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Oh sorry, right the US just kidnapped a singular leader this year while bombing and killing people.

Glad you pointed that out and everything just peachy with the US foreign policy of just some bombing and kidnapping and threatening to annex Greenland! Go murrica!

You mean compared to the country that is bombing other countries, kidnapping their leaders while also threatening to annex territory of its ally?

It is the US and its recent actions, including its rhetoric, that are driving people towards China.

Also, only reacting to US aggression after Greenland is attacked? Not prepare at all and then write a strongly worded letter after the fact?

If, after everything Trump has done, you still think he isn't serious about annexing Greenland then you and people like you, including the eurocrats, are truly hopeless.

It will be pretty amusing to watch all those westerners who, not so long ago, were talking about "rules based order" pretend nothing is happening or to justify it.

Cheaper where and in what way?

Electricity cost is on par or exceeds cost of ICE fuel (gas or diesel) in most of the western world and beyond. Also EVs have much lower resale value.

People and the internet have changed since those times. It' not the 90s anymore grandpa. The majority of players do not want to search for a server to play a game they've paid for, especially without knowing whether the server they join is any good or if they even a a low lag server near them. They just want to start the game, hit play, and have fun with the game. Also as "fun" as having dick sucking servers for streamer would be (your so called communities), you are forgetting the other side of your so called solution : a server admin would have to manually ban a cheating streamer, essentially calling them out publicly as a cheater to all their rabid fans who believe the streamer simply has godlike aim and knowledge of player positions.

I read your deflections of how it’s totally not the same political groups advocating for all these things and your thinly veiled personal attacks.

You speak of not wanting censorship and wanting there to be balance, but balance of what and how? Without actual measurements and quotas on game content there can be no balance and it’s just censorship to please the side which has the most political influence, for video games this is obviously the far-left right now.

If it’s not about censorship and about having choice, why are there complaints when existing games that have attractive character come to western market ?

> Also THAT is your problem? Are you for real?

No, are YOU for real? You thinks it's technical limitations that limit breast sizes and it's that assets would look stretcher? Or that the game engine couldn't handle big boobs assets? An incase you haven't noticed character creation in games usually allows you create all kinds of weird looking characters without it somehow hitting those magical limits that somehow apply to breast sizes apparently.

The breasts slider was just an example of "representation" not being actual representation and you need take time out and reflect on why big breasts in video games make you upset.

So women with large breasts don't exist? Or should they not be represented in video games? I'm also curious what is the appropriate size of breasts for women to have in video games and how you and others like you determined it. And of course, you also have such standards for male characters and complain about unrepresentatively good looking or buff male characters, right?

And this being about sexual preferences is just you blatantly projecting. What I'm doing is pointing out how all this talk "representation" and "inclusivity" has nothing to do with actual representation and is just a thinly veiled cover for censorship.

That so? And the activist that usually complain about beauty standards and not having enough representation were angry how "unrepresentative" that was and were complaining about it to Bioware?

I mean you can lie and say how no one has asked for it but the activist have complained about big breasted women in games for a long time usually under the guise of how it's sexualizing the women in games. And yes there have been straight up complaints about characters breasts being too large over the years usually when it's a non-western game.

>If all the characters in games were people that you couldn't relate to and that you don't feel represented by, you wouldn't like that, no?

Games are a visual medium, like movies, which is why games with attractive characters are generally more popular, and just to be clear simple graphics like in Schedule I are not unattractive or ugly.

More importantly how a character looks has nothing to do with how relatable a character actually is - it an absurd premise. What you are basically saying is that people won't enjoy playing Stray because they are not cats, which obviously isn't true and doesn't make sense. It's the same in movies, when watching Wall-E people don't go "well I'm not a trash compactor so I can't relate at all".

>Embracing that people are different is something that is good for everyone.

And I would agree except that in reality it isn't include non-attractive looking characters along side attractive ones, it's always to exclude what you call "standard beauty standard".

