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People who want change spend more time protesting than people who want things to stay the same? How shocking.

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I was, but then he died, which kinda put a damper on our relationship.

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Whenever you get bored of a longer game, try picking 2-3 shorter ones to clear out before diving into another long one. You still won't be making particularly rapid progress on your backlog, but it'll at least feel like something, and being able to recognize games you have played will help you obsess less over just how many games you aren't playing.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

In modern usage, sex and gender mean different things, thus logically, transsexual and transgender mean two different things.

In either case, however, the "trans" prefix means your gender and your biological sex do not match. If we consider the concept to be binary (either your gender matches your sex or it doesn't, regardless of how binary we consider gender itself to be), the terms are interchangeable. In terms of boolean logic, they both function as "NOT."

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I forget which piece it is, but in one of Grainger's works, instead of using "crescendo" like a normal person, he writes "embiggeningly." He was an odd one, sometimes.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

This shit happens every Thursday? I thought it was more frequent

It probably is, but most of the stats I've got to look at are more local, which is going to fail to capture its true frequency.

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Revelation34 posted...

Didn't this happen like 6 months ago? Or was that a different city?

A similar thing happened in another city about a year ago. This happened on Thursday.

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If I had to pin down a specific point, it happened around Trump's rise to power. He emboldened a lot of people with stronger right-wing viewpoints to be more vocal about it (bearing in mind that his term was the first time there was a Republican in office since social media took off, in addition to him being particularly brash), leading to more arguments about political matters.

Obviously, it's more nuanced than that, but my personal impression has been that there have been more polarized political discussions here in the last 5 years than before. Of course, it also doesn't help that politics in general has been getting more polarized in that time frame, which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Trump (if anything, I'd say he's more a symptom of that than a cause).

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It takes a real classy person to turn the death of somebody's pet into a political issue.

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PunishedOni posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_sports#Trans_men

Examples exist, but I'm inclined to agree with him in that I haven't seen much (if any) controversy over allowing trans men in men's sports. Certainly not to the extent that people whine about trans women in women's sports, at least.

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SirPikachu posted...

Can't believe people are still stupid enough to think that men pretending to be women should compete against women.

Most atrocious example is Fallon Fox. Man beating up women.

Facts are that males have stronger bodies than women, and should never compete against them. If you can't see that, you're a fucking idiot.

And no, Estrogen does not make it equal. When you are born a man, you will always physically be a man.

Is this is a valid point, you should be able to back it up with actual data, not cherrypicked examples. There are plenty of jurisdictions where trans women are permitted to compete in women's leagues. Can you find statistics from those jurisdictions that indicate that trans women are over-represented in the upper echelons of those leagues, compared to the general population?

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Ceci n'est pas une goat.

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MartianManchild posted...

Heres a recent scientific study about mask usage and its effective against the coronavirus.
https://plague.info/2021-06-18-study-masks-are-exposing-children-deadly-pathogens.html#

N=6, no actual indication of how masks were being cleaned, no indication of how long they were worn before testing, no indication of which side of the masks were tested... Perhaps most significantly, no corresponding data on increases in the actual case rates of any of the "dangerous diseases" listed among those wearing masks over the past year. I think it's pretty safe to dismiss that as nothing more than anti-mask fearmongering and an incentive to wash your masks before using them again.

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Zeus posted...

Should have got the Janssen. #1Dose1Vax

That one dose is pretty comparable in efficacy to the first dose alone for Pfizer or Moderna. I'm fine with having to take another hour out of my life in a couple months to improve on that.

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Joe_Biden posted...

tf is this

If Helly came into this topic, he'd be really confused.

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For the time.

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KogaSteelfang posted...

I really want to take a bit of time between jobs to recover. Don't want to leave this one out of stress and tiredness and go straight into the stress of a new job.

You should still start looking. If you can afford to take some downtime between them, do so, but quitting this one without having another one lined up is risky, financially. Regardless, it sounds like you should be quitting this one.

When you're looking, make sure you use your old boss as a reference instead of your current ones. By the sound of what you said in other topics, she was a pretty good boss and really valued you, so she'll make a good reference.

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Reigning_King posted...

What do you suggest they do, demand papers from everyone who wants to walk in?

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Probably ignore CDC recklessness and expect everybody to wear their masks anyway so stupid assholes don't pretend to avoid wearing a mask.

That. The CDC was naive and irresponsible to release the updated recommendations when they did, given that so few people are actually fully vaccinated and how impractical it is to screen people to make sure they aren't lying (which they inevitably will). There was never any chance that the announcement wouldn't be met with businesses completely abandoning mask requirements en masse, and there was never any chance that a significant portion of the general public would abide by the honour system and keep wearing them voluntarily once requirements were lifted.

