I keep trying to convince her to start doing Hentai and Furry commissions to make some dough, but she refuses.
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I'm waiting for the day Thom Yorke becomes a problematic. The only question is what kind will he be.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but don't you think it's a little suspicious that the virus started in 2019, and when they finally found out what it was, it just happened to be Covid-19? Isn't that a bit too coincidental?
Yep, I couldn't tell if any of that was a bit or if he's all in on the lab leak stuff. He also repeatedly misstated the name of the Wuhan lab. Also, anti-science jokes and lies about h1n1 being revived by scientists aren't funny. He was also using racist asian/Chinese accents...So, yeah...
That sounds exactly like he meant it. That he realized it came off as crazy but he believes it.If that wasn't clear, his bit about how the world ends underscores the point, and that wasn't schtick at all.To the larger point, maybe it came from a lab? But to go in on it like that, like your uncle that knows better than the experts, was just really disappointing.
I wasn't a fan of how many times Colbert let Stewart repeat the same point without varying it at all. A better interviewer would have known how to steer that conversation somewhere, anywhere else. It didn't feel like an agreed-upon bit at all.
Chatted for 25 minutes with a Sony rep, escalated to his supervisor, and they fucking disconnected immediately after giving a stock response.Edit: last few messages:Jimmy:From our end what we can share is that we comply with the legal requirements of manufacturing, we are always following the proper processes for our product. There's no further information we would be able to share, as we are the general PlayStation support.Jimmy:If you'd like to leave your feedback you can do it.Me:Thanks, Jimmy. In response I would say that legal requirements are not necessarily the same as ethical requirements, especially when it comes to human rights abuses. I know you may not personally have the information I'm looking for, but given that we are talking about literal human slavery involved in the manufacturing of what amounts to high-tech toys...I really cannot let this go. Can my concerns be escalated to someone beyond the general PlayStation support network? I would really like to keep this dialogue going with senior level employees who are able to respond.Jimmy:We thank you for your feedback, I am afraid from our end there's no statement we can give as we are the general PlayStation Customer Support, there's nothing we could add for this situation if you consider something goes against what you consider proper make sure to report to the authorities responsible for these reports, you are with the highest level of PlayStation Support by now, this is all the information can be given from our end. PlayStation always follow the proper processes respecting our players and employees, we always aim for the respect and best conditions to everyone part of the PlayStation family.Jimmy:Today you contacted us today regarding reports you mention were seeing, and I was able to share PlayStation always follow the proper processes with respect and always caring about our family. Is there anything else I can help you with?Jimmy:Once again my name is Jimmy. Thank you for contacting PlayStation. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.Click to shrink...This was after a great deal of back-and-forth with the initial rep.Well, no one said it would be easy to get answers. But I couldn't even get this supervisor to refer me to someone higher. I think we all need to be trying this.Edit again: now I'm trying them on Twitter. (@AskPlayStation)
Thank you for taking the time to do this. Really sucks that they disconnected you like that, but well done for your persistence. I wonder if there’s somewhere to file a complaint?
I don't know how to make it through the day anymore. Every day I just feel worse and worse. Gaming side hates me, and even participating in discussions makes me feel like I'm some kind of intruder who no one wants around. I can't talk about politics anymore because everything the Republicans do makes me feel like the world is two steps away from armageddon. Just about the only discussions I feel like I'm not wrong for getting involved in seem to be the ones about TV, and I barely watch any anymore.Meanwhile, my work situation continuously gets worse day after day after day, to the point at which I feel like I'm breathing poison 5 days a week just to pay rent for an apartment I don't want to live in in, a city I've wanted to leave since before the pandemic started. My weekends barely even count as rest at this point because of how horrible my work-day stress has become. I hate my body - just the feeling of living in it makes me want to scream 24/7. I'm isolated from my friends, meaning I'm constantly alone in my own head, and there's no one I would rather be alone with less than myself. I don't even like waking up in the morning anymore because it just means going through the same cycle of being beaten down repeatedly and having virtually nothing to pull me out of the abyss.I'm sorry I'm so negative all the time. I really wish I wasn't. I wish I had things to feel good about, to be excited about. I miss it. I really do. I'm sorry I'm such a burden on everyone.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-dont-know-why-i-bother-anymore.442591/Quote from: PlanetSmasherI don't know how to make it through the day anymore. Every day I just feel worse and worse. Gaming side hates me, and even participating in discussions makes me feel like I'm some kind of intruder who no one wants around. I can't talk about politics anymore because everything the Republicans do makes me feel like the world is two steps away from armageddon. Just about the only discussions I feel like I'm not wrong for getting involved in seem to be the ones about TV, and I barely watch any anymore.Meanwhile, my work situation continuously gets worse day after day after day, to the point at which I feel like I'm breathing poison 5 days a week just to pay rent for an apartment I don't want to live in in, a city I've wanted to leave since before the pandemic started. My weekends barely even count as rest at this point because of how horrible my work-day stress has become. I hate my body - just the feeling of living in it makes me want to scream 24/7. I'm isolated from my friends, meaning I'm constantly alone in my own head, and there's no one I would rather be alone with less than myself. I don't even like waking up in the morning anymore because it just means going through the same cycle of being beaten down repeatedly and having virtually nothing to pull me out of the abyss.I'm sorry I'm so negative all the time. I really wish I wasn't. I wish I had things to feel good about, to be excited about. I miss it. I really do. I'm sorry I'm such a burden on everyone.(Image removed from quote.)
