Hasbro can make that demand for sure, but the code is out there.

Copies of the game with the code are already downloaded, including GOG versions which don’t have any DRM.

Those copies are not going to go anywhere.

Hasbro will not be able to sue every single person who has access to these tools to delete them.

The existence of a Fucks Given app implies the existence of a Fucks Taken app.

😱

man man

Hey, that’s one of my favourite bands!

Walz as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in an age when so many men have been “red-pilled” into reactionary politics — and with Vance as the other ticket’s comparison — is a real opportunity for a different vision of masculinity to culturally take root.

In many ways, an excellent article, but I do take minor issue with the way it is framed here.

I think that this different version of masculinity was always there, culturally. I think it was because if it wasn’t men like Walz would not exist already. Many men like this do and many men like this did. I think it does them a bit of a disservice to talk about their masculinity as though it’s not culturally accepted. Rather, it’s like the article discusses, the left just fails to meaningfully describe these men and why their masculinity is good and what you should aim for. Meanwhile Walz is seemingly actually fairly good at, if not necessarily articulating why his version of masculinity is good, showing why is it good.

Which is also I think an aspect of why we forget that these men were always there culturally. Traditionally, these men have often been quiet stewards, not the kind of men who would seek any kind of media attention. So while the manosphere festered with freaks who simply won’t shut the fuck up with outright drivel, misogyny, and racism, these men have simply been… existing, being good fathers, uncles, and brothers in their families, not trying to win awards or accolades.

EDIT: For example, I think there are many more Joe Peras out there than people think.

I mean, it’s one pair of shorts, Michael…

Trump: “…and Netanyahu told me that Hannibal Lecter came to him, eyes full of tears…”

I know, even this snippet is too coherent for Trump, but his current obsession with Hannibal Lecter is just asking for him to get this confused.

In regards to the actual article about Israel killing its own citizens, I present Philip J. Fry, shocked face:

I forget which Lemmy instance Tad Ghostal is on, but I think to ping people it’s @username@lemmy.server

So, for example @ghostalmedia@whatever.server.Tad.Ghostal.lives.on

Cheers, mate. It’s a contentious issue and I can understand people feeling all kinds of ways about like they’re voting to support a genocide. I feel that way, too… but I’m also keenly aware how much worse Trump and Republicans are on the same issue.

Wow! Was that letter really written by a cow?

A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff

It’s close and Team Trump are working hard to exploit that. They have legal teams working around the clock finding ways to ratfuck this election.

Fucking vote like your life depends on it, because if you’re like me, it literally does.

The changes Trump wants to make will make me lose access to my healthcare and succumb to my cancer. My medications are $18k+ a month without insurance.

I don’t even really like Harris, but I like being alive.

I know, Palestinian kids like being alive, too, but we’ve made fuck-all headway on that issue in a year, and as sad as it is to say, Trump would just help Netanyahu wipe Palestine off the map, so Harris is the only realistic choice I’ve got. I have cancer, it’s not like I can personally swoop in and save Gaza. Sorry.

Was it the fact that’s its almost been a full year since Israel started carpet bombing Gaza that clued people in?

It shouldn’t take a fucking year of genocide to figure it out.

Oh wait, did he spend any time implementing them or did he spend his time turning his nonprofit Our Ohio Renewal into a fucking grift?

Bet you can guess the answer.

My point is simply he has documented political ambitions going back as far as 2016, and acting like Ron Howard couldn’t have been aware of that by 2019 is absurd.

2016: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/12/21/daily-202-why-the-author-of-hillbilly-elegy-is-moving-home-to-ohio/5859da6ee9b69b36fcfeaf48/

“No, not now,” he said when asked if he’ll ever run for office. “I think that I need to live in the state for a while and get to know these problems a little better before actually doing something like that. Never say never, but it’s certainly not something I am thinking about over the short-term.”

2018: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/henrygomez/jd-vance-is-now-seriously-considering-running-for-senate-in

“The phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Friday,” said Jai Chabria, an adviser to Vance who joined him in Washington this week for meetings with those encouraging his candidacy.

“The amount of support for J.D. Vance is incredible,” Chabria told BuzzFeed News. “People are starting to realize he has the best message to beat [Democratic incumbent] Sherrod Brown. J.D. is giving serious consideration toward this, because there are very serious people asking him to run.”

Oh wait, who was Jai Chabria again?

Our Ohio Renewal’s tax filings showed that in its first year, it spent more (over $63,000) on “management services” provided by its executive director Jai Chabria, who also served as Vance’s top political adviser, than it did on programs to fight opioid abuse.

JD Vance’s Wikipedia page:

In December 2016, Vance said he planned to move to Ohio and would consider starting a nonprofit or running for office.

Maybe he could have just been, I don’t know, paying attention? Ron Howard is full of shit, here.

From JD Vance’s Wikipedia:

In December 2016, Vance said he planned to move to Ohio and would consider starting a nonprofit or running for office.[54][50] In Ohio, he started Our Ohio Renewal, a 501©(4) advocacy organization focused on education, addiction, and other “social ills” he had mentioned in his memoir.[55] According to a 2017 archived capture of the nonprofit’s website, the members of the advisory board were Keith Humphreys, Jamil Jivani, Yuval Levin, and Sally Satel.[56][57] According to a 2020 capture of the website, those four remained in those positions throughout the organization’s existence.[58] Our Ohio Renewal closed after less than two years with sparse achievements.[55][59] According to Jivani, the organization’s director of law and policy, its work was derailed by Jivani’s cancer diagnosis.[60][61] It raised around $221,000 in 2017 and spent the majority of its revenue on overhead costs and travel. In subsequent years, it raised less than $50,000.[57]

During Vance’s 2022 campaign for US Senate, Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee, said the charity was a front for Vance’s political ambitions. Ryan pointed to reports that the organization paid a Vance political adviser and conducted public opinion polling, while its efforts to address addiction failed. Vance denied the characterization.[62][63][c] Our Ohio Renewal’s tax filings showed that in its first year, it spent more (over $63,000) on “management services” provided by its executive director Jai Chabria, who also served as Vance’s top political adviser, than it did on programs to fight opioid abuse.[67][57]

That wooshing sound you hear over your head is you willfully missing the point entirely.

Like why do you think we are on Lemmy for fucks sake? Is it not for the same reasons??

*woosh

Oh, I know. It’s squarely aimed at fucking tools who don’t even own a PC, which is why it has that “mobile first” design ethos even though their mobile apps are absolute trash.

It doesn’t matter how many times this happens, people would rather get fucked by corpos than spend time learning anything.