Cylusthevirus @ Cylusthevirus @kbin.social

Science and expert opinion should be respected, "your own research" is usua

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How did you miss the point of that line as hard as you did?

but instead they simply gave them slightly better benefits than they had before and still expected to be able to treat them like crap.

Gee, think that might have been yet another pointed joke or are we all deeply invested in the lore of Barbie World now?

What's the essential liberty here, shitposting?

Republican electoral fortunes rely on the Evangelical Christian vote. Without them, they lose most of the time. But in the 70s, some Republican strategist realized they could use them to win, so this happened. It's a worthwhile read.

Basically they realized that here was a giant bloc of people who were kinda easy to manipulate (and pretty racist). That's the Modern Republican target demo in a nutshell.

I just .... stopped playing it halfway through. It's what the game seemed to want, so that's what I gave it. It didn't hurt that the mechanics were bad and it wasn't actually any fun to play.

There's just so much manipulation inherent in the game that its commentary feels cheap for me. It's like setting out a box of knives for your kids to play with and then scolding them when they do. Hey, asshole, you set up the box and put it out there. What did you expect?

It would be so much more meaningful if the player actually had choices within the game. As it was, I decided to go play something fun.

For some opioids withdrawal can be life threatening. There's a distinct contrast between chemical and psychological dependence.

Oh, those must have been massage tanks.

A person reading and internalizing concepts is considerably different than an algo slurping in every recorded work of fiction and occasionally shitting out a bit of mostly Shakespeare. One of these has agency and personhood, the other is a tool.

Mass surveillance and flagrant human rights violations are now """"political reasons."""" In other news, nothing happened at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

I'm sorry but this sentiment is so utterly detached from the technical capabilities and general engagement of the average layman that it bears a response.

Tech savvy people have this awful habit of calling anyone not in our specific field an idiot when they don't do things our preferred way, and it's not a good look. Those people aren't the weird ones, we are. And if you're the sort of person who thinks you've elevated yourself above the commoners because you don't use Google's stuff ... yeah, that and 5 bucks will get you a latte. There are oceans of professional expertise you're not privvy to, and unless you really think you're doing better than everyone at everything, a little humility, temperance, and grace for others is warranted.

This is solid advice. The importance of setting and enforcing boundaries cannot be overstated, particularly when things are emotionally charged.

I've made it very clear that I won't talk with my parents about politics. Mom can't help taking the odd pot shot, but I just deflect or ignore it. I don't engage anymore because there is zero benefit to engaging.

We talk about the things we can talk about and let the rest go. If that becomes not enough for them or they can't respect boundaries, we scale back contact until they do.

I hate the usage of AI here too, but I think this is a fight we've already lost. Stupid LLM algorithms.

This is like asking "can you trust a wrench?" It's a tool. You can trust it to operate within its parameters. The problem is that most of us don't understand what those parameters are; it's a black box. So yeah, if you're gonna use it, use it for low stakes applications are prepare to exercise considerable oversight ... like a harbor freight table saw.

I think a lot of games struggle in their final act. Often it feels like cut content forces writers and developers into conclusions that are unsatisfying because they feel rushed and incomplete. So maybe you're just playing the good bits? Think of the last game you played where the ending felt truly satisfying. Doesn't help that everyone's trying to shoehorn live service microtransaction bullshit into their games.

Ah, yes I can see that for sure. I wondered if you were arguing that the whole genre was racist because it rests on the idea of "fear of the unknown" as some folks seem to be. Lovecraft himself was a shithead, but that's kind of why I enjoy stuff like Lovecraft Country so much.

Natalie's videos explained trans issues to me in a way that completely changed my mind about the whole topic. I'm very grateful to her for putting out that content in a way that my brain could digest.

The entirety of human civilization is deeply rooted in racism, so yeah, makes sense. What I'd like to know is what's especially bad about cosmic horror specifically as depicted in, say, The Mountains of Madness.

What does racism have to do with cosmic horror?