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Politics and censorship in gaming and anime

This. This right here is why you're getting downvotes and no one is taking you seriously.

Politicization of video games isn't a real thing. Games have always been political. Nobody complained about the early Metal Gear games and their critiques of the military industrial complex, nor about the original Dues Ex and it's critiques of corporate control mixed with government control. I mean, Cyberpunk was a pen and paper game way back in the day and the entire cyberpunk genre has always been deeply political as a warning of what happens when corporations usurp power from governments and treat everything and everyone as merely something to extract money from. Wolfenstein is specifically anti-Nazi and always has been and the Nazi's were a political group.

People like Asmongold are being unserious and disingenuous when discussing this subject. To find other people discussing the same subjects, you will invariably only find right-wing voices who are trying to make people angry at something that doesn't actually exist.

Pretty sure the past tense of "lead" is actually "led."

Unless of course you're referring to the type of metal, lead, which I guess the meme isn't clear on.

I mean they have absolutely gutted the IRS. Now is the right time.

Asmongold is definitely right wing but I can't think of anyone who fills his specific niche of bottom of the barrell filth encrusted rat person.

I mean most left youtubers shower and clean regularly.

One of the first transpersons I ever met was a loud and proud anarcho-capitalist.

Fried okra is bomb as fuck.

I heard it was cut content from Fallout 2.

Right, he may have not deserved it, but he actively campaigned on the idea that deaths like his were acceptable losses.

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One format to rule them all, One format to find them, One format to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of the Bay Area where the shadows lie.

Solid choice by Mamdani but I fully expect ABC to fill the town hall slot with Cuomo now instead.

Maybe if web pages weren't also loading like 25mb of javascript it wouldn't be such a big deal to load 5mb of uncompressed images.

It's actually a very contentious grammatical issue in Germany from what I have been told by a German friend. That there is definitely a contingency of people pushing for more gender neutral language and a large amount of pushback from those who think the entire idea is absurd because of how gendered the language is.

I can see a bit of both sides of the argument. It's important to make people feel welcomed and not like being a male is the default for everything. On the other hand, language evolves often very slowly and you can't just force people to change the language entirely overnight. It does sound like much of the pushback is less political in nature and more grammatical as adding neutral phrases to a gendered language becomes quickly a complex task with complex new words. However, some of the pushback is also political in nature, so it's hard to gauge whether the Ladybird situation was truly political or more grammatical at it's core.

Hey now don't underestimate how completely idiotic they are, too! This administration is filled with so many slackjawed fools that I don't put it past them to genuinely not know Tylenol is just a name brand.

Fascist politics always boil down to "I know what you are but what am I?"

You mean like Joe and Eileen Bailey, the literally made up and imaginary couple that he created and claims are accurate representations of his constituents which he has referenced hundreds of times as justification for his positions?

I shit you not this is a real thing he does. Instead of listening to actual constituents he just makes ones up.

Also, they regularly try to sidestep the W3C web standards commission or use their market position to influence W3C standards to push for their own standards over competing standards. I feel this point cannot be understated that their attempts to dictate web standards to their benefit directly undermines user choice and truly free standards that aren't open to undue influence from one company with market dominance.

Google literally has a long history of promoting open formats to eventually close those open formats and make them less open.

GoogleTalk originally supported XMPP and then XMPP support was dropped when they changed it to "Google Hangouts."

Android was originally open source and still largely is, but now they're not publishing the device information for Pixel devices, putting actually open operating systems like LineageOS and GraphiteOS in the position of having to reverse engineer drivers to be able to move forward.

Chrome was originally a lot more open as well, but as Google gained market share dominance with their web browser, they made it slowly more and more closed off with only Chromium being really open, and they also used that market position to start to push their own solutions as web standards (what they've done with WEBP, actually) instead of having community input from the W3C.

Everyone: "Stop using stuff made by Google that they make with intent of owning the web!"

Also everyone: "Don't you understand why WEBP is the best format??"