Right wing newspaper The Telegraph supporting right-wing MPs campaign to ban cousin marriage by cherry picking health service docs that aren’t there to promote but giving guidance to health professionals on how to treat patients and have zero impact on whether people choose to marry their cousins or procreate with them.

The prevalence is higher in UK Pakistani communities like Bradford. Having a right wing politician cherry pick info they dislike about minorities to start a crusade against minorities is as old as time.

I didn’t think reactionary right wing politics would get so much traction on Lemmy of all places. Critically assess your sources, who is publishing, who is saying, and why.

Next week. Right wing MP pushes to ban the burka as it has x% impact on pedestrian safety at road crossings. When racists cannot directly discriminate, they don’t stop, they just go for indirect strategies.

Yeah, but what can the NHS do with that?

They just treat folk. People will make those choices regardless.

With AI art, it consumes others art and regurgitates AI art. Did the guy just become AI?

Feels like this may have been a logically driven response.

They have in Windows and Linux, just not MacOS. That is if you actually read what you posted. Or was that point not conducive to you looking for a stick to hit Mozilla with? (And there are plenty available)

Dungeon Keeper didn’t need one. Best game made IMHO. Bullfrog were excellent, but what happened to this guy later in his career, I have no idea.

Missed this comment. Appreciate the info, thanks.

No, they just don’t have the same principles as us. I love Lemmy, but it doesn’t have the same level of smaller active communities. There is more work for us to do.

Not OP, but Steam Deck.

I’m a big fan of Steam. They help me keep on Linux, but let’s not pretend there isn’t a profit motive. Gabe gets yachts, we get Linux Gaming. Win win right now.

As someone who never played it, how do you power wash for 60 hours?

A friend of mine has hundreds of hours on House Flipper. Definitely got their money’s worth.

I found Samsung’s struggled after 1.5 years. I’m 3 years in on Pixel 6a. Less bloat really seems to help.

What phone would you recommend privacy wise?

How about family support and running on Linux. There is a reason steam is ahead, and it’s not first mover advantage. It’s superior features. The first isn’t even a complicated feature but is important.

I was glad when crypto hype died down and folk could buy graphics cards again.

Now this. They can fuck off.

Everyone turn your AI off in your search engine. Avoid AI, don’t encourage this shit. Bubble will pop quicker.

So he’s capable enough to add new islands and content, but not change a trigger on how to save. One button. Same logic…

A buggy mod by someone who didn’t write it doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Many mods are of poor standard and don’t have access to the same code or the facilitate a way to change something, so they often have to work around whatever APIs are exposed.

It is a dark pattern. You can like a game and someone and still be able to be critical of a game design decision they make. Not everyone is good or bad. A hero or villain. No one is perfect.

I guess so, you just cannot quit midway through a day without losing progress or sleeping early and losing a day. There is a negative cost that forces to play to when the dev chooses rather than you.

Great game, great developer, but it is a dark pattern.

This one is a fair point.

Some games do create a need to depend on some. For example, in Old School Runescape, you make a decision in a quest and rely on someone who made a different decision. You cannot change it and you do depend on them. So they may feel obliged to reciprocate. The obligation is created due to a game design decision rather than because of an intrinsic decision of players.

Some games are set in such a way where you cannot of progress without assistance. New players can get locked out of progression. Maybe this could be relevent in those cases.

I’m curious. Which of those do you think aren’t a dark pattern?

Are they really not dark, or are they so common now that it has become accepted.

For example, I love Stardew Valley but the inability to pause, and instead complete the day is a dark pattern.

Maybe. I thought it was really cool in 2D. But tried the hype one when it became 3D. Was confused with the distinct lack of car focus. Got very bored, very quickly. Quite a meh game.

So the problem was the game, not the device…? The hardware was fine?

Lol. Java used to be ahead. Now Bedrock is. Anyone that knows about MC knows MS is pushing it and secretly cannot wait for Java to be less popular so they can end it.

The joke is because it could very well be true or certainly plausible.

MS did not make MC. They bought it and most who’ve played historically have seen the degradation since.

Are you a MS fanboy?