ThunderingJerboa @ ThunderingJerboa @kbin.social

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But this is what her constituents want... Like yeah they are 100% in the wrong but holy shit, they literally voted for this garbage.

I'm not saying cosmic horror is inherently racist but how HP Lovecraft wrote it was absolutely inspired by his racism. Shadow over Innmouth could be seen as a very heavy handed metaphor for Interracial marriage. Also can't remember the actual name of the short story but HP Lovecraft for some reason found the need to point out a Jewish merchant gave someone a cheap or free Necronomicon, it was really on the god damn nose.

I mean I love the concept of cosmic horror but we would have to be blind not to see how racism especially HP Lovecraft version of it was heavily flavored by his bias and racism.

I mean depends on how old you are but before tiktok, kids were getting their views from youtube. I think the ship has sailed since social media has been a part of child or I guess more accurately teen development for nearly 20 years now. Like in those days it was friendster, myspace, etc causing drama.

I'm not here to say its great either just that the target has been moving for the past 20 years now.

I haven't read a ton of Dahl's work as a adult but I have been going through the Lovecraft collection and the racism is sort of baked into the work. I'm not saying throw it out if anything the only thing positive I can say is Lovecraft work probably wouldn't have worked so well if it wasn't his idiotic racist views since in a way a ton of his work is based on fearing the outsider and basically is racism in a super hyperbolic way. I do however agree mostly with your other point that the big problem is supporting currently alive creators since consumption does sort of benefit them allowing them to push their views in the real world.

I mean it depends on what kind of content will be allowed. If we are sticking to text and "small" images only with maybe relying on embeds for larger files like images or video maybe but the reality is hosting a social media site gets expensive. Hell there is a very good reason we will likely not see many competitors to Twitch or Youtube since they are an inherently unprofitable businesses, bandwidth is expensive, heck even storage is expensive. The free internet may be slowly disappearing for better or worse.

I mean at this point its not worth engaging since this is an account that was made only an hour ago and this last argument is so fucking silly.

You are making a fair point, you can enjoy whatever games you want but I see the style of comment I posted all the time. "Ubisoft games are garbage, don't pay 60 dollars for it, just pirate it". That kind of behavior just doesn't make sense to me since again we have a finite amount of time on this world, and wasting it on a product someone see as inferior and just a mere rehash of a game basically from a decade ago is a bit questionable.

It is a bit unfortunate there won't be any attempts for multiplayer in that new game though (at least by the devs, they likely know the modding community will do it).

I mean I honestly just don't get this. People say Ubisoft games are pretty trash, so why waste the time and effort of "Legally acquiring" a garbage generic product?

Hell lets be honest here, I think many advertisers do sway more heavily conservative but the problem is advertisers want stability. Elon basically opened the flood gates to let anything go (as long as he agrees with them) and that created massive change at once. So you have to play the game of pandering to your audience who are likely going to be on the left just due to the left being a far more numerous group and no big advertiser would want an ad anywhere near a racial tirade. Like the higher ups of these corporations can and may be incredibly racist but you don't want your brand associated with it since you basically cut off a sizeable part of your market in the space you are trying to advertise. At the end of the day they want money and they don't want to rock the boat visibly.

Yes, technically. It can be used as an enhancer (elevating an assault/battery to a hate crime) but its not a crime in itself.

I mean to be fair even though corporations fucking suck. Most commercial leases are typically longer than what you would do for residential. So it can range from 3-10 ish years(3-5 seems to be a common number). There is always the option to exit them early but there are typically pretty costly negatives to doing that.

I may need a bit of a reminder when Republicans were the party of "privacy" since I'm fairly certain both parties aren't that great with it. Democrats may be at least more upfront about it but damn republicans love to say they "care about privacy to do " unless its falls out of their "values" then it not about privacy its about banning it and harassing those who dare go against their "Judeo Christian values"

Fun game the only complain I would have is the progression system for gun unlocks sort of suck and is quite grindy. I'm personally a big fan of the unlock system for gun attachments since it rewards good play with the guns you use.