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  1. Comment on Investigation: Who’s telling the truth about Disco Elysium? in ~games

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    Thank you for posting this. I saw it got published over the weekend, but have not had time to watch the whole thing, though I plan to soon. I will say that having read some of the conversations on...

    Thank you for posting this. I saw it got published over the weekend, but have not had time to watch the whole thing, though I plan to soon.

    I will say that having read some of the conversations on the video, it sounds like People Make Games seem to be conflating two pretty separate issues together. Kurvitz may have been a bad boss and created a bad working environment, but that is not the issue of the legal dispute over the ownership of the IP and ZA/UM. Kurvitz and Hindpere may be hypocritical and not living up to the ideals that they espouse, but that does not take away from the hostile takeover and probable naiveness of the original creators.

    I think this is a pretty solid comment from the DE subreddit that should be considered:

    Ask yourself this, what do these employees really have to gain from supporting Kurvitz? He is right to say that they are being used, even if they don't realize it in strict terms. They have bills to pay, families to feed, etc. and speaking in explicit terms, they have no reason to support him if he's not providing their income, but ZA/UM studios is. I have no doubt that he probably is a difficult person to work with, I am sure they all have their difficulties like in any other collaborative setting, but nonetheless it doesn't really have any bearing on the fact that the main point of this whole thing, is that these people created a world and idea prior to the game even being developed, and had it robbed from them. While it is sad that some of the writers contributed in meaningful ways to the overall project by adding unique characters and stories to the overall narrative, it doesn't justify taking the whole thing from the people who conceptualized it in the first place.

    I will say that while I understand that PMG needed something substantial in their investigation into the topic to justify the overhead costs of traveling to interview and meet with people, I don't agree with making 1/3 of the video center on the personal disputes between employees and the creators. While it may seem to justify the overall goal of establishing all sides of the issue, it has nothing to do with the legal dispute that is the main focus of the controversy surrounding this game, and serves as fluff to engage viewers in discussion which serves the tangible benefit of having more viewers tune in if they choose to be engaged in this dispute.

    This narrative of putting the employees in the middle of the case is just gross and attempting to fracture support by appealing to leftist sensibilities that the fandom is known for. The cut and dry is that they created the IP, they're being robbed of it, and there's no legal outcome that benefits the workers either way so there's no point in having their perspective other than to make the creators less sympathetic in the public eye which invariably benefits the guy robbing them in the first place.

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  2. Comment on This is why Toyota isn't rushing to sell you an electric vehicle in ~tech

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    Absolutely. Medium- and Heavy-Duty trucks, maritime propulsion, aviation, port equipment - these are all transportation applications where batteries do not make sense and hydrogen is ripe for...

    The hard truth is that heavy workloads will never be battery powered.

    Absolutely. Medium- and Heavy-Duty trucks, maritime propulsion, aviation, port equipment - these are all transportation applications where batteries do not make sense and hydrogen is ripe for taking off.

    That being said, I don't think light-duty should be discounted for hydrogen. We are still at early stages of decarbonizing consumer vehicles. Right now most adopters are wealthier people with homes with attached garages and BEVs are usually their second car. About half the population in the US lives in apartments or have off street parking where home charging is not readily available. If we want to fully transition to zero emission vehicles, it is going to require another option like hydrogen that allows for consumers to keep their current habit of driving to a fueling station and quickly refueling on the go.

    Right now H2 cars are only sold in California in the United States and the government there is putting a lot of money behind this because they do not see any other way to achieve their emissions reduction goals without hydrogen for light-duty vehicles:

    On June 9, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held the first public board meeting to hear and discuss staff’s proposal for the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulation. ACC II would achieve (among other goals) 100 percent zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales of new light-duty vehicles in California by 2035 , as first outlined by Governor Newsom’s Executive Order (EO) N-79-20.

    California’s drivers have a wide variety of needs and expectations for their vehicles. CARB staff analysis anticipates that meeting the requirements of ACC II will require growth of hydrogen fueling and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) alongside battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), as auto manufacturers need to provide technology options for all vehicle segments, vehicle use patterns and behaviors, and individuals’ access to ZEV fueling and charging infrastructure.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on This is why Toyota isn't rushing to sell you an electric vehicle in ~tech

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    School buses are not a good fit for hydrogen fuel cells as they only operate a few hours a day. The best applications are fleet vehicles that operate for long periods of time with high...

