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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
A) This is Klei’s EULA. You get the same thing if you download their games through the Humble Store.
B) Steam quite famously does not remove games from those that have bought them. They will remove games from the store when they violate rules, but paid content has never been removed from steam accounts. e.g. :
- Comment on Are Edward Snowden and Jeffrey Epstein assets? 4 days ago:
Edward Snowden? No. This borders on the “oh the draconian satanists have to disclose their evil deeds to clear their karma before their deaths” level of conspiracy thinking in order to make sense.
Jeffery Epstein objectively is Mossad agent, which does mean he worked with the CIA.
- Comment on How come no one has taken 'A Hero's Journey' and applied it to the bible? Would this not give more evidence to work of fiction or non fiction? 5 days ago:
I have to disagree there:
- The Ordinary World,
Baby born to poor people in a manger
- Call to Adventure
Three wise men show up and proclaim him the messiah and help guide him
- Refusal of the Call
A literal 18 year time skip between age 12 and 30
- Meeting the Mentor
Assumed why he returned from this time skip as a rabbi
- Crossing the Threshold
Gaining his first disciples and preaching
- Tests, Allies, and Enemies
Judas
- Approach to the Inmost Cave
Acceptance of Judas’ betrayal
- Ordeal
Obvious
- Reward 10) The Road Back 11) Resurrection
I mean 9 10 and 11 are the same here. Dude came back from the dead.
- Return with the Elixir.
He was said to grant boons to his former disciples before he left the second time.
- Comment on Sony 6 days ago:
A) If you think this is AI generated and are not just making a rage-baiting pun reference, you’re a silly billy wittle buddy who needs to be given a raspberry.
B) Games used to not need patching. Even games that were patched later had an on-disc version you could always install and play. And games were in fact better for it. A game going gold meant something, now it’s just a release day with a 0 day patch to be even slightly functional.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I could have, but what would be the point? According to IQ supporters you’re low IQ and low T for not being able to back up your assertions in a ‘debate.’ I’m just working at your level.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
If you disagree with someone’s assertions, bring sources, you low IQ low T soy boy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
IQ as a concept was invented by a white supremacist Eugenicist, and hasn’t improved much in the years since.
It doesn’t measure Intelligence. It measures your socioeconomic status in the country the test you’re taking was made in and your engagement of academia..
So yes, you can improve your IQ. Study harder, eat better, go to better schools, and have more money. Also it really helps if you and the test giver are both white males.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
The reason people keep pointing to China is because China generates around half the electricity of the EU does, in just Solar.
They’re ‘behind,’ because unlike Europe they’re trying to lift around a billion people out of poverty and have already lifted 800 million out of poverty while making practically all solar panels that the entire world installs.
- Comment on One Nation overtakes Labor, Liberals in Victoria; Allan’s rating dives 1 week ago:
They don’t care, it’s a party that actually addresses their concerns and offers something different. Victims of Capitalism in decay always turn to populism, because they’re being ignored by the existing system. Sometimes that populism is being done by good people, sometimes its fascists, sometimes it’s both.
In the Imperial fringes like Australia, it’s just fascism doing any kind of talking. There is no actual labour movement despite the alleged political group that has burrowed into the eponymous party, hollowed out the core, and publicly deemed anyone actually pro-labour as antisemitic. So of course the fascist party is the one that will be gaining votes.
Because they declare that the status quo is bad, and most people will resonate with that message.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
…Read the rest of the letter.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 week ago:
When homes are no longer investment vehicles.
If you decommoditize homes, then the people living in them and selling them won’t care about resell value and will instead do whatever whimsy they want in their space.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Released a... Linux Distro? 1 week ago:
It’s actually the loss of quality service. Github since microsoft’s take over, and especially since the introduction of copilot, has been ridiculously unstable for one of the most used sites on the internet, previously unheard of incidents of just outright deleting data, and their Rogue AI randomly automatically adding itself to your code base without your permission or knowledge.
Given the opensource nature of git, the low cost of entry for github’ss competitors like gitgud or self hosted solutions like codeberg, and the incredibly shit service microsoft has offered, no one but the most sycophantic microsoft fans would ever pay for github… and microsoft-fan developers hate open source software and licenses and would never willingly offer source code for free. So there’s no market share.
- Comment on The holy trinity 1 week ago:
Spectacles, testicles, wallet & watch.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
For £2,500 you can buy a hammer drill, a minisplit with 2 zones, and a full english breakfast every day for a year.
