Don’t forget the whole discussion started about a movement to change the law. That’s what SKG is, thats what Videogames Europe is scared of.

We have a chance to change the law here.

Ah yes, I remember Obama getting impeached for bombing Syria.

And for that matter, Trump getting impeached for killing Soleimani, the leader of Iran, while he was in Iraq.

This is Google Ngrams, and the exact results can be found right here. It charts the frequency of a word or phrase occurring in all literature in Google’s library, by publication date. You can make interesting inferences about the popularity of words. Also, try two words, phrases or names separated by a comma to compare them side by side.

It’s really cool but people have stopped talking about it much since it came out years ago.

Maybe “unique” would have been better. I did have a lot of fun with this one back in the day though.

I’d youre serious about the multiplayer, you really have to commit to using in-game chats only, which is kind of silly in the era of Discord. A big part of the game was that you needed to capture communication towers and stay in range of them for radio contact (literally, to enable voice chat). When Xbox Live added Party Chat, it made it trivial to cheat this. Or more like, it was extra work to exit the party chat you were probably in just to play the game as intended.

I can guarantee you’d find some African Americans who would say, notwithstanding some social issues, that things were better before manufacturing moved out of the US EG in Detroit.

Fascists were super happy when they fomented riots and tried to assassinate the other guy, but they were super disappointed when they lost and started getting their people and propaganda removed from government.

I mean, you’re on here. So obviously yes.

Hey, remember when a bunch of “mainstream” republicans endorsed Kamala over Trump?

Those are the ones who historically opposed lowering drug prices.

Really makes you think.

I mean, I do, but I voted for trump.

Feeling pretty OK so far.

And notably, it looks completely different from the original concept (which would have just been a management game) so its safe to say the original got scrapped, they just liked the theme enough to make it into something else.

Yeah, if the end consequence is creating a giant database of photos of US ID’s (and storing which accounts theyre associated with as a nice bonus) then that is, in my opinion, not great.

I understand Discord is already rolling out ID verification in the UK and their solution is to use a 3rd party service (you send them your, they just send discord a "is over 18? YES/NO). Personally I don’t think thats much better but it won’t be Discord’s own liability when they find out call center employees in India or Vietnam are using the images of your ID to sell online or something.

As far as I understand, trans people are still a protected class under other statutes on the UK, but basically just don’t count for any laws like “50% of company board members must be women to receive this tax break”.

Which, idk, seems reasonable to me.

Ironically, thats the exact idea behind the whole trade war thing. It has lead to TSMC already accelerating their plans to expand the Arizona microchip fabrication lab, which means… Factory jobs, the thing we used to have in the 70’s.

More like Facebook worked overtime to tip the 2020 election towards Biden and Trump is still mad about it.

Well, FOIA requests revealed Facebook was extremely cooperative with both enacting government censorship requests, and keeping them secret, when those same censorship requests would have been utterly illegal if they were an official order, so…

Some deal like “You give us control over information and we leave your monopoly alone”, even unspoken, seems to be the gist of it.

Based on the age of the original, they probably toned down the one gay/bi party member a lot.

I think in the west, we mostly only hear from the government, and not regular people because they don’t speak English and aren’t on western websites. Regular people probably have a lot of the same concerns we do. Of course, the government wants to increase total productivity and don’t care if it causes an upset for regular people.

Keep in mind, one example of “more productive” to the Chinese is passing AI generated bullshit through as peer reviewed academic articles, like nobody is gonna notice the rat with a dick larger than its own body.

So I’d say people who care about ethics, or academic integrity, or whatever, still have something to worry about. China just doesn’t care.

I don’t understand why Linux users are like this.

Go Ross Go!

Disappointing to hear, I liked Obduction and Firmament both.