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empress-runner

I love you Bamf but that was just dumb

andmaybegayer

watching four people who all haven't played or even looked closely at Disco Elysium talk about why Disco Elysium is bad

(better yet: one person who has played Disco Elysium telling them it's good, and them going, but I heard it's bad.)

barryogg

But doctor, I am op D:

And I wasn't commenting on the game itself, only on the (perceived) effect it has on people I know. I even agreed that the game is good!

throwitonthepilethesecond

In the cold light of day, I would say DE's primary innovation is separating a character's senses, gut feelings, recollections, and thoughts into distinct characters. I don't think I've ever seen one speak against using itself further, perhaps an admission of "i got nothing" at the high end.

theresponseblog

It's always amazing to me to find people here, in a highly-technical workplace, who cannot read words. They can not read words, they cannot read an email and extract meaning, they must have a face in front of them making lip-flap noises before their brains can process communication. I have had multiple situations where I've gone to someone and read my email to them out loud and they say "oh, now I get it," as though all along I'd just been using the wrong words. Like there's a completely different part of their brain that accepts aural input than visual input.

markovchaingang

RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER:

my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm

a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed

always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't

you do not talk about my daughter

barryogg

Holy shit

shieldfoss

and this is from ...?

very-gay-alkyrion

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has issued an opinion to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) that its guidelines abo

Supreme Leader has issued a declaration apparently

brazenautomaton

The Justice Department’s opinion for EEOC helps to implement Executive Order 14281, which rejected disparate-impact liability insofar as "it creates a near insurmountable presumption [that] unlawful discrimination exists where there are any differences in outcomes in certain circumstances among different races, sexes, or similar groups."

this is a 100% factual statement! that is exactly what the disparate impact standard did and why it was so insane. "your business does not have enough black people, therefore, your business is unlawfully discriminating against black people" is a statement that requires you to either believe black people aren't more likely to live in poverty and aren't being failed by the school system, or to believe that neither of those things affect outcomes. it was part of the double bind where it was illegal to discriminate based on race and also illegal to not discriminate based on race. the famous FAA ATC scandal from a few years back was driven by this standard: black people just were not applying to be air traffic controllers, this meant the FAA was racist, they deliberately stopped accepting white and asian applicants almost entirely and gave the answers to the "biographic" test to black people ahead of time so that they could attain the correct racial makeup.

a rare W for this administration

titleknown

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:

Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists

Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.

The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID

The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.

The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate

The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.

New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:

????????

carolxdanvers

Times that Copyright Expansion Resulted In Something Kinda Funny:

When Metallica did a twitch concert and got a copyright strike on their own music as a direct result of their lobbying for copyright expansion

brazenautomaton

You don't have to want to abolish all copyright to see this shit here is a terrible idea! Copyright as a concept is very good for artists and allows art that wouldn't be able to be created otherwise, and copyright expansion is pretty much always a terrible idea that makes everything worse for everyone.

It doesn't even benefit megacorps all that much. But they will keep pushing for it out of a lizard-brain fear of being stolen from in an abstract, nebulous sense you can't pin down. As long as Lars Ulrich feels that nebulous fear, he's gonna think copyright needs to be stronger, even though it doesn't make him less afraid.

prudencepaccard

come to think a lot of things work that way

brazenautomaton

I think "I'm afraid, make a rule stopping the thing I'm afraid of" / "I'm still afraid since the rule didn't work, we must need more of them" is a common driving factor in bad laws. in the Bush era, we "needed" all of these far-reaching powers to fight terrorism, not because they worked, but because we were still afraid of terrorism, so we needed to do some additional thing that "fought terrorism."

if you think waterboarding is inhumane and as a result of that does not work to make us safer, you must be pro-terrorist, you don't support adding Another Thing To Fight Terrorism.

ruinedchildhood

atlinmerrick

I just laughed for one year watching this. The casual walk-off is just deadly.

basicbutch

i just love him so much

yougetsoclose

The different poses really got me 😂

throwitonthepilethesecond

AI, sadly.

garmbreak1

Russia's foreign ministry spokesperson vowed to publish the addresses of all Canadian production facilities participating in the drone deal.

