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I can't speak for everyone, but I think more and more people who aren't in the probably 80% of people who could be considered "casual" gamers are disnechanted with and turning away from the AAA industry and looking more and more to the indie scene. The industry is as stagnant as Hollywood, and for the same reasons. Some of the most popular games in the past few years have been projects made by a single dev that popped up out of nowhere.

Looking at my Steam wishlist, the games coming out this year on there are: Hyper Light Breaker, SYNDUALITY, Space Engineers 2, ERA ONE, KAISERPUNK, The Alters, Gravnir, The Necromancer's Tale, MENACE, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (yeah, right), Paralives, Mecha BREAK, Dolls Nest, FBC: Firebreak, and Nightreign (and if that wasn't FromSoft, I wouldn't have even finished watching the trailer).

The only game on there that could even be considered close to a AAA game is a spin-off experimental game from FromSoft, who is really a AA studio that's becoming popular enough to be debated as being AAA.

I won't buy from most of the big companies on principle. EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and Rockstar are all on my shit list for horrible business practices and worse working conditions, and Sony is conditional based on whether or not I have to deal with a PSN account - there were several games I was excited for last year releasing on PC that I didn't buy because they require a PSN account for a single player game.

This is basically the progenitor of all those AI generated Shrimp Jesus posts that Facebook has now.

Controversy for the algorithm god, slop for the engagement throne!

The EU should sanction the US for political interference the same way we've sanctioned Russia.

Except what happens when the rich piss off the ones who hold the leash. Then things get interesting.

The German government may not be so quick to act in cases where Musk's property and companies were the victims...

Ambition requires men to feed upon. It also needs time, direction, and sacrifice. But for every man who fulfills his calling, there are thousands left with nothing.

It's them who knock and open the door to Hell.

I'm feeling pretty merry this holiday season.

The only reason conservatives care about children is because they're too young to voice their own opinion and so can't disagree with them, making them a perfect political tool.

Literally every "think of the children" argument is just broadcasting their own beliefs while trying to cut off any possibility of disagreement or judgment.

TL;DR: "There's nothing we can do, says only nation where this happens."

The prevalence of armed attacks at American educational institutions points to a potentially systemic problem; between 2009 and 2018, the United States recorded 57 times as many school shootings compared to other high-income nations and as of 2019, became the only major industrialized country in which firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens.

https://www.statista.com/topics/12276/school-shootings-in-the-united-states/#topicOverview

In recent years, school shootings surpassed their highest recorded levels, although figures may differ depending upon the source. Since there is no federal database – or definition – for school shootings, data is compiled by independent sources using varying factors to determine what constitutes a school shooting. According to the K-12 School Shooting Database, there were 348 school shootings, defined as every time a gun is brandished, fired, or a bullet hits school property, regardless of the time, day, reason, or number of victims (including zero), in 2023. Since 1966, school shootings transpired most often at the time of morning classes, a time which also accounted for the most casualties. However, not all incidents were located in the classroom; the highest victim count was recorded by shootings taking place in school parking lots, followed by hallways and at the front of schools.

All the money poured into crap like metal detectors and armed guards is security theater, but it's a very real problem with a simple solution: keeping guns out of the hands of kids. Especially white boys. Kids in the US are as likely to be shot and killed as kids in active war zones.

Despite public support for hiring armed guards to reduce the severity of school shootings, there is little evidence of this effect; out of all school shooting incidents identified by the K-12 School Shooting Database, only around two percent resulted in the shooter being apprehended by an SRO.

While it is impossible to predict the profile of a future school shooter, long term studies show that shooter demographics differ by school type. Research on mass public shootings, where four or more people are murdered by firearms in public, reveals that most mass shooters at K-12 schools between 1966 and January 2024 were White, while less than 20 percent were Native American or Latinx. In comparison, almost half of mass shooters at colleges or universities were Asian, followed by 33 percent who were White and 11 percent who were either Black or Middle Eastern. However, there was an equally high likelihood that mass shooters at K-12 schools and on college campuses were ‘location insiders’, meaning they had an existing relationship to the shooting site. Typically, students are the most likely perpetrators of school shootings.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, almost all active shooters in education settings from 2000 to 2022 were male. However, while most active shooters at postsecondary schools were at least 25 years old, active shooters at elementary schools and secondary schools were usually between the ages of 12 to 18 years, suggesting that most K-12 shooters obtained a firearm illegally. The use of rifles and shotguns was also more prevalent in active shooter incidents in K-12 schools, weapons often used to commit indiscriminate shootings, where the shooter targets random victims with the intent to harm as many as possible.

