yesman
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- Comment on Thoughts? 4 hours ago:
Probably the same way they wear lederhosen.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 hours ago:
Let go of the idea that bad/good people do bad/good things. Abuse isn’t a personality type, it’s a behavior.
- Comment on Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene 7 hours ago:
There is a long history of these shenanigans in film. During the filming of “last tango in paris”, the male lead and the director conspired to sodomize the female lead as a “surprise” to get a more genuine “performance”. Roman Polanski drugged and rapped a teenager. The great auteur Kubrick, is famous for harassing and abusing the Shelly Duvall, again, for the sake of her “performance”.
Statistically, for every Weinstein who see’s the inside of a prison for abusing women, ten Woody Alans walk around free. Rape as a sex crime is barely illegal in the US. Rape as a property crime is punished to the full extent…
- Comment on science never ends 20 hours ago:
It’s ironic to refute post-modern ideals with semantics.
- Comment on science never ends 21 hours ago:
The producer of this track.
- Comment on Actual situation for some 1 day ago:
you’re suggesting that his victims were compensated with fame. That his accusers took advantage of him by going back on the deal ; they’re ungrateful.
- Comment on If not intentially a minority and I get into a fight and I did not know they were gay, palestinian, jewish, or whatever. Can I still be charged with a hate crime? Or does one have to know first? 2 days ago:
Hate crimes are usually not solo charges. They’re add-ons to regular criminal violence. It’s similar to how selling drugs is a crime, but also selling drugs near a school is a separate charge. You would never be charged with selling drugs near a school but not charged for selling drugs.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
For years people have given me the blinking stare of unbelief when I tell them I’ve never had a Facebook. Now being absent on that platform and others is seen as suspicious. I got a buddy who couldn’t complete a job application because Facebook was a mandatory field in the electronic form. The border Gestapo and the State Department require your socials for visa applications. A friend told me that she wouldn’t date a guy without socials because she browses them as a kind of background check.
Fuck Meta.
- Comment on Total Chaos | Gameplay Trailer 2 days ago:
Free Demo on a modern game? love to see it.
- Comment on Is a DRM-Free Ebook always better than a physical book? 2 days ago:
Ebooks are superior for the task of reading. The ability to check out books (or steal them) from home is a big deal.
If nostalgia, being seen reading, or collecting books is your jam, rock on reader. But don’t look down on me because I value the built in dictionary and changing the font.
- Comment on Elden Ring's player engagement is through the roof: 45% of its Steam players have played for 100+ hours 2 days ago:
I don’t like the idea of time spent as a value proposition. One of the reasons UBI games are trash is because they measure “engagement” as satisfaction and bloat their games with repetitive and dull scavenger hunts. They waste your time.
Some of the best games are short and have little replay value. The Portal games come to mind.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 days ago:
meant to mislead potential players into thinking the game is successful when, in fact, it’s severely underperforming behind the scenes.
Why would a player in a single-player game give a tiny shit about how popular it is? It’s the investor class that cares about that; stop treating their interests as a natural good.
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
There are some English words and phrases that can’t be said in American English. Like the “I inherited this government position from my father”. Or, “Sure hope the King doesn’t veto this legislation”.
- Comment on Food chart 1 week ago:
random fact. The English word for bourgeois is burgher (pronounced like burger) . They both translate to “people of town”. I’m trying to popularize “burgher” because I have a grudge against lunatic French spelling.
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 1 week ago:
There are over a hundred distros, There is no reason to keep using one if you don’t like it. Use a VM to avoid multiple re-installs and be picky. You’ve got that luxury. Nobody is going to tell you how best to use your computer, unless you install MacOS or Windows.
- Comment on New STALKER remasters launch to 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews 1 week ago:
They should have left the graphics alone and worked to squash bugs and add playability/quality-of-life features.
Those games are famous for being brilliant, but deeply flawed. Graphics were not the flaw.
- Comment on They encased the filter 1 week ago:
They also sell Pacific Northwest
- Comment on Syphilis Is Changing Like We've Never Seen... In Seattle 1 week ago:
Syphilis in Seattle, starring William Defoe and Helena Bonham Carter.
- Comment on Better than last time 1 week ago:
It’s ironic because the tradition in Europe is to aggressively head toward the Polish boarder.
- Comment on Shitter post 1 week ago:
WTF do you do if it’s overflowing or needs a new ballcock? You’d have to pull the whole thing or disassemble it with a hammer.
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- Comment on Nintendo community at the moment 1 week ago:
I would never buy a gaming console that had a hardware booby trap. Why do so many companies hate their customers and fans?
Nintendo is just about the most dogshit a company can be without supporting Israel.
- Comment on To help spread positive vibes, news headlines should replace "killed" with "arrived in Heaven". 1 week ago:
The only gross or surprising thing about censorship on TickTock is that it’s consensual. I think it’s ironic that neoliberals have conditioned Western “consumers” to to accept things getting worse as just “it is how it is”, and the CCP has swooped in to take advantage of us that way.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Online debate is a waste of time. You can somewhat short-circuit the bad-faith stuff by arguing values instead of facts or policy.
For example, if you say that the State has no right to remove trans kids from their parents, you’ve made a legal argument that’s vulnerable to all the bad faith and you may even be technically wrong. However if you argue that you trust parents to decide what’s best over the State, there is nothing to argue about. Bonus, you might actually get some real talk out of reactionaries.
- Comment on Whats the best way to deep dive into learning a language without apps? 1 week ago:
You can find podcasts called “slow news” or something like that where they present the days news in the language your learning but take care to speak slowly and enunciate.
- Comment on I have a terrible memory for numbers so: 1 week ago:
8647 is a pretty easy number to remember
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
Just another reason to wait long after release to buy a game. Denuvo charges games companies to administer the DRM infrastructure and most developers will strip it out of their games after it’s been out for a while.
Buying games on launch is one of the most anti-customer experiences you can get. And that’s saying something in our wonderful capitalist economy
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
monocausal explanations are always bullshit.
Knowing that pharmaceutical companies have undue influence on public policy and public health is useful for understanding the world. Thinking that Big Pharma controls everything makes you RFKjr.
- Comment on [DeliberatelyBuried] Ratatouille 1 week ago:
I appreciate this as a science meme because it reflects the recursive problem with homoculi.
