Carmakazi
@Carmakazi@piefed.social
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 week ago:
Doesn’t seem like any of you know much if all you care to bring up is “vicious Muslim dictatorship” without going into the economics of why they picked up EA in the first place. As if their brutality takes some sort of special study to know about that you think I lack.
I’m tired of seeing notifications on this, give it up you losers.
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 week ago:
I’m not deleting comments because they’re poorly received. If the mods take it then I don’t see why they wouldn’t also take yours.
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 week ago:
Nowhere did they mention factually that SA requested this, as much as they tried to imply it by front loading the article with their acquisition of EA and the Sims cover business.
Without some sort of public statement or leak, it’s hearsay. Them meddling is plausible, but so is management feeling pressured of their own volition, or just one manager being an ass.
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 week ago:
Survival. They know the death of the petrostate is inevitable and that they need to diversify their investments while they still have the cash to do so. EA is just one of many, many assets their sovereign wealth fund picked up across a number of industries but leaning towards “tech” in general. From this perspective, I don’t see why they would be motivated to involve themselves more than knowing what they pull in.
Do you seriously think they did this in an effort to win some sort of Islamic cultural victory over the degenerate west? If anything they’re looking to dump it all for AI investment now, like everyone else.
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 week ago:
Yes. That doesn’t inherently mean they’re endeavoring to implement Sharia in the games EA puts out.
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 week ago:
I’m not entirely sure the house of Saud really cares about western video games enough to intervene like this. I always imagined they only cared about the money and diversification from oil, “deeply held beliefs” often can be overlooked for the right price. This could just as easily be because of the corporate weathervein pointing towards conservatism, lots of companies have made decisions like this recently without meddling from the middle east.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
White House
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 2 weeks ago:
The idea that skrangly gamers are going to dominate wars from their basements using remote weapons is kind of a silly cope. Ukraine isn’t throwing out their rifles or tanks or anything just because drones exist. Drone warfare isn’t rendering all conventional warfare obsolete, it’s supplementing it and forcing it to evolve in its consideration.
99% of 2A types are simply not ready for warfare of any kind through, and that goes beyond just the considerations of drones.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you’re the attacker here, what you want to do is make a forceful cut parallel to the guy’s body and try to cut their hands and wrists, then go for another plunge. Ideally in a different place, but even if it’s the same place, now they’re trying to defend against you with injured hand(s).
- Comment on It's the little things in life 3 weeks ago:
I feel like you have to settle for either 7/11 Sprite or a McDonald’s dumpster for efficiency’s sake
- Comment on SBA #269 nice Time for a Commercial Break! SpongeBob Adventures is brought to you by... 3 weeks ago:
My favorite hot pocket is lye paste and Caesium-137
- Comment on love to see it 4 weeks ago:
As a lame ass who doesn’t drink, is there a use case for those tiny liquor bottles beyond irresponsibly serving barely functional alcoholics?
- Comment on Anti-choice activist Seth Gruber calls for women who get abortions to face the death penalty 5 weeks ago:
Also hilarious is that he, presumably a Christian nationalist freak, seems to acknowledge that the Will and Wrath of God is not preventing evil at all and than Man needs to pick up the slack. Seems almost blasphemous, but they never have to hold themselves to any logical consistency so it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Anti-choice activist Seth Gruber calls for women who get abortions to face the death penalty 5 weeks ago:
They don’t even care about the unborn, they care about women being “whores” and having a “cheat code” in abortion for their “sin.”
- Comment on So apparently, there’s hope (this won’t be aired in the US) 1 month ago:
They’d have to really relax standards like the FBI is doing to dig into the MAGA workforce.
The other option as the fascist coup continues is to co-opt military assets to protect himself.
- Comment on International blind spot 2 months ago:
They would just have a bot file that under your kompromat folder for if you ever got uppity.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 2 months ago:
Anything that can reliably hold a laser on a small camera lens when mounted to a moving vehicle, or even identify cameras in the first place, is Lockheed Martin-level stuff, this is crazy talk. Just mount a Trophy ADS to my Subaru real quick.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 2 months ago:
Didn’t Mythbusters test all of these covers and coatings in like 2004 and basically none of them worked against a traffic cam of that era?
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 2 months ago:
“I don’t know who you are” is a common insult from pathological narcissists, which I guess is what he was trying to convey.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 months ago:
Maintaining wind turbines is very dangerous. You’d think it’s falls but the leading one is electrical injuries (that may then lead to a fall).
- Comment on wtf 3 months ago:
Unless it’s folded in a weird way it looks like it lost its front paw, probably to a trap.
- Comment on Pov It's 2035 3 months ago:
Donald Trump is not living until 2035 under any circumstance, unless we symbolically hold his bloated corpse in a supermax.
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 3 months ago:
They certainly have a lot of motive to place blame for their own price increases, justified or not.
- Comment on "it only takes one slow walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that you're a nice person." 3 months ago:
Some of y’all just weren’t raised right.
Yeah, the people who move through crowded spaces with no awareness nor concern of how they’re impeding others.
- Comment on Skyleeeerrr 3 months ago:
Skyler was a reasonable person in the face of her husband turning into a narcissistic thrillseeker who put his family in danger to serve his own ego.
It was frustrating to watch the conflict but she was not a bad character.
- Comment on I agree with don 3 months ago:
I’ve worked in one of those oldhead machine shops where they deliberately don’t have any chairs in the work area because “if you’re not standing you’re not working.” You bet I sat my ass down on the toilet instead of using the urinal.
- Comment on Got too greedy at the end there 3 months ago:
What gets me is how she keeps turning the wheel to try and course correct while the “truck” is fucking airborne off of an overpass.
- Comment on Don't have kids 4 months ago:
If they got it on the upholstery in a similar fashion the car might legitimately be totalled.
- Comment on Real advert real company. They make good rifles now. 4 months ago:
Dunno, other than society has historically always looked down upon “people who don’t contribute” - idlers, bums, vagabonds, drifters.
- Comment on Day 705 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
It ran for me with no tinkering when I bought it on sale a week ago.