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I deleted my account of my own volition after meeting my girlfriend, tyvm

There are a ton of people on dating apps in big cities, and if your goal is to find "the one," you don't have to overlook things you feel are red flags on date 1. This is a silly red flag to have, and definitely not worth posting about in public, though.

What does her weight have to do with anything?

You go out to a bar or something similar with friends, how much do you have?

Given the weight society places on women's youthfulness, it shouldn't come as a surprise that some bristle at a signal they're crossing into "older woman" territory.

How many books do you all aim to read? One a month? One a week?

https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1634816454888660995

Lost Judgment is a lot of fun, and you can sink a lot of time into it. But Yakuza 0 is like, a top 10 game all time in my book.

Doom_Art posted...

no one ever gave a reason for why i should believe it was the US/NATO and not Russia, who seems the most likely culprit lol

Well, there is this
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-intelligence-suggests-pro-ukrainian-group-sabotaged-nord-stream-pipelines-nyt-2023-03-07/

Now, to be clear, that reporting pins the explosion on a private group rather than governmental entity, but

Payzmaykr posted...

Wtf? I thought we were switching to whichever one you Spring Forward to. The one where it doesnt get dark at 4pm.

The winter time thing makes people depressed and you only have a few hours of daylight. They should have fixed that decades ago.

They did, and then a bunch of kids got hit by cars walking to school and they undid it.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/25/editorial-we-tried-year-round-daylight-saving-time-in-1974-people-hated-it/

Italy and Cuba advance from a 5 team tie in Group A!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/3/AAWHm8AAERSX.jpg

Tunic

He's very stupid and doesn't know anything

Reputable companies have reduced their advertising on the site, so this is what fills the vacuum. It's like how Fox news is all scams and gold ads

The obvious moral argument is the NFL, given the long term damage football does to players. But I'd also be curious to see how the massive media vacuum it leaves behind would be filled.

This was all forseeable, unless you were a tech genius
https://twitter.com/mtkonczal/status/1634378154440548353/photo/2

Anyone else read the topic title to the tune of that Eurythmics song?

SwordMaster13X posted...

Wait the World Baseball Classic is this year?

It sure is

Guess not

Venezuela vs Dominican Republic on now, US vs. Great Britain in ~90 minutes

https://www.theonion.com/18-year-old-miraculously-finds-soulmate-in-hometown-1819566332

Good for him

This Mexico-Colombia game has been very fun, and the crowd in Arizona has been great

I took a few years of Spanish in middle/high school, and Spanish 102 in college, but it's been sitting unused for a decade now

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/7/4/AAWHm8AAEREK.jpg

For what it's worth, Square says this about basically every game that isn't FF. They were disappointed by the Tomb Raider reboot, by Hitman 2016, by Guardians of the Galaxy. They consistently set absurdly high expectations for their western studios and then voice disapproval when those aren't reached.

And that was fucking insane, a fact even the Founding Fathers realized

A lot of cities have made its public spaces purposefully unpleasant as a means of deterring homeless people. And teenagers too, for that matter.

If you think hearing about climate change is annoying, you're not going to like living through it.

No one will ever believe you

Three of the lawyers arguing the Republican case in Bush V. Gore are now on the Supreme Court
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-kavanaugh-roberts-supreme-court/index.html

When he's right, he's right

https://twitter.com/OatmealDome/status/1633637191246127104

It's wild that Diddy Kong isn't there already

I like instrumental music for reading; I find it hard to focus on the words if there are lyrics playing

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1633507876961415169

I believe you are looking for an argument and I don't want to have one tonight. Enjoy your evening.

This Deadspin article has held up well, IMO
https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844
In many ways, Gamergate is an almost perfect closed-bottle ecosystem of bad internet tics and shoddy debating tactics. Bringing together the grievances of video game fans, self-appointed specialists in journalism ethics, and dedicated misogynists, it's captured an especially broad phylum of trolls and built the sort of structure you'd expect to see if, say, you'd asked the old Fires of Heaven message boards to swing a Senate seat. It's a fascinating glimpse of the future of grievance politics as they will be carried out by people who grew up online.

What's made it effective, though, is that it's exploited the same basic loophole in the system that generations of social reactionaries have: the press's genuine and deep-seated belief that you gotta hear both sides. Even when not presupposing that all truth lies at a fixed point exactly equidistant between two competing positions, the American press works under the assumption that anyone more respectable than, say, an avowed neo-Nazi is operating in something like good faith. And this is why a loosely organized, lightly noticed collection of gamers, operating from a playbook that was showing its age during Ronald Reagan's rise to power, have been able to set the terms of debate in a $100 billion industry, even as they send women like Brianna Wu into hiding and show every sign that they intend to keep doing so until all their demands are met.
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Earlier this month, the New York Times covered Intel's capitulation in the face of a coordinated Gamergate campaign, called "Operation Disrespectful Nod." Here's how the story read:
For a little more than a month, a firestorm over sexism and journalistic ethics has roiled the video game community, culminating in an orchestrated campaign to pressure companies into pulling their advertisements from game sites.
That campaign won a big victory in recent days with a decision by Intel, the chip maker, to pull ads from Gamasutra, a site for game developers.
Intel's decision added to a controversy that has focused attention on the treatment of women in the games business and the power of online mobs. The debate intensified in August, partly because of the online posts of a spurned ex-boyfriend of a female game developer.
The story continued in this veincautious, assiduously neutral, lobotomized, never questioning the premises of the Gamergate "firestorm" and "debate." Both sides were heard. And thus did Leigh Alexander's commentary on the pluralism of gaming today get equal time with a campaign bent on silencing her.
And that's how it works. It's a neat trick. Agitate bare-facedly for the absolute necessity of developers investing the vast majority of their resources in games pitched at the intellectual and emotional level of a 16-year-old suburban masturbator, and no one beyond the gaming world is going to take you very seriously. But make it a story about an oppressive and hypocritical media conspiracy, and all of a sudden you have a cause, a side in a "debate."

When you have a commute or something where you can put on headphones, what do you listen to?