I still think about that person who got banned from league for their name being Corona1488 and their last name was Corona and they were born on Jan 4th, 1988. I’m surprised they went so long without learning the connotations.

I saw Pixelfed mentioned on TikTok. So yeah!

I can almost excuse shadow profiles for things like “two people both have X contact in their phone”, but making them for unborn children? Lord have mercy. That’s genuinely crazy. It makes me wonder if it’s something like they just marked someone as pregnant based on searches (weird, but maybe acceptable, idk) and it got taken out of context? Hopefully? Either way it’s icky.

The ol’ “marked as deleted” lol.

So true… When I see 100% more, I interpret it as 2x. But somewhere around, idk, maybe 300% I interpret “300% more” as 3x. I know that’s technically not correct, but it’s just where my brain goes. I think a good deal of people just throw around “n% more” and “n% as often” interchangeably without much thought.

Luckily, the bigger the number the less of a difference between the two which is aligned with my brain using them the same.

(And obviously, if it’s anything technical where it matters I would get clarification.)

Zero comes zeroth.

If VRR is VR I don’t use VR so I don’t know, and my monitor doesn’t support HDR.

you haven’t been saying it was done for profit, you’ve been saying it was done because “people voted with their wallet”.

🤡

Every time I say stuff like this it’s like 50/50 if people downvote or not.

This is definitely a rising tides affect all boats thing or whatever the phrase is (that might be a bad thing, idk). I definitely chalk up how great it is now to SteamOS.

Y’all have no idea how true this is. I just finished building my OC and installed CachyOS (Arch derivative). Got Steam running incredibly easily. I can play both Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2 online multiplayer. The only tweak I needed to do was use a different version of Proton for Helldivers 2 (which would’ve been the default one, but Cachy has its own Cachy one).

I don’t know when the last time y’all have tried to play games on Linux is, but it is genuinely trivial. Even Nvidia drivers are easy now.

I don’t necessarily know if that’s the artist’s intention here, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t cross my mind.

No, I remember Speedy Gonzalez though.

LandedGentry

As, you must have been a mod from that “shit hole site”, I heard they were landed gentry!

Something can be a fair criticism while also being Boomer humor.

Stormtoss

It’s Stonetoss, but I’ll be damned if that isn’t an amazing intentional typo. (Likening Stonetoss to Stormfront.)

Maybe I’m alone, but I didn’t read their comment as saying the artist is somewhat of a Nazi, but just somewhat bad. As in there’s a certain level of “badness” before the term Nazi applies. It felt like they were commenting on the level of “badness”, not the level of “Naziness”.

In a pre-me too world, I think Clinton’s sexual abuse scandal was far too abstract for people to really grasp. I’m not saying it was okay, I’m just saying I understand it not affecting things. But I would’ve hoped we’d be correcting ourselves over time, not getting worse.

I genuinely don’t see anything inherently suspicious about advertising through YouTube videos. Yes, there have been a few big name ones that were problematic, but that’s going to be true with most advertising, I’d think.

The other big one coming to mind being the Scottish titles thing. Which, I never thought it was legit, and anyone thinking it made them a real Lord or Lady was foolish, but in Scotland it’s illegal to subdivide property that much and sell it as souvenir plots of land. And people’s coverage on the topic really annoyed me because they focused so much on some Scottish titles organization saying they didn’t recognize land ownership as meaning you had a title, which, to me, is far less of an issue. Like, if you’re selling me something and saying that it makes me very distinguished to own it, I know that’s bullshit, but I’d expect to actually own the thing in the end.

This isn’t directly related, but I hate when payroll programs show me a damn pie chart of how much money goes to taxes. I know what I yearly salary pre tax is and I know roughly what my paychecks are. I intentionally avoid math comparing the two.

But yeah, like you said, the bigger the amount you make, the more you’re like “wait, I’m losing how much?”