I’m not familiar enough with the Japanese console market to gauge if any anti-competitive shit is going on there, but... you don’t see anything suspicious about a 98% market share in terms of PS5 vs Xbox Series X in one specific nation? Something not shared by one of Japan’s closest neighbors?…

Sorry, I should add, there’s more context for the competitive arguments in the full recording of the hearing, which you can see here:

For the record, I think that she’s being an embarrassment by being an attack-dog for her corporate backers, and a particularly unsubtle one, but I do think this bit is worth addressing:

I too am starting to suspect that attractive women on the internet might not be as interested in smooching me as their content implies.

This is their actual career, they’re cam models.  The writer just failed to notice this was porn advertising for the kind of guy that says woke the way old telegrams said stop.

I feel like “I’m hot, come date me” and “I’m hot, leave your current reltionship for me” are two VERY different statements about desirablility and self-image.

I don’t think tiktok is any sort of measured take on anyones self worth, and it’s mostly just fun. But also, homewrecking fantasies are kinda cringe.

Thank you for doing what I couldn’t bring myself to do when I saw the her next vid from the one embedded in the article said something in the line of “I want to be your 2nd priority with your hopes and dreams being your first”  ... I noped out of clicking any further lol

It took about 10 seconds to discover that the blonde in the middle is pushing OnlyFans and bragging about the million she’s made there. I won’t bother with the rest, but it’s totally what’s happening (or what they want to happen, ultimately). Women may chime in because they’re bored on TikTok, but it’s just bait for…

I had not thought of these as basically a promotion for an Only Fans account. Is it weird I hope that is the explanation rather than these women seriously trying to compete?

We aren’t an oppressed class. Everything will be ok. Now I will empty the dishwasher and my wife will praise me for it. Don’t mess this up for us.

Maybe discussing the way they sell fake “trad wife” as the lure to bring men to their OnlyFans sites would be more interesting than pretending women are actually competing here?

Just gotta fit truck, dog, and freedumb in there a few times and I’ll have a #1 hit!

Look at that! You just wrote an entire country song!

Come on, Mes. They’re saving themselves for the right cheating husband.

I’m morbidly curious about how the recent OneD&D fiasco will impact box office numbers.

You know, you raise a really good point, actually.

My understanding is that this is nowhere near an officially sanctioned gamemode, and just a custom lobby that people are getting creative with the settings (and names).

It’s easy these days to find a community that share your interests and sensibilities... and the flipside of that is those with no self-awareness have plenty of echo-chambers to enable them.

yep, sounds about right. for 20 years the internet was a cesspool of racism and misogyny and now that everyone is online the hosts now have a financial reason to keep this shit off their servers. As soimeone who grew up with that shit being “cool and edgy” good fucking riddance to that shit.

Which Ghost Rider sucks? I have a soft spot for Danny Ketch because he premiered when I was new to comics. Johnny Blaze is a classic. I’m sure there were others. I never heard of one that people really disliked. Even Reyes seemed to dodge the assholes yelling about Ghost Rider being “woke” now