BmeBenji
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- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 4 days ago:
I feel like you may have missed the point of what I’m saying. Ending the progression of human life because it’s burdensome is 100% the wrong reason.
That being said, I agree the right to abortion services is critical and ought not to be infringed by any sort of rule that takes the decision out of the hands of the pregnant person. I just could never disagree more with the idea that abortion rights are crucial to prevent the person who would give birth from being burdened.
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 4 days ago:
This is one of those big “Oh no! Anyways…” kinda moments.
Like someone at Epic or Microsoft or something was like “but Steam’s graphics aren’t as good as our graphics!”
… and?
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 4 days ago:
The community is called “no stupid questions” so I won’t say this is a stupid question, but damn if this isn’t the most ‘murican question I’ve seen.
Your question seems heavily weighted by the idea that a child is only the responsibility of the people who brought it into the world, which is completely wrong even if it is a fundamental assumption of an individualistic capitalist society like America. It’s a backwards notion to say that someone who has a right to live can have that right taken away because it’s too much of a burden to help them live; life is the exact thing that an organized society ought to be focused on protecting, otherwise what good is that society?
People say “it takes a village to raise a child” and while that is seldom followed especially in America, it is absolutely true. Raising a human being is among the hardest jobs imaginable, full stop. The abilities and needs of that child have to be considered every step of the way because it is among the most important jobs imaginable. If that child is ever treated like a burden, then something in that society has failed. It’s not just the parents’ responsibility to raise them, it is everyone’s.
Should a parent be allowed to euthanize a burden? No. 100% no. That parent needs to enlist help, and honestly help structures should be built into that society.
Lastly, the way you phrase your question is really concerning. “Parents should be able to euthanize their children, because it is better to be dead than feel like a burden.” I hope you can see that whatever convinced you that it’s better to be dead than a burden is utterly wrong. You matter, OP, for no reason other than that you exist <3
- Comment on First Look at Switch 2 5 days ago:
Okay. Can you stop big-dicking people who legally develop emulators into poverty now?
- Comment on Finally someone turned Doom into an enriching cultural experience for art snobs 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
I think therapy helps as a remediation, but it’s not preventive nor does it fully solve the problem because ultimately it’s transactional and paying someone to listen is fully different from finding someone who listens to you that you also want to listen to.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Traditional masculinity dictates that men don’t share their feelings (with the exception of anger and aggression because that’s not a feeling that’s just being manly). Sadness, despair, loneliness, depression all will be commonly bottled up and left untreated which leads to deep-seated feelings of isolation. The cure has to be a change in social norms, including decoupling the ideas of being socially vulnerable with being feminine.
This is a gross generalization of the issue but it definitely describes my experience with it.
- Comment on Is Half-Life Opposing Force still known to current gamers, or is this a side game that's fallen through the cracks. 3 weeks ago:
That was definitely a bold design decision, but I’m glad it paid off for Gearbox. Never before had I played a first person shooter from the perspective of an underpaid pumpkin.
- Comment on Did Apple kill iTunes for windows? 3 weeks ago:
Clearly the person who asked the question doesn’t care so I’m sure this was a useful comment to post
- Comment on Did Apple kill iTunes for windows? 3 weeks ago:
Idk but iTunes for Windows has never not been shit. When I recently switched back to iOS from Android I found copytrans. I can’t speak to how secure it is, but it has done a great job of putting all the music I own onto my iPhone.
I like it more than using Apple Music on a Mac for doing the transfer because the last time I tried that, Apple tried to tell me I didn’t have the rights to listen to a song that I literally sang and recorded.
- Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a tale as old as Capitalism. People who geek out about something do it because they enjoy it, then somebody finds a way to improve distribution of their work and suddenly there’s a skyrocket in demand. Vultures swoop in and suck out whatever life might be left in their passionate work to make it profitable, and then all the passion is gone.
“Tech bro” is the term used to describe those vultures. People who try to monetize the shit out of everything with an ounce of human soul in it. Passionate tech nerds are still out there, mostly in FOSS circles, some in hardware hobbyist circles building cool form factors for their own computers.
Honestly, odds are you’ll find passion only in someone who’s not looking to monetize.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 4 weeks ago:
“There’s something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so that you can have more of it”
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 4 weeks ago:
COD is so interesting because there’s so many of them and so many people play them that it seems there’s always at least someone who loves each of the different games
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 4 weeks ago:
I played every beta of the Finals that I could get accepted into. It felt like what I wanted a new Battlefield game to be. The destructible floors and bridges made it so much fun to set up traps in ways no other game made it possible.
Weirdly enough I have yet to install it since its full release. Still looks like the same amount of fun!
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 4 weeks ago:
Ooh Dark Descent looked really cool. Would you recommend it for someone with little isometric experience, let alone real-time isometric combat?
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 4 weeks ago:
Sea of Thieves has definitely interested me but it looks like one of those games that gets better A) if you invest a lot of time into it and B) if you have friends who play it too all the time, and I already have big time sinks in my life and I suck at convincing my friends to play specific games with me
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 4 weeks ago:
Nothing fun at all? Not even games released in previous years? Not even games that you’ve already been playing for years?
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 4 weeks ago:
It did look like it would be a fun COD alternative. Sad but not surprised to see Ubi gave up on it
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 4 weeks ago:
Custom zombies maps are the beeeeest
- Comment on There is no best 4 weeks ago:
Big AI energy
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- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 5 weeks ago:
Yup
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 5 weeks ago:
Good Christian Americans would never go anywhere near gambling or gambling paraphernalia.
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 5 weeks ago:
I think you might have missed that this question is sarcastic and the intent was to prompt stupid interpretations of video games. i.e. Mario Kart is communist because it only gives the lower class (losers) access to the deadliest weapon (the blue shell) in order to take out the upper class (the leader)
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 51 comments
- Comment on Spiced Up Night 1 month ago:
Reminds me of the best, second layer of defense for birth control. The Tabasco Fiasco
It’s like an alarm for your condom!
- Comment on Germ Blaster 1 month ago:
I kinda got that sense from the moment that “AirBlade” sprayed all my germy hand water up into my face
- Comment on Ubisoft shut down multiplayer shooter XDefiant and lay off hundreds who worked on it 1 month ago:
It’s not F2P, and furthermore it’s not a CoD clone. But you make a good point. They should’ve retasked those employees instead of just sacking them on the spot. Fucking corpo assholes.
- Comment on I live in the green part 1 month ago:
That’s my point. According to BMI, the likes of Dwayne Johnson are obese so that’s why it’s worth asking what standard of obesity the graph is referencing.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 1 month ago:
Hop on a 6 hour flight, or drive for 40 hours from most countries and you’ll likely find yourself in a place that speaks an entirely different language. In America all that gets you is someone who has a different kind of twang in their voice.
Not saying it’s right to make that assumption but it’s definitely understandable why people do.