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  • The idiocy is that the same people who normally advocate for freedom of speech and freedom of consequences, who oppose what they call 'cancel culture', and who think that you should be able to say anything you want, who don't believe that words have impact - they're the exact same people who are getting all hot under the collar over this, and are more than happy for this particular speech to have consequences.

    You can't have it any which way. I don't condone what Kyle Gas's said, but it's interesting if not disturbing to see who's the loudest in advocating for severe consequences.

    Read up a bit about Ralph Babet and you'll see what a massive hypocrite the guy is.

  • It wasn't too long ago that right wingers were marching the streets in the state of Victoria, calling for the then-Premier to be hanged. One woman who later got elected to the Victorian parliament said she wouldn't rest until she saw him hanging from the end of a rope.

    Guess who didn't oppose those calls for violence? The same people who got their knickers in a twist over this one, that's right.

  • They're not getting deported. The senator who made that demand is on the fringe, doesn't belong to any major party or group, and speaks for nobody but himself. He couldn't have dialled up the histrionics any more if he'd actually tried.

  • He also claimed that he went into politics as a 'sacrifice' for his country - the pay wasn't enough for 'all the suffering' he'd have to 'endure' in parliament and all the work he'd be forced to do. He said he'd be much happier running his real estate business

  • "I always thought there couldn't possibly be a God, with all the evil in the world. But perhaps... all this evil exists because there is a God. Perhaps, yes, perhaps this God just isn't a particularly nice guy. It's possible that God isn't a DJ, but an arsehole."

    "He's probably both. A DJ who exclusively plays Rammstein at a kid's birthday party."

    "You know the saying that God created Man in His image? Well, look around. If you assume that God is an arsehole, it suddenly makes a lot of sense."

    Freely translated from The Kangaroo Chronicles by Marc-Uwe Kling

  • The standalone Gwent version started sucking the moment all the competitive gamers got their hands on it. Then it was all about optimising the game to death, all the decks got streamlined. I came back to the game after a longer break and it was almost completely different, and my favourite faction had been so drastically altered that I couldn't get back into it.

  • Dreamfall Chapters was the first game where I stopped and thought for 15 minutes about a choice I needed to make, and its implications.

    Life is Strange, LiS: Before The Storm, and LiS: True Colors, hve a special place in my heart for their deeply engrossing and moving stories, and for really getting me to care about the characters and their fates.

    The first Witcher game was one that drew me in so much that I immediately started a second playthrough upon finishing the first. I have never done that with any other game.

    Hardspace: Shipbreakers stuck with me for being such an excellent melange of complex puzzle, industrial accident simulator, and poignant satire on the state of labour in late stage capitalism.

  • It didn't just take "Hitler's death" for Germans to be able to vote again. It wasn't a case of "oh look, he's dead, now we can go back to democracy". It took over a decade of political terror and violence, a devastating world war, and one of the most organised campaigns of mass murder and genocide in history.

  • 'Calling out lies' isn't fact-checking - at best it would have turned into a 'your word against mine, who will people believe' mudslinging contest. Fact-checking puts the onus on the person telling the lie to correct it - 'this is false and here is a source that says so'.

  • Re the first part: nobody enters my house if they don't have a key and I'm not present. Re the second part, I don't trust any software-based technology near enough to rely on that kind of stuff without double-checking. . Turn the key, done.

  • So be authentic to the universe. Be authentic to the lore. Nobody knows what 'authentically American' will look like in fifty plus years. And it's still a fictitious city. There is no need for details to conform with any particular city of today, American or not.

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