One of the ugliest aspects of the upvote/downvote system is the way that it so often becomes a form of bullying.

They don’t verify apps, they verify developers. Developers aren’t required to send their apps to google for signing.

difficulty: 99% of mobile phone owners either won’t care or will consider it a good thing that their apps are all signed. As though a professional cybercriminal doesn’t have a dozen ways of getting a fake ID.

The infuriating part is that chain-of-trust certificate signing has been a fundamental part of the web for decades. It would be trivial for Google to allow third party signing authorities, for the benefit of people who aren’t comfortable handing over all their personal details to Google.

The only reason they’ve chosen not to is because protecting users isn’t as important to Google as sucking up all that sweet sweet verified personal data.

slip in their own mods and rebrand the whole community

This is what really shocked me about reddit, was how it’s this really huge entity whose owners just somehow didn’t notice that the front page being shown to everyone by default contained stuff from subs that were really very blatantly and obviously manipulated by mods not being on the level. I realize you can’t police every one of the thousands of active subs on there, but what gets to go to the front page shouldn’t need much curation.

The tragedy being that despite being married to him, she still doesn’t know which one he is.

Those relationships are straight-coded as heck though, there’s no way you could flip genders on Peach or Kairi and not have the result be interpreted by gamers as super gay.

Pretty much every GTA, Duke Nukem, the Witcher series, the God of War series, Yakuza, Unchartered, the Final Fantasy games, the Super Mario games (including Donkey Kong), even Pac-man… and that’s just the ones I’ve played. Then you’ve got virtually everything featuring Disney characters, Star Wars, as well as most other TV and movie tie-in games (of which there are many).

That’s the thing about defaultism, is you can play a straight character and not even remember you’ve done it because it’s just the default. I’ll bet you didn’t even notice that Pac-man was canonically straight, and yet if Ms. Pac-man was instead called “Pacman’s Husband Steve”, suddenly Pac-man’s one defining trait would be his sexuality.

If nothing else, you’ve provided an object lesson in just how true OP’s meme is.

You need to put a /s on there so that readers know you’re not a colossal bellend

That’s what makes it even more pathetic, literally just being given the option of a gay subplot is having it shoved down their throats.

It’s so ridiculous that I question how many of the complaints we see online are even sincere, because surely people aren’t that dumb.

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Even at the very height of Xmas Eve my Tesco has maybe half the tills open. I don’t know why they haven’t just got rid of the others, it’s free real estate. You could pop a Timpsons in there.

I want to see someone with too much time on their hands build a haunted typewriter, by hooking an electronic typewriter up to an LLM

It does seem to be a very 21st century thing to treat an unwanted romantic conversational overture as a form of assault.

I suspect it’s even more so with terminally online people who are too socially awkward to be able to just brush someone off and move on, without being haunted by it for the next four decades.

I get that sometimes there are men who go too far and make a situation untenable, and absolutely fuck those guys, but overall I think we’re going in the wrong direction in society where people just don’t talk to each other any more.

yeah, the only one of the Beatitudes in Matthew they seem to like is the one where they get to adopt a persecution complex. The stuff about being meek and merciful is damned un-American.

It would be literally about 3 hours of coding for someone to make one of those, and another few days to feed the fediverse into it.

The old sci-fi assumed the rate of progress with be constant or even accelerate.

https://xkcd.com/893/

Also based on an experience I had at work with a visiting American who point blank refused to get the tram, there seems to be a vicious cycle where public transport is seen as unsafe because only poor people get it, and only poor people get it because it’s seen as unsafe.

Owning a car used to be nice. Heck, even the notion of living in a Capitalist country used to be nice.

Being a new account isn’t suspicious in of itself, but being a new account that makes such an incredibly weak pettyfogging argument in defense of a shady corrupt arms company, now that is suspicious.

You’re asking for “evidence” that lobbying a government to “crack down” on something means pushing them to enact legislation about it? You show me evidence that it doesn’t mean that, because the latter reading is by far the least plausible of the two.