Education can’t fix apathy. I don’t know what can, to be honest. Community, perhaps.

Slop implies bare bones, generic, repetitive design, and thrown together quick. Say what you want about Zelda, but it has never been any of those.

some of, to the flat out worst, in their respective series.

TOTK/BOTW

Look mate, not everything you don’t personally like is “slop”.

And your other cases are pokemon (who’s been accused of sinking since the 3DS days) and Smash’s online. Not even the game, its netcode (which if we’re being real is bad for 99% of Nintendo games). We don’t need to invent reasons to hate Nintendo, okay.

Say it with me now: “The cruelty is the point”

Or I guess, “was” in this case.

yeah, at that point you just gotta sell it off. Hell, sell it off half price and you still get life changing money.

The falsehood was that the election was lost because a large number of people decided “both sides are the same.” That is a comforting lie.

I never said that. I’m talking about people still trying to set the fence 20 months after the results of the election. 2024 has come and gone and there’s not much use deliberating over why or how she lost. Because I think what’s happening in 2025 onward will affect elections much more than re-living 2024. Trying to argue “Kamala said that” as if she’s wrong because she lost doesn’t help your argument (especially when many of her predictions came true anyway).

So yeah, if you’re in 2026 still arguing “both sides are the same”, you picked your side.

Some people just have different ethical systems than you do.

This isn’t ethical, this is simple fact checking. You’re reading way too deeply into a comment that was simply doing fact checking, and not even making a political judgment call.

It appears you prefer feeling morally superior over actually winning elections

This isn’t political, this is simple fact checking. You’re reading way too deeply into a comment that was simply doing fact checking. Let’s go back over the chain and see what I said:

1. Everything Kamala said turned out to be true (yes, I’m exaggerating. But the big predictions are turning out true)
2. I’m tired of being gaslit by people who want to pretend they are enlightened centrists (this is a subjective call, but not tied to any particular political party. this can apply to Trump, Bush, Kamala, or Epstein)
3. Be much better if people could be the bigger person, admit “yeah this was worse than I ever expected” (a call to action to centrists or right wing people who have soured on Trump[). This is a bit more political because it’s targeted at Trump’s policies, but ultimately is trying to make those with voter regret honest. If you have no regrets and think Trump is doing a good job, you would never say “this is worse than I expected”)

That’s all I’m saying. I also literally said “I’m not here to gloat, I want problems fixed”, so thanks for ignoring that.

Slander implies falsehood. I’ve said nothing false. I’m tired of being gaslit by people who want to pretend they are enlightened centrists just because they are now feeling the consequences of their actions but still can’t bring themselves to say “the other side was right”.

Be much better if people could be the bigger person, admit “yeah this was worse than I ever expected” and learn from their mistakes. I don’t want to gloat or celebrate or anything, I just want to fix the damn broken windows. It’s honestly more annoying to have people say “there’s no difference between a broken/fixed window” than it is people who say “what? the window isn’t broken”

He never said he’d stop. He did say he’d take a step back… He did for a month and now he’s back on it like ketamine.

Everything Kamala said turned out to be true. If people have seen 2 years of this and still think “both sides are the same”, they clearly already picked their side.

And yes, transphobic DNC candidates losing makes the party less transphobic in the long run.

My fellow, there’s a nonzero chance we engage in civil war in the next 2 years. What the heck do you mean “long run”?

Take it from one marginalized community to another; your issues will not be won in a campaign trail. It will be fought for through years, decades of demonstration to a point that the public outcry can’t be ignored. If there’s one thing about the establishment, it’s their policies shift with the sand. Trans support increases from the public and establishment dems will eventually get the message.

only became a problem because Meta made them

Anyone who remember “glassholes” knows this isn’t new. Wearing a camera on your literal eyes is still a step too far in this otherwise compromised world.

But yes, I think the big issue here, as others pointed out, has to do with the nature of the company producing them. That’d be especially important for a place like DEFCON, which is all about securing your data.

voters react to politicians not meeting their needs by voting them out.

Yes, the old people do. You see the issue coming back up? If you piss off Gen Z, it doesn’t matter if they are 25% of the population (made up numbers) if only 20% of them vote. Boomers being 15% but voting 70% of the time has more numbers.

no politician, not even the Democrats has ever lost their election for refusing to endorse Universal Healthcare.

They don’t need to. Republicans can kick the can down the road and say “we’ll think of something” and that’s good enough for a campaign. They try to cut healthcare, and even this abomination of an administration gets flak.

But yes, I get what you’re saying. Campaign trails are rarely about the most eloquently explained policy plans. It’s much more superficial and that’s how we get Trump. There’s unfortunately this weird cognitive dissonance between what someone talks about and what someone in office does. And thars why approval ratings almost always start highest and slowly declines.

I suppose my most charitable interpretation here is that Boomers still think we live in a time where congress isn’t constantly in gridlock, and a time where politicians would occasionally try to run bills that help the people. But newer generations only see broken promises and compromised bribe holders.

yet every single idiot liberal will call it a win even if the outcomes were worse for everyone.

Because it was watered down by conservatives and lobbied further by Healthcare. Yes. It’s not a great plan, but it’s the most that could get passed in 30 years.

This goes beyond my point because I’m not talking about how well executed plans are. I’m talking about who those people got into the position to begin with. You’re complaining about policy makers and I’m saying “who put them there”

Do you honestly believe that if every millennial voted in the 2010s that no results (local, state, national) would have changed? And thus it would have changed the effectiveness of policy?

So are they even really getting paid for their commute time, in that case?

Pay is always about negotiation and leverage. This stipend won’t change those fundamental facts. If it’s a perk that would win over someone who’d otherwise walk, that’s a win for them, right?

Nah you’re think backwards. Who votes and influences policy the most? Old people. Why? They have time to go to townhalls (which are often scheduled during the work week times), they have time to line up at the polls. Politicians famously only listen to calls and many haven’t updated their communications for the 21st century to take in new forms of communication.

So there’s two clear solutions here.

1. Mandatory voting. This includes making voting days holidays (to give people time) and removing any current obstacles that keep people from voting.
2. Citizens need modern, local forums. We really shouldn’t be on a private social media where anyone can yell at a politician in order to get news on policy. Tie these forums to voter’s state ID and monitor them for feedback on proposals and bills.

That’s the bare minimum.

Even simpler for me. Everyone gets one vote. You paying into social security? You get one more vote. We could break this down further to “is more than X% compensation social security payments”, but let’s keep it simple.

As much as we gripe, billionaires don’t influence votes as much as we think (they simply lobby whoever gets in later). Politicians influence votes and focus on the demographic who votes the most. Who happen to be the people who don’t need to plan around 8 hours of work in order to get to the polls. And those who won’t be around to see the fruits of their labors 20+ years later. Let’s reward those who work and need to face their future.

Doubtful. If they live in an urban area, that means they need to up their compensation to compete with local talent in the city (because housing is more expensive). Whereas an employee in a suburb commuting might take a smaller pay. The extra few thousand dollars of stipend wouldn’t cancel this dynamic out.

Was it always this stupid, though?

. I can’t afford to lose this job; the pay is good and there aren’t many alternatives in my area.

To be fair to your coworkers, they probably had the same reasonings. They just weren’t willing to fake a doctor’s note to get out of it.

they asked if I had a degree in theoretical physics. I said I have a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.

The social contract was “pay us properly and we won’t burn your factory down”. Our compromise was unions. But yes, we lost that contract some 40 years ago and our pitchforks grew dull, distracted by the usual culture wars brought out to divide the working class.