Not only that but I’m pretty sure your average US congress person is so old that they think gamers are playing something that looks like an Atari 2600 but is called a Nintendo Playstation and is almost as popular as the Sony Xbox.

Quite frankly I’m not surprised “Don’t leak your war plans on Signal. Tell ya what let’s just ban WhatsApp for congressmen.” Happened.

American Governments are so tech illiterate that in order to stop internet piracy they once crafted a law called SOPA which effectively banned the internet by forcing a takedown of anything that violated any copyright at all, making no exceptions for fair use such as satire, fan art, or education… a net so incredibly wide that the only website left would have been .govs

Like Wikipedia would have to go because it explains what Spider-Man is and Disney owns that. That’s how strict SOPA was.

Real fucking law that nearly passed and only didn’t because the entire net threw the biggest shitfit in the history of shitfits.

Not only is the average congress person THIS tech inept (which is why watching them try to pull gotchas on Mark Zuckerberg in congressional hearings, something that should be easy as hell, is cringe-inducing)

But America is so blindly loyal to capitalism that corporations are basically writing their own consumer protection laws.

This is a recipe for Congress basically sitting back and doing whatever Microsoft says they should do and ignoring everyone else. Meaning consumer protections on video games is a no go.

Because the EU is such a large market that consumer protections there often translate to these trickling down to Americans.

Wow not even Reddit allows bans on one sub reddit for something that happened in another.

They happen anyway but they’re technically against the rules.

Tankies are like children. They assume their fantasies are true.

They accurately recognize that they live in a corrupt regime that seeks to exploit them.

They think therefore anyplace America says is bad must be good. However they fall victim to believing the grass is greener, in an age where we can see past everyone’s fence thanks to Google Maps.

PS: No one in North Korea can use Lemmy because Kim is the only one allowed to use the internet.

Next week they make it compatible with verification cans.

Same

Well it’s what they tend to be here in Burgerland. The whole “rationalist” movement…

Seriously back on Facebook I couldn’t even say I thought crystals looked pretty without fedoras telling me to “Go win the Randi prize!”… years after it stopped being offered…

As for Muslims… since you asked…

I didn’t really vibe with the Quran when I tried to read it but my experiences with those of the Islamic faith is that they’re good people with good food, who’d like white people to stop blaming them for 9/11 (Which we all know Bush did anyway)

I like that Modern Capcom aren’t jerks… and that the entire Ace Attorney series is on Steam.

I never really played Apollo or anything beyond.

I was in the camp of “Trials and Tribulations was too definitive an ending to continue.”

And I think so were many others. I hear Apollo Justice didn’t sell that well which is what lead to the other Apollo games being named after Phoenix

The only one I don’t have is the Miles Edgeworth one, I still need to start Apollo Justice…

I may be a patient gamer, but I could stand to be even moreso

And once again, Steam runs into various errors for me because of the high number of people getting in on the sale.

A beautiful reason to be inconvenienced. Enjoy gaming harmony my friends.

1. Because I don’t wanna be a grumpy redditor with fingers covered in cheeto dust, jacking off to James Randi and Richard Dawkins arguing over who thinks the Bible is faker and gayer, with no magic to console me about the cruelty of the world, no afterlife to look forward to, stuck with the knowledge that this is all there is ever going to be.

2. I mean, I don’t want to disbelieve in miracles and mystery, but we live in a society laugh track where God cannot be found. Everyone with magic gets debunked, every study that confirms a supernatural power seems to get slapped with accusations of fraud and “The File Drawer Effect”, and the evidence continues to pile up for a Materialistic view of the universe where nothing is immaterial and everything is ultimately matter or springs up from it…

I don’t want to be an Atheist, but if God’s here I can’t find him.

I love the subtle implication that it’s unusual for men to be doctors. It’s almost a “Skinwalker Phrasing”, where you know what they mean, but it sounds off. It sounds like it’s fine on first read, but that’s because you’re associating “Male Doctor” with the phrase “Male Nurse” which makes more sense as while doctor is seen a gender neutral profession, being a nurse while not strictly forbidding men, is along with secretary, nanny, teacher, and stewardess, seen as “Women’s Work” in the patriarchal social structure which most cultures live in. Despite the fact that men do fill those roles all the time.

Well maybe not Nanny sadly, as society with its “Women are victims, Men are predators” mindset eyes any man who volunteers himself in the care of children with suspicion. Something that I, as a transwoman who was falsely accused as a guy, am well aware of.

…I legitimately forgot what the fuck I was talking about when I started babbling about gender roles.

On that note, thankfully I can’t think of any job (outside of US President apparently, seriously Trump is preferrable to any woman? That’s really the precedent we’ve set? What the shit America) that is typically seen as male exclusive. Something I definitely couldn’t say as recently as 20 years ago.

A big problem for fan games, an absolutely embarassing position to be in professionally.

I really really do not want to be an atheist. But where is God?

Good. Glad to hear that game sellers are getting sued left and right.

Digital sales means the company has never had more power over their consumers so I say it’s good to see that reined in.

Jesus Christ…

This literally gets you on a sex offender registry

As long as he’s capable of saving my soul…

As long as I have a soul…

After all, science distinguishable from magic is merely insufficiently advanced

Freedom of Speech: Fascists love it, until it’s actually used.

Why the fuck does she have a camera?

That’s one of my least favorite things about being a Night Shift worker myself.

Nothing’s ever fucking haunted. I wanted to deal with ghosts!