    School buses are not a good fit for hydrogen fuel cells as they only operate a few hours a day.

    The best applications are fleet vehicles that operate for long periods of time with high utilization. The benefits of hydrogen-powered transportation is long ranges and fast fueling time. If you have a need for fleets with little downtime like heavy-duty trucks operating at a port, then H2 makes a lot more sense. That is because the lost time, physical space, and electrical load required to recharge a fleet of battery trucks would be momentous. In contrast, H2 trucks refuel in the same time as a diesel truck and require just a few relatively small hydrogen dispensers.

    Buses operating within a city that run around the clock would be a better fit for hydrogen, but the biggest advantages would be found for the longhaul buses that operate between cities like those going every day from New York City to D.C.

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  4. Comment on ‘So, I hear I’m transphobic’: Dee Snider responds after being dropped by SF Pride in ~lgbt

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    The issue is that framing this as "orthodoxy" is along the same issue as accusing trans people as "indoctrinating" young people. You can see that in the examples in right wing media I quoted...

    The issue is that framing this as "orthodoxy" is along the same issue as accusing trans people as "indoctrinating" young people. You can see that in the examples in right wing media I quoted above. The "orthodoxy" in question is always respecting trans people, using their pronouns, or simple things like letting them use the bathroom they identify as. I would love for @rez to explain how he is not doing and what he means by this language so as the only people that I have seen use the wording of orthodoxy are bigots.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on ‘So, I hear I’m transphobic’: Dee Snider responds after being dropped by SF Pride in ~lgbt

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    It is a very commonly used right-wing dog whistle.

    It is a very commonly used right-wing dog whistle.

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  6. Comment on ‘So, I hear I’m transphobic’: Dee Snider responds after being dropped by SF Pride in ~lgbt

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    Yes, my point is that @rez is specifically making that connection and I find it to be pretty shitty. The language of "trans orthodoxy" as you noted earlier is extremely vague and most folks that...

    From the rest of the comment though, I'm guessing that the comparison to religious orthodoxy and heresy is probably intentional.

    Yes, my point is that @rez is specifically making that connection and I find it to be pretty shitty. The language of "trans orthodoxy" as you noted earlier is extremely vague and most folks that read rightfully read it as bad faith because its the same language that bigots have been using for years to try and inflict harm on trans people.

    Example here from the right-wing National Review: A Mom’s Fight to Save Her Daughter from Trans Orthodoxy at School

    Over the past two years, Berg said he’s received calls from about a half dozen parents in school districts around Wisconsin who learned that school staff were secretly calling their kids by new names and pronouns. “Parents should assume that every district has this policy, whether written down or not,” he said.

    Anderson said they are working to establish legal precedents so that school district leaders skeptical of the new gender orthodoxy have case law to fall back on, and so parents in districts where these policies are in practice can more effectively fight back. The school district in Kenosha, Wisc., recently rejected part of a policy that would have allowed students to change their names and pronouns without parental consent, in part because of the lawsuit in Madison.

    This is explicitly the language of bigots and its used to fight the recent trend of respecting fucking pronouns.

    Another examples here from TERF island's the Telegraph: The new trans orthodoxy is scaring even the most stalwart of organisations into silence

    More here from the Murdoch-owned right-wing rag the NY Post: Can we ever be woke enough for the trans extremists?

    Of course this is all a modern form of Jesuitical nonsense. “Trans men” who are still capable of pregnancy are still biological women. Nobody really knows what “non-binary” means, other than “look at me.” But anyone identifying themselves as “non-binary” who is also capable of becoming pregnant is also in fact still — wait for the big reveal — a woman.

    Laughing nervously as people often do when they don’t know what they are talking about, Bridges then said: “So, um, I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic and it opens up trans people to violence by not recognizing them.” She then went on to say that one out of five transgender people have attempted suicide and that “denying that trans people exist” causes this and much more to happen.

