danciestlobster

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly I only did the tutorial area and first town after before I lost interest. I did definitely have it pitched to me as a fully open world game which it really isn’t as I would define it. I have been told since that Arthur has a good arc and growth potential but…I guess it just took too long to get to that. It seemed to rely a bit on past game context too that I didn’t have

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Witcher 3, rdr3. I know they are popular games and all my friends who also like single player rpgs love them but I just can’t with the fixed personality main characters who act in ways that frustrate me. I mean last of us was good but that was more where the player character being forced to be a dick is the main plot point, instead of a thing we are meant to ignore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canal loving guy here⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boaty chill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A broken clock is right twice a day, but a wrong clock is just wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I have heard this reasoning said differently a lot of times but isn’t that technically not true? I mean time zones only go in 1 hour increments. So if the time is 5:30 and a wrong clock says 5:40, it isn’t really 540 somewhere. It’s 530 or 630 or 730 or w/e

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Boycotts don’t need to be organized to be effective. Some (def not all, and not usually Disney for that matter) to listen to fan and customer feedback.

  Companies track their income trends extremely closely. Even a blip of 1% will be reported on in every shareholder meeting and need to be explained.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans have 400 days to save their democracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course you can be forgiven, and believe me I understand your fear. It’s scary being here too, my political ideology was basically declared a terrorist ideology yesterday and met with calls from our government for mass violence against people who hold my views.

  That said, I dont hold all Germans responsible for WWII. I don’t hold all isrealis responsible for Gaza or all Russians responsible for Ukraine. I think the people who dissent against those regimes living in those countries are the best positioned to meaningfully do something about their governments, and even if they haven’t done enough to fully end the problems yet they are impactful. At least Russia and Ukraine today have active protests and civil disobedience that help if nothing else push back against the internal propaganda engines in their countries

  At a time when everything seems bleak, I think finding allies where you can is more important than ever. Some of those allies will come from within. My understanding is people living in Germany who didn’t like hitler were instrumental to his downfall once Germany was meaningfully being invaded.

  You can and should be worried about what the fascist USA is capable of, but I promise whatever there is that can be done against it I will be there to help (for whatever that’s worth as a non military person who is also trying to provide for my family while resisting fascism). I wish it could be more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans have 400 days to save their democracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish you wouldn’t generalize the whole nation like this. Yes, roughly 1/3 of people voted for trump. Of those, a smaller number actually knew what they were doing and the ramifications of it, the rest just watch fox news and never leave their house. Not a good excuse but also not exactly willful hate.

  Then there about a third who don’t have time, money, or mental energy to drop everything and try to start a resistance full time. They still have too much to lose and just want to wait this out.

  Then there’s the rest of us actively trying to improve things as best we can through community organizing, resistance efforts, protesting and counter protesting, etc. We aren’t professionals, we aren’t perfect at it, but we are also not lying down and taking it. Sure, we could all just leave, but I don’t think anyone in the world wants to see what America would be like without ANY resistance to this, even assuming we had the funds to move and would be accepted by any other country.

  It is depressing and often feels powerless to live here right now. We hate it and want to fix it however we can, and some of us are ready to sacrifice everything to do it. America is NOT (and never had been) a political monolith, and we extremely all do not support trump (look at his approval ratings if nothing else). The sane people here are largely ignored because our views aren’t really represented by either main party and don’t make the cut of the billionaire controlled news media who wants to keep it that way.

  Beyond all of this, no one deserves to be personally blamed for the actions of their countries worst politicians simply for existing in the same physical space. Especially those of us fighting against it however we can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Ukraine provoke Russia by building a dam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty telling if “the death of civilians is bad” amounts to an impasse/agree to disagree situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYC street names⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a 69th and cumming in my city. It’s a tourist destination too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the forest lands here are at least marginally less racist though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disco Elysium can totally be pacifist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our office allowed voting to elect a committee to determine what return to office should look like. I was elected to it. They also hired external contractors to mediate basically. Some people came into it thinking everyone should go back to office, but by the end of it we settled that being in office should be required for certain types of work activities and not for others, and apart from the required activities for in office employees could be wherever. We drafted this up into a formalized agreement and everyone was happy with it.

  Then the president who did that program retired and the new guy immediately scrapped the whole thing and forced everyone back into the office overnight without any discussion from the committee or other employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounded great when I was young⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once I have acquired the recommended bag of mushrooms I believe I would like to go trip with you, that sounds like it would lead to the best conversations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you are really dumb and don't realize it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean even if you genuinely thought that’s what it was asking for, just ceiling is extremely nonspecific

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like portal you may also like superliminal. It’s the only game I’ve found that scratches the similar itch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand fully how this technology works, but, if people are using it to create sexual content of underage individuals, doesn’t that mean the LLM would need to have been trained on sexual content of underage individuals? Seems like going after the company and whatever it’s source material is would be the obvious choice here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OF alternative fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there is a federated alternative but there are alternatives that are at least marginally less shitty, if that helps