The Borderlands franchise is really past its prime at this point, anyway. I’ve got absolutely no issue skipping this one. Might pick it up when it’s on sale for $10 in a few years. The franchise really peaked with BL2; it’s been down hill since.

You’re clearly advocating for gun violence without explicitly saying it. I think in most cases the folks who advocate for this are thinking of it in terms of either someone assassinating Trump, or in the whole country rising up and taking the government by force. I’m not going to sit here and discuss why either of those options are more than just, like, hard, nor am I going to advocate for either because I don’t think they’d have the effect any of us are hoping for in practice.

We laugh, but that mom is the kind of person that wholeheartedly supports the ‘You must provide proof of age to access adult sites’ laws that’re poised to ruin the internet.

This is one of those comments that it’s really easy to make from the comfort of your home on the internet, and almost impossible to put into action. I’d go so far as to say it’s even more useless of a suggestion than the ‘Just protest!’ folks.

As someone in the US, I kind of hate comments like this. Not because I don’t agree with you; I’d love for us to stand up to Trump, too, but the problem is, I don’t know how to (effectively) do that, I don’t think many others do, either, and whenever this comes up and I ask the question, ‘What exactly do you want us to do?’, the answer is always non-specific and weak, like “Protest!”, which, I mean… cool? We have been, but it’s not accomplishing much of anything. Really, I think the answer is ‘We don’t know, either’, and everyone else is equally as frustrated as we are and, like us, don’t have a better way to express it than calling for nonspecific action.

All that said, in keeping with tradition, I’ll ask you: What exactly do you want us to do?

There’s also the Machete Order. The TL;DR is to watch the movies in the order of: IV, V, II, III, VI. The reasons why are explained at that link and can’t be discussed without spoilers.

No, EGS is plenty shitty now; what they’re saying is that EGS’s one singular saving grace - the free games they give away - likely won’t last for the reason they outlined.

Not to mention, this is a gross misrepresentation of what’s actually going on.

To all you folks who’re downvoting this comment: Are you basing your opinion on OP’s biased, slanted account of this policy, or did you read the actual post from the Feddit admins? You don’t have to answer me, but if it’s the former, maybe self-reflect that you’re here complaining about censorship and propaganda, yet you’re doing so in response to a very propaganda-laden post that misrepresents the actual situation.

The admins are also German, though, and seem to suggest that they feel at risk by this, as well. Maybe it’s just time for another European instance to start up, with admins not in Germany, who feel comfortable hosting this discourse?

That’s a fair concern; maybe the recourse is just to move the community to a different instance? If the community as a whole is largely in agreement, this shouldn’t be a difficult task. Even less of one if the mods agree.

This kind of seems… reasonable? Like, they have and convey a compelling legal reason for needing to do this. There’s plenty of other Lemmy instances where these opinions and statements can be freely expressed. Further, they’re explicitly allowing discourse that conveys similar sentiment but doesn’t go against German law.

I guess my question is, what’s the objection here?

This is brilliant, thanks for the link!

It’s okay, ‘the shit’ is a weird phrase anyway. And as a Marathon trilogy connoisseur, you’re clearly alright.

This new game has essentially no relation besides name and logo to the old Marathon games. Sadly, because the old ones were the shit.

Okay, I’ll bite, go ahead. Why are we censoring this?

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.