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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoGaming@lemmy.zip•Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revampEnglish
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    6 minutes ago

    That’s a pretty big change…

    NSFW is useless for video games anyways.

    But when it was tied to “gore”, if you tried to hide shitty horny games, you ended up hiding the vast majority of games too.

    “Sexual content” still isn’t perfect tho, one “hot coffee” scene would likely trigger it like a game whose entire point is sus looking anime characters.

    It wouldn’t be bad if there wasn’t so many, but it just clogs up the store with slop because dumb kids pay the $5-20 so the store pushes them. If someone breaks down and buys one, they’re prob very likely to keep buying them. So the algo (blindly) pushes them on everyone.

    They need to just admit that a significant number of games on steam only exist as porn. And then they’d be able to actually separate them. But that’s a can of worms they’ll want to ignore as long as possible.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Does anybody else feel like everything is off lately? What have you noticed is different?English
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    8 hours ago

    Those are symptoms not the problem.

    The problem is we’re densely packed and scarce on resources. Humans adapted for that, because we populate insanely fast and would constantly hit the limit that land could support.

    The downside is that adaptation was us killing each other in the absence of natural predators.

    It’s all wired up inside of us, like the same neurochemical that causes group/family bonding making people (especially men) have very strong negative feelings about anyone they weren’t exposed to when young, because those groups didn’t make the cut for “in-group”.

    None of this is new and it shouldn’t be shocking.

    The oligarchs have been exploiting it for centuries. Everytime there’s one dude with everyone else’s money, he’s always pointing to an out-group member and blaming them.

    We don’t have time to treat symptoms anymore, we need to fix the actual problem: oligarchs.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•TitleEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I understand that…

    My point was if you think 4-5 sentences is overly verbose then it means you only have a surface level understanding of things. Together with you implying you made the meme in the first place, explains why it doesn’t make any sense.

    Like I said, you answered all my questions, I just didn’t ask them

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•TitleEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Its definitely not intentionally divisive, and I don’t even use any social media except lemmy. In the first 2 days of using It i already think about going back

    I legitimately don’t know what you’re saying there…

    But it sounds like you’re saying you made this yourself, which kind of answers all my questions if you thought my first comments was “wordswordswords”…

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•TitleEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    What?

    If it was labeled by name then yeah, you’d have a point.

    But expecting people to know specific oligarchs by their face is fucking stupid, it’s not something you’d just learn, you’d have to out actual effort into it because they’re faces aren’t everywhere. Effort that would be better spent doing almost anything else.

    This just reeks of intentionally divise content, what mainline corpo social media did you repost this from?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Zohran Mamdani’s Budget Is a Step in the Right DirectionEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    providing $4 billion from the state to help close the city’s budget gap, the media was quick to frame it as if Mamdani and the city were spending irresponsibly. “Hochul forks over another $4B to bail out Mamdani’s NYC budget woes,” the New York Post complained. The right-wing Center Square agreed, also calling it a “bailout,” a word that also seems to have become a talking point of Hochul’s Republican opponent, the far-right Bruce Blakeman of Long Island.

    Lol…

    It’s hard to make it thru a Jacobin article these days, but I don’t know why they didn’t just point this out:

    New York City contributed 54.5%, or $68.8 billion, of state revenues whereas the rest of the state contributed 45%, or $57.5 billion. When place of residence is used, New York City contributed 46.7% of total revenue

    And:

    New York City received 40.5%, or $47.6 billion, of State Operating Expenditures, whereas the rest of the state received $69.7 billion, or 59.5%

    https://islg.cuny.edu/blog/fiscal-flow-nyc-albany-press-release

    NYC paid 21.2 billion into state coffers than it got out…

    A 4 billion “bailout” doesn’t even cancel it out for the current year.

    That’s all that needs to be said when people claim this is a “bailout”. It’s NYCs fucking money, cities all over subsidize rural areas, which would be fine if people understood what was happening and were grateful, but every rural area wants to kill the cities keeping them alive, because cities vote D.

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