stopthatgirl7

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Microsoft did the right thing by softening their stance on system parity. Insisting on it would have hurt the Xbox further along the line, but now devs know they can still release on Xbox if they can’t get one or two features to run on the S.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

Yeah, I had one of those happen that ended up spoiling something really big, along with really confusing the ever-loving daylights when it happened, because I had absolutely no idea what Gale was talking about, because he was referencing a quest I hadn’t actually started yet.

I’m going to put my currently playthrough on hold until patch 2. I don’t mind waiting a bit.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

How U.S. Evangelicals Helped Homophobia Flourish in Africa

US evangelical Christians accused of promoting homophobia in Africa

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

That is honestly sobering. And depressing.

Mostly sobering, because I was happily drunk before reading this.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

It’s going to be an even bigger mess if Elon goes through with getting rid of block and only leaving people with a mute. There won’t be any way to stop these porn bots.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Twitter used to be an absolutely great way to keep up with breaking news, because so many reporters were there. I joined twitter during the Arab Spring, because so much that was happening was being talked about on Twitter. Same with a lot of social movements - twitter was a place where you could make something local go global. If anything was happening in the world, twitter was the place to follow it.

But now? Now, it’s a desert of information. It’s depressing to watch a place that was so vibrant become the home of Musk shills and weird right wingers. I loved Twitter, before Elon took over. Now, it’s fading, and fast.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Oh? Who’s on Mastodon? I could always use more people to follow!

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Followed; thanks!

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Exactly. It’s Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Stupidity alone more than adequately explains what Elon is doing to Twitter.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

Wait, why is this dude being charged with bribery when:

Following a two-year investigation, the DA’s office discovered that the two sheriffs were deliberately “refusing to release [the CCW licenses] until the applicants gave something of value.”

Unless I’m missing something, the problem is with these two sheriffs acting illegally. Were they brought up on charges for soliciting a bribe or what?

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

Yeah, this feels more like extortion than bribery, from what the article said.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

But I bet they aren’t going to pay their delivery drivers or warehouse workers more, though.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

GOOD.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

That really sucks. Mainland China is really pushing for Mandarin to be the main language, or at least the prestige language, used in China, even though there are so many languages there. Cantonese has its own rich linguistic history. But cracking down on Cantonese advocacy groups is one way Beijing is going to make Hong Kong just like the rest of China.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

Man, the republicans really don’t like it when the shoe’s on the other foot, huh.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

I can completely understand why India has made the choice to ban rice exports, because they’ve got to put their first priority on keeping their own people fed. But it’s making the whole global food situation worse.

I keep having this sinking feeling we’re going to experience something like the Bronze Age Collapse - part of the reason all the Bronze Age societies collapsed so suddenly wasn’t just the Sea People, it was that they were all so interconnected trade-wise that when one society collapsed, all of them did because supply chain links snapped. I feel like climate change is our current-day “Sea People,” only so much worse.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago

I don’t even know what that is - is a documentary or something?

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Art is “political.” It’s not being “made political” if the game brings up a heavy topic and then blinks. The game made itself “political” by making slavery an element of the world.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Thing is, and I haven’t played it either, but I know this from conversations I’ve seen about it, your character is a slave. Or, rather, is from the caste of people that is enslaved because they have magic. That means it’s something that can’t just be background, because it quite literally influences how everyone in the world interacts with Clive.

There was a really good Jimquisition on how being a “bearer” is treated in the world, and how SE just kind of overdid it with a lack of subtlety (jump to about the 4 minute mark to start, because there’s a lot of faff at the beginning before the video starts talking about the game). https://youtu.be/sgjqXTvHaLk?si=9EQqqsA4x2HEOmqc

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

See, this is why I wish this game wasn’t currently PS5 exclusive and had come out on PC like they originally planned. I can’t say what story it seems like they wanted to tell just because unless I want to watch someone else play it, I can’t know. I couldn’t even read much of the article because I didn’t want to get too far into spoiler territory. It’s very frustrating because this seems like an interesting discussion to be had.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Unlike OP

…why are you bringing me into this?