Reigning_King posted...

"Don't listen to the CDC when they tell you not to panic, they're idiots, listen to the random people, most of whom were never at any substantial risk in the first place and are now at virtually no risk since we got vaccinated but are still panicking regardless!!!"

The CDC has said that fully vaccinated people don't need to wear masks anymore. They have not said that it's safe for unvaccinated people to go without masks, and given that over half the country still is not fully vaccinated, abandoning masks requirements entirely is baseless and stupid. I'm not disputing their assessment, I'm recognizing its limitations and how inevitable it was that idiots would ignore those limitations.

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Zeus posted...

...is that even legal by Olympic rules?

Has been since ~2004, iirc. In that time, there have been exactly 0 trans medalists, so clearly there's a massive problem here.

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CDC: "Fully vaccinated people don't need to wear masks"
US: *45% of citizens are fully vaccinated*
Businesses: "Nobody needs to wear masks anymore!"

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Sept 17th is 105 days (15 weeks) later, which got booked automatically when I booked my first appointment. As I understand, that's the maximum time I can wait between them, but hopefully that won't end up being an issue.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

you can't force people to volunteer for other parts of their job

If they've already volunteered, and lives depend on them honouring that commitment? Sure you can, at least until you're able to line up a replacement. Most notably, the issue is not that a single cop resigned, it's that the entire force colluded to resign together in an organized attack on public safety.

Mead posted...

are you just incapable of completing human thoughts?

Is that what is going on with you?

Perhaps he's disoriented because there's a heat wave and his resting temp is in the high 90's.

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My current appointment isn't until September 17th, but second doses have been happening earlier pretty much across the board, so I'm expecting to get a chance to have it sooner. My first dose was only two weeks ago today, though, so it's not like I'm in a huge rush right now.

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Park the ship somewhere in the sky where a blinking light can be seen by most in the dominant civilization's capital, but not so close as to be identifiable as a ship. Have the light shine steadily when nobody is being abused or sacrificed or whatever, but start blinking whenever somebody is. See how long it takes for them to figure out that the blinking god is responding to their actions, then see how they respond.

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Zeus posted...

...for riot police to be effective, they have to be able to police riots.

Which does not include carte blanche to use whatever force they want. There are rules to be followed, and when those rules are broken, consequences should be faced.

Zeus posted...

Literally crying pretend-fascism while proposing literal fascism.

Again, you're suggesting it is fascist to penalize a police force for attempting to hold the public hostage because one of their own is facing criminal charges for committing a crime? But not fascist for the police force to hold the public hostage because one of their own is facing criminal charges for committing a crime? Little backwards, don't you think?

Zeus posted...

You say that, but when's the last time charges were brought against 911 dispatchers who decided to drop a call or conveyed bad information? We've seen dispatchers literally drop emergency calls because they didn't "feel like dealing with them right now" where punishments ranged from reprimand to termination rather than prison time. Clearly there's no real standard in place for emergency roles, even though in some of those cases there WERE disastrous consequences.

There really should be more concrete standards and harsher punishments there, especially where every call is recorded and it's easy to collect evidence of dispatchers that fail to do their job. Whatever point you're trying to make with this whataboutism, you've really just brought up another example of the same problem, to which I object equally.

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OhhhJa posted...

Well, I disagree with criminal charges. There are enough options available that that would be silly

This is pretty clearly corruption in a public office, which is a criminal charge. A single cop quitting like this, less so, but when it's a coordinated attempt across the entire force, that becomes a conspiracy to endanger the public.

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Unbridled9 posted...

If you dislike what he does with the money you're free to not buy the games; but the people harassing him to the point where he quit... Unacceptable. Plain and simple.

We agree there. Harassment, threats, and doxxing are not an acceptable response to this, under any circumstances. Not buying the games, openly criticizing him, and encouraging others to follow suit, however, are all fair game.

Unbridled9 posted...

It's unlikely the company will let the franchise die simply because the creator is gone.

The games are self-published, so the creator is the company, but I also wouldn't be surprised if somebody else buys the franchise to milk a bit more out of it.

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Monopoman posted...

Don't worry guys it still snows in winter, so according to our elected Republicans this is all fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a_60PMR8

I've seen this argument so many times, and it never gets any less astoundingly stupid.

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OhhhJa posted...

Idk if forcing disgruntled cops to continue working as cops is a great idea

The job needs to be done. If they fail to live up to that duty because they're grumpy, that's on them, and should certainly result in some manner of punishment for breaching their employment contract.

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OhhhJa posted...

Sure but these cops didn't quit amidst an emergency

And if an emergency were to arise before they were replaced?

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OhhhJa posted...

