No one except the people involved can say for sure. But general game design of so many AAA games feels like checkbox ticking with no actual vision, and those games are also usually the ones that superficially pretend to be woke. Those games do also often sell pretty decently, because often the dev teams are still competent and can make something fun enough that is also safe enough.

It’s the same as with movies where they just get too big to fail. And then when a movie completely misses the mark, the “anti-woke” will blame it on whatever they think is woke. The vast majority of people I’ve seen talk about it said that the new ghostbusters sucked, but only the “anti-woke” crowd blamed it on the main cast being women. (I don’t watch enough movies, especially the bland safe blockbusters, to have an example i watched, so if this was some kind of right wing reviewbombing tell me - but most of my social media is fairly left biased so I’m assuming it was actually just kinda bad)

And it’s not like they’re wrong, most people will either like or not be opposed to some more diversity/some renaming of a menu option. Myself included.

And to be clear, I’m not saying that this superficial wokeness is making the games worse (or that it’s a bad thing - it’s a sign that the status quo is shifting a bit, and much like the overton window will help push it further). Just that the bland checkbox ticking games will almost always have these elements because it certainly won’t hurt sales. So it’s easy for grifters to say that’s the reason, and if they like a game that has any (superficial or not) wokeness they will ignore it or make up some reason why it’s ok here.

(Also to clarify since I sometimes refer to “anti-woke” perspective here so it might come off differently: I don’t use the term woke as a negative)

Yeah, people are mad about execs forcing shitty decisions into games, and are being told it’s “because woke”. When in reality it’s just that shitty checkmark-ticking games tend to have superficial progressive elements because some marketing surveys or the podcast the ceo heard last night said that people want a gay character.

Some (sadly kinda many) then also take that and start complaining about everything they perceive as woke even in otherwise fine games, when it doesn’t affect the game quality at all. Like the oblivion remaster renaming gender to body type (or sth similar).

I don’t hate on gnome because people can use what they want but coming from windows the UX was so unintuitive i had to switch to a different session without a DE to get rid of gnome. I’m sure it’s learnable and then depending on your preferences pretty great.

I also don’t think plasma is messy though. To me there’s nothing worse than a system hiding options out of the assumption that I don’t need them (see also: windows over time, which is a big part of why I made the switch to linux in the first place).

Other countries aren’t the issue (and in fact switzerland mostly stopped allowing german trains into their network because they were the main reason for delays).

Japan has dedicated tracks for their shinkansen (and afaik for low speed passenger trains as well), whereas in germany ICE, IC, all regional trains, and freight trains share the same network. Different speeds on the same track lead to delays much faster as trains have to wait to be overtaken etc. The network is also operating above capacity (which has the obvious upside of better coverage/more frequent trains, but still we need more capacity). Many parts of the network are also simply old and have not been maintained well - we still have some manually operated signals ffs.

None of this is easy to fix and overall the railway network is still very good in an international comparison, but the neglect of the past 30 years is very obvious and has led to a lot of problems.

I think this every time with gaming lootbox regulations as well. Like honestly, yes regulate it but where’s the age check for buying pokemon cards?

On the one hand I agree, on the other this is sadly born from a safety issue - if there’s even a 0.1% chance of the guy getting aggressive if you turn him down, I’d also rather give a fake number. And due to selection bias of “guys hitting on strangers” that number is probably higher in reality - realistically a high number of women has either had that exact experience or knows someone that did.

And really if this happened to me, while it’d be more disappointing then just getting a “nah not interested” immediately, I think I’d mainly be sad that someone felt unsafe enough around me to do that, even if it might have nothing to do with me in particular at all. It’s not some kind of long leading on after all, and the reasons are understandable.

I long for a world where this just isn’t necessary at all.

Edit: i kinda forgot that the op had the prank part, but honestly I’d probably just think she’s a dick for giving me and apparently a lot of others some randos number lol - still you’re right you should only do that if the guy deserves it for being an ass

I use s-ul.eu for my occasional filesharing needs, downloads are no bullshit you click the link you have the file and never had issues with it. Not sure if storage limits on the free tier are lower than dropbox though.

Oh and you get your own url prefix.

Nah, specifically just repeating the last word/bits of their last sentence vs asking a full question. It’s about when the other person is on guard against you, if they want to tell you everything anyway I can’t see it make a difference either.

I forgot where I heard it but supposedly this an actual psychological trick to get people to reveal more information

If the character’s ethnicity isn’t directly relevant to the story or its message, why does it matter? People of all kinds of heritage live just about anywhere in the world, so a character being from some country doesn’t have to determine their ethnicity.

The good thing is that all sane instances can just defederate and we won’t have to deal with them. They can use the software all they want, and we can shut them out from our spaces all we want.

Origin is irrelevant, the reality of how it’s used today is what matters. Language evolves and slogans are just language.

Theyre more likely to keep the skin economy alive by making people enjoy the game. It’s not like they have no incentive.

But yea I very much agree gabe is not the problem. If every billionaire acted like gabe the world would probably be a whole lot better, even if they’d still waste a lot of ressources. Because at least he hasn’t sold his basic human decency for more money, he just spends his insane amounts of money on excessive luxury. And valve actually takes risks on new products, and is content with their store shitting money instead of trying to make it shit money faster like every publically traded company.

Not really. It should be obvious that not every indie game will be super successful. This is just proof that some random reddit comments saying a game looks boring from an early trailer don’t mean shit, because basically everything will have those.

Human races don’t exist and are a concept made up by racists to justify their discrimination.

I fucking hate this “x is not a race” argument so much for that reason. Nothing is a race.

I think you got lucky then, windows is known to do exactly that. Well, these days it at least gives you a warning that it will do it in 15 minutes or so.

I’ve never even seen a cat with a collar here in germany, standard procedure afaik is just to get them chipped and that’s that.

Every time I read about these things I get some sort of morbid curiosity about how coffee made with them tastes. Maybe I should check some second hand shops. Has the upside of saving someone from buying one to actually regularly make coffee…

Mine say that and then last 2-4 more hours, depending on whether you disable ANC. It helps that the battery lasts around 20 hours in total though. So I do actually think it’s useful.

Bad life rng, I think

For me it got progressively worse for the next 12 years then suddenly better and then suddenly even better after uni. But I’m lucky to have a job that pays well, that I don’t hate, with great colleagues.