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VampireCoyote posted...

doesnt really work that way unfortunately

the dryer an area is the more prone the soil is to flooding, even if it isnt a ton of rain

Sure, the droughts/fires will make the flooding much worse, but at least stuff won't catch fire if it's underwater.

Zenithian_Legend posted...

The abortion issue really is unreal, it's as though the United States is doing everything it can to move backwards.

But the US as a whole isn't. It's specifically one party that's doing that, and they're doing that for a whole host of issues that shouldn't even be in question. Sure, the Dems aren't exactly great in a lot of ways and the hypocrisy can get a little annoying, but at least they aren't actively trying to make everything worse (or when they are it's at least slightly offset by doing something beneficial). It's like choosing between a roommate who farts in the kitchen every morning while you're eating breakfast and a roommate who pisses in your bowl of cereal every morning: Neither are particularly great and you'd prefer a third option or to live alone, but in a scenario where all you have are those two options, one of those is clearly a better idea than the other and "they're both equally bad" is a ridiculous take that isn't nearly as reasonable and open-minded as you think it is.

ReturnOfFa posted...

There are truly some trash hicks here, and I'm embarrassed when people act like Canada is 'better' than the USA in regards to racism.

Canada's really just as racist as the US, it's just often harder to notice because we hide the victims of our worst racism in concentr- err, communities.

I generally wipe for good measure, but it is indeed somewhat futile because you're inevitably going to get a few drips leaking out afterwards because gravity is a thing and it's expected that a few bits are going to linger in the urethra once there's no pressure behind it. For circumcised guys and uncircumcised ones that retract the foreskin to pee (my personal preference, since otherwise the stream can be a bit unpredictable), it's very different from women peeing, since there's nothing in the way to get covered in pee and the only thing wiping does is grab the last few drops that have enough surface tension to hold on. There's rarely enough residue to make it really necessary to clean up.

Of course, wiping isn't really an option at urinals, but stalls are a thing.

One more or less is. She came from a home where she had pretty much free access to food at all times and was apparently super fat, based on how much loose skin she has, but then she developed pretty severe hyperthyroidism that doesn't seem like it was treated very well (it may have been, but her owner died, so I'm guessing she went without treatment for a few months as he got sicker and after he was gone) and lost quite a bit of weight. Then we started treating her, and her weight like doubled in the span of a month, but eventually stabilized and now she generally doesn't eat more than she should (sometimes not even finishing the food we give her, even though she is generally quite food-motivated).

The other is not. For the longest time, he was pretty skinny, even getting kind of dangerously so when his IBS got so bad that he basically lost the ability to make solid poop, but since we fixed that he's been pretty steadily putting on weight and stealing the other one's food and now he's pretty tubby. We're trying to regulate his food, but it's a challenge with the other one (his food goes where she can't reach it, but he can go anywhere she can because she's 19 and he's 12) because we can't supervise her food 24/7.

At least droughts/fires won't be as much of a problem!

Given that you aren't going to be able to fix the racist ignorance, you might as well lean into it and mess with them. Learn and give them some ridiculous mundane words in each of Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean, telling them that those are all "Chinese swear words," then go about your life knowing that, someday, they're going to be mad at an Asian person and try calling them a desk fan.

Far-Queue posted...

To be fair, if your scientific literacy isn't up to snuff, you're better off asking for explanations and clarity before sounding the alarm and shrieking like a frightened infant.

Pretty much. Lacking scientific literacy is a legitimate excuse for not understanding things. It's not a legitimate excuse for panicking over those things you don't understand and lashing out at anyone better-informed that tries to tell you you don't need to panic.

You don't understand! He just doesn't want to post because he knows he's going to be dogpiled by the local cult of libs parroting the same party line of "make sure you understand the scientific findings you're reading before panicking about them"! It's nothing to do with being afraid of being wrong, the problem is us for agreeing with each other about such controversial matters as empirical, objective truth and common sense.

Cruddy_horse posted...

