Good old Poes law.

That person’s exact phrasing was how the right responded to any attempt to come up with a solution to a recent mass gun violence episode

I understand your point but that feels a bit like a zero sum game.

If people like zone out action games, and those games are made and sell reasonably well, and people enjoy them… Isn’t that fine?

Yeah maybe it’s shit quality for the amount of money/talent behind it and it could have been better etc… But that feels a bit like people who play every cod version ever complaining about indie games having “bad graphics” or being too hard etc. They’re different games for different audiences.

Yeah fair point.

There’s probably studies/data on some of this, but for a thinly veiled argument that people use in bad faith I wasn’t going to go that in depth.

The one “truth” is that it “reduces the risk of cancer”… Because technically chopping anything off reduces the risk of cancer, because that thing can no longer get it.

However foreskin cancer is not exactly a high cause for concern, and by this logic cutting off your ears and nose would be more logical.

It is very hard, without writing a mini essay, to convey all the relavent context, tone and meaning via a text based comment.

Often what people write will end up being interpreted differently by people reading it and different to your intentions.

Also the, for lack of a better term, “dog pile” effect really matters. If the first few people down vote you, that changes how successive people will interpret your message. “Maybe it seems harmless but it’s -3, so I might have missed some context and it’s more nefarious than I realised” etc.

The older stickers look brand new. Even if that car had been around then, they’d be super faded

The nazi salute is the same time they’re talking about though…

And the stock is starting to tank, because the earnings are shit, but they’ve been way below it’s valuation for ages

Wait you finished?

On one hand… I get it. On the other hand, massive protests against touring South African sides during apartheid helped bolster public understanding and support for bringing it down.

Like, should Russia and Israel be allowed to play?

I thought switch 2 games were also essentially Download only? Like you got a cartridge but it was just a means to download the game, rather than the game itself

I mean… 3600 is 300 dozen

I mean, I expected the son of a royal to get off Scott free so I’m pleasantly surprised.

Kind of ironic, since their big breakout was The Walking Dead… But they did die, and then they came back from the dead a bit later, a shell of their former self

It’s often a red flag of emotional problems as well

Wooowwww… This is an insane generalised judgement.

Totally agree. The gameplay on TLOU 2 is some of my favourite gameplay.

TLOU 1 was amazing the first time when everything was a surprise. I enjoyed playing through it again on the remastered/ps5 version. But I’m also a huge zombie story fan in general.

But getting to TLOU2… I didn’t have high expectations because online was so toxic about it, but I really enjoyed it. Much more than the first one.

This was why I loved TLOU 2. It blends both things perfectly. The gameplay was amazing. I look forward to the next fight to test shit out… But also, I really want to see what happens in the story.

I feel like the matrix 2 is similar to jurassic park 2. Very clearly inferior, but enjoyable enough to not be a complete waste of time.

I’m saying that, I’ll say that JP 2 is better than matrix 2. I’ll happily watch JP 2 again, probably with my kids at some point, but if not then on my own… But I would be happy whether I see matrix 2 again or not.

removing individual freedom is never good

I generally agree that prohibition doesn’t work, and is bad, but having an absolutist position like this is usually problematic. For example we have to restrict some people’s freedoms. Like some people want to harm or kill others, that should not be a freedom people have.

Most things in life have a lot of nuance, which means we can’t usually make blanket rule for things.

In saying all that… Prohibition usually doesn’t solve the issue, sometimes makes it worse, and often ends up hurting people who are already suffering (usually why they resort to harmful substances)

Yeah sorry, meant family guy. Added a quote to hopefully clarify in future

Probes can do almost anything crew can do, and many things that crew cannot.

This take is a little ignorant. But I understand where you’re coming from.

Humans on mars could do almost all of the research that decades of landers and rovers have done in days. They’re also able to make more on the fly decision and pivot in research strategy, technique, and tools used.

The only thing human space flight seems to do is help us get better at human space flight.

In regards to this, a lot of technological advances that were founded or improved for the space programme have been highly beneficial it at least useful, on earth.

To add to all this, I don’t know the figures for modern day nasa research and programmes, but the apollo programme is estimated to have returned $13 to the US for every $1 spent on it.