probably actually is? I think online perceptions of casual sex have it as way more common than it actually is. the average person is having like 3-4 committed relationships, and 2-5 casual relationships sounds reasonable. Especially these days, where there’s an unprecedented amount of single people in the West.
Now if we’re talking a tall handsome gay man, yeah those are rookie numbers.
the problem with this thinking is that Trump being out doesn’t mean this is over. Trump is the symptom of a larger disease.
I have terrible news for you; people are not generally literate then.
the issue is that it seems quite likely that humanity will always have a subset of the population that lords over the rest of them, and that subset has a vested interest in keeping tribalism alive.
Sure, you can be an optimist and dream of a future that is radically different to how human culture has existed in recorded history, but the realistic expectation is that the widespread education that would need to take place just…won’t.
the civil rights movement has been incredibly whitewashed in US education. Americans were overwhelmingly against de-segregation, there was tons of violence against black Americans, and that violence was not solely committed by police officers.
The Klan might seem like a relic of the past now, but the KKK was incredibly powerful during the 50s and 60s, to the point where in my home state, 1/3 of men were Klansmen and were a significant political bloc. They weren’t just voting in politicians that supported their vile views though, they were lynching people and burning crosses on lawns and shit.
that’s the fun part, basically none of the money you pay actually goes to the people who made the thing.
like 95-100% of the money that the crew of a movie or TV show makes is paid to them during production. There might be a handful of crew, typically writers, actors, and directors who get residuals, but that’s typically a very small fraction of the total amount they got paid.
Your money goes to the studio who produced the film/show in order to recoup their investment. and in my experience, the studio doesn’t actually give a shit about the creatives who made the thing you love. They’ll get rid of them for someone cheaper at the first opportunity, and a lot of them are trying to get rid of them for AI right now.
the plot is way more bonkers than that.
in-universe, the movie Air Bud exists. the new child watches that, and then the plot of the original Air Bud basically happens again; kid’s dad is dead, golden retriever comes into his life, and I guess this time he names it after the dog from the movie he saw? and also unless the film decides to get really meta I doubt the child will ever comment on the absurdity that his life is basically the plot of the movie he only recently saw.
Gachiakuta is the latest and greatest example of this I think. Such a fancy power system, basically Stands from JoJo, but you feel shock when a character shows up with a regular ass glock and starts firing.
I’m finally at a place where I can aim for a 1.0 ratio, but I’ve noticed that a lot of the stuff I torrent just uh…is not very popular lol. Some of them haven’t had a single peer in months! It’s kinda fun keeping an eye on it, sorta like a popularity contest.
for some reason I always think the 360 came out much earlier than it really did.
god has it really been two decades?
Gamecube-PS2-Xbox 360 Era. It was a time when game developmental costs had come down a bit, the demand for games was pretty steady, and the market wasn’t oversaturated. It allowed AAA devs to make some big creative swings and return a steady profit.
There’s a lot of different genres that are popular today where you can point to a game from that era as the progenitor. Stuff like Resident Evil 4 for the third person action shooter, Devil May Cry for spectacle RPGs, Katamari Damacy and Pikmin for uh…whatever the hell they are.
I don’t think AAA has ever been as creative as they were during that period. For over a decade now, pretty much all creativity in games has come from indies, with AAA being comprised of copycats.
it insists upon itself
what fucking world is frozen pizza $1 usd?
The absolute cheapest thing that tastes like cardboard is still like $4
it’s so wild that she never wants to eat them. I’m eating them! I know it’s yummy! oftentimes it’s stuff with fish or chicken, which she knows the taste of! but never even goes for a nibble, just a sniff.
Honestly quite happy that she’s very stupid. The only way she knows what food is, is if it is in her bowl.
yeah I don’t interact with people who clearly aren’t interested in first-hand accounts that don’t fit their narrative
If you’re interested, I’d recommend reading through the works of José Peirats, especially The CNT in the Spanish Revolution: Volume 3 which details the numerous different ways that the Soviets suppressed and terrorized the syndicalists, going as far as imprisoning and torturing anarchists and anti-fascists.
a big part of it was people seeing first hand the Soviet’s sabotaging the CNT-FAI’s efforts, which I imagine was part of what turned Orwell against communists later in his life.
I still contend that if the Soviet’s supported the Syndicalists as much as the Nazis supported the Nationalists, CNT-FAI would have won the war.
yeah people don’t realize just how insidious advertisement really is.
your phone isn’t “reading your mind,” advertisers have such a comprehensive model of you that they’re able to predict your thoughts with an incredibly high degree of accuracy before you even have them. There’s also obviously a bit of confirmation bias in play, you only remember the times they got it right as opposed to the times they guessed wrong.
my one concern is that I wouldn’t want a salad dressing touching my fries. especially since I tend to prefer a light vinagrette.
I wonder if such a sauce exists that could function as both salad dressing and fry sauce. probably something starting with a thousand island base?
I don’t actually think you need to use the third party launcher if you buy through Steam. At the very least, D4 doesn’t require it.
Still will need a Battlenet account, but if you’re buying D2 I imagine you’d have one, even if it was 25 years old. Is there anyone who’d seriously check out this game who has never heard of Diablo before?