Xoriff

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Came to the comments to say this. Love that series. Wish they hadn't moved to that follow-up series Star Force. Wasn't as good, imo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I think it's that people like certain levels of specificness. Like, bread, pizza, and broccoli are all foods, but if you said "I had a food for lunch" that'd sound weird.

It's not necessarily that cake isn't a type of bread or that the two aren't closely related. It's that we have a super-common and more specific word for it (cake) so it sounds awkward when you use a different word that might be technically accurate, but is a weird choice in practice.

Same for a lot of things. A hot dog and a sub are technically the same thing. But if a waiter dropped off your hot dog and said "here's your pork sub", you'd probably look at them funny.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (5 children)

So... At what point do gamers start sending a message. "Microsoft: why are players cancelling their game pass subscriptions?"

Or does the smackdown happen from the creator side "Microsoft: why doesn't anybody want to make games on our platform anymore?"

They wouldn't pull this kind of shit if there were monetary repercussions. So, why do these bullshit strategies work?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Voting is the minimum. If voting isn't enough (I didn't think it is) then do more. Go knock on doors for the candidate that you like. There are a million ways to participate in democracy. The answer to a flawed system isn't to do less.

These "both choices bad. Better to not vote" people really don't make any kind of sense to me.

Image being unhealthy and saying "it's going to take more than a 20 minute walk once a week to get in shape. Better not even do that then cuz what would be the point?"

So do more, not less.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"sick-puppet-ish". Haven't heard that one before. Checked urban dictionary but... I'm guessing that's not what you were going for?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What's up with the acorns? Saw another meme of "Taylor Swift ending some cop's career" by dropping an acorn from a plane.