    This is the same logic used by Twitter which now suspends peoples’ accounts unless they agree to the latest trans orthodoxy. All based on the same falsehoods that Tlaib and Bridges rehearsed this week. Which is that if you do not go along with an orthodoxy invented a couple of years ago you are actually committing violence.

    That language is a right-wing, transphobic dog whistle and should be shut down, especially in ~LGBT.

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  7. Comment on ‘So, I hear I’m transphobic’: Dee Snider responds after being dropped by SF Pride in ~lgbt

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    What are you talking about? Equating respecting trans people and their rights to church orthodoxy is fucking wild

    It is virtually impossible for one to dissent from the orthodoxy in online leftist spaces to ask questions or to advocate some nuanced point without being accused of bad faith, transphobia, or being moderated out. I fear the consequences of the bubble much of the terminally online left finds itself in on trans issues - and we know this bubble exists and is big.

    What are you talking about? Equating respecting trans people and their rights to church orthodoxy is fucking wild

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Trump is found liable for sexual abuse in civil trial in ~news

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    You can argue that Bill took advantage of the situation or that it was an abuse of power, but its a gross overstatement to compare his actions to rape or sexual assault.

    You can argue that Bill took advantage of the situation or that it was an abuse of power, but its a gross overstatement to compare his actions to rape or sexual assault.

    5 votes

  9. Comment on Trump is found liable for sexual abuse in civil trial in ~news

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    Clinton didnt assault Lewinski, he was impeached about lying over consensual sex acts. Neither Thomas nor Kavanagh were ever tried in any case about their abuse. More recent examples of Rep....

    Clinton didnt assault Lewinski, he was impeached about lying over consensual sex acts.

    Neither Thomas nor Kavanagh were ever tried in any case about their abuse.

    More recent examples of Rep. Cawthorn, Rep. Reed, or Roy Moore resulted in them losing their next election or resigning.

    12 votes

  10. Comment on Trump is found liable for sexual abuse in civil trial in ~news

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    I am very curious to see what the impact of this will be. If this were anyone but Trump, it would completely tank their political career, but of course that would have been true for dozens of...

    I am very curious to see what the impact of this will be. If this were anyone but Trump, it would completely tank their political career, but of course that would have been true for dozens of other things he has said and done, not least of which was attempting to start a fucking coup against our government.

    Will Ron DeSantis or any other GOP candidates for 2024 use this as ammunition against him? Will prospective GOP voters even care? It does not seem like any policy issues actually matter to them other than "we like he does what the libs hate". Is being found guilty of sexual assault enough to change any of their minds? I doubt it, but we will see.

    16 votes

  11. Comment on All Discord users will need to choose new username in ~tech

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    They do also mention one issue which I have seen is that its very difficult to remember what your actual discord name is since it is your username plus some random numbers. I am personally in...

    They do also mention one issue which I have seen is that its very difficult to remember what your actual discord name is since it is your username plus some random numbers. I am personally in favor of more simplicity in these services and if I can just tell someone my username is dubteedub without having to go through the hassle of opening the app and see what the some suffix numbers are, it sounds good to me. I will be a bit disappointed if my username is taken before I get a chance to look it in, but it won't be the end of the world.

    7 votes

  12. Comment on Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast in ~tech

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    Well, thats frustrating. My bad. Ill delete

    Well, thats frustrating. My bad. Ill delete

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast in ~tech

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    See I don't want to research to find the "right" server for me. I'm sure theres one out there. But if the "right one" just going a platform with a couple dozen folks I know and like to chat and...

    See I don't want to research to find the "right" server for me. I'm sure theres one out there. But if the "right one" just going a platform with a couple dozen folks I know and like to chat and bullshit, why would I use Mastodon rather than say Discord?

    Ultimately, I don't know what Mastodon wants to be. For me, it doesn't seem to want be a Twitter alternative and that's what I am really looking for.

    7 votes

  14. Comment on Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast in ~tech

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    When you go to joinmastodon.org the first thing you are asked is to get the app (that must be new as I don't recall seeing that before" and create an account. If you click create an account, you...

    When you go to joinmastodon.org the first thing you are asked is to get the app (that must be new as I don't recall seeing that before" and create an account.

