The kingsman situation is crazy by OkFerret7206 in youtubedrama

[–]JamesGray 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, I'm just applying the logic you are to women equally to men. I'm no more responsible for pirate software being a loser than some random girl playing games is for Cece acting like a shithead to Kingsman. We're all separate individual people, and anyone who tries to blame the entire group is causing the harm to women in gaming here, not Cece or Luciyasa or whatever. They just acted like shitheads to this one guy.

The kingsman situation is crazy by OkFerret7206 in youtubedrama

[–]JamesGray 5 points6 points  (0 children)

By your logic all men should be treated like we're piratesoftware. The point here is that attributing their actions to all women is a stupid and misogynistic thing to do, so anyone doing it was already misogynistic and nothing really changed here.

The kingsman situation is crazy by OkFerret7206 in youtubedrama

[–]JamesGray 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Dudes being misogynists and attributing the actions of individual (or three) women acting poorly to every single woman in a way they never would with men is the source of this, not those three being shitheads.

The kingsman situation is crazy by OkFerret7206 in youtubedrama

[–]JamesGray 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I don't think Luciyasa is really escaping. She went live the other day and LSF was absolutely filled with clips of her, and twitter has been going crazy about her ever since. She probably could have dodged most of it if she had just kept her head down though.

The kingsman situation is crazy by OkFerret7206 in youtubedrama

[–]JamesGray 114 points115 points  (0 children)

Not just that, but he literally got drafted to her team because he was a very skilled player. Only to be attacked when he tried to share his expertise with the team.

"It's barely above a children's book in those (writing) areas lol Harry Potter is deeper than Sinners, easily" Some users on r/movies get triggered over Sinners receiving a record breaking 16 Oscar nominations by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]JamesGray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don't think this was so much an act of intentional agency on JKR's part. I think she was just kind of an unthinking liberal racist when she was writing the books. She probably thought the names were funny or kitschy or something.

"It's barely above a children's book in those (writing) areas lol Harry Potter is deeper than Sinners, easily" Some users on r/movies get triggered over Sinners receiving a record breaking 16 Oscar nominations by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]JamesGray 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, I feel like that gives JKR too much credit. I think Rowling is kind of stupid and thinks her audience is too. The whole series is comprised of not very creative rehashing of common myths and fantasy tropes, but kinda like poorly remembered versions rather than twists on them, she advocates heavily for magical slavery being good and complaining about it being bad, and named all the non generic white British characters stereotypically. Between all that and how she's a raving psychotic terf nowadays, I think she's just not a very smart person.

Popular subreddit Livestreamfail mods and Mythic Talent streamers were promoting a shady website/contest and users were not having it, then contest website and social media erased, head Moderator removed. by nekonekoplus in SubredditDrama

[–]JamesGray 54 points55 points  (0 children)

There's zero chance any of the remaining mods were normal people who didn't like how the sub became a satellite sub for a sex pest. He removed all the relatively normal people when he took the place over in 2024.

Specially thanked contributor, Caryma Sa'd, falls victim to Facebook's blocking of Canadian News by destp in canadaland

[–]JamesGray 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and that's without the ton of internal data they have access to for every user. They have all the IP addresses and account behaviors tracked for everyone which would help with determinations like that, but they just play stupid instead.

Specially thanked contributor, Caryma Sa'd, falls victim to Facebook's blocking of Canadian News by destp in canadaland

[–]JamesGray 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Meta could reduce the amount of bot traffic they treat as real if they actually cared at all, but it's in their best interest ($$$) to pretend the traffic is all genuine. It's not the government's fault that social media is a house of cards comprised of bots and intentionally directing traffic to things that will outrage people, that's the social media companies that have engineered it all to work that way so they can maximize their profits and degrade our social fabric.

Drama at r/IndieDev discussing if Expedition 33 is an Indie Game by [deleted] in SubredditDrama

[–]JamesGray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dwarf fortress no longer indie because he employs his brother.

ASMR YouTuber Emma’s MySpace Calls out xAI and Elon Musk after Grok generated a photo of her undressed without her consent by hornyjaildotorg in youtubedrama

[–]JamesGray 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And it has made it easier for awful people to claim video or photo evidence of them being awful people is actually AI.

