Gotta disable UPNP to commit to this specific strategy …

Just as likely that red sliver at the end was the traffic created by his intentional usage of the phone all-along. Telemetry and ads are just that gross, but what do I know?

I might, but I need it to use exactly this level of context. Tell me their names or where the building is, and I’m out.

You could say the same about US states, and you’re the first person to bring up any real flaw in OP’s post, beyond “stop stirring shit” and “learn how to right”. “low-effort shitpost” would at least be ironic.

I mean, in assigning the different outlooks to specifically Europe/America, sure, but they are far from entirely wrong, even there.

It’s more like America and its banana-republic/media-obsessed/victimized/allied/vassal lackeys versus saner parts of the world, or Rich vs Poor(which outlooks would be flipped in different areas), but beyond that and placing their post in YSK instead of somewhere more centered on conversation or argument, I still saw far more “defensive” comments than OP could bear any real blame for.

That looks about as close as I believe we should get, but I’ve passed the link along to OOP

@edcasting@lemmy.world explained what they want better here.

It’s amusing how much blowback you’re getting without even having stated a preference. Are people assuming the mods here or useless or just haven’t seen this or what?

People here are way too worked up about motivations they’ve assumed and won’t bother with seeing proved or disproven.

Meannwhile, if I see a post I think doesn’t fit, I figure the mods should be approving posts rather than play whack-a-mole, realize its not my problem, and move-on. As an American, I’ll go on record; The “American” outlook on the “marketplace of ideas” is stupid, precisely because the substantiation part of the sale is essentially optional to most - you can get by on pandering to niche biases as the need arises.

I think the downvotes are mostly for that last sentence. Comes across a little-bit as you saying “YOU SHOULD respect him”.

EDIT: THIS comment makes a little more sense now, but I’ve still only seen these two new accounts with a single post plus maybe a comment each, so far. Hardly enough to skip to a “social experiment” conclusion.

“Friend, I’ll be honest, I don’t want to bother you with this meta-awkwardness either, but its reached the point where I need you to either stab me, forgive me, or agree its just too awkward not to share, if I am ever to sleep again.”

The only thing to make it better would be to change it to “die thankful, to the terrorists for freeing me of this place” or for the last line, “maybe if they hated it here enough to go on living out of spite instead of blowing themselves up, we could accept them as fellow Britons.”

That was 20 years ago. Few, if any of those employees would still be with the company today. “Knowing” means nothing to the passage of time, particularly in the tech sector.

No they’re not. IBM sold the brand and supply chain off. Not sure how many employees were kept, transfered, or axed, but the concensus has long been that it wasn’t enough to justify your claim.

It’s probably skewed by how many of us have consoles more powerful than our “gaming” PC’s. I don’t know many PS5 or Xbox Series X owners that are bothering with a more powerful PC. Give us something that has a chance in hell of bringing-in some converts.

That said, I’m not talking about myself - my consoles are all at least a generation behind, but even then, beating those is not such a low bar once you take the smoothness and consistency of the user-experience into account.

Anyone got past the paywall to establish whether its women being victimized with the random-ass pics mentioned in the first couple paragraphs, or young girls(minors) being victimized with yearbook photos, as the title implies?

I feel like an opportuinity was missed, in favor of leaving things vague and click-baitey in the name of profit/data-mining.

Forsaken 64 (multiplayer does things with “4th Dimensional” space I’ve never seen elsewhere, else this slot would belong to Descent)

No Man’s Sky (open to others for this slot, but not aware of any that check the same boxes for me)

Minecraft (Factorio mods)

Armored Core (any besides 3)

Starcraft or Dawn of War or Total War … so long as the best of the RTS genre is represented

Wait … no new games ever? Wtf, just kill me. … or rather, why bother rebuilding civilization only to stagnate like so?

My list is tailored towards inspiring a re-launch of the industry. I would rather disappear into Amish society than play the same five video-games forever more.

Honestly, good. We need to use these things against the people who insisted on their use.

Not enough for them to ever come close to impimenting enough checks server-side, or take competitive or transactional multiplayer cloud-only, but also magically enough for them to demand the ability to install back-doors and malware on our PC’s.

It’s just magical like that yo, they ain’t gotta explain shit. How dare you ask for answers or for them to respect your privacy, cheater?

Honestly, I usually find the items with the best effort-to-payout ratio disappointing precisely because they reward stealing from or murdering innocents, or farming uninteresting mobs, yet the same games expect me to believe all the bandits and killers are ill-equipped and poor-as-shit? … and that the big-bads got that way(+awesome armor and weapons) from constant fighting?

That title alone made me feel all warm and fuzzy in-side, and smile from ear-to-ear … this is a genuinely alarming and anything-but-natural state for me.

EDIT: No seriously dude, stab me. It’s been too long since anyone cared enough to consider that.