Whoever gave you that quoted price is quite literally a monster, or truly trying to scam you.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Gunz: The Duel is planning a comeback some time this year; tl;dr extremely niche 2005 korean team/solo shooter famous for the playerbase essentially creating a hyper-mobile fighting game but with guns out of the incredibly glitchy but consistently glitchy movement and animation system. If you’ve never played it it has a huge skill barrier to entry (that I’m sure will be tutorialized in this modern reboot) but is incredibly fun and satisfying with a huge skill ceiling.
- Comment on Why do people get mad at you for using Wikipedia, but treat Google and AI chatbots like they're gospel? 2 weeks ago:
They’re a bad source as they don’t actually vet sources in any objective way, they just require them. There are breitbart articles on some wikipedia pages.
This has resulted in what should be a neutral information site usually having a bias towards western and especially American propaganda points.
- Comment on Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinian children – UN report 2 weeks ago:
You were making the “they were there first” argument, I was using your logic, specifically, as you set the tone of the conversation and the arguments used therein.
And no, this is not between Jews and Palestinians. There are more Jewish palestinians than Jewish white people. Jews have lived in Palestine continuously since the kingdom of Israel fell.
This isn’t about religion. This is about white invaders coming in, declaring they were the real jews, and started doing genocide on stolen land no one, including the Jews already living there, wanted them.
- Comment on Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinian children – UN report 2 weeks ago:
History did not begin in the 1940s.
Correct.
Israel had the land before the Palestinians did.
Incorrect. There is no historical record showing this. There is historical record of the kingdom of Israel appearing where people were already settled, as the Torah and Bible state. Palestinians show direct lineage to the original people.
Israel didn’t steal anything, but we both know that that’s not what this is about.
Incorrect. The white zionists that invaded in the 1910s, committed genocide during the Nakba, then got superpower support to invade in the 1940s and establish a settler-colonial state for Europe and the US have practically no claim to the land, and have the same blood quantum as white people do to Africa.
It is indeed about the white invasion of Palestine, the creation of an entirely artificial state for “jewish” people.
When it comes to killing kids…turns out, that’s what happens in war. It’s not nice, but nobody ever accused war of being nice. That’s why war is bad.
No, it’s what happens when you kill children. When you directly target children. When you directly have a policy to rape children.
Hamas kills kids too
There’s actually no evidence of this.
Furthermore, Hamas has demonstrated a far greater willingness to do terrorist attacks than Israel.
This is also incorrect. Israel has killed approx. 10 million civilians over the course of its existence. Hamas has killed less than 2,000 total.
The claim that Israel is worse than Hamas in terms of the ethics of violent tactics is so absurd that arguing with a lobotomized human being would be a better use of my time than debating that point.
This is not an argument, this is a cop out. Israel has been documented raping children as punishment. Hamas has not. Israel has been documented doing indiscriminate bombing campaigns. Hamas has not. Israeli officers have testified that they were regularly ordered to disregard the age of “enemy combatants” and disregard whether or not “enemy combatants” were armed, Hamas is made up of humans and does not target civilians and has never targeted civilians.
- Comment on Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinian children – UN report 2 weeks ago:
Hamas was founded by victims of Israel who had their children killed.
Their goal is liberation of the land from the child killing monsters who stole it.
They have no reason to surrender, and while Israel keeps killing child there will always be another Hamas ready to fight. There are more than 200 organizations in Gaza formed by Israel’s victims. Practically all of them fight alongside Hamas despite most disagreeing with them politically. Because Israel is just that bad.
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
I see you’re still stalking me and you still haven’t learned anything about hyperbole for argumentative purposes. No, for my ASD friends I do not literally mean, “2/3rds here’s quantifiable evidence of something no one has ever quantified because doctors are allegedly heroes (if you’re a straight white male) and here are my mathematical sources and proofs for this very minor and entirely immaterial point of this particular argument.”
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
Every one broaching the topic in any possible way.
Here’s Johns Hopkins, one of the leading voices in American Medicine, saying gay men tend to use crystal meth. Here’s a meta study referenced in at least 30 textbooks(I stopped counting the books in the cited by section) saying all ‘sexual minorities’ are much more likely to have substance abuse issues, but bixsexual women are the most likely to be long term addicts. Here’s a more up to date article saying Trans people are by far the most likely to be long term addicts. That last one is only in one textbook but is directly cited in two organization’s drug policies.
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
Is it training?
Yes. As you may or may not remember, the Sackler family spent billions on and made hundreds of billions off of getting the American south addicted to opiates over the 1990s and early 2000s. Every single doctor and hospital involved was sued by their former patients. There are still billboards up in some southern states advertising law firms that specialize in suing doctors over developed addictions.
So any doctor that graduated in the last 16 years has had one specific thing drilled into their head: Do. Not. Treat. Pain.