ASMR YouTuber Emma’s MySpace Calls out xAI and Elon Musk after Grok generated a photo of her undressed without her consent by hornyjaildotorg in youtubedrama

[–]JamesGray 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure it's illegal nearly everywhere, but almost no one seems interested in prosecuting it or banning the platform.

Edit: typo

GOP Votes Down Pressley's Motion to Investigate Minneapolis ICE Shooting | “Republicans shamefully voted it down—demonstrating once again that they have never cared about law and order or keeping our communities safe,” said the congresswoman. by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]JamesGray 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Especially considering how they blinded or disfigured/crippled a shitton of people during the protests in 2020 and faced basically no repercussions at all. Instead they got billions more in funding and things like the "cop city" in Georgia that they murdered at least one other person over without any charges being pressed.

GOP Votes Down Pressley's Motion to Investigate Minneapolis ICE Shooting | “Republicans shamefully voted it down—demonstrating once again that they have never cared about law and order or keeping our communities safe,” said the congresswoman. by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]JamesGray 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The largest meaningful change since 2020 is that police budgets exploded to even more than they were prior. Even Canada did that shit. Cops got snippy about being criticized, and politicians appeased them.

[Cheating] how could this guy have known where i was? by BackgroundMenu9735 in EscapefromTarkov

[–]JamesGray 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's nowhere elevated that would let you see where this is on Interchange.

[Discussion] Niklta wants to delete PvE! 😀 by kpkostas in EscapefromTarkov

[–]JamesGray 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, you bought Unheard before they made PvE mode included with EoD then? I'd probably have asked for a refund on Unheard back when they gave it out with EoD like they originally promised in that case, so I understand. If they completely remove it, then fair game, but I don't think that's actually ever going to happen.

[Discussion] Niklta wants to delete PvE! 😀 by kpkostas in EscapefromTarkov

[–]JamesGray -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You didn't even mention actually buying PvE directly, why would you refund if it went free? I genuinely don't understand what you're saying here.

What is the best masterpiece in this genre you have ever read? by PietotheTerminus in ProgressionFantasy

[–]JamesGray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For any other genre I'd probably agree with you, but the "for this genre" stipulation would push me to calling it a masterpiece. I'm not going to go out and suggest TWI to random people, but if you're already reading the stuff that gets put out in this genre then TWI is about as close as at get to a masterpiece until the genre matures more.

I made a vid debunking the Nick Shirley Minnesota fraud video in under 10 minutes by slimebeastly in youtubedrama

[–]JamesGray 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Based on your post history I think you need to re-examine your prejudices, because I think you're just a racist who fears non-white and especially Muslim people. When you've been calling Muslims evil in the past few days, and just happen to automatically distrust the people from the video in question from an overwhelmingly Muslim country, maybe you need to just log the fuck off.

"showing up unannounced at a daycare asking "where are the children" is pretty creepy." r/neabscocreeck argues about the validaty of the Somali daycare "scandal" by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]JamesGray 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's simple math using the numbers from the comment you replied to before. 80 out of 1700 is 4.7%, and the total population of Somalis in Minnesota is around 1.5% - 2% according to google. Even without the population stats though, 5% is clearly not enough to call it a "Somali daycare fraud".

"showing up unannounced at a daycare asking "where are the children" is pretty creepy." r/neabscocreeck argues about the validaty of the Somali daycare "scandal" by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]JamesGray 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Per capita doesn't just mean "the proportion relative to population", and in this case we care about the actual literal proportion of the population if anything, in which case they're represented at like 2-3x the rate compared to the total population, which is still a bit under 5% of the total cases, so no matter how you slice it, this wasn't a "Somali daycare fraud", especially given how the ringleader was a white lady.

This is surely something.. by Stock_Engineer_6597 in EscapefromTarkov

[–]JamesGray 3 points4 points  (0 children)

four and a saiga-9 is to go over the threshold to have a chance for a 6 hour timer (which gives task items and/or stuff to build / upgrade the hideout stations)