To be fair, many people KNEW your character pre-amnesia. There are very valid reasons for many of them to treat your character like an asshole, because to be frank, he kinda was. This is a very big and very intentional part of the game. You’re also a cop coming to police an area that hasn’t seen a cop come around in literal decades.

Garte, the hotel manager, doesn’t like that you’re being incredibly loud and trashing your room. He’s a bit of an asshole, but honestly with good reason, and he comes around if you make an effort to apologize.

Lena, the Cryptozoologist, is really friendly and very charming.

Cuno is a drugged out kid, he’s supposed to be absurd.

If anything, Kim is impossibly accomodating and patient with you. Even if you’re an asshole to him. There’s a reason people love him and call him “best boy” because he’s got these little windows into his personality even through his stiff police exterior.

There are some actual racist assholes in the game, but I feel very confident in stating that the vast majority of them are not assholes.

Because it’s an opinion article and maybe it’s OK for the author to make an subjective statement of the quality of a thing they love? Like, if they really believe it, is it wrong to state that? Do they need to qualify everything in their article with “this is just my opinion, sorry if you don’t agree.”

I get being annoyed by hyperbole in articles, but I don’t really think that this warrants this kind of response. Sometimes it’s OK to make strong statements. You can make statements like that without implying that people who think differently are bad/wrong.

I mean, it’s ok to not get it? It really does sound like you just don’t get it. If your example of why it’s bad is a genuinely funny, absurd result of a failed check, it might just not be for you.

That’s a really bizarre read, how do you come to the conclusion that every character was a terrible person? Even amongst the first 6 or so people you talk to, most of them are decent people living in a very poor area. I usually hate media where everyone is an asshole but DI is so NOT that that I’m just… Confused.

No, the directors intent is more important, and obviously you need a full Dolby speaker system to properly enjoy. /s

Why can’t shitposts also be wholesome?

Ah yes, the “we shouldn’t bother doing anything unless it’s unspecified violence at an unspecified time/place to kill the people who are actually fucking everyone up” argument.

Take a second to think about this. I get that you’re basically just voicing your frustration, and I agree that billionaires ARE the main problem, but you’re going on the Internet poo-pooing people trying to do SOMETHING. Not just something, something concrete with a general goal and a time and place. Where people will meet, talk, and get practiced with protesting and doing something.

Protests are about much more than their organizers stated goal. It’s also about the connections and experience people get just as much.

So please stop spreading this cynicism. It’s not a new take, and it doesn’t help anything unless you’re going to back it up with concrete calls to action that the reasonable random people reading this can do.

It’s been mostly abandoned for some time now. It was my main entrance into game dev in middle school, and I used to be really active in the blender artists forums, so it is kinda sad.

I can’t seem to visit that site without it completely redirecting my browser to a full screen ad saying I had been “wiretapped”, so I googled it, and I cannot find any confirmation of that happening. Every article says Victoria Beckham is still not fully confirmed and nothing substantial has been announced.

I’m sorry that my comment was a bit dismissive and invalidating. I didn’t really mean it to be, but I’ve been frustrated - I keep seeing this breed of misanthropy, and I understand why it’s an easy explanation for why things are bad, but it feels very clear to me that misanthropes ignore the vast catalog of human experience and lifespan and cherry-pick the negatives. When you believe that everyone is generally shitty, it’s easy to justify being generally shitty yourself (not saying that you are, just saying in general). You also then just start avoiding people in general, and every time you are forced to interact with people, you start looking for a way out.

I’ve honestly been there. I’ve been in that headspace. Any positive thing can be dulled by a “yeah but…” And then you look for ways to invalidate the positive things that did happen… calling them “transactional”. You go into the hard emotionless philosophy of “well technically everything is transactional, even altruism doesn’t really exist because your brain is making you feel good” and you feel RIGHT. Every terrible thing that happens you get to reinforce how RIGHT you are about the universe. The news is happy to feed you a torrent of terrible things that humans are doing, you avoid people most of the time so your chances of positive interactions are limited, and your worldview colors every interaction you have with people, so you either interpret or project negativity.

IDK, I guess I just want to challenge your perception a bit. It’s very possible that this is just depression, because it was for me. A mix of life changes, changes in my mindset, and medication have led me to where I am now. The thing that clicked for me was noticing how much my negative mood could affect my perceptions of people, and how easy it was for that mood to feed on itself.

Sorry if this comes off as condescending. I just honestly believe that most humans have the capacity for great good, and it really is just about us believing in ourselves and each other. We also have a capacity for great evil, when we believe that that’s how everyone else is. I have to push back on that.

Except the vast majority of human interactions are either neutral or positive. If you approach life with the outlook that everyone is transactional, it’s going to shape your behavior into an unlikable grump.

How does this cynical doomer shit get so much consistent up votes and echoes?

Ah yes, the real and very successful strategy of fighting fire with more fire. Let’s just go more fascist in the other direction, that’ll show em!

My dude, I get that you’re angry, but think about your ideas for a second before ejaculating them onto the Internet.

Confirming that they are actually ICE and that they did terrible things IS WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR JUSTICE. Letting people randomly accuse others and having that accusation lead to a literal hanging is not justice. If that’s not what you mean then SAY WHAT YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE. We are real human beings having a conversation, not competing for Internet points.

Ah, yeah, this one is a very silly, chaotic, and fast paced shooter, so maybe not great coming from Arma :D

The Finals does have private game servers, but not dedicated servers. It’s definitely lame that they don’t include them.

It’s honestly a great game. Fantastic movement, gunplay, and level destruction paired with unique game modes. I haven’t enjoyed a shooter this much in literal decades.

It’s free to play, which does come with it’s own hurdles. If there are enough cheaters, it really does make the game miserable to play. And then people who are just very good start getting constantly accused of hacking…

That said, you can’t stop all cheating, and the kernal based approach is always overkill. We’ll see what they do.

Yeah and honestly, it’s the most frustrating part of ADHD

Are there drugs for executive function? Asking for a friend.

They aren’t talking about empathy, this is something else. It’s about the guilt of feeling happiness in a world that seems like it’s going in the wrong direction.

That guilt is understandable, but when it becomes so pervasive that you feel the need to express that guilt on every single expression of joy, that seems unhealthy for society, and it makes people much less likely to join a movement.

This seems like a fun way to create new creatures. Take existing skeletons and just try to plop on flesh in unique ways.

If the server owner gives the bot access to those permissions and the users have activity sharing enabled, yep.

That means that we should be able to get about 50% of them.