So… if consoles aren’t selling and PC part prices are increasing, is there going to be much market for games in a year or two?

Helen, that’s very kind but I’m not letting you ride home in my car if you’re soaked in piss. Let’s just go.

It’s about as close as you can get. I don’t think there’s a specific word for wrong opinions.

I didn’t use the word disinformation.

Can a comm’s name be changed? If we labeled it as something like ‘popular misinformation’ then people could post their unpopular positions by posting the popular position as title and then their reason for disagreeing in the body.

Title: Cheesecake is the best

Body: is misinformation because blah, blah, blah.

People who aren’t paying attention will just upvote because they agree, showing it is a popular view, and those who pay attention to what the comm is will be able to follow the traditional voting rules for the position expressed in the body. It would align the voting schema to work together rather than in opposition.

Still using 4chan so there’s definite room for improvement.

Yeah, it at least helps scare some of them out of acting on their impulses.

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Wholesome to maintain such a good relationship with her grandson

Three things:

1. Did you read the article? The title frames it one way. A written quote from Kaplan frames it another way, and the audio from the embedded clip frames it a third way. It’s not totally clear which framing to talk about.
2. Are you seriously trying to suggest it’s sensible to connect playing video games and becoming a school shooter in 2026? The issues with CoD as a cultural object are not an imagined bogeyman from the nineties. I don’t have the time to sit and explain it just now, but you can find plenty of critical thought regarding CoD if you look around. Dan Olsen has done a video if you want something easy to consume.
3. None of the framings are talking about ‘grandly announcing how much you don’t care.’ Kaplan seems to be talking about ostensibly unjustified, overtly negative coverage, a.k.a. hatin’, which I would agree is probably unproductive, and it would be dumb to criticise content quality of something you haven’t experienced, but it can’t be illegitimate to criticize the effect of something you don’t consume, or the only people who would be legitimately able to complain about something’s effect would be its fans, who are thoroughly biased.

Nah, they’re full of them too. If laws prevented pedophilia, it would have disappeared long ago.

That’s simultaneously a fascinating question but also one I am not at all interested in researching.

To whom it may concern… 火事！火事！

“13.”

“She says 13, but I think she could take twi-- Why do you say that with such certainty?”

“It’s… kind of why I need the new job.”

Many devs: I want to make my game hard. I want it to feel like an achievement when you beat it.

Players: Okay, but how?

Smart devs: Okay, well, I have this idea for a way to create a set of bot behaviours that will let them act like a team so when the player–

Stupid dev: I make health bigger!

That feels like it could be phrased better. The title and the various quotes all have very different implications. It matters why your ‘demonizing’ and what more than just whether it was something you were going to play. I mean, I’m not going to be buying any Call of Duty games. I’m also not going to pretend that they aren’t cynically produced pablum designed to feed off of malignant elements of American culture. I’m not going to demonize them for the aspects of the game I won’t experience as a non-player, but it’s absolutely reasonable to criticise them for the things they undeniably do.