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TIL that the official joinmastodon.org list of instances contains no free speech, libertarian, or right-leaning instances. Every political instance in the list (the category called "Activism") is fully left-leaning. I have no idea why this surprises me.

But at least if your interests aren't politics, they have some categories that might appeal to you. For example, I'll just leave this here: joinmastodon.org/communities/f

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@mrsaturday @realcaseyrollins we need a return to hand-drawn OC, i am tired of seeing the countless wojak edits
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@ChristiJunior @thatbrickster @xj9 BLM is a grift headed by Marxist that are telling you they are Marxists

I'm not sure if you've been following the story closely, but the George Floyd story ended up that the dude was a ticking time bomb that died out of asphyxiation due to drug abuse. The Brenna Taylor thing was also a massive lie, turns out the girl was previously fired from her EMT job because she hid bodies to help criminal. She got shot because her criminal boyfriend thought it a good idea to shoot at the cops

The BLM thing instigated a shitload of riots that democrats cities did not act upon and it had democrat supports. People are not completely dumb, I'm sure many noticed the extremely one sided reporting on it like "firey but peaceful" and co. If anything, the BLM support is most likely the biggest thing that would sink the democrats IMO
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If you're also still on @twitter@twitter.com, we've got another chance right now to explain to people why the #fediverse is so much better. Just an FYI.

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@drq @coolboymew
The main problem with progtards regarding video games is that they never understood that video games are COMMERCIAL art, and not GALLERY art. Video games are made to be sold and appeal to a market first, the artistic elements are just a vehicle to accomplish that goal, they are not something to be exposed so a bunch of self absorbed solipsistic self important morons can "make a statement" and "feel good about themselves". Video games are escapism, not vehicles for ideological propaganda.
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@coolboymew @Rosamonde @ChristiJunior It wasn't but a single cycle ago that Sony were dunking on Microsoft (fuck them and their subscription service, too) for their always on internet fuckery and here they are spinning that same yarn. I hope the PS5 has no games.
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“Say you’ve got an older Mac that’s no longer getting security updates from Apple but you still want to use it, elementary OS is going to be a very familiar interface to you… It looks great, it’s stable, it’s updated regularly, and will run on many, many, many Macs.”

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Remember how good the internet seemed in 2010 compared to now? Ok now imagine how terrible it's going to be in 2030.
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“Help stop the spread of child exploitation! … but first you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to use our proprietary cloud service.” - Microsoft

Isn’t there just a public hash database somewhere? Hashes work one-direction, so you can use them to identify an image given the source, but you can’t reverse the hash to see the image. Seems like an obvious thing to publish so people can filter it.

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@coolboymew @ChristiJunior Sony is a very cold and faceless corporation for a few years now. Sorry about the wall of text incoming.

The way the Vita unceremoniously died was completely their fault btw., since they insisted to repeat the same mistake they did with the PSP and tried pushing their own stupid memory card format and even doubled down so that no microSD adapter could be made. If just this little detail were different, I'm sure it would've made a giant difference.

There are more things they did that crippled the Vita. Did you know that their moronic Near service (discovering who plays what games in the place you live and such) that nobody ever used pre-occupied 30% of the 512MB of RAM? They only pushed an update disabling it in April 2015, after the Vita was 3 years on the market. So many games that could have benefitted from around 150MB of additional RAM...

And not to mention their insistence that the Vita has to be a one-user console. There was no reason whatsoever to do that except for pushing additional memory card sales, since the user profile is bound to a memory card.

And one could also argue that the Vita was also unnecessarily "premium", with its OLED screen and full glass front. I know, weird complaint, but considering that it spiked the price of the console it probably also made people hold off from buying one as well. The revised model, cheaper and with 1GB of internal memory, came two years later and too late.

Did you also know that the first premium model, the PCH-1000, had a video output that was never utilized? They probably used that one in the PlayStation TV. And of course, the PlayStation TV was still a one-user console, since they couldn't just change it.

Just imagine what could've been if Sony weren't so incredibly arrogant. They repeated mistakes they did with the PS3, when they were too full of themselves.
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Right-wing extremists have been using gaming platforms for propaganda and recruitment purposes for some time. Two new initiatives are trying to counter this. Social work will soon be done not only in troubled urban areas , but also online - where gamers are mingling. Five "digital social workers" will be touring through gaming platforms such as Steam, as social scientist Mick Prinz reports.


That is all there to it. 5 Motherfuckers with Mickey Mouse degrees gonna harrass you and your frens on Steam if your are stupid enough to admit, that you from Krautland or using Originin and Uplay. Since the official website is hosted in Germany, the Webdesigner responsible for it underwent the duty of doxing his ass on behalf of their newly minted NGO (its only a thing since April). Not that it gonna protect the two named in the article alongside their professions from wannabe gum shoes. Nichegamer has the Burger side on this: https://nichegamer.com/2020/10/12/electronic-arts-ubisoft-more-join-adl-to-push-social-justice-and-combat-right-wing-extremism-in-gaming/

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