Because in America you can quite literally can fail grades in Elementary/Middle/High School and still graduate. There's no incentive for those in power to have an educated population, infact it's the opposite, that's how they get these "loyal" followers that worship them like a god, because they're stupid an don't know better.

I don't know about you, but I certainly didn't learn "don't drive your car into a barricade then shoot yourself because a celebrity you like is the target of a criminal investigation" in school. There are absolutely major holes in peoples' knowledge as a result of issues in the school system (though not being able to fail students isn't necessarily one of them, but that's another discussion of its own), but I don't think you can necessarily blame something like this on it. This is mental illness, not just being ignorant.

ReturnOfFa posted...

I keep suggesting they're getting less convincing, not that they were to begin with.

Less convincing to us, but I expect this to turn into an epidemic of quasi-suicides by cop. There's no way they'll ever be organized enough for an actual civil war, but the fantasy of sacrificing themselves in one is so prevalent that the more people make headlines for doing so, the more people are going to try to make their own marks on history. They were never going to convince sound-minded people, but for many of the desperately sick folks that Trump has been preying on, this will convince them to take (suicidal) action, and that's really quite sad.

Given infinite time/space, I don't see why a bunch of snowflakes couldn't encounter some mechanism by which they could spontaneously assemble into sentient snowmen.

OhhhJa posted...

It's possible there's a god but that it doesn't perform "miracles." I'm not religious but I believe it's possible there's some kind of god/creator whatever that may be. Could be like xenoblade where it's some nerd in a lab

Personally, I consider God to just be the personification of the rules that govern the universe. It's easier for a lot of people to wrap their heads around the idea of a God creating the laws of physics, but the laws of physics (that is, immutable laws that control everything about how the universe functions) sound an awful lot like they themselves comprise an omnipotent entity to me.

Good that it got there eventually, I guess, but that still tells me the game was rushed out.

Count_Drachma posted...

Oh lawdy...

I'm sorry, do you live in some sort of fantasy world where KFC does pay a living wage and where KFC corporate wouldn't allocate only the absolute bare minimum number of employees needed to spend their entire shifts producing this $950 million worth of chicken?

Count_Drachma posted...

Also this. The conventional notion of a billionaire is somewhat meaningless.

You keep parroting this "technically they don't have $1 billion in liquid assets!" nonsense as though those that qualify as billionaires don't have vastly more purchasing power (and therefore pretty much every other kind of power) than any ordinary citizen could ever dream of attaining. Not being able to liquidate their entire fortune overnight does absolutely nothing to change that underlying fact. Bringing it up every single time anyone discusses billionaires is completely missing the point of pretty much everything everyone is saying and I really don't know why you have such a hard time understanding this.

DragonClaw01 posted...

There is no way actual courts would've found him guilty of anything in regards to 1/6.

Criminal courts? No, you're correct. The court of impeachment? They did find him guilty, they just voted not to remove him.

DragonClaw01 posted...

Of course, while you couldn't legally find him guilty for anything as of 1/6, morally you could. I mean gaslighting your followers for several months that the election is a fraud could conceivably lead to a situation like 1/6 or even worse if they really believed it, but ultimately even gaslighting is protected under the first amendment, so once again legally, no issue.

Indeed. It may not be illegal, and he may not have explicitly told anyone to attack the Capitol, but he's the sole progenitor of the lie that formed the entire basis for the attack. If not for the election fraud rhetoric Trump spent 5-odd years spewing (his campaign for 2016 included "the only way I could lose is if the other people cheat" from day one, and he's only doubled down on that since then), I'm quite confident in the belief that the attack wouldn't have happened.

They didn't include Mercs in the initial release? That's dumb. A port of a 17-year-old game shouldn't be removing features.

keyblader1985 posted...

This pisses me off for two reasons. My town was designed as if bicycles do not exist. And there are several people who do this instead of just riding on the sidewalk.

