Charging premium AAA game prices for a product with worse quality and longevity than the original disc?

And you wonder why people turn to piracy?

It was inevitable. What was happening is that women were sending one word replies to men so men would still have to make the opening gambit. Two things that women in general hate - making the first move and rejection. Bumble was never going to override the biological firmware.

Those "misogynists" have really hit a nerve, haven't they? It's as if they've discovered an uncomfortable truth that would destroy the foundation of society the Australian Government would like to preserve (gynocracy) if it was mass communicated.

This may also be a reaction to the stabbings at the Westfield mall recently where the protagonist was a single male.

As an aside, is this the same Albanese who wanted criticism, scrutiny and parody of him to be wiped from the Internet?

The authorities do seem very keen to clamp down on the concept of male self-determination aren't they?

"Creepy" depends on the attractiveness and value of the man though. I suspect this woman sees the men who flirted with her as beneath her.

Heterosexual men find women attractive? I'm shocked. SHOCKED I tell you! Well, not that shocked.

I think what she meant is unattractive, low value men are flirting with her. The concept that a man beneath her level is doing makes her doubt her value and self-esteem and it is that which causes offence.

I've noticed more rule creep and a desire to ban the more egregious individuals to clean up the website. On another community they've just clarified their rules on no derogation of individuals based on inalienable characteristics or ideas (ideology).

I'm guessing that as a website needs to attract income, it needs to become more milquetoast and inoffensive to appease those paying for it (the advertisers in this case).

Uncomfortable truths tend to cause the most offence of anything you can say. Jeremy just found that out.

hoe_math says the same thing, so consensus is growing even if we still have 70-80% of adults in long term monogamous relationships.

I suspect the likes of AI girlfriends, dolls and any other outlet for companionship and release outside of a committed relationship will be lobbied against by feminists and banned by Governments. Take a outright ban on pornography, we're seeing the first tentative signs of this by the UK Government and where they lead, others like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the EU and even the USA (it will be exempt from the first amendment) will follow.

They would rather drop out altogether or even engage in a same sex relationship or polyamorous harem before considering "settling". A problem now as childless women are outearning their male counterparts and getting affirmative action in education and employment which leaves men at a disadvantage plus welfare, the destigmatization of single motherhood and alloparenting. There is no longer a need for a "beta bux" to settle with in a dead bedroom situation.

If virtually every man is telling you you're beautiful and filling your DMs, you too will also think you're a ten. Apply this to every woman on social media and dating apps.

What about high value men (a.k.a. "Chad") who always seem to be the men left remaining in all the feminist movies and novels published?

The "pile-ons" aspect seems to be a criminalisation of criticism and accountability. That's always been one thing the Government has wanted, a Lese-Majeste law.

I fear countries will splinter off to form their own national Intranets with strict controls on what data goes in and out of the country under heavy surveillance under the arguments of "safety", digital sovereignty and digital border checks.

Or worse still, implement a state regulated FCC style national Intranet with strict controls of what data goes in and out of the country - digital sovereignty and border control as it were. Beside those authoritarian regimes that have or are implementing it, Australia looks to be leading in this regard followed by the UK and the rest of the Commonwealth.

The whole point of the UK's Online Safety Act was not to protect the public as a whole but to prioritise the safety of women and children. You're right in being deeply suspicious of this act and the potential for mission creep.

Likely so. Women allow the top tier of men to break rules while your average man has to obey the rules and below average men don't have rules because they're ghosts who don't exist in their minds.

Maybe. We'll have to wait and see.

You're dealing with advocates who believe a woman can put off starting a family until she's 50. Seriously. We know that's nonsense unless you go down the surrogate/adoption route but they're dead serious.

Now add the problem of house building taking place with new couple and family households requiring 2+ cars. Councils are more than happy to make these new housing developments get built for all that lucrative Council Tax cash they'll recoup from the new households. The problem is, they've failed to invest in the transport infrastructure that is required to keep traffic flowing smoothly at busy times. Cue gridlock at busy times and it isn't going to get better. If anything, drivers are choosing to drive around the problem so the gridlock just spreads outward.

This is why you're seeing congestion charging and ultra low emission zones, they're an acknowledgement that the local authority failed to invest in the transport infrastructure and are now pricing the poorest off the roads in the hope they can reduce the number of cars. What it does is price the working class out of jobs and adds overheads to businesses who pass those costs onto consumers.

It isn't black pilled if it is a calm reading of the facts. It's just reality.

And it won't just apply to Australia. Or even the Commonwealth countries either.

There seems to be a competition between all the Commonwealth countries as to which one can be the most Orwellian and dictatorial. Whether that is New Zealand and their brutal lockdown regime during Ardern's tenure, Canada attempting to destroy the livelihoods of protesters against Trudeau, the UK's Online Safety Act to protect women and children or Australia who wants to impose their jurisdiction on the whole world 'for your own safety'.

Not that non-Commonwealth countries are immune. Such as Brazil wanting to ban X.

Based on Krassenstein's logic, all drunk drivers are not responsible for any actions behind the wheel because the second they get drunk, they lose all accountability and responsibility for their actions and it becomes the fault of the sober driver(s) on the road they crashed into. Right?

"Creep" is the new "incel". Designed to destroy a man's social standing and perceive him as unattractive, anti-social and criminal in the eyes of the public. At a time where Governments are being lobbied to deal with "creeps".

Another term that will be grossly overused to the point of losing all meaning.

There is a growing desire from a number of talking heads on social media to demand the Government raise the age of consent to at least 21, I've even heard 25 being mentioned. And the same people also want a age of consent window where age gaps would be outlawed.