Possible hot take alert, but the gaming industry’s increased reliance on online play and online-only experiences is incredibly and willfully hostile to female, LGBT+ and non-white gamers who are routinely harassed out of online gaming “communities” who have routinely shown zero ability to change no matter how hard people try, and the pushing of multiplayer as the dominant form of gaming contributes significantly to how toxic and exclusionary gaming is as a subculture.
Hot take but anger can be a very good emotion for women to allow themselves to experience. Anger isn’t inherently toxic. No emotion is inherently toxic but women are socialized to believe anything less than absolute accommodation and Pleasantness is Bad
ok but why is ‘potato’ always used negatively in phrases? ‘couch potato’ and ‘he looks like a potato’……… what the hell have potatoes ever done to you? potatos are the mvps of the food world, the backbone of many dishes. they never let u down. potatoes are the real winners here and we should feel honoured to be described as one
I can think of at least one time potatoes have let down a very large group of people.
That was not the potatoes’ faults! That, like most things, was on the British.
antipathy for real people in favor of fictional characters is nothing new but telltale laying off 250 employees and cancelling the last of the walking dead games sure did bring it to the forefront
like this is how fucking bad it is but sure you wont get your $60 game about people shouting and being unpleasant at each other near some zombies and thats the real heartbreak
Unfortunate side effect of America finally getting chip card readers:
Massive uptick in how often cashiers have used the phrase “put it in” at me
I didn’t know so many people would be confused by this, America was still exclusively “swiping” credit cards until only like two years ago. We had no idea it was different in other countries and a lot of us found the new chip method to be strange, awkward and even irritating.
There was also such a rash of people accidentally leaving their cards inserted as they walked out of the store that most chains made the “please remove card” noise significantly louder and harsher, to the further irritation of cashiers themselves who have to hear it all day long.
Do you even HAVE a noise reminding you to take the card back out or is it so second nature you don’t need one?
Okay so it is just us who get reminded to remove our cards the same way we’d be reminded that an unknown life form has breached the hull
I hate the angry, disappointed sound that chip readers make.
And even now, one of my cards doesn’t have the chip yet, it still has to be swiped.
I hate to tell you but in the rest of the world we’ve mostly moved to a system where if the purchase is under a certain amount ($80 in NZ, I think 30 pounds in the UK, not sure about Euro or AUD) you just tap the card on the reader.
In Poland the amount doesn’t matter, you can insert or tap, but above 50 PLN (~$14) you have to enter PIN if you tap (and always if insert).
Same in Finland. America get with the times.
Lol here we got chip cards like 10 years ago or more, and now some places dont even accept cards without the chip, I know that because my scholarship card didn’t have one and it was a massive pain in the arse
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