Plus all the filler. I love the Streamlined Mythbusters project, but it’s absurd how short some episodes get when cut down. Iirc there was one that was cut down to 11 minutes of actual content.
I was using a third party site for AIM or some other instant messaging service (there were so many competing then) that worked on PSP to chat with my girlfriend into the wee hours of the morning without going over my texting limits. Looking back I have no clue how she was responding so late into the night.
It was a magical time in the early days of handheld internet connected devices. Wish I spent that time on someone more worthwhile, but that’s youth for you.
Tbf, there were actual incidents where game news journalists gave preferential treatment to indie game devs they knew personally/went out drinking with/had dated. There was confirmation of that from leaked game journo email groups/chains. There was also concerns about preferential reviews being given to games that were running ads on a site. There was a small kernel about actual journalistic integrity concerns and what responsible disclosure means for games journalism.
Unfortunately that got swallowed up by a lot of bullshit:
absolute waves and waves of women hate. Jesus christ that’s a lot of misogyny.
elitism about what qualified as a “real game” (I don’t enjoy “walking simulators” but that doesn’t mean they aren’t video games)
people unable to understand that just like movie critics are judging different criteria to movie consumers, game critics can judge based on different criteria to gamers
weird group stalking behavior towards specific female game devs
attacking creators themselves rather than whatever elements of their games people found lacking
I have a hard time believing you’re not being willfully obtuse here. Does it really need to be spelled out to you that STD already has a meaning? Sexually Transmitted Disease.
No one acronyms Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to STDS9, Star Trek: The Next Generation to STTNG, Star Wars: The Force Awakens to SWTFA, Star Wars: A New Hope to SWANH, or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to CODMW2. You drop the prefix: DS9, TNG, TFA, ANH, MW2.
Alternatively, no one shortens the above to STD, STN, SWA, SWH, CDM.
In verbal conversation, calling it Disco saves you a syllable compared to STD. In text, DSC is the same amount of characters.
There’s no point trying to defend your choice here. You call it STD because you don’t like it and calling it STD made you chuckle. I get it, it made me chuckle the first time. I really don’t care whether you like it or what you choose to call it. I watched most of season 1 and it just didn’t click for me.
I just can’t imagine being the kind of person that would try to say they don’t understand why calling it STD could be taken badly. Wow. Reminds me of school days, the kids with the sheer audacity to tell the teacher they didn’t bring a cellphone into a test while their pants are blasting out a compressed to hell 30 second loop of a top 10 song as a ringtone.
To spell it out, you’re asking people to get together and talk about breaking the law on a platform hosted and run by a company in the US. A platform that has been caught snooping private messages to find justification for banning users from the platform who have not broken any rules anywhere outside of those private messages. A platform that requires most users to register a real cell phone number with their account. A platform with mobile and desktop clients that are well documented as big ol data harvesting machines (seriously the wireshark logs are just stupid with the amount they’re sending back to home base).
Not to mention that for everything Discord does, there are secure encrypted altrnatives. Some p2p, some selfhosted. Not all shoved under the same roof, but they usually are better quality anyway.
GDPR requires companies to offer a “only neccessary cookies” option that is easily accessible. Anytime you find a site that works as you’ve described you can and should report them.
Also, there are plenty of options for blocking those popups and/or auto selecting only neccessary.
Just because a headline was published doesn’t mean people agree with it. You can literally publish whatever the fuck you want as long as you don’t cross a threshold that your core reader base stops trusting the publication. Fluff pieces like this are primetime space for just going off on bullshit with minimal repurcussions.
Beyond that clickbait/ragebait are absolutely a thing, and so is manufactured consent style propaganda.
Life360 just needs to have this article published in enough places that it seems like a ton of people are saying it. Gets the ball rolling for the appearance of people sharing this opinion when the reality is that they just got a dozen news sites to reword their press packet.
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I love when the boots on the ground tell me I screwed up, because then I can pick their brains and make things better!
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