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  • As a rule, no, but I’ll make some rare exceptions.

    It has to be a small studio, I have to be pretty sure I’ll like their next game, and I have to have enjoyed their past game enough that it’s worth throwing them a few extra bucks.

    For instance, I’m going to pre-order Slay the Spire 2.

    • Mega Crit is an indie studio.

    • I thought StS1 was exquisite, so I’m optimistic about a sequel from the same people.

    • I playes StS1 for hundreds of hours, so even if the sequel is a whiff, I’d have got my money’s worth from them.

    Similar goes for The Haunted Chocolatier, since I played the heck out of Stardew Valley.



  • Lianodel@ttrpg.networktoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comJerkoff
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    7 months ago

    My favorite was death panels.

    “The government is going to decide who lives and dies by gatekeeping access to healthcare!” Motherfucker, that’s what insurance does now. The potential failures of a collectivized system are treated with more scrutiny than capitalism working as intended.




  • Lianodel@ttrpg.networktoGames@lemmy.world123
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    8 months ago

    This is a bit off topic, but it made me nostalgic. My first argument on reddit over a decade ago was with someone, either a scalper or a contrarian, trying to argue that scalpers provided a useful service that made things more fair, rather than assholes creating scarcity so they could profit selling a solution to a problem they themselves create.

    So yeah, I hope they all get fucked on this one, too.






  • That user is basing their position on a Daily Mail article citing LePoint, a french right-wing magazine, that quotes one of her trainers, who said (with context) “There was a problem with her hormones and chromosomes, but she’s a woman. That’s all that mattered to us.”

    Nowhere does that even suggest she has XY chromosomes, and, to state the obvious, he’s not a doctor. He’s responding to an unsubstantiated allegation, and probably giving it too much credit. He even says that she underwent a testosterone test that came back within female norms.

    It really is simple. The burden of proof is on people making these claims, and we’re not taking the word of a blatantly corrupt organization, that had a vested interest in disqualifying Khelif, who would not say what test was administered or what the results were. If they had more specific information, they wouldn’t shut up about it, because won’t even shut up now with less to go on.








  • The fascinating thing about this is that, in context… it’s still fucking weird, but for different reasons.

    He’s technically joking about how it makes you transition, saying it’s a claim he heard from “scientists.” So he wants to call men women as a misogynistic insult, but also to poke fun at the concept of scientific study. It’s wrong to distinguish between gender and sex as part of evidence-based medicine and basic conscientiousness. It’s cool and good if you’re doing it to be a dick, though. He’s got to police gender roles, but also insist that they are completely immutable based on your sex.

    What a creepy weirdo.