Even without bike lanes, it's generally safer to occupy the road than to ride on the sidewalk, and if the road is narrower and it's never going to be possible to pass safely, assuming a proper blocking position to prevent people from trying to pass altogether is likely going to be safer than trying to give them space to pass unsafely. As much as it pisses people off to have to go slower than they want to, that's the option that yields the most consistent, predictable traffic for everyone involved. You get everyone moving in one direction, the fewest people entering the stream of traffic unexpectedly, clearly defined lanes and lane change protocols for anyone looking to pass... The only thing that potentially makes it more dangerous is pissed off drivers deciding to drive dangerously, and the blame for that decision lies on them and not the cyclist. Meanwhile, on sidewalks, they're often not even wide enough for a bike to safely pass a single pedestrian, they often have two-way traffic and/or groups taking up the whole path, there are no lanes, there are countless blind spots and people unexpectedly coming out of them, people stop unexpectedly on a regular basis, nobody has mirrors or any other awareness of what's behind them unless they hear it coming... biking safely on the sidewalk requires either a near-empty sidewalk or for the cyclist to barely go faster than they would on foot, which doesn't make much sense. That's why it's actually outright illegal to bike on sidewalks in many cities.

Of course, having actual cycling infrastructure that makes a genuine effort to offer it as a viable alternative to driving works best for everyone in pretty much every way (including making driving better for drivers in ways that go far beyond just not having to share the road), but a lot of North American voters refuse to accept that fact and have been thoroughly brainwashed by the oil industry's pro-car propaganda, so here we are.

Ozmose posted...

So obvious it can't hold up in a court of law.

Given that the impeachment trial over it largely amounted to everyone agreeing it was an impeachable offense, everyone agreeing that he was guilty, and then (almost) all of the republicans deciding to ignore that and vote along party lines for the sake of voting along party lines, I'd say it held up well enough in the relevant court. Said court is just innately so corrupt that it can't get a conviction because everyone votes based on their party instead of the defendant's guilt.

captpackrat posted...

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Which, to clarify for those that have no concept of linguistic nuance, effectively translates to "it's okay to enslave people if you convict them of a crime first." In turn, that means the government - by way of choosing who gets convicted and why - gets to pick and choose people that can be enslaved, and the country's rather sizable private prison lobby takes full advantage of this by making charitable donations to whichever politicians will secure them the most free* labour.

*A lot of prison labour isn't actually free, but the wages are far below minimum wage and are often recovered by charging prisoners other fees that equal or exceed them, so calling it "free labour" is close enough to accurate

Usually, particularly if it's a place I really like and want to give a little extra support to.

I'm not sure why you wouldn't expect a lot of bugs in a game called Bee Simulator.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

I went into an insane amount of overtime and still do not even owe half of that in debt.

The US student loan system is pretty broken, mostly thanks to US university costs being insanely inflated, which in turn is mostly a consequence of university boards and executive suites wanting to gold-plate their yachts.

captpackrat posted...

Trump stole top secret documents on nuclear weapons. If he tried to sell that info, the BEST outcome he can hope for is life in prison.

Clearly Antifa planted those documents after stealing them during the false flag Jan 6th attack! The God Emperor was framed!

Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Um, if one has cats, whats the best way to hang it?

As much as people always insist that having cats means you need to hang it under, I've never had a problem hanging it over in 20 years of having cats. Granted, 3/4 of the cats I've had in that time frame have been front declawed (not by my choice), which dramatically reduces the risk of problems, and interest in making a mess of toilet paper is going to vary from cat to cat, so your mileage may vary.

HornedLion posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/9/AAckHXAADjk1.jpg

No one *competent* does a real insurrection like that. His mistake is assuming competence when it's pretty obvious that most of that crowd never realized there's a difference between fathers and uncles.

"Redeem" implies changing humanity to not be bad, so why wouldn't I choose that over destroying all of it and hoping the next version is better?

Revelation34 posted...

Yes but it doesn't make it a plot hole.