Studies show that indiscriminate shootings occur more frequently in majority-White schools, while shootings at schools which primarily serve students of color are most often dispute or grievance related, such as an escalation of an argument or in retaliation against bullying. However, even though most dispute or grievance related shootings occur outside the school building, teachers in high-minority schools are more likely to report metal detectors or other screening at school entrances. In contrast, majority-White schools rarely reported such equipment, despite having a greater likelihood of experiencing a shooting inside the school.

To be fair, half of them were with his SMG. But all his kills happened in a period of less than 100 days, so he averaged about 5 per day. On his busiest day, he killed 25 Russians with just his rifle.

Horses are Machine-kinds best friend.

I do it when people complain like this about singular they. There's a bunch of literature from the time of teachers complaining about singular you the same way these people complain about singular they. One of my favorite things to bring up and watch the smoke come out of their ears as they scramble to justify themselves.

Somebody just needs to dig up and resurrect the White Death.

Häyhä preferred iron sights over telescopic sights, as they enable a sniper to present a smaller target for the enemy (a sniper must raise his head a few centimetres higher when using a telescopic sight), and can be relied on even in extreme cold, unlike telescopic sights which tend to cloud up in cold weather.

Simo Häyhä, often referred to by his nickname The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 rifle (a variant of Mosin–Nagant) and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. Häyhä is believed to have killed over 500 enemy soldiers during the conflict, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war. Consequently, he is often regarded as the deadliest sniper in history.

Yeah, its purpose is as a generalization of a group of people when referring to them in the 2nd person, but we don't often talk to groups like that, to the point we have to specify when we are. We straight up have to add additional words to the sentence so people know we're using it in its plural form, like saying you guys or you all (y'all).

It exists and we use it, but it's a weird one and we never think of "you" as a plural word.

Which is funny because you probably use it all the time, like in the original meme with singular they. Y'all is short for "you all," after all.

It was exclusively plural. So English pronouns were I, thou, they for singular and we, you, they for plural.

Fun fact about how stupid this outrage is: singular "they" has existed longer than singular "you" in the English language. If you refuse to use singular "they" but aren't using "thou," then you're a hypocrite.

Kids talk about their parents in school all the time. Teachers and counselors are trained to look for signs of abuse and work hand in hand with CPS. My mom was a middle school guidance counselor and did house calls all the time with CPS as well as helping kids get appointments with psychologists.

The largest population of homeless kids is LGBT kids thrown out of their homes. I have a friend who had his ribs broken at the age of 6 when his father threw him down a staircase. These are the kinds of people you are saying schools should be forced to out LGBT kids to. If kids aren't out to their parents, not only is there probably a reason, but outing them is also a violation of their privacy and consent.

Tell me you don't remember being a teenager without telling me you don't remember. If you think kids shouldn't lie to their parents, maybe you shouldn't have yourself. Whether it was about smoking or drinking or just sneaking out to hang out with friends, I bet you lied all the time - everybody does. Now imagine if you had to hide something from the world for your own safety, and the government just said that if a teacher happens to hear that you have a boyfriend, they have to report that to your parents.

Also, you must be downing the Flavor-Aid if you think trans people are that easy to spot 100% of the time.

It sounds like your library is underfunded, but you should check with them anyway because they probably are doing things, you just don't hear about them for various reasons. Local governments love to cut library funds and then use the lack of use to cut it further, and making it hard to know what events your library does is part of that.

My local library suffers from the same issue, but we at least have a community center the town built with meeting rooms and a gym that you can use for events. The closest city just renovated one of their libraries to include a second floor with meeting rooms and a cafe. I think another one had kitchen space added to it.

Churches are really just community space that got a pass from conservatives and capitalists in the rush to commidify every part of the human experience.

Did 2 years of a 4 year degree before dropping out for a myriad of reasons.

I did well enough through high school that I never learned how to put in the effort to really study, and between that and the bad pay and working conditions I saw in the industry I was heading into, I said, "Fuck this, I'd rather go back to selling fish. I'll make just as much for half the effort anyway." I hated retail, but the work was pretty easy and I liked the people I worked with, so I stuck around for 10 years before I had enough and left to focus on another job and trying to start my own business.

Definitely not happy with where I am, but that has less to do with school and more to do with life circumstances like getting hit with a medical condition that knocked me out of the job force for the first 4 years of my 30s and right as I was trying to get my business working for myself off the ground. So now I find myself trying to re-enter work in a new field in an area where tourism is the economy, meaning there's few other industries in the area apart from retail.

I will say, though, that I feel like I learned more after leaving school than I ever did in school, and that education almost killed my love for learning.