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  • "that's sad" usually means literally, "that's sad".

    How the other person interpreted it ("that's dumb") is more of a slang usage.

    It's like, "It's sad that you would be the kind of person who'd do that". It's heard as a personal judgment, and not a judgment about the world or the situation.

    One of those...backhanded statements that passive-aggressive people would use to make it sound like they're judging a situation when they're actually judging a person.

    I don't think you did anything wrong. If you want to avoid that misunderstanding in the future, you could clarify what about it is sad.

    "It's sad that raising children is seen as prohibitively expensive where you live". Tons of words, I know. That's why I'm not blaming you for what you said, lol

  • It could also be interpreted as being a sad statement about them as a person. That they are chasing dollars over something fulfilling in life. "I really want to have kids, but then I won't reach my F.I.R.E. financial goals as quickly!" would be sad, imho.

    Saw an interview of one unmarried, childless dude who wants to have a loving family with 8 kids. I think he was nearing 60 years-old. His explanation was that he "never really felt financially ready", yet he was an IT consultant for over 30 years and didn't discuss any lengths of unemployment or other real financial struggles. And he grew up in a modest income family.

    It's a sad reality that he's likely missed his chance, all because he prioritized his financial goals (or whatever the heck he was spending his excess money on) over aiming for what he actually wanted out of life.

    For me, I don't want a life with children. So prioritizing other goals is not sad for me. But if I wanted children, it'd be sad if I kept allocating my money and time to things that don't help me achieve my goal.

  • I believe the research suggests that homophobes (to give one example) are no more likely to be homosexual than the average population. ... though not much less either.

    Just because some are projecting doesn't mean all/most of them are.

  • Notice I wrote in present tense

    Immediately after saying "some history is in order".

    Square Enix didn't give us the original Final Fantasy nor the original Dragon Quest. They give us those games now. But writing as if they were always one company feels like rewriting history.

  • On Instagram, they just sometimes play in the "reel gallery", but they never draw my attention. Do they play with sound? I have my sound off by default, only turning it on if I want to hear what I'm looking at.

    Or are people just swiping through full-screen reels? Lol

    I like to browse the menu before ordering. Not walk through the buffet, item-by-item in order, forcing myself to start eating each item before I know what it is.

  • The best part is that it isn't really an insult.

    Statistically speaking, any given person is most likely to be near the peak of the bell curve of a given thing.

    Someone being offended by it means that they think they're above average, and you think they're average. There's nothing wrong with being average...most people are.

  • And its hard not to engage when someone says ridiculous things like child deaths are acceptable cost to keep 2nd amendment

    Well, someone definitely "engaged" with that rhetoric! Lol

    I just don't end up watching that stuff. Like, some random guy spewing nonsense into a microphone...I don't know why I'd even tap on that video.

    Cat video, bird video, dog video, food video, travel destination video, retro game video, yes...

    Guy with a microphone in a mock studio? That one won't even start playing.

  • Some history is in order. The two most influential JRPG developers are Square Enix and Nihon Falcom. Square Enix gave us Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

    Uhh... credibility lost. They're saying history is in order and they immediately begin by rewriting history.

    Squaresoft and Enix were two different companies for decades, particularly when they were giving us Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.

  • They wanted the ability to maintain their social stances through the business. They put it in the contract.

    According to Jerry, the contract isn't being honoured.

    ...I imagine, according to Jerry's lawyer, it's just barely being honoured by the legal definition.

  • I also didn't know. I hadn't even heard Ben Shapiro's voice until like a year or two ago. I don't get how people who aren't interested in that Far Right Wing stuff end up being exposed to that nonsense.

  • We'll stop seeing that language when we get self-driving cars.

    killed by suspect John Smith's vehicle

    Otherwise, we'd have to blame a company. If people have "accidents", it's fine. But if companies cause accidents, they get fined. Occasionally.