Glide

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[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not sure how you can talk about "the big three" of condiments and leave out mayo. Is it just non-existant outside of North America or something?

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 78 points 5 months ago

I purchased Rayman Legends on a big Steam sale because it is a great game and I wanted to play it again. I installed it. I hit play. It tried to install the Ubisoft launcher. I uninstalled it and refunded.

Fuck off, Ubisoft.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

The push to get people to stop saying it Streisand Effected the word into a slur. There's no reason it shouldn't have just gone the way of "moron,

Sure. But it didn't. And now it is a slur. And no matter how much you'd like to defend your version of the word, that isn't what it means. Sitting in your own bubble and insisting on your own version of language history doesn't change the meaning of the word to the evolving world.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

So, we're just going to pretend that language doesn't evolve because it justifies your bias?

People didn't put their foot down when the meaning of those words began to shift, and now they mean something entirely different. In our more socially and culturally aware culture, we as a people understand nuance and are generally educated enough to see what's happening. We have by and large decided that it's a bad thing to continue normalizing attacking the mentally disabled.

Fuck off with your pseudo-intellectual defense of toxic, dehumanizing culture. Words mean things. The things they mean can change. Those ones, in a less educated and accepting time, did. The ones we have now have not. Your attempt to dismiss that is genuinely hateful.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 42 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Imagine calling the difference between people who do stupid things and people who are born with diagnosed mental illnesses "splitting hairs".

It's very, very simple. In one case, you are attacking someone who is completely in control of their mental facilities. In the other, you are attacking people who are literally incapable of defending themselves, from birth. They are not synonymous. If you think that level of punching down is okay, then be as indignant and self-righteous about it as you want, but you deserve to be told.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

God, I wish I had a mortgage.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Watching the wheels turn when a straight person, upset by being forgotten, is told that this is what LGBTQ+ people are used to and have had to deal with for most of history.

chef's kiss

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

Hi-Fi Rush might genuinely be one of my favorite games of all time.

These guys did great, and I'll be thinking twice about any Xbox product I consider purchasing in the future.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

I just fucking want Elite to be good. I could shoot pirates and 'goids all day if getting a ship ready to do so wasn't as enjoyable as running dental floss into my mouth and out my asshole.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

As a "space games guy" is there anything out there that is as satisfying to simply fly around in as Elite Dangerous is without the absolute shit fuck of ass-backwards, tedious and boring mechanics?

I fucking love flying ships in that game with my HOTAS and VR headset, but I will be damned if I am going to roll around on a moon praying I trip over some precious metals just so I can play logistics hot potatoes trying to figure out how I am going to get my module to the relevant station, upgraded, and then placed into the ship I designed it for. Elite is such an incredible space cockpit sim, and they've gone to great lengths to prevent me from wanting to actually play it. I just want a good cockpit sim with HOTAS support that doesn't make me want to scoop out my own eyeballs whenever I think about loading it up again.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 months ago

This.

Nothing says "I have fulfilled my social obligation, but I don't give a shit about you" more than a low value giftcard for somewhere generic.

Alternatively, give him a halfway decent gift and feel better about yourself for not continuing the cycle of neglect, even when he won't appreciate it. We can make the world better, even for those of us that don't deserve it, and considering how to make it a better place as opposed to how to get back at the people who make it a worse one is just a better use of our time and energy.

Besides, at the end of the day, truly awful people already live with the worst punishment so could imagine: having to wake up every morning and continue being themselves.

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