Star Control is there!

Of course, that one still has an incredible amount of support. Mostly fan support, but the original devs are finally making an official sequel to SC2!

Are you saying that you think less of “left people” and LGBT because of this joke?

Some people need to be poked fun at so they can get over themselves.

This is literally punching up at ~80% of the population. This isn’t bullying. Anybody even marginally emotionally mature would laugh or roll their eyes and move on.

The purpose is, as the other commenter said, to mock the request and to highlight its absurdity.

They’re being petty, yes. I think it’s funny though, lol

That would be funny if someone thought RAID 0 was a backup solution, ahaha

two 8 TB drives in RAID to back them up

Obligatory “RAID is not a backup”

If that one person dies, then there’s no one with a stake in enforcing the copyright.

9 years also seems really short. There are sequels that come out far more than 9 years after the original work.

So if you want the copyright of a work to expire, you need to arrange for the death of the sole copyright holder

A collection of humans could form a company for ease of managing and sharing the copyright.

As I recall, the comment you replied to said that we shouldn’t label broad segments of the population in a certain way. Then you said we shouldn’t label broad segments of the population in a different way.

As I mentioned, homophobia, misogyny, and ableism are all well-documented phenomenon. The original comment suggested those things are bad. Since they involve labeling broad strokes of the population as bad (specifically, gay people, women, and people with disabilities), I take it you’re opposed to those things?

Ok, but your original comment was pretty much a non-sequitor.

Saying that it’s bad to say that those groups of people are bad doesn’t mean that anyone is saying that those groups of people are good as a simple answer. But frankly, saying those groups are good is probably a better answer than saying they’re bad.

We have homophobes, misogynists, and ableists, so there are definitely people who explicitly think those groups are bad.

Meanwhile, the people advocating for the rights of those groups are not saying that all people in those groups are virtuous and can do no wrong… they’re advocating for equal rights and opportunities.

Besides. I’m fine with “women are good” being the starting point rather than “women are bad”…lol

The spittle can contain things that cause the spread of disease, which (as you said) masks help with. And masks with higher specs block smaller particles. So if everyone’s wearing properly-fitted good quality masks in a room, there’s far fewer particles being ejected into the air of that room than if nobody were wearing any masks.

Regarding vaccines, the definitions of things change all the time as technology progresses, so even if it were true that the definition changed, it doesn’t concern me. mRNA vaccines were being researched well before the covid vaccines, but there wasn’t a big push until the pandemic. Without the big push, it can be hard to get funding and such…which can be common in science.

Why is it wrong to say women, gay people, and people with disabilities are good?

In media, there are villains who are women, gay, or who have disabilities, so it’s not like they’re exclusively “good guys”…

On the one hand, having representation limited to villainous roles is bad. (See early depictions of black people and think about “Cowboys vs. Indians”)

On the other hand…there are plenty of women in villainous roles. I can also think of a few notable gay and disables villains.

Hell, Breaking Bad is a great example of having all of them, and even though it aired before “woke” became a bad word to some people, nobody ever complained about it being too progressive or anything.

It’s more that those answers don’t make sense to conspiracy theorists

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What is easier than just trusting the official information?

It’s easier to say “This doesn’t make sense, so it must be wrong” than it is to say “This doesn’t make sense, so I must learn more to figure out how it could make sense.”

It’s easier to say “I know more than everyone else because I am critical thinker watch YouTube videos that express views that go against mainstream knowledge” than it is to actually have the skills to engage in critical thinking, and to have the knowledge to be able to determine a good source of information from a bad one.

I thought everyone knew that limited plexiglass barriers and stickers on the floor did nothing.

I do remember arguing with people on the internet that most of the studies about masks were flawed because they tended to include people who didn’t wear them properly in the “mask-wearing” category. Personally, I went with higher-spec masks like KF94, and they’re likely to be something I use regularly during flu season commutes.

The outrage about the vaccines were fascinating though. The goalposts kept getting moved when the conspiracy theories were wrong. I remember people saying that after a year, everyone who took the vaccines will have dropped dead…lmao

Makes sense to you. To me, it seems like they want a monopoly.

They aren’t just beating the competition by being better.

They’re beating the competition because they don’t allow developers to sell games cheaper than on Steam if they want to sell on Steam. And they have the market share to be able to make it financial suicide for a developer/publisher to not put their game on Steam.

“You can sell your game anywhere as long as it’s cheapest here” smells a lot like a monopoly.

Is the point not that they have a near monopoly in the modern PC gaming space?

It’s virtually a requirement for developers who release games on PC to release their game on Steam. From what I recall, developers must also follow requirements set out by Valve regarding what they are allowed to price their game on other platforms.