Was willing to buy the “oopsie daisy! The symbols displayed incorrectly” defence, but admitting that they KNEW the issue existed, put two of them side by side, and then doubled down by basically saying “one bad egg shouldn’t spoil a perfectly good rune”, then not sending the offending email to German customers is baffling!

Time to demand a few refunds I think. Can’t support any justification for promoting fascism.

I wouldn’t be sad about it honestly.

These images have been sold as overpriced fridge magnets in souvenir shops across Australia since at LEAST the 90s.

Vintage analog memes from the land downunder.

they’d either be idiots or snakes

They have proven themselves at this point to be both.

You’ll have to forgive me if I don’t believe that those fuckers are being honest and open with our data.

HL 2 released over 20 years ago. In that time there have been multiple spinoff games, comics, fan theories, convention panels, and interviews that have added to the ‘lore’ of the series.

Consolidating all of that work from different authors, and requiring it to please fans who have grown up playing the original games and internalised its story is not an easy task. You can’t tell me that there wouldn’t be some ‘1/10 unplayable’ controversy because the writers forgot that Gordon wipes back to front and that’s integral to the 2003 arg web-blog backed fanon that his stank balls are what will defeat the Combine.

I do not blame the guy for not wanting to put himself through the trial-by-neckbeard.

Uses:

• Pregnant women who would like a sugar-free cola beverage but can’t consume large amounts of caffeine.
• People with anxiety, insomnia, or other conditions that are worsened by caffeine who would like a sugar-free cola beverage.
• Anyone who would like a sugar-free cola beverage without caffeine?

Mind your own and let people enjoy their lives (and their sugar-free cola beverages).

You are expecting the people who rely this heavily on AI to know how to actually use a computer?

When do we start blast mining the properties of Fortescue execs?

I would continue to engage with their concerns throughout the process, of course; And pay the 0.0018% fine of my net worth as precedented in this case.

While I agree with your point hat parents need to shoulder a lot more of the responsibility, there is a huge difference between the internet of today and the internet of even 10 years ago.

I grew up online and turned out fine, but I also didn’t have my entire digital identity tied into several social media sites whose only purpose is to make money out of my existence with predatory practices. I didn’t grow up in a world where all communication happened through these sites, and not being on them restricted my access to real world people and businesses. I didn’t grow up in a world where YouTube specifically and deliberately fed me dangerous content in a steady stream because foreign weirdos gamed the algorithm. Sure, I saw the odd beheading video but those links usually came from a real human being.

Imagine someone telling you that they were published in the WSJ, and this is what they show you.

Opinion piece or not, how pathetic.

Nidorina.

It’s one of the first Pokémon in gen 1 that isn’t recognisable as another creature. It feels like the first ‘monster’ you really run into.

I also caught one early in my first playthrough, and didn’t find out about the moon stone evo until very late game. I just thought that Nidorina was the final form. By the time I learnt, I was kind of attached to the middle form.

Yes, the late 90s. Notorious for its lack of racism and misogyny.

Crime rates in black communities were down! Just ignore the increase in arrests and incarceration of black people due to a push for an increased police presence in “bad” neighbourhoods.

Women had the world in their hands! Just ignore that time when the president of the United States took advantage of an intern sexually, and SHE was the one that was vilified for the encounter, while he is still remembered as a chill guy.

There have always been racism and misogyny in our world. If you think there wasn’t, you either weren’t there, or were very white and male at the time.

If I am hiring someone, I want to know that when the internet goes down that they can still do something. I want to be able to talk to them about the job without having to wait for them to run my requests through their robot. I want people who can think, not rearrange words based on an algorithm.

And if I was feeling less generous: Bob learned how to ask a robot to do his job? What the fuck do I need Bob for then? Just give me the agent he trained to help him, and he can go find a job somewhere else.

Learning how to use an agent is not “useful to society”. It helps Bob cut corners, but doesn’t extend him. How does society benefit from a summarised email?

For me, I just don’t see it as the step towards a bright future that it cone was.

So we reinvigorate the world’s interest in space missions, then what? Every iota of evidence from our own planet tells us that businesses are going to own the moon, mars, and beyond. Wayland-Yutani is more likely than The Federation.

I just can’t get excited about another frontier for Musk and Bezos to rub their stanky dicks all over.

All of these things are achievable without paying YouTube.

I disagree.

Interacting with the new show, even through piracy, leads to more voices talking about it and making Rowling’s cash-cow culturally relevant. It also normalises the shit takes she pushes through her stories at children.

I don’t like Ben Shapiro, and wouldn’t pay a dime for his streaming service. But pirating Chip Chilla to show to my kids still gives him a say in how me and my family view the world.

Why does Rowling get a pass? Because I happened to read her racist, classist tripe when I was a kid?

While I agree that corporate lobbyists are a negative overall, the oil, meat, tobacco, alcohol, and gambling world (just to name a few) have been destroying our world by lobbying politicians for decades. This is an issue that is not going away.

If a company wants to lobby for lgbt rights, HIV research, and access to IVF, they are my least hated lobbying group at the moment.

They’re all run by psychotic dictators, but at least Pooh bear isn’t threatening entire countries over twitter…

What a bar Donny has set.

The game came out.

It was great.

The devs worked on additional biomes, features, and updates.

They were also great.

The devs decided that it was time to shift focus away from a game that they feel is as complete as it needs to be right now.

‘Fans’ throw a temper tantrum.

The devs have been very open with communication throughout development and after. This feels like fans forming a paradoxical relationship with a development studio and getting butthurt when that relationship isn’t two way.