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Yeah. You can only sell a battery once and they do not like that

Are you saying this isn't something that should be the case?

Are you arguing that Nazis in the Military are just The Way Things Are, or something?

Jimminy, dude, what's the point you're trying to make here?

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“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

I'll not suffer alone, kupo:

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*dances*

So ARC Raiders is actual spyware: timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...

And the data kinda sucks on a lot of these anyway: tests on gamers done on people who play 20-40 hours of CoD/LoL were just hilarious, but JPN studies about MMO vs. 1p gamers were fascinating (if underfunded -__-)

Which is to say that, yeah, it's largely the people who are curious are going to have more empathy because of that curiosity, and the culture that rewards/expects curiosity is going to have more of those people. Correlation.

Like, yeah, I definitely read plenty as a kid, but a lot of my empathy came from gaming because of the games I like and how I engage with them. Ditto tabletop gaming, especially as a DM, and having to figure out the whys and wherefores.

It's not so much reading itself, but the act of practicing empathy moreover. So it's something that'd developed, usually early, but can be built and benefits from flexing at any time.

It's dependent on the person involved what counts, too.

The idea of "professionalism means treating everyone like a wallet" is exclusively a right-wing idea.

It was actively workshopped by (what is now the) far right.

Same reason black chick's hair and tattoos and all other signifiers of, ya know, being a decent person were verboten.

I could MySpace-top-8 in a rotation of a couple dozen games, honestly.

Not mentioning Golden Axe/Dynasty Warriors 3/Gauntlet was rough.

And SSB is/was a huge part of my life, but I'd argue that it's not for the game itself, but for the references and the community involved, so I skipped it.

#My9Games

I think that these have all inspired me both as a dev and as a person, in whatever manner. Sonic 2 speedrunning community saved my life as a teen. Community in PSO.

So many just outside this list, too, but these definitely stick out to me.

FFX, for the partners I've shared it with, HM

I very handily beat Mr. Anime in SSB in high school, causing his girlfriend to tell him he was "losing at being a loser".

I also gave him the idea for the name of his YouTube channel/intended company; he did not get that it was a joke at his expense until after we graduated and I'd moved away.

To be more clear about that last:

Ken Martin is absolutely for including DSA candidates in the DNC, calling them part of the big tent, and noting that earlier anti-left stuff before him didn't help anyone.

I'm not suggesting that DSA is going to take over or that everyone's going left.

The DNC/Ken Martin endorsed and supported him.

Schumer didn't, but Jeffries came around.

Schumer, being the face of the party, has been massively inflated in RW media, too.

I'm down to dunk on the Dems, to be clear. Especially fuckers like Newsome/Schumer.

But the Dems are reading the wind!

His scare quotes suggest he's talking about people who call themselves Christian, culturally, and use religion to justify their bigotry, not all adherents to the religion

Puritans and repressed folk, friend.

Just genuinely people who do not have any amount of eroticism or sexuality present in their day to day lives.

Missionary in the dark folks.

People who think boob physics is witchcraft and a class of porn that makes you blind and sent to hell.

I mean, I think dementia is a pretty disabling thing.

I could easily see "crazy" being worse than "comatose"

*Buzzer*

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

Yeah, no.

I didn't think you know what "progressive" actually means, at this point.

Coding and hacking are a social enterprise. AI's impact on that is deeply negative, even on a mechanical level, and then ripples even worse outward

Why's statement reeks of corpo isolationist individualism, to me, not of someone who feels like he's making computing better for everyone.

And devs. There's been a huge strain on a lot of groups because not only is trust harder to come by, a lot of groups are noting that there's just a smaller talent base to draw from. People being pushed to learn coding very often joined even super niche projects, but now more are being taught to AI

That kinda plays with arguing for the social side of coding, but not being able to ask an author "why" definitely undercuts some usefulness because it's no longer shared intentions.

Most of what I've seen about the code is that it makes auditing hard (and makes trust a hard thing to build in communities). There was an issue that bricked a few Wiis because of Claude code being missed, before it was caught and reverted.

But a lot of it is also "what qualifies as good code," too

Churches being one of the few places where public organization happens in the US, and how demonized atheists are by the right making a lot of that feel unsafe in places that might benefit from it, plays a much larger role than the beliefs involved, methinks.

Yeah; it's mentioned a little bit in the thread but there's a wide berth of irreligious people, which both sides count as theirs. It's pretty fascinating, when people are wanting to argue for demos.

It's a really hard thing to meaningfully quantify.

Oh come the fuck on.

It never was, more over.

It's always been about the puzzle.

... Maybe if you're a really slow typist? Or, like, need a typing aid?

The same self-perception issues that lead to people using AI are those which tell them that it helps them.

It's bonkers.