The utopia of Star Trek was only able to happen because they had a WWIII and the communists won
The utopia of Star Trek was only able to happen because they had a WWIII and the communists won
And CO2
I never forgot that I had Warframe but I just got back into it after 7 years of not playing and it’s still great.
I don’t think a simple misconception can create schizophrenia. It’s a complex neurochemical disease with genetic factors
The police think they’re solving murders.
I don’t think they think it. I think they got computers slightly faster, because a large corporation drew on the resources its home country had stolen from those places to leverage a monopoly.
Your data shows desktops, but it doesn’t show laptops. It’s not news that laptops are more common than desktops.
Greybeard is also the name for an experienced DRG player
It’s sad and hilarious that people hear “zero waste” and think “I need to take aaaaall my cans to the recycling center and compost my scraps”, when the waste that is actually destroying the biosphere is the exhaust from your car. If we’re talking about “doing lower waste”, the first priority is to stop driving a car. Recycling bottles and composting scraps is the thing we can afford to do imperfectly. But not cars, ditching cars is the big important thing and the first step to sustainability.
-2028
-wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games
-excited to play some halo 2k29
-“xbox on”
-…
-“XBOX ON”
-"Please verify that you are “annon332” by saying “Doritos™ Dew™ it right!”
-“Doritos™ Dew™ it right”
-“ERROR! Please drink a verification can”
-reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k29™ War Chest
-only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
-still feeling sick from the 14
-force it down and grumble out “mmmm that really hit the spot”
-xbox does nothing
-i attempt to smile
-“Connecting to verification server”
-…
-“Verification complete!”
-finally
-boot up halo 2k29
-finding multiplayer match…
-“ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!”
-my mother just walked in the room
-“Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?”
-“NO!”
-“Console entering lock state!”
-“to unlock drink verification can”
-last can
-“WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card”
-drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
-pour the last half out the window
-“PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE”
-the mountain dew ad plays
-i have to dance for it
-feeling so sick
-makes me sing along
-dancing and singing
-“mountain dew is for me and you”
-throw up on my self
-throw up on my tv and entertainment system
-router shorts
-“ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF”
-“PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE”
Why do Americans think that American laws are the same thing as universal concepts?
It’s great that you’re so open minded to seeing things from another perspective.
I don’t blame the artist who originally drew that poster, but I do think she could have played it smarter than to give a AAA gaming company the rights to a controversial and nuanced satire of transphobia. The result of that is kind of inevitable when you consider the capitalist context of big companies like CDPR. I totally want to see political media exploring these issues in indie games, but trusting big corporations to have a nuanced discussion of the most delicate trans issues is a bad idea. A cis woman with a glowing dildo up her pants on CDPR’s Twitter was kind of inevitable
I agree on the count of Chang, but not Pierce. The group allowed him to use his “shwami” act as part of a plot-crucial heist while taking Greendale back from Chang’s army. And besides, I’ve heard rumours that Chevy Chase really was like that offstage too. Apparently the rest of the cast hated him.
I agree that preserving the bigotries of the past to show people what they were like critically is important. Although I don’t think Cyberpunk counts in this instance. Yes, the artist who originally drew that poster had the intention of satirising the way capitalist companies use trans bodies to sell anything. The problem is, then CD Projekt Red, the capitalist company, used the poster to sell their game. They did the exact thing they were trying to satirise. At one point they held a cosplay contest, and the winner was a cis woman who stuck a glowing dildo up her pants to cosplay as the woman in that poster. And CDPR put images of her cosplay all over their twitter. A cis woman dressed up as a satire of the commodification of trans bodies to win a contest, and a company used her image to sell a video game. You can’t have effective satire while doing the very thing you “satirised”. I believe the original artist intended to satirise, but the company that owns the rights to the image just played it straight and did the horrible thing in sincerity.
I think an Asian man wearing drowface is a complicated issue with no right answers. But the multiple times Pierce wears explicit brownface are way worse, and if anything was to be removed, they should have gone first.
That sounds dangerous. Most people don’t reach their ideas through reason. I don’t want to lose empathy for all humanity no matter how ignorant they are.
You need to watch Glass Onion
Yeah, so why is Bill Gates 5G microchip the conspiracy? Why not Elon Musk Starlink Neuralink? There is an actual evil mad scientist selling the technologies they are actually scared of, why don’t they just point their fears at the actual danger?
In my country, your birth certificate has both your deadname and your new name on it if you changed your name. When I signed up for PayPal, I had already transitioned, so I put in my current, legal name. PayPal asked for proof that I am who I claim to be, to prevent fraud. Fair enough, I gave them my birth certificate. They looked at it, and then changed the name on my account to my deadname, which was no longer my legal name. When I told them to change it back, they said I’d have to submit a change of name form.
I knew Musk was transphobic sooner than most of the public did after that experience.
Even static PNG ads are purpose engineered to grab your attention. People with attention disorders like ADHD and autism don’t have as much attention to give, and when it’s gone we’re debilitated. We need to start considering cognitohazards a legally prosecutable form of violence.