#is a PROBLEM

[kaypendragon]

[Id: News Article: "Ubisoft exec says gamers need to get comfortable with "not owning your games"

Ubisoft's director of subscriptions says that gamers need to start "feeling comfortable" with not owning the games they are playing"

Meme: "if purchase isn't ownership; then piracy isnt theft"]

The first time I saw that article, I said that if they're renting me games, I expect to be paying rental prices. But, now I'm thinking that Ubisoft maybe needs to feel comfortable with people not paying them at all.

[kth1]

yeah.

[woolandcoffee]

I would like someone smarter about these things than me to talk about what's behind this recent (at least I think it's recent - the last decade or so?) rise in the US of like... state-based jingoism? You know, where people get very angry about "transplants" from out of state - particularly if they're from California or Texas or another large state - and blame them for changes in the region.

And you know, I have no doubt that this has always been a thing, but it feels, at least anecdotally, like it's getting more hostile. I didn't used to be cautious telling people I'm originally from California, but I'm a lot more careful about it these days.

[tarysande]

look Look LOOk LoOk it's COMPLICATED things are COmplicATED fffffffff

[st-just]

Trying a Tzeetch playthrough in Total Warhammer and, like-

no idea what the narrator/tutorial dude's deal is, but I do enjoy that he's apparently just textually totally amoral and happy to work with literal demons as much as anyone else

'peck out the eyes of a god to claim his sight for themself' is a great motivation for an oracle-demon.

Tzeetch's strategic level fuckery is real fun.

On the battlefield still adapting to having demons who can throw enough plasma to melt a swarm of charging marauders but will crumple like tissue paper is any of them actually connect.

[wacky-nameless-inventor-24]

constantly caught between royalty Heron being a horrible person and also being like… god forbid women do anything.

[bluebellhairpin]

Had a nice heart to heart with my sister that basically summed up that as soon as I stop needing to care for my grandparents we will need to start caring for our parents, and that I have zero mental boundaries set for what my handling threshold is.

[moki-dokie]

sometimes you gotta follow a bunch of artists in fandoms you don't know or care about because you need some diversity, dammit.

[ova-kakyoin]

crunchyroll fix your service challenge (impossible)

[nicholas-wolfwood]

We still have no water ;w!

[nyxelestia]

You joke, but that is true. The "algorithm" is the collection of blogs followed. Every person has a unique set of "rules" (re: blogs) determining what they do and don't see, but it's not dictated by a singular, separate entity that happens to take input from the userbase at large; it's the natural byproduct of a multitude of entities which only pays attention to the userbase you have curated for yourself.

there is no tumblr algorithm except for the fact that if you put 5 hours of work into a post it will get 20 notes but if you put five minutes into a post with no tags that's completely nonsensical it'll get 10k.

[donnieisaprettyboy]

“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

[vilea777]

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[commonzinnia]

yeah, sorry i exhibited symptoms of the disorder i told you i have. it will happen again because i have that disorder and will continue having it. hope this helps!! 🫶🫶🫶