What’s the point of being the big boss if you can’t set your salary? You guys are so unreasonable. /s

Also, most people don’t even have a static ip address so they might have banned a different location altogether and the banned ip address moved.

I don’t think that the official story was that they would turn it over to the Taliban.

I think that it was that they would leave the local government to maintain their own security (knowing full well that they wouldn’t be able to).

My point is that you need to decide which games to play and that you have already judged a game when you decide not to play it.

You might not like the art style, or the gameplay, or the reviews or whatever but you have definitely judged it without playing it. The only other alternative is to literally download and play every game that you see.

If you can’t be bothered to actually try what you’re criticizing, you have zero business judging it. That’s not opinion—that’s ignorance.

If there are 700,000 games then you must judge games without trying them. Otherwise you’d be constantly playing games to see if they’re any good and would still not get through them all.

It’s training itself to pass those mouse based “I’m human” checks that some sites use.

Yeah. Previously it would have been seen as banning an extremist party. Now it would be seen as election tampering.

lots of Iranian scientists who were working with the IAEA were murdered by the Israelis

That is correlation, not causation.

They were nuclear scientists so obviously work with the international atomic energy agency.

They were nuclear scientists so were a target for anyone who wanted to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.

We do an annual charity book collection and we do this towards the end of the day too. We really don’t want any books left if we can avoid it.

It must be awful to have a job that requires you to constantly say “Stop it guys!” knowing that it’s pointless because you know that they aren’t listening.

They don’t have Edge installed so they are being requested to get it so that they can open the link.

Lots of apps override the default behaviour when opening links and ask you to use a specific browser. I actually do use Edge and have been asked if I wanted to use Chrome.

Palestinian journalists in Israel covering the conflict with Iran that began June 12 have been accused of “working for the enemy,” barred from reporting sites, physically assaulted, and subjected to racial slurs.

So they probably didn’t notice anything different then.

That’s easy to fix… new rules where the king and queen swap roles. Although that would mean protecting a woman above the men so maybe not.

Well, they’re at least ready to let their population die.

They are competitors on a personal level as many people only have the time or money to fit one of them into their lives. But by that definition cycling or golfing is also a competitor and nobody would write an article about how bikes outsold the Steam Deck.

Fuck off.

I’m sorry that I offended you. I was genuinely trying to be helpful in pointing out how what you said could be misconstrued.

But the ones that I have met expressed very overtly racist positions that were logically inconsistent in any other scenario: special pleading all the way.

I wasn’t, at the time, back around a decade ago now, telling my white liberal friends ‘all Israelis are racist because I met a few’.

I’m not saying that you were being racist. I’m saying that it’s very easy to come across as racist when pointing out things that you don’t like about a few people off the same race.

You are here doing the thing my former friends did: You are assuming I did and said things I did not do nor say, and are pearl clutching… because you’ve head canon’d in your own missing context and additional details.

I’m doing no such thing. I wasn’t judging you for your observations and I made no statement about whether I thought you were racist or not because I don’t have the information required to suggest that you are.

But did you read the entire article that is this post?

No, I didn’t need to because I was only making the comment that it’s very easy to be seen as racist when you talk about a race of people.

Meanwhile, I’ve been anti Zionist my whole life, and every single actual Israeli I’ve ever met has been a racist, anti-Islamic Zionist… and when I point this out, almost every white liberal or self described lefty has called me an antisemite.

The problem is that there is a fine line between stating your observations of a few people and racism.

I’d guess that you haven’t met many actual Israelis…… certainly not enough to be a statistically significant sample. If that’s the case then assuming that your observations apply to the whole population becomes racism.

I don’t follow games before release so I wasn’t disappointed by missed promises and really enjoyed it.

The first that I heard of it was how buggy it was so I left it until people were saying the bugs were mostly fixed before getting it on sale.