Starting a game company and then waiting 14 years to publish anything solely so you can make a Nazi-themed easter egg?  With a big enough whiteboard and ball of string, you can make anything a conspiracy, I guess.

Windows key is very useful because it’s used in a lot of system shortcuts and will never conflict with app’s shortcuts. I’m not sure a dedicatd Copilot key will be as useful.

This is the reaction the hyperbole hopes to elicit, for the clicks.

Man, there seems to be a lot of hyperbole here. “Finally make Windows 11 usable”... Windows 11 is trivially easy.

Part of my enjoyment of TLJ was relief that it was markedly becoming a completely different saga than what The Force Awakens had set up. Then lo and behold somehow Palpatine returned

I don’t have a problem with redeeming the son of Han and Leia. I don't have a problem with killing off Snoke in the second movie. I do have a problem with lazily recycling Palpatine. Some overarching vision from the start would have been good.

It would have been a much more realistic arc. Kylo Ren killed BILLIONS, if not TRILLIONS, of people in the first arc. So did Vader, but he was redeemed by the sacrifice of his son. Kylo Ren just . . . honestly I don’t remember at all how he was redeemed. Something something Leia? Whatever it was, it had no moral…

They didn’t manipulate search results. They looked for search terms that were used a lot more in 2023 than in 2022. That’s all. It’s a question easily expressed in an SQL query, and involves no manipulation of anything. The question is “select from search query stats database the difference in total sum of searches…

I think you’re either misreading or referring to something else when you link to that Reddit thread of Reylos.

I like the implication that the Reylo community is small enough that they can immediately identify fake stans.

Putting aside the broader point you’re missing (as others explain better), loads of games have cooking/eating mechanics; and restaurant games are an entire, venerable genre.

The statement isn’t dumb, I think you’re just taking it more literally than it was intended. It gives a personal, humanised example as inspiration to consider adjacent things without them having to explicitly spell out each one.

What doesn’t help is that there’s Israeli interests who explicitly WANT this confusion to exist because it helps their geopolitical interests.

(As well as evangelical death cult interests in the US who want this confusion to exist because System Requirement for their doomsday prophecies, but that’s a whole other thing)

It’s easy to be snarky here but I agree with the larger point. Arab people are seldom treated with empathy in AAA shooters. That’s the point the interviewee was trying to get across. Indie games are taking huge strides in that direction, though, and I hope that this trend reaches the mainstream at some point.

Found the genocide apologist

I don’t think this option needs to be relegated to a fictional dining simulator. The option to dine with an Arab/any perceived antagonist in Call of Duty or any game glorifying violence and have a nice little cutscene play out would add depth and be a welcome reprieve and change of pace.

Americans cope backwards and scheme forwards.

Its not that videogames are the sole problem. Its that, as you pointed out, they are one outlet and re-propagator of a very large cultural issue (which I think the article does go into). So we have identified an issue. Where can we start addressing it? Everywhere we find it, and in this case, in this community, with…

There is an actual definition of genocide and what Israel is currently doing absolutely meets that definition. It does not require the complete elimination of an ethnic group. The hallmark of genocide is the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a ethnic, religious or other group. Israeli leaders at all levels have…

It’s hard to understand the point of this article, let alone why research into this would be of any particular interest, since it would never happen like this. If meat was ever to be abolished completely it would obviously be a gradual shift. I assume this is suppose to be somehow anti vegan but at best I would say…