As an example of this if would really is about just giving options to player then why is the breast slider in Dragonage Veilguard limited so that players can create only characters with small breasts? Where did the "representation", "inclusivity", "player choice" go to with regards to large breasts?

Really? No one for example complained about the attractive main character in Stellar Blade? And no complaints about how the characters look in Marvel Rivals?

That aside you can word it however you want "attractive", "unrealistic beauty standards", "sexualized", or even call it "not having enough representation" but everyone knows what you are actually talking about is getting rid of good looking women in video games and not giving players a choice of having a "representative selection".

As for it being purely a business decision by companies, how is Concord doing? The point being both men and women like having beautiful characters so say that it’s a business decision to have ugly characters is just not true.

Feminists and the far left have been complaining about attractive women in games and not enough inclusivity for the past 10 years and you think is some grand rightwing conspiracy?

Also if you think "real" feminists would be for adult games targeted at men you might be straight up delusional.

And if the end result of this legislation is that videogames in EU aren't licensed or sold but are instead all streamed and you are instead just buying access to stream a game, then what? TO me it's just amazing how the advocates for SKG ignore any possibility that it could make things much worse that they already.

Yeah, sure. Just cheating.

>In a 2022 interview, Melinda said, “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him,” per Page Six, adding that she only met the child sex offender once because she “wanted to see who” he was. “I regretted it the second I walked in the door,” she went on, adding, “He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. My heart breaks for these women.” https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/melinda-ga...

If you just Google what Bill Gates later said then of course you will find how he only met a few times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

You mean aside his wife divorcing him over his relationship with Epstein and it being widely reported in the news? I guess we will never know if Epstein and Gates even knew each other.

For anyone actually curious and unaware there are plenty of new articles that talk about Gates and Epstein, it's not some hidden secret. However it's a topic those who like Gates philanthropy like to ignore and pretend it doesn't exist as can be seen in this thread.

Yes and Bill Gates is such a good guy that he even remained friends with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein's conviction. To help children of course. Truly a Bill Gates is a true hero looking out for all the children.

And Chase just transferred the money without any knowledge or indication of him actually having a wife?

I mean it's possible, but if it really was as easy as just getting some information and posing as a wife, then this kind of fraud would be very widespread.

>Moral of the story: please don't store large amounts of cash in your checking account.

Seems to me that the true moral of the story is don't cheat on your wife.

More end to end encryption use only means more laws banning encryption faster.

Or do you really think that when for example DoH gains wider adoption all the countries using DNS based blocking will go "Oh well guess the techies got us".

What facts would those be?

There are no facts there about brexit costs only speculation by Bloomberg about potential lost economic growth.

Prepare to be surprised then as optional IDs are pretty much only a thing western countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the...

So the recorded Google employees were deepfakes?

Or are you saying that autocomplete results for "men can " in Google search are totally natural and not at all political engineering done by Google?

EU citizens have to give their biometric data to the government to get a passport.

Does that mean EU treats it's citizens like criminals?

>The people have will just look at the results and have to think "well, I hope weren't hacked this time" and move on.

Well, no they the main proponents of e-voting figured a long time ago that it's easier to eliminate those concerns using propaganda. For example if you are against e-voting media will brand you as a backwards russkie who hates Estonia.

Data theft is an pretty interesting way to frame giving information to the media.

Laws don't work like that. It you think any law was defeated you very mistaken about how laws and government bureaucracy works.

The law still applies and all that happened is that Google gets a free license and everyone who is not Google has to pay licensing fees.

Rather than magical thinking people will use voting to either ban or very heavily regulate self driving car companies.

That's interesting as what it's website privacy policy actually says looks the exact opposite of GDPR compliant. From https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/websites/ which is linked from as Privacy link from https://addons.mozilla.org.

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>No targeting of EU residents = no GDPR liability.

I'm gonna have to disagree with that interpretation.

If I can use their services from within EU then they are providing services to EU residents regardless whether or they explicitly say that they want EU customers and thus are subject to GDPR.