seems pretty racist to me. if you’re against spyware, say that. and kill your facebook/twitter/instagram/etc. accounts. if you’re *only* against Chinese spyware...

I feel like this argument comes way too close to letting American social media off the hook for very similar and equally nefarious practices.

“the real message here is we should all be more racist against asians” is not a great message

For what it’s worth, here’s a direct quote from the New Yorker story:

I guess maybe what you’re not getting is that whilst Rowling’s views being reinforced might not directly harm trans people in the US, it does here in the UK, because she’s directly funding lobbying and legal intervention groups, as well has helping and supporting people with much more extreme TERF or straight-up…

Your reading comprehension is just really not great.

No.

People aren’t “looking for reasons” to be angry. People are rightfully angry over transphobia, and this game is based on the franchise created by one of the world’s most visible transphobes. And fuuuuuuuuuck you and your stance of “ignore it and it’ll go away”. That’s not how social change works. The trans community…

Are any of those actresses particularly active in Hollywood today? I didn’t even know whether any of them were still alive.  Maybe they were the old guard 20 years ago.

Nobody wants to hear you whine about how offended you are by other people being offended. Shut the fuck up.

I think it’s reasonable thay VGBC felt they had no choice to cancel. This situation has multinational companies, language barriers, laws and rights holders in different countries, lawyers, ect. The chance for confusion is high. If I were in this situation, I would make sure everything was crystal clear in triplicate…

two things, 1. i think it’s worth acknowledging that i’d be more annoyed about performance issues had i paid $60 and not received a review copy 2. things should be expensive to compensate workers well and fairly, but most of a video games’ $60 is not going to the people that made it (as far as i know).

i’d love to see…

Fucking troll. Rhetorical “you’re not fucking serious” but I know you are. JFC.

Roy Wood, Jr. is a legitimate talent with a singular voice and I hope to God he does something else with his time.

Fuck you you fucking racist creep.

Depends on what literature you look at, but both have high enough failure rates when practiced typically, especially over years. I use this table with patients a lot.

His brother passed away at an early age. Seems like something he carried with him for a long time. He was also recently divorced and his step daughter committed suicide in 2021.

i want to address your last point first: “Plenty of evidence my dude. Plenty.”

“No one’s being targeted for extrajudicial violence or denied freedom of movement over here”

I have always been leery of business dealing with China because of their authoritarian regime when it comes online data and am glad Blizzard has chosen to pull out.