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- Comment on Target Pride merchandise only available at select stores after rightwing backlash 21 minutes ago:
Last August, CEO Brian Cornell told reporters that Target learned from the backlash and said the company would be more thoughtful about merchandise decisions for heritage months that celebrate the achievements of marginalized groups.
By thoughtful they mean not celebrating the achievements of marginalized groups.
- Comment on If I wanted to, hypothetically, guarentee that I shit my pants 2 to 6 hours from now, how should I do it? 2 hours ago:
Dueing this window, farts are lies!
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 2 hours ago:
can range from “How do I properly clean my foreskin?” to “what is ffmpeg and why is everybody using it?”, but not “Who’s the current president of Turkey?” nor “How do I calculate the circumference of a sphere?”
I am impressed that you have four closely related questions right off the top of your head!
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 3 hours ago:
Yes
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 3 hours ago:
The distributers that set the rrlease date will never learn.
Pretty sure the developers already knew.
- Comment on hot dog 5 hours ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Texas man seeks to have ex-partner investigated for out-of-state abortion 5 hours ago:
This is exactly the outcome that Republicans wanted, because they hate women.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 5 hours ago:
Sometimes I would rather barter because the additional effort would make things more important instead of all the mass produced crap that is ruining the world. A robust wconomy tends to mean an excess of stuff we don’t need.
But it wouldn’t reeally work out that way, just wishful thinking.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 day ago:
They also have far better scaling on sales than they did in 2006, with tons of storefronts and easy access for anyone to download and play a game without needing to go to a physical store.
People like to complain about steam taking 30% of a sale, but it isn’t like game companies were getting 70% of a boxed game on a shelf. They had manufacturing, shipping, and a ton of other costs for physical media that they don’t spend on digital sales that can scale infinitely in an extremely short period of time because it can’t sell out locally.
If they are spending too much for their return, then they need to scale back their spending.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 day ago:
If I paid >$0 for a game I don’t want ads in that game.
Season passes, in game stores, and every other mtx in a game I paid for is insulting and generally ends up being intrusive and annoying since they tend to shove it in your face.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 day ago:
I 'member
- Comment on Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds 1 day ago:
Nearly half of the campus protests that Acled categorized as violent involved protesters fighting with law enforcement during police interventions, according to the group’s data.
So 98.5% were peaceful, although some protesters had to defend themselves against police aggression.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 day ago:
I think the creators of web3 did understand how the web works, but wanted to change it and sold the change by gaslighting people about how web3 actually works.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 day ago:
The original idea was simply for people to control their own data on decentralised networks, I don’t think anyone had a problem with that definition.
That is how the web has worked since its inception. The fact that people choose to primarily go through a limited number of effective monopolies doesn’t mean the underlying structure is centralized.
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 1 day ago:
The Suicide Squad.
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 3 days ago:
Imperfect Dark
- Comment on I’m fascinated by this open-world delivery game that sounds like Death Stranding on a horse in 13th-century Mongolia, with “unparalleled equine realism” 3 days ago:
Death Stallion
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
You are making a comparison of a groundbreaking first attempt at a new type of open workd game to the later versions that improved on the model. That means the first one wasn’t trash, because you enjoyed it at the time, it just isn’t as good as what followed.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 4 days ago:
The point is not the literal number of incidents or ratio, because personal experience impacts that for most people.
Someone who has been in a plane crash don’t care how infrequent they are, the personal experience influences how they estimate the risks.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 4 days ago:
Even if 99% of men were not abusers, the 1% that are also tend to hide their malice and pretend to be decent until alone and the woman is vulnerable. So as women interact with hubdreds or thousands of men over their lifetimes they will come across these abusers or know someone who was abused and that the system blames victims and the fear is not just about percentage chance of a horrible outcome, but that society continues the abuse.
A bear is a known factor, dangerous but never in a deceptive way and society doesn’t tend to blame victims of animal attacks.
Also the percentage of abusers is way higher than 1%. Everyone knows multiple rape and abuse victims, but few people know someone who was mauled by a bear. That is the context for this question.
- Comment on What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison? 4 days ago:
Cops are trained to always assume the person they are interacting with is lying to them, so it makes sense they would think complaints about medical needs are just a ploy of some kind. That is why they ignore people saying they can’t breathe, much less someone who tells them that they need medication or other medical attention.
ACAB.
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 4 days ago:
A bamboo chopstick would be better for the environment.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 days ago:
That is correct that they aren’t the same. That’s why I added the part about how the only issues come from religious folks…
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 days ago:
Opposition to religious monuments on public grounds. They are low key and the only violence, vandalism, or public disturbances come from religious folks.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 days ago:
To be pendantic, the vocal atheists are more specifically antitheists as in they are opposed to theism, not just someone who doesn’t believe.
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 1 week ago:
A smartphone is a pocket TV.
- Comment on my humps 1 week ago:
They used to model dinos after lizards which have the skin stretched over their bones for the most part. That was decades ago, but the anemic dinosaur art lives on.
Yes, modern reconstructions take into account muscle tissue and the fact that dinos were not just giant lizards.
- Comment on my humps 1 week ago:
Since birds are dinosaurs and have all kinds of specialized behaviors and non-fossilizing traits like specialized feathers, I assume the big dinosaurs had all kinds of wacky shenanigans and non-fossilizing soft tissues too.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 1 week ago:
I would prefer any game that is no longer sold to fall into the public domain, including releasing the source code. Reward them for their limited copyright and pnly keep those protections as long as they maintain the game’a availability.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 1 week ago:
Nobody would buy a game that says it is only guaranteed playable for one day.
What they need to clearly state are expectations on planned lifetime of authentication servers, any specific technology that is required, and so on. Like people know multiplayer requires servers, but something that says they will have those servers for X number of years would help set expectations and encourage companies to plan long term support for games that might not be massive hits.
For single player games this would discourage terrible DRM that keeps games from being played just because authentication was retired.