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- Comment on Anon gets outed 3 hours ago:
… can’t say I’ve ever had banana pudding.
- Comment on Standard tRump supporter 3 hours ago:
Here’s how you go to jail for debt:
Rack up a ton of credit card debt.
Don’t pay it off, goes to collections.
If it’s high enough, and you don’t move to another state…
Collections sues you, you get a court summons in the mail.
You throw away the court summons along with all your overdue bill notices.
Congratulations, you now have an active arrest warrant, police will be at your location in… a few days to a few weeks, you go to jail, then likely prison for contempt of court, and when you get out, the debt collector won their judgement against you by default, any wages you try to get will be garnished, your credit score is absymal so you can’t get an apartment basically anywhere.
- Comment on Anon needs sleep 4 hours ago:
- Comment on Anon needs sleep 4 hours ago:
Not one who’s seen their own kid(s) or brothers or sisters suffer through bad marriages and divorces.
It is… a bit odd, imo, that she’d just jump to that, not even knowing anon… but at the same time, a good number of older people just don’t give a fuck / literally do not have much time to waste, so they just get straight to the point.
- Comment on Anon gets outed 4 hours ago:
Oh I did find such jobs, but then I managed to get asssulted in a mugging, lost my ids and cards and phone, ended up hospitalized, lost my job, got evicted, ended up homeless for about two years.
On the bright side of that, managed to get SSDI payments and recently set myself up with actual doctors after having to wait for the medicare application window thing, as well as… at least a 6 month lease at a roach motel.
Now I get to do PT for … 6 months to a year? And maybe I can walk without a cane again, and use my wrist for more than 20 minutes at a time without it excruciatingly seizing up.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 6 hours ago:
No, you’re wrong.
Everyone that studies crimes for a living, you know, people with PhDs, who publish peer reviewed studids on mass shootings?
Precise definitions vary somewhat, but basically, a mass shooting is any instance where 4+ people are injured or killed by gunfire, in a single, temporaly and geographically constrained event.
Gas station robbery gone wrong? 3 people injured, one dead, by gunfire?
That’s a mass shooting.
Because a mass of people… got shot.
A mass shooting related to gang activity… is a gang related mass shooting.
It is a subset of the category ‘mass shooting’, not a completely different thing.
You csn take that definition and apply it backward 40 , 60 years, and you will still see a massive, massive rise in the number of mass shootings in the last 20 years, number of people injured or killed by gunfire in mass shootings.
Zoomers are about 3x more likely to personally know someone injured or killed in a mass shooting than Boomers. For Millenials, its about 2x.
- Comment on Anon gets outed 7 hours ago:
My experience after graduating from high school in 07 and college in 11 is that uh… no, the vast majority of odd jobs, part time jobs I worked till getting a ‘real’ job…
No, no, the vast majority of basically low wage workers are still mentally in high school, still acting just as immature, still being childish, rude and bullying people, still constantly seeking to create situations of petty drama, still pressuring people into hazing rituals.
Does not matter how old they are.
I’ve seen 45 year old men literally ‘flex’ on younger coworkers to assert dominance, like literally puff themselves up and flex to appear larger, while arguing with or belittling them.
Your advice is generally good advicr, but it is far from guaranteed to ensure you will not be surrounded by immature buffoons, and ostracized when you do not partake in their foolishness.
- Comment on Anon gets outed 7 hours ago:
Something vaguely similar but kinda inverted, happened when I was in middle school.
An office assistant, like a TA, but for the main office, was dispatched to deliver a packet of course work papers to the class I was in.
The main office had the main, commercial grade printer in it, and this would have been like… 2004 ish? Computers were basically only in the computer lab, more primitive tech setup.
So anyway, the OA shows up and delivers the coursework to the teacher… and is confused by the complete silence in the room, the lack of anyone doing anything.
He remarked ‘… Did somebody die or something? Jeez’ and was now met with many intense, silent stares… and quickly exited.
Completely unbeknownst to the OA… about 15 minutes prior, our teacher had just recieved an email, took aside one student, talked to him for a few minutes. That student then quickly talked with his friends for about a minute, eyes tearing up, getting several hugs, and then presumably left to the school counselor office.
His one or two grade older sister had just suffered a complete cardiac arrest in PE, out on the track, about 30 minutes prior to the email… and died.
- Comment on Rawr XD 14 hours ago:
Fuck, that sounds awesome!
I used to have a set up like that, though it was wired, not wirelessly.
Also somewhat related… I was just talking with another person who was unable to get that level of quality, resolution and frame rate via streaming their PC to their living room TV… also they mentioned input latency with very fast paced and fine tuned racing games.
