Vespair @ Vespair @lemm.ee

you're probably an idiot. I know I am.

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Hot take, but with so many actual sexual assailants and literal pedophiles in the world, I will just never be able to give two shits about what Leo does or does not do with other legal consenting adults, sorry.

Reminds me of this modern classic: https://youtu.be/Cf2Q-McO_Fw

Why is there steak at the steakhouse??

God I can only imagine!

What's 100x more annoying is when you type a real word but they decide you must have meant something else. That shit makes me bonkers

I suspect you know this already, but the slow walk and slow crawl moments are actually discreet loading screens. The alternative would be always having normal fast movement but then facing black transition loading screens.

Not that I'm stoked to defend FF7R, which I think is a bad bastardization of one of the greatest games of all time, but the slow loading transitions are arguably one of the things FF7R actually does right.

It's actually a reference to a major US-based robocall scam; see my other comment.

From Knowyourmeme:

“According to an NPR interview from April 2021, phone scams about “your car’s extended warranty” started in the United States in 2007. A company called US Fidelis started a robocall campaign in 2007 that was legal but deceptive. Within the fine print of the extended warranty contract they offered was a clause that exempted US Fidelis from paying for a car’s repair in the shop. US Fidelis preyed on people who answered the robocall and signed the contract without reading all of the fine print.”

In America a "popular" (see: frequent) scam phone robocall campaign became so ubiquitous in/around 2007 that almost everyone has received the call at least once. From Knowyourmeme:

"According to an NPR interview from April 2021, phone scams about "your car's extended warranty" started in the United States in 2007. A company called US Fidelis started a robocall campaign in 2007 that was legal but deceptive. Within the fine print of the extended warranty contract they offered was a clause that exempted US Fidelis from paying for a car's repair in the shop. US Fidelis preyed on people who answered the robocall and signed the contract without reading all of the fine print."

And again, merely referencing something isn't a substitute for humor. This is still a shit meme despite the lore.

Call me the fun police, but I have never once laughed at a single extended warranty joke. To me this is the same the stupid John Cena you can't see shit or the dumb pretend outrage about pizza toppings.

These pop culture things that have the cadence of a joke but nothing to offer beyond "hey remember this?" just feel so pointless to me.

I feel grinding is kind of the point of Pokemon games, tbh. Without needing to grind, how long would it take to just steamroll through the story, a few hours at most? Even as is with the difficultly assuming grinding, people are still speed running gen 3 in under 2 hours

I love these polls that report on obvious conclusions that don't require polling.

Like yeah, no shit. The problem is the people holding the reins of power couldn't give two shits what the American public wants or thinks.

I hope that you are incorrect, but fear that you are closer to correct than not, sadly.

I have a similar, albeit slightly less doomer, view currently. Focus on the safety and good of your community and loved ones, and remember that nothing is guaranteed to us. Do the necessary good steps like voting and protesting, but don't be naïve enough to think that's the whole of necessary action or a magic bullet to solve the problems. Do the good, but focus on the real workable action in your direct sphere of influence. Cheers.

People keep saying this, but WHO?

Who are you talking about?

Who is this "somebody" you keep talking about showing up to save us?

Look, nobody is coming to save us, and asking somebody else to risk harm on your behalf is selfish.

If we object, it isn't on somebody else to show up and save us, it's on us.

If you aren't willing to make the moves yourself, who the fuck are you to ask somebody else to.

Nobody is coming to save us, folks. It's either us, me and you, or it's nobody.

This seems to apply to a number of speech impediments, as "rhotacism" is the term for people with difficulty saying R sounds and apparently "stutter" is a particularly difficult word for people with stutters.

I would have pre-ordered Civ7, but then they announced it has Denuvo so now instead of pre-ordering I'm just not going to buy it at all.

Fuck denuvo and fuck corporations who think their customers should just bend over and accept whatever bullshit they offer for the "privilege" of playing their game.

There is so much good indie gaming content these days, we don't need these abusive mega-corp games.

Star Trek is and always has been deeply and inherently political

Yeah I'm 84 and absolutely think of myself as a 90s kid. I mean, I have zero memories of 80s.

I choose to watch dubbed with sub captions. You often get two different translation attempts that way and I think between the two i occasionally pick some some nuance i may have missed had I only received the sub or dub translation alone.

After almost 30 years of anime and foreign content watching, I have consumed tons of content subbed and tons of content dubbed, and still regularly watches subbed content for huge amounts of no-dub content out there, and have concluded that dub + sub is the overall best experience for me by far.

That being said. I don't personally care how any other person consumes their content. If you want subs, that's cool. If you want dubs, that's cool too. But I'm sorry, all you anti-dub folks, you are not cooler, better, or smarter for listening to voices in a language you don't understand. It's a preference. It's fine to prefer subs, but it genuinely does not make you or your experience superior.

Edit: typo