I loved Blizzard growing up. Starcraft, Diablo 1 and 2, Warcraft 2 and 3. All absolutely epic games.
Now I love to see Blizzard die. Go woke, go broke. They stopped making great games. I hope they die completely. You love to see it.
yeah but I thought kotaku was more for gaming. we have no new normal (nnn) and other subs that cover covid stuff specifically or tangentially.
not nearly enough gaming related stuff here IMO, but I'll admit I don't participate much here
Otherwise it's gotten to the point everything needs so much research if you want it to be halfway decent.
So true. It's such a chore to buy anything anymore. I can't depend on the reviews. I can't depend on the brand or quality of the item. I can't depend on the seller. I can't depend on the e-commerce site. No one has a reputation at stake. And yet for a lot of products, I'm effectively trapped, since now I can't really get a lot of stuff locally.
I've been shifting my electronics (and a lot of other kinds of purchases) to Costco since I know I can at least rely on their return policy, and I know they at least try to stock decent products.
Part of the challenge is that historically, women never raised kids in a setting alone. No woman before the last 100 years had to do what you are doing. Kids were raised in the company of many other children, teenagers, other moms, and also men who were around much more. Nearly everyone used to be farmers on plots of land next to their homes. And there weren't dangerous things everywhere, like chemicals, scissors, electrical sockets, etc. You could literally just let a kid roam and hope the wolves didn't get them. If a child died it was definitely sad, but mom wouldn't be thrown in prison, either.
I notice when I'm around my little nieces and nephews, the parents visibly relax and everyone just kind of keeps their eyes open for the kids. It's way more peaceful and I think it's better for the kids, too.
Totally agree, everyone is less fulfilled and less happy. The amount of professional women I know in their 30's who are sad and childless, as well as absolutely hate their jobs is basically all of them.
For men it's simply a trashcan fire. Constant tip-toeing around the tulips. I've been in workplaces where asking a woman to do work was basically considered an act of aggression.
I'll take this opportunity to crowdsource a question I have--what are people's favorite / based movies or TV shows that are actually worth watching?
I've been watching lots of older movies, mostly pre-2000, and really enjoying them. I even started watching the OG Star Trek with Shatner and Nimoy. There's just nothing worth watching made in the last decade.
Firm, clear examples of the slippery slope argument are very helpful in helping people change their minds.
Observing our society going from "gay shouldn't be in the open" to "gay is legal in cali" to "yaaayy gays!!" to "im going to literally mutilate my genitals" was a pretty big deal for me.
Sorry, I know, too little too late, but better late than never I always say.
Stress on capillaries is an interesting thesis, as well as commentary on time to develop issues related to long duration over-stressing the heart. I might start wearing a heart rate monitor to monitor and see.
I feel like such a fucking idiot for taking this stupid ass vaccine. Although I suppose I'd just be thinking it was a covid long-haul issue if I hadn't had the vaccine. I had covid in early 2020.
As a "vaccinated" man, in his 30's, with newfound mild chest pain, I find this extremely frustrating that they would censor this. I'm currently doing tests with doctors to see what's going on, and there is no clear cause, as of yet.
The problem with this VAERS data is that it doesn't seem to clearly show time delay of heart issues following the clot shots. I got the J&J shot in April. Only in October have I started to have chest discomfort. So is this related to the shot, or is this related to something else? Difficult to say. It seems most adverse reactions to the shots occur shortly after injection, as far as I can tell. A 6-month late onset of chest issues directly related to the shot seems unlikely. The "anti-covid" effects of the J&J shot are reduced to from 80% to 3% following 6 months, so I assume that means the shot mostly dissipates, including its ability to damage DNA and my essential organs. But these are assumptions.
Anyone able to share evidence-based thoughts on time delay of vaccine injuries would be appreciated.
In case anyone had a doubt... this is from wikipedia:
Early life and education
Samuel Benjamin Harris was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 9, 1967.[12][13] He is the son of the late actor Berkeley Harris, who appeared mainly in Western films, and television writer and producer Susan Harris (née Spivak), who created Soap and The Golden Girls, among other series.[14][15] His father, born in North Carolina, came from a Quaker background, and his mother is Jewish but not religious.[16] He was raised by his mother following his parents' divorce when he was age two.[17] Harris has stated that his upbringing was entirely secular and that his parents rarely discussed religion, though he also stated that he was not raised as an atheist.[18]