Because you will be sued if your patient is an addict or becomes an addict.
Is it the fact that becoming a doctor in the U.S. requires the kind of upper middle class upbringing that doesn’t tend to help people develop empathy?
This has always affected doctors in the US, but the medical profession is a calling regardless. If you want money there are so many better pathways, leaving exactly three reasons people become doctors:
- They want control over life and death
- They want the prestige of the title for themselves or their family
3: They have an uncontrollable natural urge to try to help others.
So 2/3rds of doctors are not going to fight their training and just try to prescribe pain meds as little as possible.
Of the remain 1/3rd of doctors or so, the ones that genuinely love helping others and want to deliver the best possible care, one bad experience with addicts can permanently change their attitude, and they may get hundreds of experiences per shift if they happen to do their residency in an ER inside any American city.
On top of all of this is the inherent gender and racial biases in medicine, and American medicine in general. Women’s pain is taken less seriously. It was in medical textbooks world wide until the 2020s that black people felt less pain and were genetically more prone to addiction. There was a literal course in every MA, RN, LVN, MD, etc course about “how different races feel and express pain.”
So if you want pain relief, you better have both the vital stats showing you are experiencing pain (which is awful for chronic pain sufferers who no longer have high BP/High pulse from their pain), and you better be a white man with a conservative lifestyle/look (because we know the gays are more likely to pop pills[This is literally in medical textbooks]), you better get lucky that you have a doctor willing to prescribe pain management, and even if you qualify at that point you better not ever ask for pain meds, period, regardless of your situation. As it only takes one single nurse or doctor to put drug seeking behavior on your chart to ruin your chances at ever receiving pain management ever again.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 2 weeks ago:
Not how we’re wired, how patriarchy views both forms. Seriously, you can’t just put up a study that confirms an assumption of patriarchy without acknowledging that it is, on some level, circular logic.
This is a wonderful idea, it’s not a falsifiable theory though. This makes assumptions that Patriarchy in its current form is so deeply ingrained it affects every study on nudity preferences done at the subconscious level. So the only way your idea could ever be proven is if we, in a vacuum, develop cloned humans and developed a specific matriarchal society for them that we some how teach them without any possible contamination, and then repeat tests like these and see if there’s a difference.
Patriarchy is the dominant worldview, patriarchy says that beauty is a feminine trait, most people agree that women are more beautiful than men. All that proves is that most people accept the patriarchal definition of beauty.
Or alternatively, Patriarchy developed from common human traits in majority, which resulted in a preference for the female form in regards to beauty (it didn’t), which associated beauty as a feminine trait (it didn’t), and thus it’s not the tail that wags the dog, but indeed the opposite.
If you conducted this same study in ancient Greece, would you expect the same result? If no, then cultural views of beauty play a big role in this. If yes, then why were the ancient Greeks obsessed with male nudity?
Yes, actually. And more specifically it would benefit your argument if that study was done – since Ancient Greece was a heavily patriarchal society regardless of which period you pick and which society you want to pick within Ancient Greece. Arguably it was a more patriarchal society than today; with the fact women were not seen as sexual partners (Athens, Sparta, etc), just spouses meant to produce children.
We’d also have to broach the fact that outside a few renaissance artists imitating ancient Greece, there was not an obsession with male nudity over female nudity. They were just more open with both compared to later western societies that built themselves with Greece as a template.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I’ve see the Kate Bush.Image
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much all steam games that don’t have secondary DRM can be made to be steamless with tools like the Goldberg emulator (Disclaimer this project is meant for games you own and have permission to replace steam on, it’s not a piracy tool, but you can use it to archive installed games). PS5 games are two decades out, at minimum, to be emulated.
Thanks to collectors and scalpers, the secondary games market is pretty much nonexistent for modern consoles. So reselling isn’t going to get you enough to buy anything really.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying I don’t like Bush but it’s a little silly to call me ungrateful after the whole Iraq and Afghanistan debacle.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 2 weeks ago:
You need to reevaluate where you get your mods. There’s plenty of mods specifically changing the sex scenes, expanding them, and allowing ridiculous things to happen within them.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 2 weeks ago:
In most studies most women and most men prefer looking at female nudity.
It’s just an unfortunate condition of how we’re wired. We all like looking at conventionally attractive women. Even straight women. So that will always be the default in any game with artists selected at random from the general artistic population.
- Comment on What's up with children's books? 2 weeks ago:
When I was a kid it was Brownstein Bears. Image
- Comment on Japanese man tries to reminisce with his brothers 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they’re still proud of the war, given their attitudes towards apologizing to Korea and China.
