Initially, yes. And then when it went wrong? They doubled down on it because they WANTED people to be desperate.

A famine in 1845 that was caused by...

"As someone who lived 5 years in ireland and saw the history its absolutely fucking horrible. If you think about it its kinda ironic. Uk occupies a country, controls everything there and commits a genocide. Israel is occupying a country, controls everything there and commits a genocide. By the way as a neurotypical who has autistic family members and friends, in this case what happened is that the irish potato famine got normalized over time but the genocide in gaza is a current event. Also the israel one is political. Third thing is most neurotypicals are pussies, if you spend time with neurodivergent people you realize that a lot of things they say are funny as fuck, even if its a bit raw sometimes."

That was by Altoothbrush in this topic, if you didn't see it.

I'm not Irish, nor do have an issue with Israelis. This whole issue just reeks of "casual dismissiveness" and I'm autistic myself so this hurts deep.

Because if they kill Palworld, that proves they are willing to cross that line and deserve to be destroyed, and they very clearly WANT to destroy Palworld.

If Nintendo actually wins this, I will - as someone who grew up with Pokémon - destroy them as a company. I will slander them into submission if I have to, fuck them if I can't even have a circus to go with my bread.

For some reason my first thought upon seeing this was "Reading Rainbow" and I'm not sure why because I was born in the early 90s.

As someone not familiar with all this, I think what's telling is that she says "sorry" yet plays the victim outright immediately afterwards. If you say "I'm sorry for what I did and I just hope he's sorry for what he did" then that says to me "I realize I screwed up, stop forgetting he screwed up too" then fine. But "I'm sorry" and then segueing into "he hurt me" without an acknowledgement of what you did? Clearly trying to deflect as much blame as possible. The worst part is she's probably doing it that way because the family lawyer advised her on what slander is. Fucking rich bitch flaunting her whiteness, and I say this as someone who looks as white as they come.

That said, a big help is that it doesn't seem like the black dude was spending his time since the incident with business as usual from what the event suggests. That's nothing on it's own, but it lends further credibility that the Karen has no ground to stand on.

I WILL BURN THE GOOGLEPLEX TO THE FUCKING GROUND!

And then people wonder why I have more hope for Star Citizen (currently on Alpha 3.22.x and about to go to 3.23, which will likely involve a big number of features being completed) which has been in development for 12 goddamn years, than I do for Bethesda games. Fallout peaked at New Vegas and 4 was just borrowing from Obsidian's successful design.

Freaking Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky were able to be fixed, this is a corporate culture issue.

Okay, is it just me or is the total global revenue for physical media music less than $2 USD a year? I must be reading it wrong.

So is art itself. I might not name things the same as my inspirations or create anything identical, but I haven't written a single thing that wasn't based on something else.

I don't want the AI being trained on my work either, but that's because I oppose "automated mass slavery"

"Oh, you don't want to be a slave in return for only the most basic of food and shelter? Sure, see if there are any jobs out there anymore, now that robots can do all of it for rich arrogant god complex sufferers like me. Lets lay the new ground rules... You're DISPOSABLE to me. Beg and worship or die." - A designated slaveowner's thought process, 2084.

Stop thinking like a capitalist and start thinking like you're an angry drunk if you really believe LLM should be outlawed. Envy is not a flattering look on anyone, you included. At least protests and riots get shit done, even if that means sacrificing a lifestyle you're clearly only enjoying thanks to being self-centered in your artistic pursuits.

This. Didn't even use my Pixel 8 (then brand-new) until Grapheme OS was available for it (my Pixel 7 Pro got damaged beyond repair in an incident, not happy but though I expect privacy I don't expect a phone to survive ~20G of force) because fuck Google.

Apparently 3 people can't admit George Clooney isn't wearing that shirt to say they're "losers", he's wearing it to say they're evil, and stupid enough that they're doomed to lose because they are ignorant of actual history.

I criticize woke culture for being a glorified PR campaign all the time, but the alt-right can go to hell for all I care. Trump committed voter fraud, he was NEVER actually President. We just didn't find out until after he lost re-election and it was too late for any true justice to actually matter.