, But Reports Of Poor Performance Dominate Player Reviews 2 weeks ago:
Stop pre-ordering games holy fuck
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 month ago:
Some of the live performances on KEXP have been fantastic, too
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 months ago:
Can’t speak for handhelds, but I’ve been running Bazzite on my desktop for a year now and I love it. There are probably use cases for which an immutable distro can be limiting, but for my purposes it hasn’t been an issue at all.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 5 months ago:
Fuck off with this sea-lioning bullshit. The Nazi salute and AFD promotion were intentional news.
Seriously, what are you getting out of this? It’s like arguing the sky isn’t blue.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 9 months ago:
They got my $40 in 2012. I absolutely loved the Wing Commander series; Wing Commander II was an embarrassingly important part of my adolescense, I love space sims, and still had fond enough memories of the name Chris Roberts that I didn’t think he’d blatantly lie and steal from me.
How people are still giving these clowns money I have no idea.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 10 months ago:
Isn’t discord just shittier, proprietary IRC? I’m only on it because my Linux distro’s dev uses it for communication for some reason, but from what I can tell, it’s just a locked-down IRC client you can buy emojis and shit on.