It seems like the parody elements of Warhammer have completely disintegrated and now we just have an extremely prolific franchise centered around glorifying authoritarianism and pushing the argument that if things get bad enough any semblance of individual autonomy becomes a “luxury” that can’t be afforded. I am fully sick of seeing gamers delight in their imaginary fascism while ignoring the proliferation of real fascism. Even with Helldivers, where there’s at least some still visible parody element, it doesn’t seem to outweigh the glorification and the full-throated glee that comes with it.

Enough of this shit. Give me a franchise about rebellion against authority and stop lionizing bootlicking and thoughtless obedience.

You know what we need in a world of increasing authoritarianism? Franchises that initially satirized fascism before being a reason for their fanbase to fetishize it

Neat!

Ceramic non-stick is pretty great. I’ve used cast-iron and it’s fine, but it’s kind of fussy when it comes to cleanup.

It’s definitely exposing a lot of creeps on Lemmy.

I’m not sure what you mean by that. UK’s online identification laws create a data security liability and try to fine people for not contributing to the problem. It seems way easier to just block the ip and then if people want to get around it they can use a vpn or push to repeal the law.

Unless they’re getting paid directly, like through something like Nebula or their own service like a Dropout or Viva sort of thing, why wouldn’t they want their views to be somewhere that drives more meaningful numbers? Peertube isn’t going to bring them new users, and from what I’ve seen a lot of what’s on peertube seems to just be unauthorized reposts that pull away views.

Like, if I enjoy a creator who’s on YouTube, I’m not going to watch their stuff somewhere that doesn’t give them any meaningful recognition. Something like Patreon is great, but driving up their numbers on Peertube isn’t going to bring them to a wider audience the way driving up their engagement on YouTube would, and those numbers bring more people to their Patreon.

Is there an actual incentive for any for-profit channel to have a peertube channel? It seems like it would just reduce engagement that they actually get paid for.

I would honestly love to see a Fallout with the sort of gameplay in 4 with a story more in the style of New Vegas. The dialogue tree in 4 left a lot to be desired, the plot didn’t leave as much room for player choice as it might have, and there were lore elements that weren’t consistent with previous games, but the combat was great. And honestly, it was much more open-world than 3 in a way that felt more like the other installments. Fallout 3 was a lot of being hedged in by limited options in the ruins of DC and a lot of very samey subway tunnels. The environments of 4 had a lot more variety and let the player roam more.

It’s not that it has nudity. It’s that it had a child riding around on a fully naked adult in a horse mask.

Seems like a good argument for blocking UK ip addresses.

Do you talk to people like that in person?

If you switch to the piefed you can block their entire instance.

Lemmy is absolutely inundated with bad faith actors who seem suspiciously intent on sewing as much division as possible, getting the left to be as politically ineffectual as possible, and never offering anything as a viable solution. There’s no meaningful barrier for entry so it’s pretty trivial to make a bunch of accounts and push an agenda.

That’s by no means limited to Lemmy, but Lemmy is absolutely littered with them. It’s been like this for quite a while.

Is this fun for you?

Personally, I left Reddit a long time before because of control freaks with no lives who feel the need to dictate their personal preferences to others as though it were a dire moral emergency.

Totally reasonable to avoid uploading to imgur if you’re worried about third party advertisers collecting your metadata, but that’s hardly unique to them. I block ads and also don’t have any illusions about countless websites sharing metadata with advertisers. I’m not really aware of a reliable image host that doesn’t do this.

Imgur blocking the UK over OSA is a pretty reasonable move, though. Demanding that companies collect ID verification data from users is to me a much bigger liability than their advertisers seeing my IP or browser or whatever. Personally, I fully support companies deciding not to participate in the hoarding of personal information that could be compromised by entirely too common data breaches.

I didn’t even know sweat bees could sting. When I drove a cab I used to sit in a field with my feet sticking out the window and they’d inevitably come land on me and suck on my toes. I suppose it wouldn’t make much sense to sting your food source if you don’t have to, though.

Okay boomer.

What movie is that?

This is such a weird trend in general in the past few decades. We went from typifying things by decade to typifying them by generation, which makes no sense whatsoever because these generations are still alive. It’s not like everything from 2000-2010 was made for millennials specifically and no one else is allowed to watch them. Shows might have general target age ranges that are taken into consideration in marketing, but amazingly people don’t stay the same age their entire lives and targeting has very little to do with who might actually enjoy a show.

The concept that a specific piece of entertainment, terminology, fashion, or idea belongs to one specific generation and only that generation is extremely silly. Each generation doesn’t just wither up and die once the next generation hits their 20s or whatever. Likewise, there’s nothing stopping a teenager from sitting down and watching Farscape and deciding they love it.