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Right. As in all cases involving freedom and liberty, my freedom to swing my arms ends where your face begins. This is hurting someone.

Even if it weren't such a rediculously politically charged topic, these girls are likely to now have peers who see Ted Cruz's statement. They'll have to deal with some of those peers making comments, and mocking them for being "masculine." We have countless cases of bullying getting out of control and leading to serious psychological and physical harm, and now we have grown-ass men in positions of political power enabling this kind of behaviour to do what? Weaponize gender issues and spread hatred along political lines?

Fuck Ted Cruz, and fuck anyone who thinks a grown-ass man commenting on the gender of and posting images of young girls should be protected under "freedom of speech". This is abuse of power and child abuse. You wanna save the children, Republicans? Start with saving them from your leadership.

Pre-empt: Everything I say is in regards to the original release. I have not played the pristine cut.

It is definitely intended to be deeply uncomfortable. It has a very "cosmic horror" vibe to it, while playing on themes of relationships, love and romance. Both the player and the princess will die, repeatedly, in sometimes gruesome ways, and sometimes absurd ways. Body horror will happen. You will read descriptions of flesh and bone seperating. But despite all that, it ultimately is an emotionally endearing experience.

It's good, but not great. The story is impactful and meaningful, and it does a great sort-of incidental meta commentary on literature.

An opinion which I find most players don't share with me: the ending was incredibly weak, to the point that I felt it really detracted from the experience, which led me to my "not great" assessment. It has a bad case of "the only decision that matters is the last one," which isn't the way I like these seemingly heavily malluble visual novels to go, and none of the endings feel genuinely satisfying. Worse, my first ending set up for something of a second attempt towards a "golden ending" of sorts, only to pull the rug out from under me and just kind of... end, instead.

The storytelling is great, the writing is engaging, the voice acting is fantastic, the art is gorgeous... There's a lot to like about the game, so I don't want to make it sound "bad," because it's quite good. It just sold itself to me as a kind of "choices matter" game, where I'd find myself digging for information and answers, so I can learn more and make better decisions on multiple, short playthroughs. I hoped to eventually either discover everything I want to discover and feel good about my explorations, or use my growing knowledge to find the "right" ending, whether that's a "golden" ending or an ending that I find satisfying and rewards me for my effort. But, for it's variety choices, it's not really that kind of game. It is, at its heart, a linear game, with some variation in the experiences you have between where you start and where you end up, with a couple choices in the last moment determining which page you flip to before the credits roll.

Maybe I expected too much, and the problem is with me. I can't deny that my opinion could be based on a failure of expectation. But, I restate, it's good, but it's not great.

"I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about"

Should we call it a fallacious call to authority, meme on it for being a "how do you do, fellow gamers" moment, or simply mock the guy for whoring himself out in favor of daddy corporate? I could write an essay on the ways this is an absurd statement.

Gamers hate Denuvo because it doesn't "simply work". It limits paying customers from accessing their content, bogs down mid-range machines that are already overtaxxed by poor optimization and, in admittedly uncommon cases, full on breaks some games until patches and fixes roll out. Stop pretending that "gamers" are out here rioting because they're too cheap and immoral to pay for content. Quit your fuckin' lying.

Excuse my ignorance here, but what is the data that they're collecting being used for? We see polls every day suggesting that Trump and Kamala are closer in votes than anyone on Lemmy would like, but now I wonder who exactly is being grifted. Is this Trump being lied to and paying for a service he isn't receiving, or is this data being falsified to make Trump look more popular than he is, lending weight and legitimacy to his claims of widespread voter fraud?

I'd love, for once, for Trump's own philosophies to be biting him, but based on the past, I'm worried this is just another tool in the misinformation arsenal.

If he's going to lie about working a McDonald's, I don't blame people for lying about the (non-existant) service.

A photo-op in a closed McDonald's isn't a "job," Donny. Though, since you've never had one, I can understand how you failed to make the distinction.

has brought dehumanizing language into American politics.

You mean in like 2015, right? It's approaching 10 years of this shit.

What the fuck is Politico's article formatting? Random-ass capitalization, bolding the first few words of each paragraph, but never the whole statement, paragraphs that are two sentences long... I feel like I am trying to read the thought processes of someone who is actively having a stroke. It's all there, just coming out jumbled, with awkward delays and strange emphasis.

I honestly gave up reading fairly early in. I get that most people want "fast" media nowadays, but this is barely legible.

Well, if the goal is to be something terrifying, you've got the spirit for sure.

Well, I won’t comment on that, but I will tell you that: if I did, it’s a smart thing.

In other words, he did.

You responded to him not only to get his praise, but so I'd miss it and wouldn't challenge your opinion.

Seek help. The fact that you need to create such insane delusions is a problem. The real answer is I ignored my phone, went about my day, and enjoyed my time with my hobbies and loved ones. When I found the conversation later, I stepped into the most recent comment. And I had much more to add to their comment than your inane ramblings, so it worked out.

Yes, I have been rude to you. As you have been to the imaginary "bootlickers" you have created, and defined everyone who disagrees with you as. I think you are so busy creating enemies out of everyone who is on the other side of something from you, that you fail to differentiate between the problem and the symptoms. And I don't think I can convince you of that, so this is honestly a waste of time.

I respond to people when they say something worth responding to. You think my post makes Gaben sound like a victim. Either your reading comprehension has completely failed and you aren't capable of having a real conversation, or my first comment about being far more interested in saying controversial shit than thinking things through was spot on, and you're arguing in bad faith and/or to pleasure your ego. Since it's not my job to educate you, nor satisfy you, even giving you this much recognition is a compliment. Have a good one.

And, to be clear, Capitalism is bad. I'm on board. But riding Gaben's dick, or the dick of any boring dystopian billionaire instead of the people actively fighting to maintain the system is just grossly missing the point

Not all evils are equal, and any perceived slight by Steam is honestly smoke for the thousands of disgustingly rich venture capitalists constantly abusing the system that exists and lobbying the shit out of any attempt to fix it. I don't blame Gaben for owning more yacht's than anyone needs, because, at the end of the day, he's providing a quality service through an unfair system. He's not the one fighting to provide shittier and shittier systems, demanding fatter and fatter paychecks and encouraging us to blame each other for the state of the world while he runs off with the largest slice of the cake.

Should he have the wealth he has access to? Fuck no. But, again, the dishonest and disgustingly simplified argument that homie is making is only idiofying the cause. Target the problems, not the lucky guys who are providing halfway reasonable services through our broken-ass system.