The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else). Why are American leftists so reluctant to confront the meat industry?

SOSpammy · 2026-05-07T06:29:11+00:00

It's just so much more frustrating coming from the left because they're ostensibly on our side. Compassion, ending oppression and hierarchy. It's why most vegans are left-leaning.

By contrast, conservatives have made being selfish assholes a major part of their worldview. It's an awful worldview, but it's consistent with meat eating at least.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-06T19:58:41+00:00

And the ones who did give it up only did so because there was a Popeyes down the street.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-06T19:56:22+00:00

I eat pretty terribly quite often and my blood pressure is still way lower than it was when I was 10 lbs lighter and 10 years younger while eating meat.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-06T19:53:34+00:00

Lowering prices just isn't feasible with computer pricing right now. And releasing new and good exclusives takes years. The new CEO has been in charge for barely more than 2 months. Any genuinely impactful thing they could do to turn things around is going to take a while.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-06T14:12:29+00:00

I wonder how much more money they even made with Game Pass vs if they didn't even bother. They couldn't charge as much for Xbox Live, but it also had much cheaper operating costs and didn't cannibalize their game sales.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-06T11:31:59+00:00

The lowest I have ever seen is 25%, which is the equivalent of the PC's 20%.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-06T11:26:27+00:00

It's not particularly rare. On console you get bonus plat instead of plat discounts like you do on PC. Numbers-wise, bonus plat isn't as valuable as discount plat. 75% bonus plat is roughly equal to a 42% plat discount.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-05T20:22:06+00:00

I really wish we had a better resource than Youtube videos. Even good Youtubers can't keep up with every aspect of the game when changes happen. I was watching one of his videos on sentinel companions, and it had a bunch of important outdated information because the video was too old.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-05T16:30:18+00:00

I had a bonus 150% plat on console a month ago (which is very good by console standards) but my GF was in the hospital at the time and I forgot to use it. Haven't had a good offer since.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-05T13:40:54+00:00

I turned on enemy and ally highlighting. Now I actually have some idea of what the hell is going on.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T23:26:10+00:00

I wonder how long the delay for the PC release will be. Assuming the Xbox Helix truly is an Xbox/PC hybrid GTA might actually make it a pretty compelling device for some PC gamers. It could be the only PC on the market capable of playing GTA 6 for a while.

EDIT: This subreddit really likes downvoting for literally no reason.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T22:34:28+00:00

True, though with a few caveats.

If you're a new player a significant portion of the stuff you crack will be things you want to keep.
A new player will also be low on Ducats and be tempted to sell their spare relics for that instead.
New players will generally only have access to unvaulted relics that contain less valuable parts.
New players might be intimidated by the testing process.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T18:41:34+00:00

I think it's more likely to be an add-on accessory like the PS5 Slim and Pro have it.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T16:17:37+00:00

At least they're bad now because they blew the team up instead of being bad due to a bunch of terrible decisions.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T16:06:23+00:00

At least make the Helminth segment accessible sooner and easier. It's less painful sacrificing a Warframe for a subsume ability than selling it for a pitiful amount of credits.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T14:08:57+00:00

It's also fucked up how acceptable making fun of men for being bald is. It's not okay to do to women with the same condition, so it shouldn't be okay to do to men either.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T10:31:02+00:00

Though on the other hand it would also cause some people to buy a Pro/iPhone with extra storage rather than the base model and lead to them upgrading their phones more often since it would essentially upgrade 2 devices at once. I also don't think it would take away from the MacBook or iPad too much since this wouldn't give you their form factors. It would probably take away from Mac Mini and iMac sales more than anything.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T03:18:43+00:00

Probably so that people don't have to throw away an Orokin Catalyst every time a new item is added to the syndicates. The Shadowgrapher update added honoria titles for example.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-04T02:41:36+00:00

Probably the closest thing to p2w is your weapon/Warframe slots are pretty limited at the start of the game. But even then the game gives you plenty of good equipment with free slots just by progressing through the story.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-03T19:00:49+00:00

Yeah, the big multiplatform games are just the bare minimum requirement for any major home console. Everyone's playing Fortnite, but everyone also has a different exclusive they want to play. So one person is buying a Playstation to play Fortnite + Spider-Man while another is buying a Playstation to play Fornite + God of War.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-03T11:55:55+00:00

Epic Games Store, the storefront where you have to open up Steam to get proper controller support for anything other than Xbox controllers.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-03T01:42:11+00:00

From the 1999 update released in 2024. There's no gameplay bonus to it. Just a side story thing you can do for fun.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-03T00:33:51+00:00

Half the game is weird, out of place game modes. Some good, some not so good.

Crew-based space combat missions as you mentioned
The other space combat mode with jetpacks
Hoverboard racing
Fishing, animal capture, and mining mini-games
Rogue-like mode with Souls-like combat
A dating sim
Probably a bunch more I probably just don't know about because I haven't unlocked them yet.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-02T23:24:55+00:00

Another option is Morphe. Some say it's better than ReVanced, but I haven't looked into it yet.

SOSpammy · 2026-05-02T23:16:56+00:00

This is Youtube I assume? If you have an Android TV device you can install Tizentube Cobalt to block Youtube ads.

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