[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Just like the far-right of the west, they believe in rule by perceived merit. They just have a different idea of what merit looks like.

Unfortunately, rule by a small privileged class is oligarchy at best, fascism at worst, regardless of what system of merit you use to define who should rule. Not that they'll ever grasp that.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

.mk lives rent free in their heads.

9/10 times it's someone from .ca

You don't even need to work to find the projection. He just offers it up.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Canada has in fact deeply fucked up with it's indigenous population, though the specifics of just how deeply the graves left by the residential schools go is something that seems to shift every time I dig into it. There's no debate that the Canadian state killed a lot of indigenous people's though.

However, that doesn't have anything to do with correctly identifying the Russian disminformation machine. Even in some kind of "whataboutism" argument, Canada has legally taken blame for those deaths and created the entire Truth and Reconciliation movement to start trying to set things right. Comparing Canada saying aloud "we have fucked up and we want to fix it" to any state-run media in Russia is just laughable, at best.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 180 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I trust whatever committee they have at the Olympics to make the judgement on this, but if our team is cheating, fuck those guys.

Yes, there's some redactionist arguments about how it "doesn't actually impact the rock," but fuck that. We have a codified rule that specifically says you can't do it, and these athletes are playing at literally the highest level that exists. They know better and have had time to practice better. If they're cheating at the Olympics, I hope it follows them forever.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 222 points 11 months ago

The executives, investors and accountants making the decisions that are ruining games are not millenials.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 197 points 1 year ago

You heard it here first, ladies: the left knows how to eat pussy. You're welcome.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 144 points 1 year ago

And he shamelessly admits that the end goal is state managed slave labour...

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 200 points 1 year ago

This is literally my "message received" emote.

If people thought it was rude, I'd be fired by now.

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Apparently "nationalism is bad" is an uncivil take. Unless there's another reason someone would ban this comment... ๐Ÿค”

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 168 points 1 year ago

The only people this was a "secret" too are people who weren't looking or listening.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 164 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about"

Should we call it a fallacious call to authority, meme on it for being a "how do you do, fellow gamers" moment, or simply mock the guy for whoring himself out in favor of daddy corporate? I could write an essay on the ways this is an absurd statement.

Gamers hate Denuvo because it doesn't "simply work". It limits paying customers from accessing their content, bogs down mid-range machines that are already overtaxxed by poor optimization and, in admittedly uncommon cases, full on breaks some games until patches and fixes roll out. Stop pretending that "gamers" are out here rioting because they're too cheap and immoral to pay for content. Quit your fuckin' lying.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 132 points 2 years ago

How much less bullshit PC players are willing to put up with compared to their console counterparts, apparently.

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So the situation is this: I am a junior high ELA teacher and I want to bring some videogames into the classroom. What I have to work with are the students Chromebooks. At first glance, I figured I'd throw some short, playable without install games on some flash drives and we could play through whatever game it is, and then talk about it like any other short story. Bring in the relevant terms, connect it to the course outcomes, easy. Then I began to learn the limitations of Chromebooks and how challenging it can be to run Windows .exe's on them, or find games that run natively on a Chromebook without installing.

Getting the rights to install anything on these devices is functionally out of the question. The request would have to go through the school board. Even if they agree that it's a good idea, the practicality of giving me the rights to install things without opening it up so the students can install things and without consuming an inordinate amount of class time in just setting up is unlikely. Ideally, I need games that can run on a Chromebook without running an install, or games that run in browser.

I'm googling around and considering emulator options. If anyone has experience in playing games in these circumstances, I'd love some options and insights. Additionally if people have recommendations for games that would be particularly good (narrative focused), I'd love to hear them. It's 2023; these kids don't need to learn what conflict is through short stories written by white men in the 1920s. With all the push towards student-focused learning and differentiated education, I want to start giving them choice and breadth in how they take in these concepts.

Thanks in advance for anyone who gives me their time and expertise on this.

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 261 points 2 years ago

This is actually a super fascinating example of the way data can be displayed in a technically correct way to lead the viewer to completely invalid conclusions.

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