GreyEyedGhost

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is a distinction without a difference. They still back his actions and assisted him in regaining power. I guess if it makes you feel better about them, hold onto that.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I think this is the classic "she'll have to work twice as hard for half as much" that the right-leaning voters will insist on to vote anyone for president who isn't a white man.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

It always breaks my brain when people talk about Bernie as Democrat, let alone establishment Democrat. He's Independent, and only joins them to run in their presidential primaries.

This is not a criticism of Bernie by any means. He just realizes you have no chance to be president if you aren't part of a party.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is a significant difference between a regular person, even a TV personality, and a politician saying that. Enough so that I don't think the term "to be fair" can be applied to it.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

It isn't really that many. Conservative supporters have a high of about 40%, but not all of those will say they vote Conservative if asked (some change their vote from time to time and may describe themselves as undecided). But we will go with that as an upper limit. So 18% of 40% is about 7.2% of the population, so less than 1 in 11. That's still way too many, but a manageable number if it comes down to it.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Okay, Elon Musk is a giant asshole, but not so big that it warps reality around it. Musk provided money and became chairman of Tesla in Jan 2004. The first production vehicle rolled out in 2005. All Teslas were produced after Musk joined Tesla. And while it could be argued that he did a hostile takeover of Tesla, usually theft doesn't include piles of cash going to the victim.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

You ruined my joke. I was going to say, "Antique guns, bought new."

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

I don't support the idea of games being exclusive to one platform or other, whether it be consoles or PC distributors, or kernel-level anti-cheat, and Epic has supported both of those. As far as I know, all consoles and distributors have had exclusives with their own games and while I don't like it I can see the argument for it. Pushing for third-party exclusives is a whole other level, in my opinion, and my general response is to just not play those games until they're more widespread. I don't have nearly as much gaming time as I'd like, so this is a limit that doesn't take that much effort on my part, and I'm sure some would say a stance without a sacrifice is a pointless gesture. But that's my stance. We all have to decide what is and isn't okay for us, and those are mine.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh, I get that, but Junk still sounds easier than trying to finagle Heroic to work through the standard game interface, rather than desktop mode. I've done it before, but anything that makes it easier is a win for me, and anything that streamlines using GOG instead of Steam is worth it to me, if only to add pressure to game publishers to avoid DRM.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For a few seconds, some of those planes had all their parts flying under the radar.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I haven't even looked at Epic because I don't want to have to deal with their stuff. Now I might reconsider it. And $6 to make my GOG games play like they're from Steam just sounds like a good idea.

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