You mind if I ask how you’re actually doing the streaming?
- Comment on Rawr XD 15 hours ago:
I meant it jokingly, meta referencing the toxicity of the entire ‘real gamer’ elitist nonsense.
You are still a real gamer to me lol.
Though I genuinely would suggest you play Ocarina of Time, if you can.
You say you’re a PC gamer? Yesterday I was in a Nintendo Switch 2 / Steam Deck discussion, and I just set up an emulator and am running the 3ds OoT remaster at 60 fps!
If I can do that on a Deck, you can do it on a PC =D
- Comment on Rawr XD 20 hours ago:
Above post has good info, and also, apologies for broken alpha layer, I’m literally using a… now 3 year old phone I bought at a gas station.
- Comment on Rawr XD 1 day ago:
I think the common denominator is that everyone thought of something with… basically big, scary teeth, attached to some kind of monster.
- Comment on Rawr XD 1 day ago:
Ah, yes, but what about the Super Rainbow Black Moth?
- Comment on Rawr XD 1 day ago:
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 1 day ago:
Wyvern mentioned that medicating someone without their knowledge is bad.
So I provided an example of that, taken up a notch.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 day ago:
I mean, I can be as much of a pedant as you and post an unsourced definition of ‘ip theft’ … or maybe you could just admit you’d never heard of the term ‘ip theft’, or are unaware of its use.
Its a pretty commonly used term, especially amongst government regulatory and business organizations, as well as academics who study policy, in the US.
The term itself, its phrasing, is intentionally constructed to frame copyright infringement as a form of theft, stealing something that doesn’t belong to you.
The psychological framing of the term is meant to frame losses from someone committing copyright infringement against you as equivalent to losses from being robbed.
The entire point of the usage of this term is to mold public perception.
Here’s some examples where very prominent US institutions/organizations use some construction or variation of ‘ip theft’ an an umbrella term to refer to all kinds of copyright, trademark and/or patent infringement:
FBI
fbi.gov/…/countering-the-growing-intellectual-pro…
KPMG (huge business consulting group)
kpmg.com/us/…/theft-intellectual-property.html
DHS (Homeland Security)
www.dhs.gov/intellectual-property-rights
IPRC (Intellectual Property Rights Center)
And finally, literally IPTheft.org, which basically functions as an all-in-one training/resource hub that connects business people to all kinds of resources to report when they have suffered… IP theft.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 days ago:
The entire original comment chain that lead to what I replied to … was all about playing word games with slogans, progoganda, public relations.
The law may be ‘clear’, but it is clearly bullshit.
It is absurdly deferential toward the rights of megacorps and hostile to the rights of consumers.
Laws are supposed to reflect and codify morals and ethics, arise from them… not determine them.
But, as we slip more and more into a cyberpunk dystopia of hypercapitalist megacorps being able to basically just buy legislators, judges and laws, it will become more evident that the government is just entirely a facade directed by them.
This whole article is about a lawsuit in America, you know, the land of the fee, home of the early and very expensive grave?
The place with the ongoing fascist coup that’s dismantling all the government agencies that regulate corporations, after the richest man in the world just bought an election, and more recently openly tried to buy a state judge, and though he didn’t succeed, will likely face no penalty for doing that very obviously illegal thing?
Also, as far as at least acquring a pirated game?
Its not that hard.
Now hosting them? Sharing them?
Yep, you’re right, that’s a bit more difficult… but hey, be clever enough to not get caught, and thats the same as being rich enough to write your own laws.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 days ago:
copyright infringent is commonly also reffered to as IP theft, theft of intellectual property.
unauthorized use, sale, or distribution of ip is ip theft.
so yes, ip theft is a form of theft, and gaming companies and lawyers and other lawyers have been successfully suing other people and other companies into oblivion over this basically since the industry began.
have you just never head of the term ‘ip theft’?
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 2 days ago:
I know a guy who put magic mushrooms in his family’s coffee maker.
After a month of hallucinations, his mom checked herself into a psych wars for two weeks.
Guy thought it was really funny when he told her what he did, after she got back.
Guy is now homeless (unemployed 26 yo was living with his parents.)
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 2 days ago:
‘Marxist banking parasites.’
That’s a new one, time to update the bingo cards.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 days ago:
Every AAA game company’s have been for 30 years and still currently are arguing this in courts all the time.
The actual public facing employees don’t have to, but sometimes still do, though usually in an unofficial capacity these days.
AA / indie devs are more of a mixed bag. A few will openly say ‘fuck it, pirate it if you can’t afford it, idgaf’, but the majority will denounce piracy if its relevant or if prompted.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 days ago:
Looks like I’ll be pirating Black Flag for my next replay.
