TheRealKuni

My biggest complaint is how much shit they make a mild pain in the ass to do just to push people to pay them the exorbitant subscription rate for Premium.

I understand they need funding, and I would gladly pay for the service if it were a reasonable cost. Like a couple dollars a month or something.

But $9/month or $90/year for faster and more convenient downloads? Fuck right off. Nebula costs less than that and they’re serving, hosting, and sometimes producing video.

If they follow through on that policy, good on them.

You don’t get to have it both ways. Either slurs can shift and be used despite it causing harm, or they can’t. Someone’s gonna have to be brave and start that semantic shift, it doesn’t just spontaneously happen.

If one dumbass decides they think a word should have a different meaning and starts using it, nothing changes.

If an entire subculture shifts their use of a slang term over time, the meaning of that slang term changes. Over time.

Language is not fixed. It evolves. But it also isn’t prescribed (except in cases including but not limited to jargon or technical definitions).

This isn’t a difficult concept.

Okay, why don’t you start using the n-word to mean the colour black and see how many friends that gets you sweetie! 😊💜

Because that’s not really how language and culture work. I don’t get to decide how a word is used any more than you do.

That’s not really how language and culture work. Some words are going to evolve and change whether you think they’re allowed to or not.

A sleeper is something else though, sort of the opposite of a ricer. A sleeper Honda Civic would look largely unmodded but be a monster under the hood. A ricer Honda Civic is gonna have a wing and loud, giant exhaust and other very obvious modifications.

Personally I love a heavily modified Japanese car, and in my experience of car culture, “ricer” has largely been reclaimed by the people who drive them.

No one said that in 2007.

Halo 3, Assassin’s Creed, The Orange Box (Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Portal), Mass Effect, CoD4:MW, Uncharted, Mario Galaxy, BioShock, Crackdown, The Witcher, Crysis, God of War 2, Metroid Prime 3…

That year was historic.

(But I realize this ruins the joke.)

She resembles the cat from Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is an audiobook you should very much listen to. (The book itself is good, but the audiobook is one of the best I’ve ever heard).

You mean Gravy Boat?

I didn’t realize different languages had different meanings for the piece. That’s fascinating.

What about Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk?

Nah, not mocking anybody. You’re good!

Honestly, one of my favorite parts of the Deck is being able to stream games like CP2077 from the PC to the deck with Moonlight/Apollo. Even if the Switch 2 could play it better than the Deck natively, it definitely can’t beat my desktop. 😁

Sure, absolutely. But those aren’t Nintendo games. 😁

Sure, but Switch 2 encryption isn’t broken yet, last I checked. Also the Switch 2 is beefier than the Steam Deck, I doubt the Steam Deck will emulate it well.

That’s what I meant by “newest.”

In fact, you can play more Nintendo games on the Steam Deck than you can on the Switch 2. Just not the newest ones (yet).

Well yeah, one happens all the time and the other one is news.

Corpo assholes trying to break the AIs out from the Blackwall. Owning the entire world isn’t enough I guess.

Colin is a very good boy, he wouldn’t devour an entire world…unless given permission, of course.

Fuck yeah!

I had installed it anyway and it had some pretty severe texture issues, I’m looking forward to trying it out!