CileTheSane

joined 1 year ago
[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

Obviously that steam guy was probably coming from a place of bad faith

The Steam forums actively encourage this kind of bad faith behavior:

  1. when a post gets a new reply it's moved to the top of the forums. So as long as people are engaging with a post, even if it's just to make fun of a bigot, it keeps getting pushed back to the top.

  2. Users can "award" posts for various things (helpfull, cool, funny, etc) and users have taken to giving 'Clown' awards as a way of making fun of posts. Whenever one of your posts gets an award, you are given Steampoints you can use in the Steam cosmetics store.

This results in every game having bad faith posts "complaining" about wokeness so that people will make fun of them with Clown awards as a way to farm Steampoints. The developer bringing attention to it just helps them get more.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

For the thing you were claiming 3 days ago that got removed by a moderator.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Musk has money to give Trump

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 40 points 3 days ago

Trump has been promoting fear the entire campaign. This is reminding people that they don't have to give in to it.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 49 points 3 days ago

You're telling me the account "BlueWave_2024" is going to disappear after the 2024 election? What would lead you to such a bold conclusion?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I don't live in the US, so I'm not terribly involved in your local politics. I just notice that it only seems to be in October that a noticeable number of people are talking about holding politicians accountable and "making a 3rd party viable."

Prove me wrong and push for improvements between elections as well.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

They'll pass laws that will give men an extra vote for each child they have (because they are "more invested in the future") and while we're at it let's allow them to vote for the entire family to cut down on voting lines.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

How is he not in America if he lives and works there and has done for a long time?

I know this one!

Because it's a distraction from the original topic. Any nonsense conversation is better than a conversation that accurately criticises Trump.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You could make sure we're looking at the same one by providing a source.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

Hasn't Jon Oliver on more than one occasion fired insults at the company that owns the network he's on?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So a week from now you're still going to be posting about the importance of holding politicians accountable? Come January you're going to be involved in some action to pressure the government to do something about Israel? I'd love to be proven wrong.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Based on the fact that for some reason it is only once every 4 years, around October, that there appears to be an interest in a 3rd party from Americans...

 

Received a text from a pollster asking me who I'm going to vote for, is there any good reason to respond?

 

This is a weird one.

I am subscribed to Risa@startrek.website When browsing on my phone I can see the thumbnails just fine. When browsing on my desktop ublock origin blocks the thumbnails and avatars, but only from the startrek.website instance, and only when I'm accessing it through Lemmy.ca

If I go directly to startrek.website I can view everything fine, and other instances I am not encountering this issue with. Any idea what might be the cause? I am using Firefox.

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