The problem with that is that that sort of policy makes the internet just cease to function. User-generated content makes up a massive portion of what’s on the internet, and it can’t possibly all be policed before being posted, unless you want to make a post on Bluesky or whatever and have to wait weeks for it to be approved after manual review. The law requires companies to promptly respond to takedown requests but as long as they do, they aren’t responsible for the content posted by their users.

I do, admittedly, find it fun to try and work out the meaning through context despite not being able to read German.

Awful little creatures make the most fun characters by far regardless of game or setting.

Out of curiosity, is this with a QWERTY keyboard, or do you use another layout? (And if so, which layout do you use?)

If everyone made use of the post language feature, it would entirely solve this problem. Unfortunately (at least to my knowledge) it’s not possible to set a default post language, so most content is just posted as Undetermined.

Yeah, the part about most having 16+ flags isn’t really surprising (or in my opinion concerning). The rest of it, though, is pretty damning, especially the executive response to it all. While I agree with the laws (in my country, at least) that online platforms generally can’t be held responsible for what their users post, those executives should absolutely be held accountable for choosing money.

I know ‘AI bad’ and all that, but this is actually a great use of it, in my opinion. It sounds like it was a positive experience for everyone involved, and it sounds like being able to separate herself from this victim statement helped her write it to be more genuinely in the spirit of what the deceased man would have said than she otherwise would have been able to, while also more cleanly separating her own, very opposite, feelings from it.

And also knock it off with the fucking microtransactions and shit. I wouldn’t mind games costing something appropriate for inflation if we were getting complete, high quality games without the expectation that we spend even more money afterwards. As it stands, they’re complaining about the low cost of games while also milking players for every penny they can on top of the purchase price. Fuck these guys.

That’s just asking to have online shopping become much harder, requiring more identity verification than just having a credit card and an address. Which is maybe beneficial overall; it would cut down on fraud, but I doubt it would be a popular change.

So what happens when a store is out of raw meat, or raw vegetables, or raw fruit? What if someone is a vegetarian, or has allergies or other dietary requirements that prohibit certain items? Who’s monitoring and enforcing this (and how much is that monitoring and enforcing costing?)

Rather than spending the time and effort policing what food people buy, why don’t we instead spend that time and money addressing the poverty problem that makes SNAP necessary in the first place?

Yeah, if the goal was actually to make people eat healthier, he’d be trying to limit the availability of those items to everyone, not just poor people.

The biggest ones for me were the Marathon series, and a lot of old shareware RPGs (Realmz, Exile).

The 3rd title in the Marathon series came packaged with all of the tools they used to make the game, with which you could very easily make new maps and wild mods adding or changing weapons, enemies, mechanics, etc… I spent an absolutely unreasonable amount of time fucking around with that.

The maps were very rudimentary 3D (think Doom style), and they weren’t really 3D spaces so much as just corridors and rooms connected to each other. You could have a corridor that turned 90 degrees 3 times with no elevation change, and passed “through” itself, without actually having the two intersecting corridors connect in any way, which let you make some really wild maps with some pretty unique features that would be challenging to pull off in modern games. (There was even a multiplayer map called 5D Space that really showcased this interaction.)

I don’t care if he does. I don’t care if he was holding an “I AM A GANG MEMBER” sign when he was picked up. I don’t care if he shouted it from the rooftops. He was disappeared to a foreign prison with no due process. No matter who it is, or what they did, that should be alarming to everyone.

This is the kind of interaction that would haunt me years later when I’m trying to sleep.

Ohio being on the list is pretty funny (assuming this is in the US). Going to make geography and history classes awkward.

What grade is this, that Edging and Goon were common enough terms that they had to be included here?

“Animal noises” is very broad. Furry persecution. :(

The fact that they lose “LiveSchool points”, whatever those are, presumably for saying these words, is almost worse than the fact that they have this list at all. I don’t know what that system is or how it works, but I already hate it.

Hectoring is to act domineering, or to try to intimidate.

Get him to lay out exactly what you’ll be doing, in writing, and what qualifies as ‘complete’ for each task. Don’t leave it open-ended, or you’re giving him leave to either keep adding new tasks, or to say “This wasn’t done adequately!” and refuse to pay your share.

Find some simple recipes, and follow them to the letter. If it says to add something “to taste”, just add a small amount of it and assume it’s fine. As long as you aren’t trying to invent your own dishes, or improvise somehow, you should be fine.

Really depends on the object. If it’s a collectible item with a value that’s open to interpretation, I sometimes do, especially if I’m considering buying multiple things. (For example, CCG cards priced at $20, I might offer $70 for a playset of 4.) Those things don’t have firm market value (or that value fluctuates frequently) and there’s usually an easy way to look up a price range quickly to get a sense for what’s a fair or reasonable offer.

If it’s something someone made and is selling, it feels rude to me to haggle. The item has no real market value because it’s something they made; the price is what they’re willing to sell it for. I’ll either buy it for that price, or not buy it at all. I guess the exception would be if they’ve got a sign inviting haggling, which I’ve seen at convention spaces on rare occasion.

Price definitely seems high, but at least it’s a decent meal for kids. Nice variety of things; most places around where I live just have a tiny portion of a single dish as the kids’ options.