“All pretense has been cast aside,” Zakharova said in Russian, according to a translated transcript. “The full base nature of a state far from being peace-loving has been revealed, but rather a warmonger, seeking by any means necessary to further fuel this bloody conflict. We reserve the right to provide an appropriate response.”

lmao fuck off

brazenautomaton

remember when ukraine counter-attacked once and putin said "the world doesn't care when the bodies lying in the streets are russian!"

russia's government has fucking tiktok main character syndrome. like there's shameless and then there's not even cognizant of the fact other people believe there is something to feel ashamed over.

throwitonthepilethesecond

This is not a defense of russia, but advanced mental gymnastics are a requirement to escape poverty there. "oh I'm not political" is baby stuff, you need to stare at someone being killed in the streets and say "i saw nothing" to get a job, promotion opportunities are contingent on giving your prospective boss iron-clad proof that you are guilty of a crime so he can fire you "for cause" at any time. "We had secret police before we had plumbing" sort of baked-in stuff.

markovchaingang

americans are a saudi oil baron's idea of classy. brits are an american's idea of classy. the french are a brit's idea of classy. unfortunately the chain ends here since the french's idea of classy is also the french

thejesterstears

Damn it’s been a good run but we really are dying for real once the show ends 😔

pinketine

There are actual tears in my eyes rn can you believe people are this stupid and walk among us all the time

boybeetles

mentally-evicted

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on him not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair

isaacsapphire

That, plus I think I need to get a sign to tap that reads, “The average person is an idiot and half of the population is below average.”

brazenautomaton

like everything it depends on what the definition of "political" is

throwitonthepilethesecond

IDK what you guys expected, we have people who wholeheartedly go for "healthcare is a human right and nobody is illegal on stolen land, but my political opponents should be thrown in camps"

"the military is nonpolitical" is a perfectly cromulent position along with "cops won't exist in utopia but i volunteer to be a commissar"

pocket-deer-belly

every time i think about overwatch's orientalism i go a lil more insane. 5 japanese characters all of which are tied to a very stereotypical mythologized version of japan. they're some of the few explicitly magical characters. all of them are part of clans and lineages and shit. every map that takes place in japan is an orientalist fairy land with idyllic old looking villages with shrines and gates and cobblestone and zero utility poles in sight. this game is so incredibly racist

pocket-deer-belly

what's interesting to me is that no other asian characters get this treatment. mei is a climate scientist or something. diva is a gamer. lifeweaver and symmetra are scientist. something about japan specifically makes the overwatch devs get a boner for the image of a permanently ancient magical other, japanese characters are simply not allowed to be contemporary

cookingwithroxy

thank fucking god someone else was thinking this too

diogenesofsin

I don't know... Torbjorn just so happens to be incredibly short, Scandinavian, and an industrious crafter.

Reinhardt just so happens to be a massive German man who is serious humorless and a literal knight.

Sombra just so happens to be a Mexican criminal with ties to organized crime, a preference for machine pistols (like those popularized in 'drive bys') and a soft spot for poor under privileged persons.

Mercy just so happens to be a Swiss woman who is great at science and healthcare.

Zenyatta is from Nepal and physically designed to be evocative of Buddhist, in addition to being a member of a famously pacifist organization.

Like, Overwatch doesn't do any cultures any favors. They are the most watered down, most stereotyped, most trope-laiden versions of the characters they can be-

because that's the point. You're supposed to be able to read the character at a glance, to understand who and what they are about without reading or watching a single narrative-driven second about them, to feel like you know the character just from hearing their random chirps during gameplay.

theresponseblog

I will say that I'm surprised more people don't get upset about how Overwatch's "Mexican" character is a tatted-up MS-13 gangbanger who carries a TEC-9...

diogenesofsin

How long do you think it will be before Overwatch adds a Nigerian Prince who's a brilliant computer hacker?

lordascapelion

Frankly I think everything should adhere to the G Gundam school of ethnic sensitivity

sadclowncentral

so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.

it makes you a fruit.

sumverendus

sandpancakecat

chucktaylorupset

You can’t just call the “don’t stop me now” essay writing method the second worst essay method you’ve heard of and not tell us the story of the worst one 👀

i know a guy whose patented essay writing method is to, on the eve of the due date, set an alarm so early it should count as an atrocity, open an empty word doc on his computer and then placing it on his bed,

he then goes to sleep, presumably after drinking a full can of coke, as his immunity to caffeine, adderall, and the general life choices about to be described prove that (1) this man almost certainly is a colossal case of adhd and (2) that is the least of what’s wrong with him

when the alarm goes off he immediately starts typing into the word document whilst in a sleep adjacent fugue state. once he hits the required word count, he turns over and goes back to sleep, without ever having fully woken up

he awakens in the morning with however many pages of essay typed up and ready to submit, with no memory of what content is actually contained, as if he’d been visited by santa or a mystical essay delivering fairy or a demon that engaged in a brief bout of possession and then peaced out after rightfully deducing that inhabitation of this particular body and its life was a task said demon was not equal to, nor would continuation of this possession constitute as a desirable state

all of this so that he can have the benefits of an essay, whilst completely avoiding a mental state in which he is at any point fully present in experiencing the pain of writing an essay.

This man is now in graduate school.

prudencepaccard

this is how innies were invented