It doesn't, but it's bad for a lot of the same reasons plot holes are bad, so lumping them together isn't altogether unreasonable. It's more a hole in the world-building, which isn't technically the plot, but it is an inextricable part of it.

ZangsBeard posted...

The one real game of The Sims I tried was The Asylum... where basically you put 8 adult sims in a house, and slowly drive them insane by not having enough for all of them. 7 beds, etc. And each time one dies, you cut down on the amenities. You keep going until there's only 1 left.

And then you take that one Sim and move them into a perfectly normal neighbourhood with lots of mentally healthy people and totally don't end up creating a serial killer.

Revelation34 posted...

These people say stuff like "those powers' origins weren't explained so it's a plot hole".

While not a "plot hole" per se, making sure there's some kind of consistent background or explanation for any special powers is an important part of world building. If people just end up with powers for no apparent reason except to advance the plot, criticizing that is quite valid.

captpackrat posted...

When raisins get cold they get hard. And not in the good way.

In theory, I would expect soaking them in booze before freezing them to prevent them from getting as hard (both because it softens the raising to begin with and because alcohol freezes at a lower temperature). I'm not sure if that would pan out in practice, but it might be worth a shot. I do know that rum raisin ice cream is a thing, so it at least works well enough for that.

rexcrk posted...

*sweats*

Underwater, no one can see you sweat.

keyblader1985 posted...

Like even in this exact situation, I wouldn't expect him to put his ego aside long enough to just shut up for a moment.

Exactly.

TentacleDemon posted...

I will take every opportunity to make sure rolls go the "wrong" way just to bug them.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the face of true evil.

St_Kevin posted...

So you guys think anything will stick or is this just more hubabaloo?

Given that his second impeachment basically consisted of the entire GOP saying "this is an impeachable offence and he's guilty of it, but we don't care lol so we're going to vote to not remove him," it's hard to say. While this isn't a matter the GOP will get to vote directly on, it would be naive to believe they won't do everything they can to sway the proceedings.

Straughan posted...

It would be like people crops

I really enjoy how many comments about The Sims make people sound like serial killers if taken out of context.

Entity13 posted...

Only the mad follow madness.

I still can't keep up, so I think it's more than that.

I enjoyed the GC version of The Sims well enough, but I never actually played the PC version to compare and I understand it was considerably better.

rexcrk posted...

I get what youre saying but yeah Im not gonna feel bad about something I didnt do.

I think the issue people have with this is the distinction between personally feeling bad for something and feeling bad that that thing happened. Do I personally feel bad for Canada's residential school program? No. I didn't have anything to do with it and the last one closed when I was 7. Do I feel bad about it when I consider the harms that it caused and continues to cause? Absolutely. Sure, I didn't personally commit genocide, but that doesn't mean I can't say "that was wrong" and incorporate that belief and attitude moving forward, including making personal contributions to solving the problems where appropriate (that's actually literally my job, but that's beside the point).

The problem arises in that a whole lot of people don't like feeling bad about history (especially history that paints their "group" in a bad light), so they tend to gravitate toward teaching and promoting curricula that leave out the parts that feel bad. Then, when others suggest not sanitizing an ugly history like that and embracing those feelings of guilt, that gets conflated with feeling personally guilty and those same people jump to "stop blaming me for slavery." This fear of "white guilt" has been taken much too far and turned into an outright denial of objective facts, at the expense of learning how to deal with the realities of history.

Basically, when presented with the news that your ancestors did something horrible, you're going to feel bad. Let that happen. Don't take it personally, but also don't pretend there's no reason to feel bad, because feeling bad about being in any way connected to bad things is normal and healthy. That's what cultivates personal and cultural attitudes of wanting to prevent those things from happening again and fix the resultant problems.

11110111011 posted...

I like how you assume anyone who doesn't care about politics is blissfully ignorant and just doesn't want to be sad by approaching 'real problems'.