#1Wow yeah another attention seeking threadI've really hit rock bottom today.Nothing makes me happy anymore and I don't think I will ever be happy again.Just walking around the block realising all I've done in my life is made other people miserable and everything I have wasn't earnt at all.
He literally compared a dumb game trailer to rascists. Literally.The whole reason there's a "better not do it unless its really important" call out in the guidelines is for this very reason.Slayven dropped a really stupid "this totally innocent video game trailer is kind of like when rascists..." take, and here he's getting your blessing.Good grief. Why do we even have guidelines?
Inflammatory ComparisonsInflammatory points of comparison and false equivalences can needlessly escalate or derail an argument. You should not, for example, equate bigotry with intolerance of bigotry. It is usually best to avoid extreme comparisons in general, such as those involving loss of human life or serious issues like human rights. If you must make such a comparison, please make sure that you're doing so for a very good reason.
They got one of the guys who was complaining about SlayvenQuote from: BraggHe literally compared a dumb game trailer to rascists. Literally.The whole reason there's a "better not do it unless its really important" call out in the guidelines is for this very reason.Slayven dropped a really stupid "this totally innocent video game trailer is kind of like when rascists..." take, and here he's getting your blessing.Good grief. Why do we even have guidelines? User banned (permanent): Concern trolling over multiple series of posts, recent 1 month ban for hostility and condescension towards minority members in a sensitive threadThat's what you get for quoting the official guidelinesQuoteInflammatory ComparisonsInflammatory points of comparison and false equivalences can needlessly escalate or derail an argument. You should not, for example, equate bigotry with intolerance of bigotry. It is usually best to avoid extreme comparisons in general, such as those involving loss of human life or serious issues like human rights. If you must make such a comparison, please make sure that you're doing so for a very good reason.
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That's also the guy that kept asking for a change in the guidelines to clarify that the rules are different for mods, after Nepenthe's derailing the Amazon driver punching an old lady thread. AND his prior month-long ban was for the thread about spiking Black gun ownership/getting pretty transparently baited into hostility. I'm not surprised they got him in the end, but I am surprised they didn't just threadban him from Constructive and then perm him the next time he lets himself get baited. I guess doing it this way sends a message.
That forum should be on some sort of Department of Health watchlist or something. Maybe a health warning splash page to advise that "Resetera is harmful to your mental health".
We have fun
Quote from: NegativeCrepe on June 15, 2021, 04:59:45 PMWe have funWhy did Scorpanok upgrade himself?Also why are we assuming their gender
"Peter Parker does what Batman can't"You mean actually save minorities—....Oh.
Comedy is deadhttps://www.resetera.com/threads/wapo-jon-stewart-goes-all-in-on-the-covid-lab-leak-theory.442849/
It doesn't just reek of conspiracy, it reeks of war mongering and hositlity. This feels like the step one to being more hostile towards China. Because if it did leak from a lab, so what? What do we do? Go to war? Stop funding international research on diseases? People just want to be racist and go to war with China, no doubt.
So you get the facts straight. What do you do now? Cut off China from research, be more hostile, or what? Anti-China sentiment in America is at a fever pitch, I can see using this lab theory as an excuse to be more hostile/start a war with China.
I agree, we can make sure standards are tighter and more secure. But there's a shit ton of people and republicans in America that are so angry over China I can feel them trying to stir America for a war. I'm just getting big "Saddam has WMDs" vibes from this.
User Banned (1 Month): Misrepresenting Moderation; Multiple Prior Bans for Inflammatory PostingWhen I dared to imply on this forum that RBG's hubris outweighed her desire to work in the interest of the country, I took a month-long ban for it.It'd be nice to have some guidelines on how exactly to express our disapproval and concern on this in the future. There are so many absolutely stupid factors in this morbid waiting game the country plays with lifetime appointments on the Supreme Court, over and over again.
I've tried a couple of trans discord but the same things happen everytime. 1. I get excited I'm trans. 2. Get jealous/attracted to people who have transitioned 3. Tell them how jealous I am and end up making them feel terrible talking about my situation 4. Realise I'm not trans due to not wanting to get rid of male perks such as: - Standing while peeing - I like my male name - Muscles - Don't have to change my voice - Not shaving everyday 5. Then I end up hating myself and leaving the discord. It's happened so many times where I just have to stop joining discords.
