the evolution of life on earth is amazing

reminded of this youtu.be/O2Yea-nuoZs?...

obviously it didn't ruin careers because Greenwald still has one

sometimes people get so mad they only read for keywords and clearly do not understand what they're reacting to

wasn't there a post the other day where someone insisted that this was caused by consumers not caring about quality instead of private equity destroying everything

schools should teach people how to understand when not to be pedantic and not treat people like they don't know what they are talking about because you didn't understand their humor. or not treat them that way because they didn't talk about a topic the exact way you would.

this kind of thing is a corporate strategy. the particular kinds of words have changed over time but the practice itself remains the same fwiw I feel like the article really helps with the absurdity rather than undermining it www.salon.com/1999/11/30/n...

Guess it's not Embracer Group or constant massive waves of layoffs or endless monetization or Bobby Kotick or Randy Pitchford or overpriced PC components due to crypto and then AI or rootkit anti-cheats or lack of optimization in high end AAA games or games being shut down with no other way to play

reminder: the g in gif is pronounced like the g in garage

science journalism could use some serious changes whoever wrote this article got the facts on Jonestown seriously wrong, never mind getting the research wrong to make a bad claim that lack of "viewpoint diversity" can cause mass hallucinations www.popularmechanics.com/science/a733...

nothing in this video is surprising but I think it's still informative

thinking about my abusive ex who had a crash out over the idea of souls like being a legitimate game genre. Ze insisted that no game genre could be named after a game. like roguelikes or metroidvanias i guess. what was really happening was it was a way to pick a fight with me and exert control.

thinking about that Stock piece and how unrelentingly hostile r/disability is to the idea anyone can know whether they really need mobility aids without having a doctor sign off on it.

so like there are a couple of communication styles one of them is people just stating things as an absolute and another is qualifying your statements and people who make both can be equally certain that they are correct and also be correct.

whenever I see skeletons in a video game I judge them against this scene Diablo is always the highest score youtu.be/dqRjDGAJ5dc?...

there is a certain kind of emotion I get when I try to interact with someone online and they switch to a lecturing tone to painstakingly explain something to me that I already know because they feel I need to be corrected on something I never said. anyway if I nope out of an exchange that's why

I'm sure people remember when Republicans started spreading the rhetoric that social media was biased against them and the "bias" was simply rules that were barely enforced against bigotry and hate speech if you want to court Republicans you're going to get hate speech at the expense of others

I recommend taking Mags up on this! I love Long Island Baby

you could have researched this before posting this take. you could find out that it is in fact private equity doing this, and not customer preference. in addition, a lot of people just don't have the money to spend for higher quality goods. businesslawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...

looking at online communities related to dark souls it's fascinating to me how many people inherited their opinions about the game from a YouTuber in 2012. or 2015 for Dark Souls 2. just suggest that the second half of dark souls isn't actually that bad and watch the longtime fans complain

one only tells the truth and one only lies

I think Disclosure Day is fine

the last time I heard about the police solving a property crime it was because a police officer stole a guy's steam deck and got caught.

I need an emoji that means "don't talk down to me"

ten years ago in Washington something like this would struggle for any traction

I have to love Reddit. I said I didn't like the second Inquisition in V5 because it was presented as two powerful with too little friction toward doing what they do and somebody told me that was only the case after a supplement I had never heard of. I was talking about the core book.

I just saw someone call JKR a once in a lifetime genius and I think I might have the vapors also that Rowling will be remembered in 50 years for her amazing work and I feel like if she's remembered in 50 years it'll be for being a genocidal fascist.

the answer is the much neglected concept of transmisogyny especially given that much of Ben Shapiro's "transphobia" is actually transmisogyny. and we should be willing to talk about it rather than flatten it as everyone does.

Personally I don't think anyone should proselytize but this kind of thing just makes it so much worse

I love the redditor habit of replying to tell you that you are wrong and then restating exactly what you said back to you but in different words and then pretending that this means something different