I meant this as general advice, but I appreciate you taking the time to explain it =)
I don't really play online games that much, and I've never played an FF online game, so I don't really have a dog in this fight, but generally speaking, one problem gamers have had at least since the gamergate days is articulating their objections to this character, or that creative choice or whatever, and the lefties tend to glom onto this autistic miscommunication to try to pick apart the arguments, shallowly making comparisons to characters/choices that fans enjoy to make their specious arguments about the 'ism' or 'phobia' they want to hide behind.
The only real advice I can give regarding this tactic is to really think hard about why a character or choice bothers you for a little while, and then take some time picking words carefully, so there can be no ambiguity to exploit.
nah, I wore them in those early months when we didn't know what the hell was going on, but only when I had to for work after that, and I'm ugly, lmao.
But then, I enjoy breathing, so...
...well, I'd better wear a mask...
makes sense, lol.
maybe not...my bad. I tend to assume most actors hired in hollywood these days are creepy weirdoes, though...my bad
couldn't remember, because it had been a while.
sorry, I'm hyper-critical and self deprecating to a fault 😅
how's freecanada doing? I did some (basic bitch) design work for one of the mods over there a while back.
hope my shitty graphics weren't too off-putting, lol
Then there was that 'siren' monster they seemed to be trying to hype people up on and it looks like they've taken some kind of radio tower asset and then plonked it on the character's head.
so they literally ripped off the siren head meme. never got into that one, personally.
#sigh
~|clicks the link|~
That's a shame, I like the site. I mean, at least the code is open source I guess, so someone can spin it off at some point...but still...
...I suppose bitchute will disappear into irrelevance as well eventually. I still think of them as the little video platform that could, but they don't get nearly the number of hitpieces they used to...
thoughts on the minds.com chat feature? I barely dip my toe into this stuff, but it seems to work on windows/linux/android just fine.
I can't say anything on the quality of the security, but minds.com's chat feature is supposedly end-to-end encrypted. I use it with the fiance sometimes, mostly because yahoo messenger died, and I avoid facebook like the plague that it is these days
wasn't there a joke about this in the promos for doom eternal?
even if it wasn't Japan, "shit rolls downhill" is a saying for a reason, lol.
...and don't get me started on the stupid shit they "fix" while a certain network glitch seems to climb from one major version to the next...
Security breaches among other things have happened before through auto-updates
sometimes they're even accidental...
That's only true if you assume that the updates are always a good thing, and this crowstrike situation proves they are not.
and this was (presumably) an accident. What happens when a malicious actor intentionally puts a backdoor or other nasty surprise into an update?
and I wont even get into the elitism of "the idiot consumers" attitude, lol
I disagree. in a business environment, you should be testing updates before you deploy company-wide, and this crowdstrike fiasco is a good reason why.
lol. I stopped updating when every single goddammn update was pushing win10 on me, and my machine literally could not upgrade ( I tried multiple times, and every time, it ended up rolling back).
Then I found out about the crap win10 was phoning home (and their bullshit excuse that it was just "telemetry data," which by the way is a meaningless phrase), and how they were going to force updates, and I said "fukkit, linux it is"
...and now I occasionally remember to update, lol.
not defending crowdstrike, but auto updates are a bad idea in my opinion.
millions of people that had their day ruined over this.
..well, small upshot, it made the last half of my shift a little easier...I basically fucked off for the last two hours of my shift.
The remote folder for the router I was working on was unavailable, so I just cleaned up and fucked off from 1:17 am till sometime after five when I left, so I cleaned up and basically fucked off for the rest of the night, lmfao.
it's their speech advocating for depriving others of their speech specifically.
put it this way. if someone is just an asshole and gets banned, yep, absolutely, defend them. if Harold the Happy Hippy gets on and talks about the "greatness" of communal living, yada yada, sure.
but when someone goes around demanding others be silenced for words they say and then gets hoist by their own petard? sorry, I'm not gonna actively try to get them banned, but I'm not gonna waste time trying to get them unbanned, either...
see, this is where it gets sticky. though. If you advocate for freedom of speech for those who want to destroy freedom of speech, are you effectively protecting the principle?
funny enough, the best way to defang them I've ever found is to be polite and even friendly while tearing their arguments down. They can't deal with it. They can handle anger, they can play victim to snark and snide remarks, but be nice to them while completely shredding their position? they completely lose it.