rwhitisissle

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[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay, hear me out. Yes, Hilldog got the DNC nomination and lost what was supposed to be the most softball Democratic presidential victory in American history, giving us 4 years of Trump. But! But....what if we get her on the ticket with Biden, Biden secures the re-election. Hillary is Vice President for 4 years. Does a great job, makes a lot of people at Goldman Sachs very wealthy, pushes for new legislation to have black teenagers officially outlawed, etc. Then, at the ripe old age of 80, we get a Hillary Clinton presidential bid once a motherfucking 'gain. And then she loses to, oh, I'm gonna say....David Duke.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago

What you’re saying is “inevitable” hasn’t happened for the entire 20+ years of Steam.

Something being "inevitable" by definition means it will eventually happen, but has not already occurred.

Steam’s monopoly is actually what’s holding PC gaming together.

"Steam good. Steam has monopoly. Therefore, monopoly good."

Woof.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

It can be a problem at other companies, but even worse than average at Valve by virtue of corporate structure. Both of these things can be true.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact: Former employees of Valve have said that is actually a huge problem in the organization and that its organizational structure seems to encourage bullying and high-school style "cliquishness" by design.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, they're a game developer. And they own GOG. GOG as a subsidiary is a digital distributor of prepackaged digital content. Developing a system that allows people to find a digital item, pay for it, and then download it, is hilariously, vastly different than developing a compatibility layer for games developed for one operating system to run on another. Like...the former is straight up just basic web development. The latter is hardcore systems programming. They are worlds apart.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

Fuck, the original Pacific Rim wasn't even good. Like, how you gonna set such a low bar and somehow slide under it with room to spare?

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

"My daughter Murph. I keep gettin' older. She stays the same age."

Also, I love how he had a son who just wanted to be a farmer and that meant that Matthew McConaughey's character was justified in being totally emotionally disinterested in him, compared to his genius daughter. Seriously, at a certain point I think Nolan forgot he wrote this guy with two kids. His entire character was defined by his relationship with his daughter. Why even give him a son in the first place?

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"This woman, who suffers from body dysphoria and constantly gets more and more plastic surgery (a behavior which harms no one but herself) is the same as this fictional serial killer who tortured hundreds of people to death."

But in all seriousness, I don't think it's nice to make fun of people's appearance.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"quick call?"

"sure, I've got time for the two hour meeting this is going to be."

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

I respect the sentiment, but I recently read "Exiting the Vampire Castle" by Mark Fisher and he makes some good points for why callout culture is, shall we say, "less than productive" in some situations.

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