Thanks for another weekly reminder why I deleted my Facebook, never signed up for the other social normie sites, and know too well most people are mentally constrained. The types of sheep to make and share drivel like the 'pride flag guide' (insert equivalents from any political alignment) need to be exceedingly scarce at the voting booth.
My main character was a female belf death knight around the same time. The only time I got directly mistaken for a girl (by someone I knew for more than a day) by a desperate dude, I just said "wtf, I'm a guy". I don't think guys choosing female avatars with at least one character was rare, because most functioning people don't overly project and seek representation, relatibility or whatever they call it, from the media they consume. Guys pretending to be girls, however, were rare and notable.
In general tho, I always found it off putting when people are too eager to immerse into an online setting, distinct from deliberately role-playing into fictional settings. Not that far removed psychologically from those who attach too much identity into their professional sportsball team, with a low situational awareness and ability to compartmentalize.
The natural selective pressures you point at have eroded too far with postindustrial civilization. There's the genetic factor and the social factor. This effects native populations even before modern immigrants (insufficiently vetted or naturally filtered) are factored in. Even the assimilated nonwhite, non-East Asian individuals will have descendants with genetics more predisposed towards violence and low intelligence than favorable populations. This is a bad when combined with the welfare state, before the new immigrants you mentioned.
I've decided to sparingly indulge industries that expect tips, except individual businesses that don't fuss over tips. Where I am, that's just fast-food or grocery store deli when I'm lazy. I only get my hair cut every 18 months, so tipping is a negligible fraction of my budget. I used to be a generous tipper until the topic really got popularized, and had to confront that I'm enabling collectively degenerate behavuor. Took a bit to shake off habits indoctrinated by well meaning family.
These specific payment processors and cc companies exist because finance is one of the top govt. regulated industries, in past and present times. If only laws related to "don't commit fraud", there'd be 100s of better banks and finance companies to choose from. We can put a bandaid regulation requiring payment processors to enforce no more than the law, but the unfavorable status quo won't be solved.
18 year old wanting to hook up with a 15(?) year old isn't a big deal. The rest of them, I hope they got solid evidence and not just publicity footage.
Never played Daggerfall, but I am interested in The Wayward Realms and other 90s/00s revival games. Hopefully the team will be able to push his vision forward and secure good funding.
I've noticed that older people in the middle and upper class are motivated by their cohort peers think, and have the FUD (fear uncertainty doubt) sections of the brain react to gossip + headlines. Most inheritance that is passed down is done so without incident and excitement.
One of my unpopular opinions is that well-off parents shouldn't be making teenagers and young adults work crummy jobs at McDonald's, Amazon, etc for access to tuition and other allowances. I even think it's artificial even to make them work a low-skill service or blue collar industry job at a local firm, but at least there's more room for growth, learning to negotiate, and pick up on red flags of bad employers. But really, it's obnoxious when a spoiled brat works a low status job, serves in military infantry (or worse, brags about non-combat roles), etc and grows an inflated ego instead of humility.
Working-class has plenty of idiots, sumbags, and what far-leftists termed scabs; not some ideal to accessorize your kids around. If a parent doesn't want a nepobaby, they need to put some effort into teaching their kid how to carve their own path and instill some virtue during the process. Lots of them have trouble confronting that 90% of society is fake and gay.
Didn't take long for such comments to be made on r movies and others. At this point I want to deport the hundred+ million Americans who bogeyman racism and facism, no inclination to entertain the strengths and weaknesses of the latter. Sowell can provide a clean typography for racism, and regular ass apes are too into superstition and herd mentality.
That's just how many millennials/zoomers talk now. Mid 00's ironic over the top lawls fused with normie vernacular and propensity to posturing/framing over substance. In this case, the guy got lazy and didn't read the room (a gaggle of aligned NPCs is required for this noise to work), nor compose a quality troll script.
This timeline seems off, I thought Israel was nuclear armed before PROMIS was a thing.
The part that made me memorably wince was when Wonder Woman gave the no-effort "you can be anything you want" platitude to that random school girl, during her intro hostage scene. Heck that whole sequence was narratively safe and unimaginative girl-bossing. I don't know if that differed in either cut.
It's my understanding that if Snyder had great ideas, they were shot down by higher ups for being niche relative to budget and target audience. Just incompatible with the production company. The last great conventional superhero movies were the Dark Knight Trilogy and Ironman 1, before Hollywood went overt woke. Even with newer movies that happen to be less woke, the triple A media industry won't take creative risks anymore.
The speech is more nuanced than the headline.
"[Hitler's Government] paid for Germans to have kids". Just bad policy. Worse than the genocides in the sense that all the trojan-horse socialism and state-business relationships, anywhere in the world during the modern era, get overlooked. The harm of the pathogens is just enough to ceaselessly persist.
As for urban based degeneracy and communist elements, schools should indoctrinating that if these things weren't out of hand, there would have been a better alternative to Nazi Germany. If we're going to be depersoning civilians, let's make it fashionable again to make commies the target, not the alt-right.
My long-term observation with charisma is that something good and right will oft be too watered down or inverted upon reaching mass acceptance. Presently, its Western moderate left wing parties slowing down immigration, in a complete two faced manner.
"with no stated expiration date" I still don't see where a EOL date is mandated. Again, I have no trouble with updated truth-in-advertising laws that require disclosures of drm and online dependencies. This petition was critiqued by more than just GrifterPirateSoftware for not just simplyfing, but oversimplifying and conflating distinct phenomenon to the point of practical impotence.