I don't assume that. I know it to be true. Whether it's a matter of taking comfort in pretending the real problems don't exist or giving up because you don't believe you can do anything, choosing to not care about society's problems is - by definition - avoiding them. In many cases, that choice is quite justifiable, but you should be justifying it (which you have done with your follow-up posts) instead of trying to insist that it's not the choice you've made.

11110111011 posted...

It's also cute that somehow those who don't care about politics think the 'status quo' is great.

Not necessarily great, but they at least consider it to not be bad enough to be worth worrying about. If they didn't think that, they would worry about it.

11110111011 posted...

For example, all people who choose to be in politics for a living are criminals and horrible people. All of them, zero exceptions. I don't care what side you are on. Those who cheer them on like some professional baseball team and only cares if their team is winning are even worse. It's a lot like religion or war. You pick a side and learn the mantra and repeat it over and over without having to think. Then you find the enemy and de-humanize them so you can hate large groups of people across the board.

I don't entirely disagree. There are a few good eggs here and there, but by and large, politicians have very little interest in using their power to improve anyone's lives but their own, and treating party affiliations as a matter of immutable personal identity is really stupid and harmful. That's why I prefer to discuss issues individually, not in terms of parties (except when the time comes to promote votes for a party that best aligns with my positions on those issues). Voting happens in terms of people, but political philosophy should not.

11110111011 posted...

If everyone focused on their own problems instead of trying to fix everyone else's the world would be better off.

Most of the problems relevant to "wokeness" are created by other people, and fixing them entails fostering a culture in which creating those problems is discouraged. Not everything happens on an individual basis.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's actually the imperitive of buyers to voice their displeasure. They're not just not paying up, they're making clear to the seller what they will buy so they can correct. This applies to both sides, you can't only complain when it's your opposition doing it.

To reprise my post from with this or a similar topic, it's really quite entertaining to see the "If you don't like what a company is doing, vote with your wallet" crowd whining about "cancel culture" as though it's not simply the expected outcome of a free market responding to a cultural shift away from tolerating such attitudes and behaviours. It turns out that's only an acceptable strategy when it yields the results they want. Who knew?

Buying Stardew on PC instead would be notably cheaper than buying a new phone to be able to mod the mobile version.

CarefreeDude posted...

however, I wonder, does the power plant process those fossil fuels more effectively than a gas powered vehicle?

Yes. Almost without exception (which I say only because I don't know enough to commit to saying there are no exceptions). Burning gasoline in a power plant to generate electricity and use that electricity to power an electric car is substantially more efficient than burning that gas directly in an ICE car, even taking into account transmission losses. I think it's might even be better to use an ordinary, consumer-grade gas generator to run an electric car than to burn that gas in an ICE, but I don't think it's quite that bad (consumer-grade generators being a lot worse for waste heat).

If nothing else, consider why cars have radiators: You're producing a lot of heat energy that needs to be taken out of system because you have no way to turn it into kinetic energy. All of that is wasted. Steam turbines are specifically designed to capture all heat energy produced from burning a fuel, and while 100% efficiency isn't possible, they can get pretty close to turning all of the chemical energy in the fuel into electrical energy. That means they waste very little.

CarefreeDude posted...

Also not everywhere uses fossil fuels for electricity. Where I live most of our electric is hydroelectric power.

That's the other big thing. A fossil fuel grid powering an electric car can eventually become a renewable grid. An ICE car, however, will always have to burn fossil fuels to run. Even if they weren't already more efficient at using fossil fuels, electric cars would still be a greener long-term choice because they have the potential to improve.

Now, that said, while switching to electric cars is generally better for the environment than sticking with ICE's, they aren't without their issues. Being heavier means more damage to roads and danger to other road users, there are considerable environmental concerns around battery production and end-of-life handling... they also don't solve the fundamental infrastructure problems that reliance on cars create because they're still just cars. Increased adoption of electric cars over ICE's is good, but effective long-term planning needs to have the goal of getting most cars off the road altogether.