    If you click create an account, you then scroll down and see a huge list of servers. Users have to figure out which server to join with very little information other than 20 or so word brief description and almost all of them say roughly the same thing. The first two options are mastondon.social and mstdn.social. Is there a difference between them? If I join one and not the other, will I be able to find my friends and previous follows from Twitter? If I join the wrong server, apparently I could essentially be excommunicated from the broader site because the owner of that server has beef with another one. Its a hard decision and requires either trust the first one or lots of research.

    Then say I pick Mastodon.social. I pick a username, password, enter my email, etc. and make an account. Then I get a page that says I will be sent a confirmation email. Alright, so I go to my email and click the verify button.

    Alright, now I am on and I get a list of ~15 or so big accounts I can follow. I recognize a couple of them and hit follow. It creates my instance and I am in with my timeline just the few accounts I just subscribed to. There's no topics to follow or interests to look into that I can see. If I click the local tab it is refreshing really quickly with brand new posts from accounts I don't recognize and goes so fast I can barely read one post before the page refreshes. The federated tab is even worse with in seconds of me clicking on it my scrollbar is already halfway down the page. Several of these posts are in other languages despite the server description saying it was in English and most are pretty spammy with just a link being posted. I click Explore and go to For You and I am just prompted to follow the founder of Mastodon, "God" and a professor at Berkley. I am overwhelmed and don't know what I am doing wrong.

    Maybe I just wanted to go talk about the new Armored Core trailer. It came out yesterday and it was exciting news, I am sure there are folks talking about it. I click on the search bar and type Armored Core. I am prompted to follow two random accounts with that in their name. I click on the posts button and nothing is there. Okay, well this sucks.

    I am now leaving and will not return again.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast in ~tech

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    So far I have seen that AOC just joined, as well as a lot of journos and shitposters I enjoy. Good piece I saw on this here: Bluesky’s best shot at success is to embrace shitposting

    So far I have seen that AOC just joined, as well as a lot of journos and shitposters I enjoy.

    Good piece I saw on this here: Bluesky’s best shot at success is to embrace shitposting

    8 votes

  16. Comment on Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast in ~tech

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    Mastodon doesn't seem to have an app that works for it well that I have found. The federated server part is fairly confusing and seems unnecessarily complicated. It's a lot easier to have everyone...

    Mastodon doesn't seem to have an app that works for it well that I have found.

    The federated server part is fairly confusing and seems unnecessarily complicated. It's a lot easier to have everyone just be on the same server / system / whatever.

    The sign up process was needlessly long.

    I just want something simple that works. I think most folks agree with me given the rapidly declining user stats for the site.

    10 votes

  17. Comment on Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast in ~tech

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    Yeah, a lot of the bigger accounts I follow on Twitter have been posting about Bluesky all day. It sounds like a lot of the tech / journalists are moving over there at the moment, which is one of...

    Yeah, a lot of the bigger accounts I follow on Twitter have been posting about Bluesky all day. It sounds like a lot of the tech / journalists are moving over there at the moment, which is one of my main attractions to Twitter.

    I have found Mastodon overall too confusing, so would be great to have an opportunity to just have a new Twitter without Elon that I could jump to. If anyone has an invite, I would love to check it out.

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Bye bye blue checkmarks: Twitter removes legacy verifications in ~tech

  19. Comment on April Fools Thread in ~talk

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    That was a lot of fun. I can't believe it made it to the front page of Reddit and got posted to both SRD and r/JoeRogan. Very fun time

    That was a lot of fun. I can't believe it made it to the front page of Reddit and got posted to both SRD and r/JoeRogan. Very fun time

    2 votes

  20. Comment on ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ scores seven Oscars including Best Picture in ~movies

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    I loved EEAAO and Banshees was my second favorite movie of the year. Just amazing acting from the cast, the script is an amazing mix of brutally dark humor and melancholy, with a great allegory of...

    I loved EEAAO and Banshees was my second favorite movie of the year. Just amazing acting from the cast, the script is an amazing mix of brutally dark humor and melancholy, with a great allegory of the Irish Civil War. The landscapes are also just gorgeous to look at.

    2 votes