skin tone =/= race.

Descriptions of differences in skin tone have been dated to thousands of years ago; the concept of “race” as we understand it was invented in the 1800's.

It’s a new invention based on pseudoscience

Yeah, to say the least. Not only is the solicitation of religion to vulnerable people pretty sickening, it’s just a piss-poor strategy.

If you look at those 12 steps, only a couple actually involve you taking agency over your own life; it’s almost entirely about admitting you’re powerless and asking God for help.

Is…

Sure, one step mentions “a higher power”, but 6 mention God specifically, by name or capitalized pronoun.

Dependence is the exact opposite way to kick a dependence. That...shouldn’t require explanation nor should it require experimentation, but it apparently does and did and the science is pretty conclusive that AA is…

Not that I’m aware of. Alcoholics Anonymous is a 12 step programs, and like 13 of those steps involve religion

Except the whole “not really assisting your rehabilitation, just soliciting you for Jesus” thing.

I think luring people to your group - often via force of law - while having no evidence it’s a more successful strategy for treating a medical issue than literally any alternative treatment is evil, to be gentle about it.

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God, you’re right, it’s so outlandish. People will be offended by literally any phrase or gesture that means “go fuck yourself”

The audacity of snowflakes these days, good lord

The entire premise of someone fluctuating the way air leaves their throat, nose, mouth, lips, and tongue in order to produce different noises being offensive is absurd.

So what if the “cultural meaning” is “fuck your mother”

It’s all just, like, social constructs, man. Nothing is real or meaningful.

And we owe them nothing :)

So if, say, a market emerged full of single individuals selling a licensed piece of intellectual property a company refused to provide in order to gouge prices, the only obligation that market would have is for each individual to respond to DMCA take-down notices.

So if the market continues…

“someone I love”

You take me for some kind of bourgie? I don’t know any fancy-class-folk, everyone I know works for a living.

“Stealing”

Nintendo can sell the figures if they want. People would prefer figures over cards.

They do not want to make them and a market has arose to meet demand.

the legal allowance of produce from Hawaii is zero

I haven’t seen anyone say they have “the right” to the mod. People are complaining, sure. Free country and all that.

If people want to complain and others want to not use that mod because of the insertion of a political position, that’s their prerogative.

That’s certainly debatable. The people who do most of the work to create games - the vast, vast, majority of the work - i.e., hourly workers - are not at all affected by piracy. Only the profit margin of corporations - who, I think we can all agree, are not people - are impacted and not even in a demonstrably…

That’s like playing goat simulator and complaining it’s not a trucking simulator

Yeah, they’re both technically the same genre, but they’re not trying to focus on the same things.

Horizon is a beautiful open world filled with wondrous things to murder. The combat is intricate, nuanced, and as variable as you care to…

Sometimes science takes longer to catch on than common sense lol

Pretty sure this has been a known human fact since bubbles first formed on a jar of wort.

How many shitty “what is Romeo and Juliet were bananas?”-style Shakespeare movies did your generation pump out? Or every generation since the fucker died?

Wouldn’t the customizable HUD feature allow you to disable that if you don’t like it? I keep mine fully hidden until I tap the touchpad

I spend so much time squinting at the map going “the fuck is that squiggle representing? Is it shaded because I cleared it or didn’t clear it? Does it clean stuff? Do you eat it?”

Over the Garden Wall, Steven Universe, and - as much as this may seem in violation of the rules - Rick and Morty.

It’s animated, funny, and makes light of the worst kinds of existential suffering in a way that makes the daily ins-and-outs of depression a bit more bearable.

101 nations participate in WWII but it’s always the same two over-played countries and over-play battles with over-played weapons.

There are so many awesome sides to play as for a WWII game.

Soviet Valkyrie snipers? Resistance fighters/Free France? The African front? China? South America? Greece? India? Nepali Gurkhas…