OP’s account was created 4 days ago and has only posted comics that clearly have controversies baked in tk make people mad and generate a lot of comments.

I’ve noticed a huge influx of accounts exactly like this in the past couple weeks. I don’t know who it is or why but it’s weird.

I hereby grant you the title of “Gaytekeeper”

Oh look another account a few hours old spamming a bunch of comics, usually with controversial inaccuracies or divisiveness.

There’s been a huge influx of these accounts lately. Add this one to the pile.

IUD’s can be great too. My wife has used them for years. Reduced period frequency and severity, higher effective rate of contraception, no need to worry about taking a pill late or missing one. Her gynecologist said it will probably reduce pre-menopausal symptoms too when she gets older. And it’s pretty easily removable.

There was a couple of weeks when she was sore from the initial placement, and the same whenever it gets changed. They keep on getting approved to last longer and longer- the most recent one was good for 8 years, but there’s a good chance it will get extended before it needs to be replaced as more research is done.

Not for everyone, but great for a lot of people.

You can find critics of its use that are almost as old as its use. Oddly, for some reason critics of its use don’t seem to show up… Until it started being used.

Poets and authors have been artistically butchering, changing, and shaping language for as long as language has existed. This is neither an argument for nor against any particular change. Just look at the nonsense that James Joyce did.

I have a non-binary partner and I respect their pronouns, but personally if I cared enough to change my pronouns I would be more comfortable with “it” to avoid any confusion when discussing a mixture of singular and plural nouns. Heck, if I was going to make my own language from scratch singular vs plural pronouns would be much more commonly used while gendered pronouns would be reserved for specific scenarios where gender is relevant.

OP’s account is 15 days old and has posted nothing but divisive bs. Getting more and more common lately. I guess that’s a sign of Lemmy getting more populated.

I have to admit I actually agree with this. It’s the one thing that can turn non-voters into voters.

A lot of Americans don’t believe any of the Epstein stuff. They chalk it up to conspiracy or celebrity gossip. There’s still alt of states where the unrestricted age of consent is 16, and where the age of consent can go as low as 14 depending on circumstances.

People are dying all the time. There’s always another cop killing someone. These people don’t believe it will happen to them. It doesn’t happen in my neighborhood. It doesn’t happen to people like me. The propaganda tells them the victim deserved it.

They don’t care about Venezuela or Greenland. A lot of Americans probably couldn’t identify those countries on a map anyways.

They care about their bills. Their struggle to survive. Trump beat Harris by focusing on the price of eggs. That’s the key to defeating Trump. I don’t LIKE it. I wish my neighbors were better educated, more motivated, and made better decisions. But that’s the reality of America today.

Ah yes,the US military. Famous for being a beacon of morality a shining light for all of us to follow. What could go wrong?

Fuck AI, and especially fuck the militarization of AI. That’s why.

It’s a shame how many people here are willing to just pretend those statements don’t exist and handwave then away because they like the game.

Also, the game has never gone on sale, and in fact saw a price INCREASE years after launch. $30 was already a bit steep for a game like this when there are tons of similar indie RTS’s for $10-$20 that go on sale, and they increased it to $35. And then added a $30 DLC on top of that. If you’re looking for a good value RTS- Dwarf Fortress is free, and if you want you can pay $30 for the nicer version and support devs who, afaik, do not have such controversy attached.

Gamer’s Nexus has reported that it is upgradeable SO-DIMM modules, though they did not confirm whether it is 1 or 2 sticks.

I can build a better PC for less money

Can you?

First of all, Valve has not even announced a price yet. Everything is still pure speculation.

Second, have you seen the price of GPU’s, RAM, and SSD’s these days? Consumers for gaming PC parts are competing for supply with industrial buyers now. AI is hoovering all the supply up with the backing from private equity. The GPU market never fully recovered from the cryptocurrency era either.

I’ve been wanting to build a new mid-range gaming PC for years now. I’ve kept an eye on prices. I spent ~$1k on a machine in 2019, with the GPU costing a mere $175. Nowadays a comparable tier of GPU starts at $600, and the cost fo a mid-tier machine is over $1,500, getting closer to $2,000 with the RAM and SSD prices.

Valve can get better bulk pricing on components. Their primary profit center is software sales, and it’s really hard to sell software when no one can afford hardware. So Valve is incentivized to design these machines that are resistant to being scalped or scrapped for specific components, and to sell them for relatively low margin in order to drive game sales. We already saw this with the Steam Deck- it was hardware that could play games without mining crypto.

I do think the RAM and maybe SSS supply could throw a wrench into Valve’s plans though. Just because if the prices go high enough, people could start buying steam machines to rip out the RAam modules and sell them separately. But we are nowhere near that level of RAM pricing yet.