You should be allowed to quit a job whenever you feel like it for any reason

Emergency services are rarely allowed full freedom to take job action due to the potential for disastrous consequences if their roles aren't filled. The fact that literal lives on the line makes that necessary. Modified provisions generally exist, but they generally amount to requiring alternative coverage to be arranged. A paramedic that decided to quit mid-call and let a patient die in the back of an ambulance, for example, would face charges for doing so.

Regardless of that, this is unambiguously a case of the force threatening the public to get out of facing consequences for breaking the law. There is no way to suggest that this should be permitted. It is unarguably a case of corruption and should be treated as such.

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Soup_or_Science posted...

what? i nailed it

Uh huh...

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Soup_or_Science posted...

if helly was a smash brothers... he would be...

melee

So triggered right now.

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Zeus posted...

And it's emblematic of a larger trend against the very tenets of democracy where rather than try to convince people of their arguments, the far-left is focused on not letting a discussion take place at all.

What discussion do you think is worth having around the question of whether or not teachers should be allowed to inspect students' genitalia if they suspect the student is trans? Because that's the sort of thing some members of the GOP are pushing for, meaning that's what is being supported by donations to the GOP. I don't know about you, but I think that's worth criticizing, and I don't think there's much room to defend it.

There's a rather alarming trend of trying to characterize the left as shutting down all dissenting opinions, but that's really not what's happening at all. The left is trying to shut down opinions that are utter shit, and rather than defending their shit opinions, those holding them cry "censorship" and "slippery slopes" in a thinly-veiled effort to act like the problem is that their right to free speech is being violated, and not just that they have shit opinions. Sadly, people eat that right up and start clutching their pearls in terror that they could be next.

Unbridled9 posted...

You can like a piece of work without approving of what the author says/does otherwise.

You cannot, however, purchase a game (or otherwise consume or promote the media) without funding whatever the author chooses to do with their income. Some percentage of the price of every single copy of FNAF sold has been donated to the GOP. That's the simple, inescapable reality of supporting an author: you contributing to everything they do with their money, whether you like it or not.

Now, some of that sale price has also gone toward buying Cawthon a home, and feeding him and his children, and buying other video games for him and his children, and plenty of other non-GOP-related things. It's pretty uncommon for all of the profits from a piece of media to go toward a single cause (and when that does happen, it's typically explicitly stated for promotional purposes), so ultimately, you have to weigh your contribution to the cause you don't like against the contribution to stuff you do like. Nevertheless, though, financially supporting somebody means you are playing a role in whatever they are financially supporting. That's not something you can ever get away from.

Unbridled9 posted...

A loss like this, regardless of the reason, diminishes games as a whole.

It does, but pretty trivially. There are tens of thousands of games out there. Had FNAF never existed, people would have been just as entertained by something else. At this point, I don't even know of anything within the franchise that was coming down the pipes that has been scuttled by this decision to retire, let alone anything that gaming as a whole is truly worse off for not having. The market is huge: any void left will be filled so instantly that nobody will even notice.

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OhhhJa posted...

Ok Kim Jong un

I'm curious how you think not letting police strongarm the population into turning a blind eye to police brutality qualifies as a dictatorial practice. From where I stand, that looks like it's the exact opposite of true, which makes it a very strange thing to say indeed.

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Mead posted...

I still dont get why people are so bothered by using more than one storefront

like you dont see people being that way outside of video games really

Mostly, I just resent Epic for disrupting the market without bringing anything to the table. GOG offers older games and DRM-free stuff, Humble offers PWYW bundles that benefit charity... Epic, on the other hand, doesn't even have a shopping cart, and is instead competing purely by throwing money around to make competitors' stores look worse by comparison instead of improving their own service. I made an account for the sake of collecting the free games, but until they start offering me some sort of actual benefit, I don't plan on spending money there.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Why does it matter? When you say shit like that isn't a deal breaker you're supporting it.

I wouldn't necessarily say that it means you're supporting it (though giving money to people advancing such causes literally does support them, whether that's what you have in mind in making the donation or not), but it does mean you don't think it's a big deal, and it's very understandable that people for whom it is a matter of literal life and death would be angered by that.

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sull56ivan2010 posted...

You're still confusing me. Are we even talking the same thing?

This is the post I'm supposed to re-read, correct?

sull56ivan2010 posted...

And people have every right to be upset of someone donating to Biden. It goes both ways. A person donating to the side you hate does not give you the right to harass and threaten them. This is getting more ridiculous every day.

Which was followed by:
sull56ivan2010 posted...

Then don't make it a one sided affair like some people are doing right now. If you do, you're a hypocrite.

I'm interpreting the point made by the combination of those two posts as "criticizing GOP donors without also criticizing Democratic donors is hypocritical." Is this correct?