Riff Racer is a failure both on Steam's end, and on the community for not identifying badly designed online dependencies and blasting the devs for it. If deficient disclaimers are common enough on Steam, then Valve's feet need to be held to the fire until they stop being as piss-poor as other app stores. We don't need US federal government or globohomo EU for this.
Where's the negative? I'm capable of only purchasing from GOG, downloading from abandonware sites, staying tuned in to enthusiast communities that care about this stuff, etc. I'm not gonna be 100% successful, nor would legislation be 100% successful.
Customers are supposed to identify hostile software by granting importance to experts that research and publicize said issues. That and only buying from storefronts that offer refunds or credit if a seller isn't being forthcoming. As I've said plenty of times in the past, "customer is always right" (as interpreted by consumers) should have never replaced caveat emptor in the capacity it has.
Live-service games have a readily apparent end-of-service baked in. There's no existing or practical basis for an agreed upon end-of-service date, unless it's in a contract. That's not even shoved under the rug the way single-player games and/or dlc with online DRM will eventually have issues, of which I admit the concerns have substantial validity. When I said the information is out there, I meant that customers are already provided the means to either make informed decisions, or recognize a supplier as shady.
But actually coercing companies to provide an end-of-life date for live-service games leads us to Sowell's three questions; compared to what, at what cost, and what hard evidence do you have? Enough customers are satisfied with existing models for this "elastic good" [1] for the model to continue, while others seek out more reputable companies and their live-service offerings, or forsake this section of the industry all together. This has little to do with the petition's goal of preserving media. In fact, where is EOL date mentioned in the sparse petition, faq, or elsewhere? I have no problem with consumer protection laws merely informing customers that a product or service has an end-of-life.
To address the original question, customers are reasonably capable of identifying and avoiding hostile software without being provided an EOL date. The burden of proof is on you with this very specific claim, that the public is incapable of avoiding hostile software if an EOL date isn't provided.
(I hate the morally loaded and subjectively ambiguously interpretative nature of this term, but it's commonly used to denote human wants instead of human needs)
The information is out there. Customers are perfectly capable of acting on said information. The most successful digital PC games storefront provides clear disclaimers about anti-features. But the issue of a bulk of customers being entitled to their instant gratification remains. Mindless consumers are the primary preventable cause of modern societal issues, and these movements sidestep that.
It's more popular to support a petition than it is to directly tell kids and adults to stop enjoying Billie Eilish (or whoever is current gen Britney Spears) and Call of Duty; mindless consumerism is all connected.
I don't mind truth in advertising legislation. It would put only a dent in the overarching issue. The petition is much more expansive and exciting than that.
Double standards. UK has a concept of impartial rights afforded to scum like John Vennables. The justification has fallen apart as their entire society is strained to unprincipled governance resulting from importing low trust peoples. The British people no longer benefit from that unpopularly extreme attempt at impartial judicial protection.
Yes, people have to vote harder. That starts by restricting the franchise to some earned merit of responsibility. Likewise, communities that preserve software, through greyhattery, should gatekeep the casuals. When there are bandaid laws, there's not only presently abstract unforeseen consequences, but the casuals don't learn to stop being virtue less consumers. Ultimately the more informed remain as enablers when they aren't compelled to enact fundamentally sound change. Mandating companies provide access to their property (copies of software or DRM keys) isn't fundamentally sound. It keeps open the floodgate of public entitlement to private individuals and their possessions.
My contention with these proposals is that they're very top down and narrowly focused. My preference is for broad, extreme bottom up solutions that tackle issues seen and unseen.
Not a fan of this, just like the dozen other center-left tech movements going back 3 decades. It's on customers to not buy hostile software in the first place.
Just dial back copyright to the 18th century, so leaked vintage source code and server software can be utilized without legal repercussions. Maybe provisions that end-user software published by a corporation (in treaty beholden countries) must patch out DRM if 7 years old, else relinquish copyright to specific product. But any positive entitlement to company hosted software, standardized phone cables, net neutrality, etc is swimming in a sea of hidden costs aka unforseen consequences.
The obvious hidden cost is that less companies will develop games, but that is of little concern to me. My everlasting gripe with any kind socialized government action is that the public's ability to adapt is always hampered. Power shifts from common people to big organizations and the well-connected whenever the common people are "protected".
Every other comment of mine is about decentralized governance, but I think it again applies. Support for unvetted aliens is NIMBYism more than anything else. Local officials/voters would expel them if permitted to control who can reside, else be overrun by the deportees from other cities. No need for secret police tactics.
His dad's stance emphasized the effect of welfare, free school, etc on attracting illegal or ill-veted immigrants, but that's not enough. The real libertarian stance (which is only decentralized governance and individual freedom/responsibility) is in addition to the national border are borders at the state and county levels. If south Americans wanted to immigrate after 1900, they should have been vetted, permitted to lease a small territory, and either be admitted or ejected based on lawfulness.
This is a personality issue, a person making a series of choices resulting in behavior not excused from a diagnosis. Is anyone capable of providing enough positive reinforcement to fix her? What does she provide for you?
My recommendation, just tell her she needs to not be unreasonably rude when opening up to people, and walk away. If she wants to continue the relationship or seek help, she'll reach out.
Neurotypical or autistic, a deficiency in substantial (versus literal) thinking is a deal breaker to me. I only compromise on this to a certain point. I'm being extreme and broader than just subtle humor. It's up to you if dulling a unique strength of yours is worth it.