Jen0125 posted...

lmao now trump is invoking his 5th amendment privilege even though he previously said only guilty people do that

Of all the things I ever expected Trump to do, electing not to speak never even crossed my mind.

Muscles posted...

A lot of people are accepting of other races/sexualities/genders without being woke, I think it could easily be argued that more people accepting of diversity aren't woke than are given the fact that woke people are a vocal minority. Just because you aren't a bigoted piece of shit doesn't mean you are automatically woke.

Nobody actually uses the word "woke" unironically except to complain about women in their video games, though. Again, however you want to define the word, it's come to be used to describe pretty much any examples of a pro-diversity message in media, almost exclusively by people who want zero pro-diversity messages in their media.

11110111011 posted...

Politics isn't 'the world's problems'

A political opinion is an opinion on the state of society and the world. That's it, and that means politics are indeed "the world's problems." Even the enlightened centrist position of "I don't care about politics" is a political opinion, because it amounts to "I'm okay with the status quo and would rather ignore it than try to change it in any way." Whether or not expressing opinions on the state of society will actually change anything is easy to question, of course, since nice words on the Internet don't do much, but the position you're promoting is one of ignoring the world's problems so you can enjoy consuming media more mindlessly. That is your prerogative, and I quite understand that it's more enjoyable than flailing futilely against issues you can't actually change, but you need to at least recognize that that's what you're doing.

In truth, I fully expect that almost every piece of media you've consumed has had some sort of political message, and there have definitely been politically significant issues at work behind the scenes. You've just chosen not to acknowledge it.

Muscles posted...

It's really cheaper to build a computer? I assumed it would be more expensive but better quality

The comparison got a lot less favourable for a while when GPU and other component prices were through the roof (I would guess because prebuilt companies were getting first dibs on component orders and not having to pay the premium that those of us scrabbling for the leftovers did, but I can't confirm that), but generally speaking, you can look at the specs of a prebuilt computer being advertised as a "gaming computer" and order all of the same parts they list yourself (plus better versions of the ones that are harder to market and don't get mentioned, like the PSU) for less than what they charge. That's especially true if you keep an eye out for sales as you gather up your parts.

Of course, the caveat of that is that you'll be looking at 2-4 hours of your time to actually put the thing together and get it running, and prebuilts usually come with some kind of service warranty. Depending on how much you value your time and how confident you are that you'll be able to solve any issues that come up, paying the premium to have it made for you may be worthwhile.

Muscles posted...

I think too many things are labeled as woke tbh, being accepting of gay people is not woke, being accepting of Trans people is not woke, wanting to silence comedians is woke, wanting to get rid of "offensive" movies/music/whatever is woke.

You're welcome to think that, but you're going to find that you have difficulty communicating on the matter if you use that definition because it doesn't line up very well with how everyone else is using the word. When things are called "woke," it's overwhelmingly because they include diversity or are otherwise more politically correct than the speaker wants them to be, usually with little regard for whether or not it's a genuine example of tokenism making for a less enjoyable piece of media. Attempting to censor offensive content can fall under that umbrella, but it's a very small piece of the overall picture and isn't nearly as common as the anti-PC pearl clutchers like to think it is (outside of stuff that's offensive for the sake of being malicious, in which case it's not being called out for being offensive, it's called out for being malicious).

You're generally going to save money over buying a comparable prebuilt (this is less true for lower-end machines, but anything "gaming-quality" is probably going to be cheaper to build than buy), you can tailor what you build to your own needs to avoid overspending on things that won't benefit you, you'll have dramatically less bloatware to deal with, and it's generally easier to upgrade a custom build than a prebuilt (which are often crammed into their cases as tightly as possible, leaving little room for different-sized components or components that will need more airflow).

The downside is that you're going to have to make all the decisions and handle all of the support yourself. That's generally not that bad because there are a ton of resources available to help you as needed, but you still won't be able to rely on service warranties or anything like that yo fix thigns that go wrong.

CynicalZealot posted...

"If you need to mod a s***ty game to make it worth playing, it's still a s***ty game."

