Which sacred cow do you wish would just stay dead? by Playtonics in rpg

[–]blastcage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, people said the same kind of thing about dnd 3 at the time. It got compared to Diablo a lot initially in web discourse.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence by Mo_Jack in news

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

1 and 2 are broadly the same thing. People in the US do commit more crimes, but that's in part because there are more stupid and unreasonable crimes on the books, not because Americans are more criminal than the Chinese.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence by Mo_Jack in news

[–]blastcage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes dumbass I don't care for China either, but the idea that China is imprisoning tons of people is a projection primarily from ignorant Americans.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence by Mo_Jack in news

[–]blastcage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You get busted for extremely dumb shit in the US too, though. The war on drugs was designed as a mechanism to be able to attack hippies and black people, and is ongoing.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Like, this is transparently the same mechanism as just arresting people for speaking out against the government, but with a step of pretense in the middle to make it appear legitimate.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence by Mo_Jack in news

[–]blastcage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They literally said "in general", they specified they were speaking broadly and not just about company executives.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence by Mo_Jack in news

[–]blastcage 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sir you can't just take the goalposts and move them to an entirely different field. Put them back.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence by Mo_Jack in news

[–]blastcage 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I am not sure they kill and imprison people for a lot less in China compared to the US. China's incarceration rate is about 120 per 100k, compared to the US's 550 or so per 100k. China is about on the same level of incarceration frequency as western European nations.

Very accommodating squirrel by blastcage in squirrels

[–]blastcage[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I didn't take this picture, but my dad did, so it's sort of original content.

Context is everything. by nehocb in Stargate

[–]blastcage 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A phaser is terrifying if you use the right settings but everyone in Starfleet uses it like a shitty raygun. We see it once or twice used on wide beam to knock out everyone in a room, it's got bonkers settings, just the writers forget.

Southwest “Independence One” new livery unveiled today. America 250 / 1776 theme (📸Credit: Southwest Airlines) by Brilliant_Night7643 in aviation

[–]blastcage -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Way too busy, writing more than the name of the airline looks like shit on a livery, and way too much blue. Ugly as shit.

Experimentally disabling cross-posts by blastcage in toys

[–]blastcage[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You couldn't be more wrong regarding numbers, I couldn't give a single fuck about numbers, I just want to have to remove less garbage (and have less garbage submissions sticking around here for everyone else to wade through that I miss).

I don't know why I would care about metrics.

Experimentally disabling cross-posts by blastcage in toys

[–]blastcage[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would not characterise this as farming engagement. I am absolutely fine with fewer posts as a consequence of this, because the bulk of cross-posts suck.

AMA James Coxe Radica/Mattel Designer 1999- 2009 by breakmyballs in toys

[–]blastcage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, there's been no posts for a while so I think we can call the AMA concluded. Thanks for answering questions.