Dude is confused about the difference between wanting to be a trans and wanting to fuck a trans.
4. Realise I'm not trans due to not wanting to get rid of male perks such as: - Standing while peeing - I like my male name - Muscles - Don't have to change my voice - Not shaving everyday
His no.1 reason for not being trans is pissing standing up. I'd expect someone who had actual issues about becoming trans would pick something like years of ridiculously expensive therapy, surgery and treatments as the biggest hurdles.
What's going on there? Is that some in-joke for which I'm missing the context? Why are Linda and Tina voiced by men? Just as a sort of minstrel show to make them sound funny? Was there a hiring quota demanding that women do not out-number men on the staff? This isn't the Victorian era anymore, we can have women portraying women.
Like, what need is there for it? I left Yakuza 0 in the middle due, among many other reasons, to how uncomfortable it made me to see real photos of women used for erotic purposes in the game, I was trying Yakuza Like a Dragon on Game Pass, and again.As soon as the story goes into a soapland (Like a kind of brothel) the walls are full of real photos of real women. Just ... why? It is in terrible bad taste.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-point-of-real-women-in-yakuza.443170/Quote from: GlioLike, what need is there for it? I left Yakuza 0 in the middle due, among many other reasons, to how uncomfortable it made me to see real photos of women used for erotic purposes in the game, I was trying Yakuza Like a Dragon on Game Pass, and again.As soon as the story goes into a soapland (Like a kind of brothel) the walls are full of real photos of real women. Just ... why? It is in terrible bad taste.
Quote from: thetrinOP, are women not allowed to use their talents as sex workers to get paid?What part of sex work is in bad taste exactly?I mean, I find it shocking that women are directly sexualized with photographs in the game when the other characters are rendered in 3D but it must be me.
OP, are women not allowed to use their talents as sex workers to get paid?What part of sex work is in bad taste exactly?
I just find the concept of depictions of real people in a video game weird.It must be bizarre for the computer people in these games to see that, but they don't seem to care. I guess the idea is that they'd look at that like we look at CG or animated depictions of people. But as a real person, it's weird to play a game presenting a CG world, with real people in it. Like...how does that make sense? How do you explain it? How do the characters in this world know what real people look like? Where did they get these photos from? Is Yakuza a parallel dimension to ours? You can travel between them? Who has this technology? Why are they using it to put photos of real porn stars on a wall in a video game?They should put some kind of filter on those photos to make them look like they belong in a CG world.Otherwise my brain just starts dipping down that rabbit hole.
I didn't know they were sex workers but understand that it is shocking to enter a game and suddenly see photos of real people.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-bobs-burgers-whats-with-the-casting-choices.443119/QuoteWhat's going on there? Is that some in-joke for which I'm missing the context? Why are Linda and Tina voiced by men? Just as a sort of minstrel show to make them sound funny? Was there a hiring quota demanding that women do not out-number men on the staff? This isn't the Victorian era anymore, we can have women portraying women.
With today's Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water announcement, yet another Wii U game has made its way to the Nintendo Switch.Everybody assumed Nintendo would port Wii U games to the Nintendo Switch, with the relative failure of the platform, but I had no idea they would end up porting this many.And don't get me wrong, I'm glad more people get to play these games; everybody should play these games, after all.But man if it doesn't make be a little bitter because it's really starting to make me feel like I wasted my damn money on the Wii U and its software.I'm not trying to gatekeep by any means and I certainly don't want the games held hostage on the Wii U hardware, but had I known Nintendo would be pulling this shit to the extent they are, I would have just opted out of the Wii U completely and just sat on my hands instead.Sorry, just a bit salty I guess. Nobody likes knowing they blew their money on products that weren't necessary I guess.Carry on.
https://twitter.com/cdprojektred/status/1405133232874663947Transphobic huh?
Quote from: HaughtyFrank on June 15, 2021, 05:00:58 PMComedy is deadhttps://www.resetera.com/threads/wapo-jon-stewart-goes-all-in-on-the-covid-lab-leak-theory.442849/Quote from: Atom Heart MotherIt doesn't just reek of conspiracy, it reeks of war mongering and hositlity. This feels like the step one to being more hostile towards China. Because if it did leak from a lab, so what? What do we do? Go to war? Stop funding international research on diseases? People just want to be racist and go to war with China, no doubt.Quote from: Atom Heart MotherSo you get the facts straight. What do you do now? Cut off China from research, be more hostile, or what? Anti-China sentiment in America is at a fever pitch, I can see using this lab theory as an excuse to be more hostile/start a war with China.Quote from: Atom Heart MotherI agree, we can make sure standards are tighter and more secure. But there's a shit ton of people and republicans in America that are so angry over China I can feel them trying to stir America for a war. I'm just getting big "Saddam has WMDs" vibes from this.
