I always love how Christians regularly freak out about the idea that “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” is canonically the only unforgivable thing they can do, but then rationalize it as some amorphous thing that’s just not believing enough such that they go on to claim the Holy Spirit does all sorts of shit.
“The Holy Spirit supervised the creation of the Bible so it’s inerrant (even though the majority of scholars think things like 1 Timothy are unquestionably forgeries).”
“The Holy Spirit moved me to post Nazi memes - I was an unwilling vessel.”
If that shit really is unforgivable I’d imagine the vast majority of Christians are in for a surprise down the road…
Not that it makes it any better, they will somehow be tracking installs anyway. Inaccurately, since they went from “The creator will need to pay for all future installs. The reason is that Unity doesn’t receive end-player information, just aggregate data” to “The spirit of this program is and has always been to charge for the first install and we have no desire to charge for the same person doing ongoing installs” in the span of 24 hours. I’m having a hard time trusting anything they say.
Even if they are not currently lying and have the magical ability to determine the exact number of installs. They have shown that they will arbitrarily change their pricing structure. There is no way they can be trusted. Anyone who can move their project to a new engine would be wise to do so.
Even if they aren’t lying and have the magical ability to determine the exact number of installs, some asshole is going to create a bot net which spams unique installs for developers they don’t like, skyrocketing the number of “installs” and therefore the cost to do business.
Yeah “bad actors” - but they knew what they were doing and didn’t do anything to stop it.
By pure coincidence they started to make more money from freemium games ads so they pivoted to that, and anyway being blocked by Ms defender was a death sentence. It was not “OMG bad actors are abusing our installers, and 99% of our customers are bad actors, let’s discontinue it immediately and find another market”
I thought you were gonna talk about Grant Kirkhope’s magnum opus, the DK Rap. You know, because of the “He’s bigger, and faster, and stronger too, he’s the first member of the DK Crew! Huh!”
all animals are obviously way more intelligent than science gives them credit for. humans were just so callous and careless for centuries that we didn’t bother to pay them any respect. like obviously crabs feel pain when you boil them, why the fuck wouldn’t they? that’s a pretty basic evolutionary mechanism
Serena Williams or Brittney Greiner or Simone Biles could kick my fat ass three ways from Sunday. I’m definitely not bigger than Brittney, and there’s no way I’m stronger or faster than any of them.
Did you even read the article? He defined men as being on average bigger stronger and faster. I don’t know if this is exactly the case. You also named women who aren’t exactly in the middle of the bell curve.
You can also tell how predictably people can be in a situation. Individuals tend to have a repertoire; that’s how boxing, football and any competitive sports coaches train their charges. Groups seem to have them too. Most would-be bullies wing it when sheer size is the differential, beyond a few well-rehearsed moves because that’s all it usually takes. Observe most bullies online or irl, better yet, be bullied. You learn how to move. Eg, a lot of people spoiling for a fight leave their person wide open and unprotected, simply because they think the person seeing them come for a fight is going to let them hit first. Some people still think the other person isn’t going to a sucker punch because it’sa bitch move (and it is); but better to use that bitch move before your bully does. Fighting with honor may or not matter till animal survival instinct kicks in. One can and probably should let it kick in sooner because bullies aren’t really looking for a good excuse or honor and there’s no shame in recognizing that. Just don’t carry it over to every other life aspect.
Damn, this turned into a therapy session for you. Didn’t bother reading it, because if someone that much smaller comes at you, just kick em in the face and keep walking.
He’s an asshole, but it is absolutely true that men are, on average, bigger, stronger, and faster than women, so picking 3 women who are notable for being in the top billionth of prowess in their particular sports isn’t exactly a repudiation of that point.
I was just thinking the same about my husband. At 5’7" and 137 lbs, and working an office job with no workouts so no real muscle tone, he might have to be defined as a woman. Good thing we’ll never go to Nebraska.
I would like to see him go up against any of these ladies in literally any sport at all- they’d kick his ass so hard. And that’s fine- he’s not less “manly” because of it. He is my husband and the father of my children and I love him always and thankfully small minded people like this are only a minor hindrance in the progress we are making.
Meanwhile, legislation like this also forces the Buck Angels of the world to use women’s restrooms. It’s all so fucking stupid. Kids are statistically in more danger from a priest or youth pastor.
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