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With harassment and death threats? I mean.. you could always just not buy their game. This era of toxic fandom is NEVER justified. Someone makes something you don't want or like, don't buy it.

Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes. 11 Arizona ‘fake electors,’ other former Trump officials indicted in election scheme WWW.AZFAMILY.COM Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Wednesday that grand jury indictments for 11 people as part of an “alternate electors” scheme to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election. lmao owned losers

I was sort of like these people. Destiny 2 being my most played game every year. I kind of broke free around June/July last year and haven’t played it since. Ive kind of just grown a little weary of developers increasing the grind in games to extend or boost engagement numbers, primarily so they can keep advertising their in game shop of micro transactions. Their community managers may make posts telling people to take breaks, but the way leadership is having the devs design the grinds and fomo they know they have a game that is screaming at players “it’s never ok to not play”. Getting a gaming PC really helped. Expensive, sure, but it has seemingly sparked in me an interest in playing other stuff. If for no other reason to be able to crank up the graphics and play at 60+fps and bask in the beauty and performance. But I have gotten into some smaller titles or playing with an occasional mod to make a game experience better that wouldn’t be possible if still on a console. I kind if feel more like I did in regards to gaming 20-25 years ago.

Wow, finally @Greatoneshere admits I'm smart! 🥹

It's good to be open and wanting to discuss things, but when you say things like: "I don't mean to cause a stir with any of it", the reason you are causing a stir is because the things you're saying are softly sexist. Should we not call you out when you do so? You just going: "no it's not soft sexism" when multiple people over the years have told you otherwise over and over just makes you seem disingenuous. Saying "of course we're not always going to agree or see eye to eye on things" is like saying that we don't agree on what racism is, or that nazis are bad. This isn't about debating our favorite pizza toppings, this is about pathological, ingrained sexism on a subconscious level on your part. Whether you work on yourself and admit that to yourself or not is up to you, but that's why this always causes a stir. You have some clearly deep, pathological problems when it comes to this specifically. You have everyone from responsible, smart users like @Ghost_MH to @legend to @Keyser_Soze explaining this yet again to you in this thread. They're wrong? I'm wrong? We're all wrong? But just on this topic, not other topics? C'mon.

A book dragon design on my forearm. I figure if anything suits me for having it permanently inked on my skin, it's that. I'll post a photo when I get it.

So I finally decided to go for one myself. Appt is next Wednesday. I'm getting hyped.

I appreciate the concession! Your statement was "Some examples of western developed games with female characters in them that seem to have been deliberately made less attractive looking" which claims a motive of the developers to make their female character less attractive. That's simply not it in any meaningful capacity (I'm sure we can find *some* games where the character by design is unattractive, but that's not a meaningful trend and not the case for many of the games you cited). There are far more benign reasons than an intent to make characters less attractive, such as some of the things I enumerated in my earlier response. Ooph. My man, you have no idea. The amount of shit developers get is legendary. And to top if off, they work incredibly long hours, for often comparably low pay to other fields, and then get laid off when the game they put the whole lives into was successful, because the execs need to report "growth" every quarter for shareholders over the people who bled for it and laying people off is the easy way for them to do it.

Looking like the character is not proof. 1. Writers don't direct the art, nor create the character models. 2. There is a credited model for the actual character, who is so much the actual model, she got toxic attacks for it. 3. Insomniac directly confirmed that they used the same model for the appearance as the first, because of the false accusations. All facts point to it not being the writer. Clinging to "no, it has to be her because she looks like her, all official sources must be lying" is not proof of anything. It's conspiracy theory. That's the essence of the whole point: you're leaping to a false accusation on flimsy grounds for this belief in general, although this instance is particularly acute. You can prefer characters to look however you want, but making baseless accusations about the motivations of developers just because you don't like it really isn't cool. Especially not when developers are treated like absolute shit for all the hard work they put in. Don't pile this nonsense on top.

Far more likely that we discover in 2027 that Musk has been slowly draining batteries by using the onboard CPU to mine dogecoin.

yep, May 7th appears to be the day! New ipad pro, magic case, and pen, let’s gooooo

Sneaky, sneaky! Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by US to hit Russian-held areas, officials say APNEWS.COM U.S. officials say Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles, striking a Russian military airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in another occupied area overnight.

how can you put that much effort into animation and that little effort into naming.

wait what

I have enjoyed what I played so far. Unfortunately, I encountered a save bug where I lost a couple of hours. The opening is very slow so I don’t look forward to replaying it.

Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to allow armed teachers, a year after deadly Nashville shooting APNEWS.COM Tennessee Republican lawmakers have passed a bill that would let some teachers and staff carry concealed handguns on public school grounds. over/under on how long it takes for a teacher to kill a kid

Judge clears charges against alleged white supremacists, says there's a bias against the far right WWW.LATIMES.COM In his decision, a judge agreed that the alleged white nationalists were being selectively prosecuted instead of 'far-left extremist groups, such as Antifa.'