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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta says it’s mistakenly moderating too much⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no bottom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil and No More Heroes creators join long list of devs who think Metacritic is bad for game dev⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never their fault, is it? Make better games or, yaknow… get fucked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is adding adverts "in the coming week"⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even join in many communities without verifying my phone number and discord knows about the spoofers, so i already can’t use it. (Fuck giving them my phone number) I’ve been waiting for everyone else to jump ship so I’m not in the ocean alone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we giving away too much online? | LSE Research⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “We are increasingly going to be locked into a completely curated universe which is governed by corporations rather than ourselves,” he warns

  It’s not that these tools are bad. We use them because they are objectively useful for society. The system they operate in, and the fact that these absolutely necessary tools we need to participate in our online public society are owned privately by someone incentivized against the public good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that new? I have a Roku enabled tv i just use as a computer screen. Am i talking about something different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i’ve never even tried it with rice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  how often must i gay to be able to play piano? because i love piano

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want Nick Offerman to be my dad. And I even love my real dad. (sorry dad)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Blade Runner’ Star Rutger Hauer Took Exception to His Character Roy Batty Being Labeled a Villain⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought to myself “how can he take exception now, isnt he dead?”

  Yes he is tears in rain now. this quote is from 1982

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Service guarantees cotizenship!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Say ‘junk it’ ONE MORE TIME!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not what id call ‘life’ but yea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was way too young and credulous to understand what starship troopers was doing. Other than feeling a little bad for the alien worm at the end i just watched it like an action movie.

  Now that I’m a more experienced adult, it is overt in its commentary to the point it’s hard to believe i missed or the first time.

  I use this lesson for myself when i find out hard to believe other people cannot see the propaganda that we are immersed in daily. I watched the same movie at two points in my life and saw two very different things