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- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 12 hours ago:
You have to be pretty deep in the Kool-Aid to think that ubisoft has “taken risks” with Assassins Creed.
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 13 hours ago:
Yeah, it’s useless as it doesn’t know how tonuse excel functions, so it just Google’s the answer and gives you whatever came back. It might be the right function, but if it is, it’s a tossup
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 1 day ago:
Just install sponsor block. It’s the only way to make YouTube bearable.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 days ago:
They are sanctioning themselves.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 4 days ago:
Yeah let’s all just ignore the utter ignorance that this image demonstrates.
- Comment on trick OR treat 4 days ago:
We need to add more gates such as, maybe, don’t know, and ask your mother
- Comment on hmm breakfast 4 days ago:
I grew up in the 1980s and trust me it’s a microscopic fraction of what it used to be. You used to be able to cut blocks out of the air. If you sat at the back of a cinema you would be lucky if you were able to see the screen through all the haze. That’s all gone now.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 4 days ago:
Oh yes the famous nation of Europe. An entire continent full of nations and different cultures been rendered down to the stereotypes of the occupants of a single city.
Americans need to get out more.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t have had to explain common sense things if you had thought about it for 10 seconds before posting your comment. So any condescending attitude you feel you experienced is entirely your own problem.
The thing about logical thought is that it doesn’t actually care about your feelings. You’re the one that decided to try and couch this in terms of misogyny, but the reality is that female birth control simply developed first and had a huge impact on women as a result. And even if reliable male birth control existed (there are experiments ongoing but it’s certainly not publicly available) women would still have to take birth control themselves in order to guarantee they wouldn’t get pregnant, precisely because of the disparity of fertility mentioned in the image. So whether or not male birth control exists, basically has no bearing on women.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 days ago:
That’s not birth control that’s just like having a vasectomy. The big power of birth control is that it works after the fact so if you wake up in the morning and you realise you’ve made a mistake, you have options.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 days ago:
That’s not how engineering works. That’s like saying that you don’t need gas release valves you just need to never over pressure the line. Now obviously the objective is to never over pressure the line, but it’s good to have contingencies in place in case it happens.
You could equally say that you don’t need to be on birth control if you just always use condom but sometimes they fail.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 days ago:
The fact that you think that that response was defending sexism rather proves that you are not arguing from a point of good faith.
No one is saying sexism doesn’t exist, but that’s not the point being argued here.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 days ago:
I think it’s the civilised that’s coming to an end.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 days ago:
By the logic of the image, yes.
- Comment on NOW! 6 days ago:
I feel like they bought the domain name while drunk, and then had to come up with a website to put on it afterwards.
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 1 week ago:
This should be some sort of award for getting a patent denied in Japan. They grant patents on vague ill defined concepts all the time, so if it’s been rejected it’s really been rejected.
Japan once granted a painting on the concept of “doing something while the game loads”, Which is why we had all those tips screens for years, they weren’t allowed to do anything interactive. I think this all came tumbling down when assassin’s creed allowed you to wander around and blank empty void during loading. Such innovation.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 1 week ago:
Unfortunately light wouldn’t remain collimated over a 33 million light year distance which is what we would need to see dinosaurs
- Comment on Space is beautiful 1 week ago:
No that’s not how light works. It’s not 20 years either direction otherwise you could use your bathroom mirror to see into the future
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 1 week ago:
Does this mean that over half of the signatures were from people not living in the EU?
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 1 week ago:
I would have thought Russia would have been dead against accidental fall net. It increases the likelihood that Putin would actually have to compete in an election.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
The Covenant might be religious fanatics but they’re actually capable of working with other religious fanatics, in mutual cooperation.
MAGAs are more like Species 8472, utterly hostile to anything that doesn’t conform to their very narrow and ill informed worldview, even to the point of being hostile to potential allies, thus alienating them.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
Yes its everyone else’s fault
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 1 week ago:
Surely he knows that Fortnite is itself the clone. He has to know that they didn’t start the battle royale genre they just cutesy it up and monetize the hell out of it.
It was actually a good game when it was in beta and the building mechanics actually had some sort of point. Then they pivoted and went in the battle of royale genre and it became a microtransaction lootbox nightmare.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What do you want about? I don’t even know what miracle whip is, I’ve never heard of it, but the picture is of Hellman’s which is definitely mayonnaise and not salad cream or anything else
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No idea what that is, but the picture is very much of Hellman’s mayonnaise, which is the most mayonnaise of all the mayonnaises
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What? Mayonnaise is absolutely still a thing.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
Do you think it’s had a major financial impact on him? He’s a internationally known journalist I doubt he needs the money.
A bit of a weird move from British airways anyway, why would they care who he interviews, it’s not like he’s endorsing that person. Also the general public actually support Bob Dylan’s stance , so again, kind of a ill thought out gesture.
British airways PR team aren’t giving it their all it would seem.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
If I said death to Russians no one would bat an eyelid.
You’re bias showing, it’s also boring and unoriginal.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
You do know that’s the job of journalists right? Journalists have in the past spoken to many people it doesn’t mean they endorse those people it just means that the journalists want to get their side of the story. This includes pirates, murderers, and even dictators. You’re complaining that the journalist is writing articles that people want to read.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
Have you ever flown with them. They ousted themselves as shitty already. They look good in comparison to Ryanair but that’s it.