Sounds like there’s more I’d want to see clarified. What lead him to imply the state was directly working with an advertiser? If an ad was posted on the side of a building owned by a property company, then I’m not sure I see the government relation.

That’s the fucking horrendous thing about censorship. It gets us to think the horrible thing is the ‘word’.

We’re not fucking distressed about the fucking “RAY” sound followed by the “APE” sound, we’re distressed to hear that a man involuntarily pushed his dick into a woman - in the year 2026.

This kind of thing can even distance victims, making it harder for a woman to seek solace by announcing to a limited group online “My name is X, and I was a victim of rape”. Or, in a similar case, a black guy telling a group “You think racism doesn’t exist? A cop pulled me over last week, and I swear I heard him call me a n^^^^r over the radio.” Imagine the level of societal disgust/action that just doesn’t happen because people are taught they can’t talk about these things. They’re distressing? Of course they are!!

On the last note, I’ll only say that I choose to censor the N word because I’m white, and I don’t like designing “valid scenarios” for racists and trolls to get to say it, which they always want to.

Someday I should order a set of superglue bumper stickers that simply say “I can’t read Bike Lane signs!” or similar. My stack would empty in just a few trips.

You’re not alone in never finishing RE1, and I’ve played pretty much every other RE game.

If you’re starved for survival horror, Steam has an expansive indie scene with some really good entries on the subject. I could recommend Crow Country and Tormented Souls 1+2 if you haven’t heard of those.

Not with that attitude.

MAGA are not conscious beings. They’re not anyone’s target. Undecided/apathetic voters are, and you’re again assuming true some bullshit smear campaign, something that will arise for any figure that makes positive statements. Just like Hillary ran a rape pizzeria, just like Abdul protected criminal immigrants.

A feature pretty close to this is built into Trails in the Sky (remake and original). You can set the default launch option to “Resume latest save”. When you do, hitting play on the game skips all startup logos and the main menu, just giving a quick loading screen then putting you right where you saved.

It won’t restore you to the middle of combat or a cutscene/conversation, but it makes resuming pretty flexible. It would be nice to see other games give attention to this functionality, or at least start to fight supporting technologies on the subject of launch logos.

The only note I think can lead to an outlook like this is the feeling that if someone has never made bad mistakes (eg, developing an addiction, falling in with a bad crowd) they don’t develop an interesting story. I could imagine being a woman and meeting a lukewarm balding guy who says “I’ve responsibly maintained my 401k and am ready to consider children” and just feeling uninspired.

So people at least need some vein of uniqueness to their existence.

I just heard a debate from someone that was adhering very closely to the Marx definition: “Under Communism, money would not exist”.

I can’t affirmatively say it wouldn’t work, but it is such a wild move from where we are, I can’t see pushing it on anyone with any assemblance of caution. Socialism can still be a sliding scale, and we can definitely turn it way up in a world where money exists, without any chance of causing harm.

I’m never sure how to feel about lesbians in anime. 90% of the time, it feels like the writers went “It’s been an hour since something pervy happened, and all I have here are female characters. Time to be woke.”

Didn’t think I’d be giving useful advice in a shitpost, but you can actually replace the foam pad of a BOSE headset. I’ve done it before, and it made it a lot nicer for the forseeable future.

Nice to find those on basic search results, but I’d be a little worried about them being too bare-bones. One of them is listed as being a one-dev effort.

Somehow, I have had the opposite experience (not with wine).

“Huh. The ketchup-infused crabcakes? That sounds interesting! I’ll get that.”
“……You want…ketchup-infused…crabcakes?”
“Uh…Yeah.”
“Uh…okay, do you want us to put the ketchup…like, into the crabcake?”
“…??? However it normally comes! It’s…on the menu!”

Have to finish Pro Philosopher 2. If you ever hated how Ace Attorney is two hours of Maya being stupid before you get to the fun cross examinations, this one is more to the point. Rather than solve a mystery, you’re just cornering governmental philosophers using their own arguments and values.

I know of a few painting tools for fun in VR, but what I’d really like is animation.

I spent a lot of time animating keyframes in Garry’s Mod, though it’s sometimes a struggle to translate positions and rotations into mouse movements, as well as think about a wealth of tools that can only take up so much space on the monitor.

If there’s a way to create character animations using VR hands, that might really interest me.

This is an element I appreciated of the WatchDogs games. If you escalate methods slowly, the fascist security forces do the same. So if you use baton strikes, they act the same way, and aim for an arrest that won’t kill off your unnamed character. It’s mostly a way to prefer stealth, since that stays nonlethal and silent. But in an emergency if you start shooting, they shoot back.

There’s also some bits of karma to pre-escalation on their side; 3 guards guarding an entryway is tricky to get through. 3 guards backed up by a giant machine gun turret is actually easier since it’s just a button press.

I wanted to make this, but only as an exercise in demonstrating to “hArDcoRe” gamers that “The hardest game is not necessarily the most fun challenge”.

All I’d do is demonstrate the developer has beaten it, but offer no other hints.

If I understand right, this was the original meaning of the term “outlaw”. You don’t abide by the law, but you’re also not protected by it.

Someone stole your TV? Good luck getting it back!

I found some jobs that’s surprisingly AI-proof: Writing, and artwork!

(Yeah, in case it’s not clear, I am still literally seeing everything it outputs to be crap)

Yeah…unfortunately that act of self sufficiency gets more difficult when I have an electric motor on my back wheel and any maintenance on that wheel requires disassembling it.