I've adopted a policy of only buying if I am playing it instantly.

I don't care if it's on sale or not, if I'm not playing it in the next hour I'm not buying it.

I've never had a backlog since then, and never bought any games I've never played.

Most of the time, the biggest hurdle to a backlog is playing the first 10% of the game. Once I do, the other 90% comes much easier.

Japanese work culture when you can't leave until your boss does.

Classic Lemmy Linux users forgetting that access to a PC and the knowledge to use it is a privilege not afforded to most unlike budget smartphones which cost less than the keyboard you own and are becoming more and more of a necessity than a trivial toy as it was when we first had them.

Lamenting generational failures is a pastime reserved for the old to soothe their egos. If you actually care, understand the systemic reasons why young people are less tech literate and take the steps to reach them.

Ah yes, systemic biases definitely don't exist in research because researchers are perfectly indiscriminate human beings and poor research has never led to swaths of the population being hurt or neglected. /s

She never called herself an astronaut. Fuck the rich and all but people here are just using this to excuse their misogyny.

Yeah because women don't game. /s

Girl boring guy quirky.

Getting a quality education or having parents who did is a privilege. No baby was born knowing how to vote. The vast majority of non-voters don't even know how to start, let alone how to take time off to vote or when their mail-in ballot window is. Many might not have the required IDs and need to jump through another hoop to vote.

To non-voters, the voting process can be as daunting as getting your driver's license the first time, except they're doing it alone, juggling 3 jobs and raising kids. They simply don't have the time or mental energy to go through bureaucracy and mentally keeping every deadline and paperwork in their minds.

Civic literacy is a privilege because the fact that you understand the importance of voting and know enough about the process to plan ahead of it means that you grew up in circumstances that allowed you to do so.

Calling people lazy for not voting is like calling people assholes for not buying cage-free eggs. t's very easy to not give a shit about either when you're living paycheck to paycheck, and it's very easy to perceive complaints about this as virtue signalling.

You're not getting anyone to vote by calling them lazy. Don't be angry. Be useful and be actionable. If you actually want more people to vote, understand the systemic barriers behind why so many don't vote, educate others on it, and make a difference.

Men who upvote this will complain about male beauty standards one breath and then body shame men in another.

It's really easy to blame non-voters when you have the privilege of civic literacy, do not face voter disenfranchisement, do not live paycheck to paycheck, do not have a job that will fire you for 'other reasons' when you take off to vote, do not have an abusive spouse that will watch you fill in your mail in ballot if you vote, do not have to walk an hour away to the voting poll because you can't drive, do not have a permanent address for a mail in ballot, so on and so forth.

Yes, there are lazy 'I'm not political' morons who are willfully ignorant and don't vote. But let's not pretend that everything about American infrastructure including car dependency, anti-homelessness laws, understaffed voting polls, centralized media and fake news, aren't all designed to make voting harder than it should be and disproportionately target minorities.

Iamverysmart atheists understanding the nuances of religion and faith being an inherently irrational yet human response to existential dread challenge (impossible)

Wording matters. In the face of countless 'both sides' rhetoric, this can be interpreted as 'equal harm is presently being done to Israelis and Palestinians'.

Shh... you're not allowed to point out racist and sexist themes in LOTR because as everyone knows, 'being a product of its time' absolves it of any modern criticism and saying otherwise makes you a woke DEI snowflake.

Merriam-Webster definition of 'damned if I do, damned if I don't'

idiom informal —used to say that in a specific situation a person can be blamed or considered wrong no matter what he or she does

Your literacy issues do not make for my communication issues.

Because this is fake.

Nope. Completely missing the point here.

This comment isn't criticizing women's dating preferences, it's criticizing the criticism on women's dating preferences.

People blame women for not dating moderate to conservative men, hurting their egos, and further funnelling them into the alt right pipeline.

People blame women for dating conservative men which affirms their political views.

It doesn't matter if women date conservatives men or not, someone will find a way to point fingers.

Nope. You've got it the other way around. I'm blaming people for criticizing women's dating preferences no matter if they date conservatives or not.

People blame women for refusing to date moderate to conservative men, hurting their egos, and funnelling them further into the alt-right pipeline.

People blame women for dating conservative men and affirming their conservative views.

It doesn't matter what political preferences women have, there is just no winning here.

Many young men who can't find a partner are getting radicalized by the manosphere.

Women are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Edit: this is calling out how women are criticized for both dating and not dating conservative men. Leave to to Lemmy's male echo chamber to explain how this is not the case.

^Invisible disability sufferers when people say 'but you don't look disabled'

Rabies, CSD, ringworm, and salmonella would like to have a word with you.