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Can your point be summarized as "you're a hypocrite if you criticize people for donating to the GOP but not for donating to the Democrats"? Or is this incorrect?

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If all of Helly's flesh and internal organs melted away into grotesque, bubbling ooze, he'd be Skelly.

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sull56ivan2010 posted...

This is about as clear as you're going to get

... Does this mean my interpretation is correct, or that you just don't know how to communicate your actual point effectively?

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DrPrimemaster posted...

I don't know about it being a waste at any point. Effective relationships require experience and you're not going to get it without dating. And there aren't always people that check all of the long-term boxes.

Sure, but that's why I specified a relationship that you're actually trying to develop. No, not every relationship is going to end up being long-term, and that's fine, but if you're entering a relationship with somebody that wants something long-term when you don't, you're just wasting their time from day 1. That's something you should be upfront about.

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sull56ivan2010 posted...

Re-read what I said. Do not make it a one sided affair. If you make it one sided, you're a hypocrite.

I did, and as far as I can tell, your position is "you're a hypocrite if you criticize people for donating to the GOP but not to the Dems," which is completely consistent with my reply. If you have a different point, I encourage you to elaborate to make it clearer.

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I'd be very surprised if it doesn't end up on Steam eventually. Epic really hasn't been one to pay for indefinite exclusivity.

Of course, being Squenix, I could totally see the first episode being Epic exclusive, the second Steam, and the third on like Origin or something. Because Squenix.

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No, we don't need police reform at all! The fact that this entire squad is effectively going on strike over one of their members being charged (not even convicted) with using illegal force does not in any way indicate that there's a serious large-scale problem with covering up incidents and avoiding accountability for officers that overstep boundaries that need to be in place!

Charge the lot of them with some manner of conspiracy or corruption, I'd say. Jeopardizing public safety for the sake of supporting a colleague suspected of committing a crime should not be tolerated.

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sull56ivan2010 posted...

Then don't make it a one sided affair like some people are doing right now. If you do, you're a hypocrite.

You're a hypocrite if you don't criticize people for doing something you don't disagree with or believe is harmful?

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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Unless you go up into space and look at it, you can not say that the Earth is not flat.

You also can't say that it is flat without doing so. Instead, you're left to observe what you can and extrapolate accordingly based on the principles you know. Having seen the curvature of the earth from high altitudes many times, as well as understanding that gravity overwhelmingly favours the formation of spheroids when acting on a cosmic scale, I'm fine assuming that it is as round as I have been told.

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sull56ivan2010 posted...

A person donating to the side you hate does not give you the right to harass and threaten them.

It does not, no, but you do retain the right to hold them accountable for it. Harassment and threats cross the line, but demanding answers, refusing them business, and making their donations known to facilitate public pressure against those donations are all perfectly fair game.

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blu posted...

A lot of companies donate to republicans.

Its interesting seeing some random people take hate for it and not others.

Much of that boils down to how directly it can be attributed to a single, recognizable person, and also how easy it is to boycott their products. The faceless CEO of a company that makes hundreds of thousands of different products is a lot harder to feel personal hatred for than the head of a tiny development team (or solo operation) that has made a handful of games. That's especially true when the head in question actually interacts with the product's fanbase and can therefore potentially be brought to account for the decision, as opposed to some billionaire sitting in an ivory tower whose secretary's secretary's secretary can hire somebody just to ignore you.

In practice, companies donate to the GOP because Republicans tend to give companies tax breaks. They couldn't care less one way or the other about gay rights or any such issues, it's strictly a bottom line thing for them, and it's very rare for lost business to hurt them more than being properly taxed would.

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Zangulus posted...

How about this, did he come out and apologize and claim ignorance (whether real or feigned), of their agendas towards non straight people? No, he remained unapologetic and then just up and quit. He's not guiltless in what they're accusing him of.

He's not, no. This is what the two-party system forces, though: Because both parties suck, everyone has to choose who to vote for based on whose perceived benefits outweigh the drawbacks. He's not deliberately trying to hurt LGBTQ people, he just cares more about the good he believes the GOP will do than about the harm they will do (or, more likely, believes the Dems will do more harm somehow because reasons). Those who vote and donate otherwise believe the opposite. The two-party system, unfortunately, doesn't really give people the opportunity to pick and choose which causes they want to support, especially given how many disgusting wastes of flesh consider anti-LGBTQ agendas to be a good thing and the subsequent prevalence of such agendas among more popular candidates

Now, I would agree that he should be apologizing. Even if it's a decision he stands by, apologizing to people that are hurt by that decision is the only reasonable thing to do. Otherwise, he's just denying the harm or indicating that he doesn't care about it, and that is definitely a dick move.

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