Tedesche

@Tedesche@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I know plenty of trans people and their coming of age stories. Most don’t behave the way Taash does in the game. They’re a political mouthpiece, not a representative of trans people. If anything, you’re the one alleging all trans people have this narrative, in this specific voice, with this specific rhetoric. Your comment honestly seems performative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s not just that one conversation, there are comments littered throughout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Against my better judgment, since you seem to be trying to set me up for your judgment, I’ll cite the recent Dragon Age RPG—The veilguard. There’s a trans character in that who is insufferably preachy.

  If you eat to tell me that character is completely fine and anyone who complains is just being bigoted, just know I think you’re the one who’s nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The inclusion of marginalized groups of people has never been the problem in games. It’s the preachy, political language that often comes with it. Mass Effect 3 featured a gay character, but there was no accompanying political language following him around. He was just a character who happened to be gay, and no one gave a shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paris, France⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who thinks any group of people are pro-pedo (apart from pedophiles) is an idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new documentary is coming out about Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your title fails to mention the most interesting part: she’s a female psychopath that was caught and convicted of major financial fraud. I would have led with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, it’s only cultural appropriation if you’re making a shit ton of money off of something you copied from another culture, while the people from that culture that are involved with thing aren’t.

  People who get pissed at White people for having dreads are idiots. Same for a Mexican wearing a kilt. Grow up and let people dress how they want.

  If you like it, wear a bonnet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would they do that? That would be like taking responsibility for a previous administration’s fuckery. The best thing the next president could do would be to do everything they can force Red States to improve their education systems so that the next generation grows up able to think critically and have things like good judgment of character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a weird or baffling social event you experienced?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not quite what you were looking for, but my first year in college, some students held a “Love Your Body” parade, which involved students marching around campus completely nude. Of course, the only people who participated were those most people probably would have passed on seeing naked. Just a whole bunch of folks with body image issues (mostly women, but a few men too) and way too much courage. Bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put your seat back or no?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never put my seat back and consider it rude when other people do it. There was even one instance in which I made a stink I demanded the person in front of me put their seat back up (thankfully, they complied).

  As others have pointed out, this is a situation created by the airlines and their shitty business models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely watch some content meant for children, because much of that content works with multiple age ranges. For example, Ponyo. That shit makes me cry like a bitch. Fantastic film.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luke Aikins No Parachute 25,000 Feet Airplane Jump Complete Video⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are incredibly stupid and awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I don’t trust anyone to draw the line on what does or doesn’t count as hate speech.

  Now, alls to violence are little more black-and-white. I can see a ban on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If refusing to see your dying parent "wrong"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the reasons they’re choosing not to visit them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked audio of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Slamming Remote Work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, people ITT slamming this guy with accusations of laziness without knowing a thing about him. He’s probably one of the most knowledgeable and insightful business minds of our time. Not saying he’s a saint, but he’s sure as fuck not lazy. Y’all need to grow the fuck up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who believe in God have failed to adequately reflect on their beliefs. Religion is fairy tales for adults. Sorry, but that’s the truth. Your question is simply a step on the staircase of rationality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. I’m a lefty myself, but leftists have such a hard time seeing that criticism of their own side actually has validity. I totally understand what this developer is saying about depicting a progressive topic without being “woke” (preachy) about it. I see the same thing in movies/shows that depict female heroes—there are some that just mad the hero a woman, and then there are others that pump the “girl power” angle, overplay the female lead, make it explicitly clear she’s better than all the male characters, bloat the script with feminist jargon, blah, blah, blah. It’s stupid. You want to do the progressive thing? Fine. Just do that. Don’t brow-beat your audience with a political message about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Education isn’t intelligence. Academic achievement is done through effort in studying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like websites nowadays feels very broken compared to apps? Like you try to do transactions on the mobile site (eg: ordering food), and payments mysteriously declines...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grubhub’s website seems intentionally unusable. Slow, constant errors, randomly logs me out, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re pointing to countries that still have police as evidence that we don’t need police?

  Man, ACAB arguments have flatlined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cops are a few hundert years old concept why would they be necessary now when most places they barely existed pre ww1.

  LOL, wtf are you smoking, dude? This is why conversations about this topic on Lemmy are so consistently bad; ACAB folks just make shit up. Societies have had police in some form or another since practically the beginning of civilization. And to the extent that they didn’t, crime was up and vigilante justice was the only recourse.

  You’re a damn fool, and I don’t take you seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of those instances are examples of either cops not doing their jobs or the law being imperfect. Problems like that will always exist but that just means we need to focus on fixing them, by changing laws and instituting better systems for policing the police. Getting rid of police as an institution is pointless and fixes nothing.

  I agree we need reforms in both law and police departments, as well as a better institution than “Internal Affairs” to keep cops in line. More essentially, we need to change the cultural problem at the heart of police corruption. Regular psychological evaluations, deescalation training, and an active stance against authoritarian personalities in police need to be adopted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh-huh. So, in your fantasy world where cops don’t exist, who intervenes when someone inevitably commits a crime?

  I’m sure you’ve got some version of Social Workers with Enforcement Powers^TM^ in mind, but all that really amounts to is Reformed Cops^TM^. So, just admit ACAB is your anger-fueled generalization/oversimplified solution to a complex problem and say you want police reform, like the rest of us sane people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In America, by far and away the next most commonly spoken language is Spanish. I could see a requirement making it so schools are made to teach Spanish, but I find it hard to see requiring them to teach any other language. Arguably, this might be better managed on the State level, since certain languages may be more common in different states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s democracy, not anarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, yeah. Sarcasm is what you use when you don’t have an argument. Buh-bye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You once again, predictably, miss the point. I’ll take your lack of denial of my accusations of you as an admission of guilt. You don’t want equality; you’re just playing the gender politics game. Pathetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing concerned her is gender, so I don’t see how intersectionality is relevant. And last I checked, women are the majority demographic compared to men.

  Regardless, I’m pointing out a double standard and if you really claim to support equal treatment between genders, you’d do well to support that complaint. But you care more about virtue signaling than standing behind your claimed principles, so you’ll understand if I don’t give your objection much weight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You sound like you took Gender Issues 101 and gave yourself a gold star.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it’s not.

  You’ve spotted some surface similarities, but they’re most likely coincidental or unconscious influences at best. To my knowledge the creators never said Daredevil was a major influence.