AwesomeLowlander

Do you have a better alternative, you lemming?

Steam DRM doesn’t have quite the same history of maliciousness towards end users that Denuvo does

What makes you think he’s an idiot as opposed to lying through his teeth?

- ‘It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it’

By the same logic however, mods would have no power to actually moderate. Their moderation ability is directly proportional to their potential for abuse. And I think we can all agree we’ve long passed the point where communities are able to survive without moderation, at least in their current form (which is what OP is discussing).

Is this the artist’s first attempt at speech bubbles? Jeez

If you’re going to remove 90% of the content on lemmy, is there even a point staying on it?

It’s a standard YouTube video, what are you going on about?

Really shitty scaremongering article. I’d like to know how exactly increased investment in fusion could potentially make it unsuitable for public use, as the article claims?

Everyone I’ve ever met that hates monopoly doesn’t play by the rules

Or they’ve tried any other modern boardgame released in the last couple decades

Why? There’s literally thousands of better games. Just pick any from the top thousand on BGG.

For all intents and purposes, (…) as close to a real person as technology can create.

Again, I point you towards video games and how they got blamed for violence. You could have used the same statement about them 20 years ago.

The biggest danger with allowing people to do whatever they want to a sex bot is that it has the possibility to encourage dangerous behavior in some people to the point where they are comfortable doing it to a real person.

This tired old argument gets trotted out with every new technology and hobby. D&D, Video games, VR, etc etc.

The current global population growth rate is unsustainable.

That’s a myth. The current global population growth rate is dropping precipitously and is expected to hit negative rates within this century. The fertility rate per woman is at 2.3, from a peak of 5.3 in the 60s. That’s barely above replacement level. At current trends we’ll be at replacement level in a couple decades.

An NPC in a game has intelligence

By what definition of the word? Most dictionaries define it as some variant of ‘the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.’

It’s weird… I feel like any civilisation worth joining the galactic federation would have no issues finding volunteers to save their civilisation anyway (though maybe not 14 minutes…)

they don’t know anything about what you’re going to do to them, is aware they may be harmed by it, and wants to do it anyway is another question.

Every 18 y.o. on their first time, sounds like.

nearly impossible to actually find the few good games within the massive crush of shovelware

So exactly like gaming in the 90s and 00s? You can’t have it both ways

None of those reasons apply to electric cars, though. What’s their stance on that?

Kicking toddlers is not fine. They’re heavy, have weird aerodynamics, and you’re likely to throw out your back as a result.

Aren’t there already records of all your border crossings? I don’t see the difference, what am I missing?