To produce art that, however slightly, affects the world. I don’t care if anyone agrees or cares, I just need to make it.

I’m using Boost for Lemmy on Android. I’m not sure if there’s a setting for me to enable negative votes necessarily, but it’s interesting that there’s a difference between clients like that.

Down voting doesn’t show how unpopular it is, though, right? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post go negative on votes, only to zero.

Been saying this for years. I don’t eat bugs just because they came from the sea and are expensive.

Contract with a prison for labor. That’s how most businesses do it. You don’t get them to work in your shop, you get them to produce whatever onsite in the prison. Good luck with your shit morals if you do that, though. Hopefully anyone who actually takes advantage of this gets what’s coming to them with the rest of the evil fucks ruining the world.

Yeah, I bet they’re feeling a bit uneasy when something like 600B fell off their market cap.

Mmgmhgfjfddhfhhh

Edit: I hope it works like in the main menu where everything’s stretchy and you can freeze it in place

Same. My girl rolls in it, loves it, consumes it, then 5-10 minutes later, she’s staring at me accusingly like I’ve done something to wrong her.

This is setting aside that she only gets catnip when she screams at me for it.

Exploitability sounds pretty terrible as a possibility, but I will say that the devs seem aware of it and the possibility of exploitation doesn’t necessarily sink a game like this. Eve often was such an amazing experience early on precisely because the game had so many openly exploitable systems.

They mention they’re looking to attract the caregiver archetype, which I assume means they’re trying not to bring the purely competitive Eve player, so maybe a healthy starting mix will help with the exploitative feeling early on?

I’m not saying they shouldn’t be able to be taken to court, more that the argument “making a political decision” literally applies to any action a politician takes. Even if that’s not likely to succeed, if that’s the bar to clear, any sufficiently large company could just repeatedly sue an official with adversarial views, to hobble any decisions they make couldn’t they? This is purely ignorance of how the UK legal system works on my part, so I apologize if this is like super basic info.

That’s a good clarification on the UK office of Palantir, though, I fully didn’t realize that would be considered a local entity, given where they’re headquartered, but it makes way more sense in that case.

Genuinely so excited for this game. The last SH entry wasn’t quite for me even if it was aesthetically amazing and I might still play it if it goes on sale, but god the Townfall trailer gave me the exact feeling I had looking up at SH 2 on the CRT as a kid.

I’m a bit confused here. Isn’t the office of the mayor a political seat? Are they not allowed to make subjective decisions in the course of their duties? How is this grounding for a lawsuit at all?

I know in the US it’s a pretty low bar for a lawsuit, but I was under the impression that the UK required some genuine reasoning for going to court.

It just seems insane that an American spy company can sue another country for saying “hey, maybe it’s not a good idea to have an American spy company running our police force”.

Sorry, 2-7 times a day??? Oh no

God, I can’t agree more. These last few shows have had suuuuuch a good selection of games.

I wonder what the officially recognized denomination of Christian will be when they keep cutting.

Literally among the most damaging things you can do to yourself with AI. Edit: if they aren’t being sardonic.

They did their Royale edition about five years ago that kinda breathed new life into Persona 5 since it also released on a bunch of new systems. I know that’s how I got to experience the game, once it came to PC.

In a world with AI grindsets, influencer slopfests, and governmental grifting, we need more respectable professions like this.

I’m not even joking when I said my ex boyfriend and I would sit around mentally preparing to play this game in the hotseat. Like, the feeling of having to force yourself to move from one area to another without knowing where the Xenomorph would be or worse, knowing that they’re between you and the exit was awful.

It’s not the intent of your post and I know I’m on a bit of a tangent, but the middle article about the oversexualization in the ad doesn’t feel transphobic to me as a trans person. Or like, it does, but it does in a way that it makes perfect sense for the world that the game takes place in.

There are lots of examples of commodification of people’s bodies in game, so leaning into that with a trans person feels like a very real version of what a company might do in that universe.

Not trying to nitpick or anything, I just heard about this controversy waaaaaay after the fact and never got a chance to chime in anywhere with anyone.