vateso5074

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[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 3 points 36 minutes ago

Fair, I guess I'm just letting the world get to me!

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

I almost kinda dislike the messaging on this one because it implies authoritarianism is the key to discovery. Scientists are implied to be passive and unindustrious when left alone, so the government (FBI-type characters) declare a truth they want proven, force development of it through the threat of violence, and it eventually yields an answer they're happy with.

I'm reminded of the film The Death of Stalin and it's depiction of the USSR's treatment of bourgeois intellectuals like doctors.

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

It was $15/mo before it's first price hike, too.

And before that, a lot of people were taking advantage of the Xbox Live Gold conversion deal, where folks were getting access to GamePass Ultimate for $60/year.

I once spent $180 for 3 years of GamePass, and now that same amount only gets you 6 months.

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

I barely even buy 5 games a year, and often not at full price. And usually the games I want aren't even on GamePass anyways.

$360/year is crazy. Only a good deal if you're buying more than 6 full price games a year and plan to 100% beat them and never play again before they disappear from the catalog.

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 36 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Reminded of the time when RuPaul put the fear of God into Jimmy Fallon.

The man is spineless and clearly doesn't know how to navigate any subject he sees as too touchy.

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I feel like there's still some public, high budget fetish porn being made. Like A Folded Ocean (potentially NSFL, kinky body horror).

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Better AI than humans. Humans have the potential to be gay and will end up shoving their corrupt ideology into the minds of our children.

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've definitely been there. I think it's like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):

At least they want to read something.

Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they're currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they'll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.

Take the "lead a horse to water" idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Lots of journalists are reporting on this buyout.

But not too deeply.

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Can't find a link to the referenced comic

Got you covered, fam.

There's other versions around as well and I have no idea which is the original. Just replace "Bioware" with any studio that EA has purchased and chances are there is a version of this comic that followed that news.

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 107 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Some humor is timeless, like this one from 1921:

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