Yes and no. The company that produced it should still be held accountable for producing a broken piece of trash that needs user-created fixes to be basically functional, but if the game is enjoyable after putting in the effort to mod it, you're still playing an enjoyable game and acting like you aren't because it took that effort doesn't make much sense. It's a caveat that should be included in recommending the game, and that caveat can result in the game comparably less favourably overall to others (namely, a game that's equally enjoyable but doesn't require any extra effort).

That said, I think there's something to be said for creating a base game that's flexible enough for modding to be an option. The developer obviously can't take credit for the mods themselves, but being able to mod a game to customize the experience is generally a very good thing for replay value and maximizing enjoyment, and not every game is feasible to mod. Finding that balance between having a good fundamental structure for modders to build on while make sure the base game still has enough content to be enjoyable can be a challenge, so I think developers that achieve that balance should be applauded for it. For all Bethesda needs to step up their QA game, they have generally done a good job of creating worlds and engines that are worth creating additional content within, and that is actually an achievement.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

you can thank car industry lobbyists.

With a little sprinkling of propaganda that the voting public has gobbled up voraciously.

DietSchmendrake posted...

Adjl is just salty that I didnt want to read his novel lol

Okay.

Zareth posted...

Yeah right wing capitalism lovers missing the fact that companies are going woke because they think it will make them more money

"If you don't like something, vote with your wallet and encourage others to do the same and let the free market decide whether or not it's worth listening to you. Don't call for it to be banned."
"Cancel culture is so horrible!"

Who could possibly have guessed that they didn't actually want the free market to decide that gay people are okay and homophobia isn't and were instead just expecting that they'd get a free pass to be homophobic if they used enough nice-sounding libertarian rhetoric?

ReturnOfFa posted...

I don't see it. Explain further?

*edit, surprised a couple of people backed me lmfao

I'm guessing he's going for "the only reason offensive movies/comedy exist for you to see if you want is because of the anti-wokists you think are dangerous." That's obviously not true, since you can very easily produce offensive material without losing your mind over the existence of a gay protagonist, but I'm pretty sure that's the logic.

Revelation34 posted...

Nah. They tend to listen more to people who don't even consume the type of media that the people on Twitter are complaining about. Like the Valhalla burn victim where only one person complained about it and were clearly trolling anyway.

It's objectively true that companies make these decisions because they think it will make them more money. Whether or not they're correct to think that is sometimes in question, but that is almost always the rationale behind it. Very few corporations (especially large media ones) are actually altruistic enough to do something they expect will cost them money for the sake of what they believe is right.

DietSchmendrake posted...

Spoken like someone who hasnt lived it lol. If you live in a REAL low income neighborhood, crime affects you every fucking day of your life.

I've been on both sides of the spectrum. It's the exact reason I have no compassion for the lower class.

adjl posted...

Outside of really extreme cases

adjl posted...

You always did have trouble thinking in moderate terms.

You're making this much easier than usual. I appreciate it.

I'm not familiar with the source material, but Gaiman is my girlfriend's favourite author, and she really liked it. I picked up a few episodes here and there and it seemed pretty good, though hearing Jenna Coleman's voice here when I'm also playing Xenoblade was a little trippy.

Far-Queue posted...

It's crazy how underdeveloped the mass transit system is in the US. Literally crazy. A robust rail system coupled with strong support from shuttle and bus lanes, as well as other alternatives to commuting such as allowing for working from home would improve things dramatically

The statistic that got me was that during the first lockdown, when car traffic dropped off dramatically, the US actually saw a significant increase in the number of fatalities per mile driven. It turns out that the only reason more people aren't killed while driving is that traffic is usually too bad for people to go fast enough to kill each other. All that infrastructure that can ostensibly handle higher-speed traffic only functions safely when it's all so jammed up that nobody can actually go those speeds, which isn't surprising because so much of it is just oversized "stroads" with way too many cars trying to enter or cross a stream of traffic that's trying to move quickly.