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Where have I said a strong opinion on it other than pointing out art is political?! I’ve done a “yeah, but” and that’s it. 🤨

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

You sat there and said I shouldn’t have an opinion because I haven’t played, when you haven’t played either but get to have a strong opinion on it plus eye roll at Americans. My only opinion is, “eh, seems like they whiffed it instead of going into what they introduced,” and that’s based on a review I saw by a Brit. 🤨

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

I feel like the “disappointing sales” are more on SE than anything else, though. Like, they decided to only release on PS5 despite initially saying it would be PS5 and PC (and I’m just going to be charitable and ignore YoshiP telling someone asking about the PC release to just get a PS5, when PS5s were still damn near impossible to get in Japan), and even though PS5s had a really small install base (especially here in Japan - PS5s have recently become readily available, and even then, stock is limited - the electronics store near me is so completely out of stock of the digital version that they took down the display for that version and only have the disc drive version for sale).

I feel like SE has been making a lot of missteps lately.

And I’m not even going to touch the mess that is YoshiP’s reasoning for why his fantasy Europe was so dang un-melanated. That is a whole other issue. I’m just gonna say that as a non-white American living in Japan, a lot of folks in Japan have a very limited view of what an 欧米人 (European and American) is.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

I post things I think people can talk about, even if I can’t actively take part in it. That’s it.

And if you don’t like what I post, you are more than welcome to block me - I actively encourage people blocking folks they don’t like. Please, feel free.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

…Yeah, do you realize how bad taste it is to compare not letting cops in to Jim Crow discrimination against Black folks? Y’know, the people cops kill a lot?

I see what you’re trying to do, but…can you please not.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

To you, and that “No colored allowed.”

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Yeah, I know, which is why I said I get where you were coming from, but it was still in poor taste.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Yeah, but the issue is using that particular example in a post talking about police.

Also, as a Black American, it’s really tiring when we and discrimination against us get pulled out to use as examples. Like, just keep us out of it some times.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

See, as a coffee hater, I like Starbucks precisely because it’s not coffee. If a coffee hater likes your coffee…it’s not coffee.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

And your life is better for it, honestly.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

you’re reliant on them to come save you if you ever have an active shooter

…how’d that work out for those kids in Uvalde, tho.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

“Many members of our community have been impacted by gun violence, whether that be experience on the streets of San Francisco, having come from war or occupation, or having increased fears due to a growing climate of political extremism,” the bakery continued. “All too often, Black and brown people, and poor people are the victims of this violence. At Reem’s, we aim to provide a space where people can eat delicious Arab food and work together to strengthen our community, without fear of violence or harassment.”

They don’t want their customers to have to worry about guns. Their policy makes perfect sense to me.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Man, it must be so awful to be so terrified of everything that you think the entire world is a constant threat you have to be armed and guarded against.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

There was a story recently about a 13 year old girl in Mississippi who was forced to give birth because of their anti-abortion laws. She had been raped at 12 by a stranger while playing outside in her yard. The cops did absolutely nothing about the case until Time Magazine called them about the story they were doing on the girl.

If cops won’t even look for someone raping children in broad daylight, what are they even for?

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Yeah, weird, how NPR got that so wrong, huh.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Please check the date on the article.

Last I checked, “August 26, 2023” was not two months ago.

If you’d like to accuse NPR of being slow, go for it.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Check the date on the article.

And “new.” Oh, that’s funny. Please, check my posting history to see how “just new” I am here.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

Because this is not old news, if I’m posting an article that came out TWO DAYS AGO.

Anyway, you have a nice day.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

That’s apparently too difficult for some folks out there.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago

They shoot and beat us when we do. And laws have been passed making it OK to run over protestors.