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The fanbase? They didn’t take this kindly and have now been making it a campaign to make that user’s life a living hell.

I only browse the community stuff rather than engaging with it, but we’ve had very different experiences.

What I’ve seen is everybody discussing how messed up you’d have to be to do something like that, after a minority of players did all that horrible stuff, the fanbase overwhelmingly calling for those responsible to face punishment in court and to be permanently banned from the game and community.

As can be expected of any community, there’s always unhinged, bad people in the mix. There are bad people on Lemmy, there are bad people everywhere. That’s just life. As a society, we deal with them when they show themselves, and we take care of each other.

You can tar the whole community with one brush if you’d like, but that’s not a path towards anything positive. It only leads to people like me being offended and angry when you claim I’ve (as part of the fanbase) been on a campaign to make someone’s life hell.

It’s just not productive.

Finally, the one thing missing from our modern day sci-fi Star Trek future was a Self Destruct built in to all our vehicles!

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If it has a MicroSD slot, 3.5mm jack, a removable battery and costs no more than £300, I’m interested! <3

I’d rather it were made in Europe too, but I understand we can’t have everything, supply chains being what they are.

P.S Bonus points if it has an IR blaster, I use the one on my current phone quite a lot, surprisingly enough!

Gambling. Call it gambling.

Trying to whitewash it as “Prediction Markets” so it doesn’t sound scummy, addictive, damaging and horrible is really annoying.

There is a market for predicting outcomes of things and waging money against those predictions, yes. We call it Gambling.

Motorola has been kinda crap for years now, not supporting their android phones with updates, etc.

Hopefully this is a new leaf for them.

Isn’t Lenovo that dodgy company that did the China stuff though? Hopefully they’ve been bought by someone else since then.

Is anybody acting like this is new? Shops relabel stuff with price changes regularly, this just makes it quicker and easier - staff don’t have to run around for a hour with a price gun and a bunch of shelf labels any more.

Improving how we display prices isn’t the issue, that’s a good move, it’s how prices are decided that are the problem.

Every penny given to a US company is bankrolling their government through taxes, and thus funding authoritarianism.

OpenAI has direct government contracts sure, but yeah.

I agree it sucks.

Which planet do we owe the money to?

Break fast and move things!

(Thanks for the informative response! It made my brain go off on a bit of a tangent haha)

I always thought that term was weird, African American.

Like, are they African, or American, they can’t be both. If we’re trying to say “American but of African genetic descent”, that can (maybe) include white Africans who have lived there many generations, not to mention the more truly native people in African nations like Egypt or Morocco, who, to put it crudely, may not always be considered ‘black’ enough or from the appropriate cultural group to be called African American.

And, if we’re using the term, why aren’t most white people in the USA called European Americans?

It seems a weird and very specific label applied to people of a very particular skin colour and heritage, to avoid using the word black, even though that’s not, on its own, a racist term. It’s just a descriptive visual trait, like tall, thin, white, muscly, gaunt, etc.

I think it says more about the person saying it, when they feel like calling a person black is, in a vacuum, being racist, you know?

Like, coming up with a weird special term that doesn’t really stay logically consistent just to dance around the fact that you’re uncomfortable with someone else’s skin colour is weird, you know?

Anyway, I’m not from there, so there are probably big gaps in my knowledge on the subject, it’s just always seemed really odd to me as an outsider looking in, haha.

…Especially when some Americans come over here and start calling local black people “African American”. Dawg you in Europe! You’re calling a French black dude American 😂

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Ur such a dhork <3

Haha, fuckin hilarious. I’m gonna proclaim February 6th as Margaret Thatcher Day too.

That’ll give us a year to really prepare for next year’s Margaret Thatcher Day.

What should be some of the hall marks of Margaret Thatcher Day? What should go on the bunting and balloons? What sort of foods should we encourage people to make for the street parties?

So long as it’s affordable. I’m not paying more than £250 for a mobile phone, even that’s on the high end of what I can justify for a phone.

I’m stuck using Chinese brands if I want a good, affordable phone, but they have so many intentional software issues.

Nothing’s perfect, but if I could get a better phone that doesn’t lock down stuff (it’s my phone after all, I’m in charge of my own life), and if it were at an affordable price point - unlike these crazies that think £1000 is a reasonable price for a phone (!!!), I’d jump on it <3

Haha, funny you should say that, I’ve been linking this to people but taking the tracking portion out of the URL as I always do, I think that’s pretty common amongst us lot :-D

I’d say oopsie, but I dunno, articles like these should probably be free without needing special URL parameters. Not everything of course, but vital public safety announcements like this.

Laws exist outside of that country.

Hasn’t been for years now. I appreciate the extra oomph and definitely the extra RAM, but so many projects need a Pi3 level of oomph and price point.

They don’t make those any more, and the new ones are too expensive, so just can’t do those projects any more.

Judging people based on the video games they enjoy? Ok.

You think he can afford that?!

“Passive consumers of unthought thoughts”?

You mean… like a religion brainwashes you into becoming as you’re indoctrinated?

Maybe this guy is being decent, or maybe he just sees a threat to his monopoly?