That would involve a level of risk that a corporation that bought out a corporation that bought out Blizzard is not allowed to take. But, of course, they will gladly take billions of dollars and light it on fire for shitty decisions like the Metaverse or laying off tens of thousands of their own staff.

It’s not even fair to call them Blizzard any more. They are Microsoft. Any time somebody boots up WoW, it’s Microsoft World of Warcraft. Just like it’s Microsoft Minecraft, Microsoft Call of Duty, Microsoft Fallout, and Microsoft DOOM.

Stop calling them by ancient names like they haven’t been fully absorbed into the mega-corporation. Blizzard is gone, and has been for at least a decade.

Yes, please, read the apocalyptic fever dream of a crazy man as proof that god exists. I’m totally convinced!

Anna’s Archive should hire this same lawyer.

The city has spent way too much money preparing for this thing.

FIFA and the Olympics scam every city to spend way too much money for their events.

I just want to be able to add PeerTube channels on my Lemmy feed. Unified ActivityPub protocol, my ass.

The joke that starts a new chapter…

No, I said “don’t die!”

Featuring the single best joke ever told in a video game.

Their campaigning there is almost completely ineffective. They’ve been shoved down the list by the likes of Elon and the Rogan “manosphere”.

Well, yeah, because the fascists that run Shitter hate the EFF and everything it stands for. And they ain’t very subtle about how they were trying to shape the platform into some right-wing white supremacist haven.

Again, this is a predictable turn of events, and they should have left much earlier.

but it might be overdue

By at least two years. Better late than never, I guess, but EFF should have been one of the first ones jumping ship to newer, freer options.

It’s incredibly easy to even accidentally cause an invasive animal explosion. Many invasive species stories have been caused by a few stray pets, a single crate of animals, or several of them getting loose from a zoo.

Well, I can wait for those games’ developers to stop losing their mind and remove the cancer from their game. They aren’t getting one cent from me, otherwise.

Imagine thinking that LLMs are so toxic that you’d think we’re splitting the atom, a technology so polarizing that it became a security issue. Any yet, nuclear power is an incredible scientific achievement, and something we still use all over the place. But, it’s also a technology that we still aren’t fully utilizing 80 years later, because of fearmongers like you taking away any sense of nuance in the conversation, and letting blind absolutism govern your opinions.

More like “AAA games are a big pile of shit, and only AAA games bother trying to fuck over the customer with Denuvo”.

If that’s the conclusion you’re walking away with, then clearly you’re arguing in bad faith.

Having a face on them is one thing. Sometimes the person is the subject of the video, and it’s worth highlighting that in the video.

Having the person making the video staring at the camera, in a pose that says “look at how attractive I am” is another.

Also, this is not as hard and fast as you make it out. Here, I’ll post some random examples in my feed:

• No face
• Indirect faces for a video game
• No face
• Face looking away, subject of video
• Not really faces
• Faces from video game subject
• Staring directly at the camera to make it look like some serious meta video, when it’s really an April Fool’s joke (this is the exception that proves how ridiculous it is)
• No face
• Faces, but the main focus of the video

In fact, I had to dig to find videos that would really qualify:

• Two faces staring into the camera, but they are properly framed and surrounded by the subject of the video
• Reaction shot face, but at least it’s not taking up the entire frame
• Mutahar’s mug behind his junky desk, but that’s all of his videos and I wished he put more effort into his thumbnails and presentation

Even (most) of the female YouTubers on my feed aren’t falling for it:

• Earlybird
• Maangchi
• Pushing Up Roses, besides the occasion “reaction face”
• CrystAAHHL, just to show that I’m not cherry-picking, yes, she does the reaction face way too much

Meanwhile, LaurieWired’s entire catalogue is “look how attractive my face is!” This one doesn’t even have the subject in the thumbnail! It’s just her walking in a park. Also, what’s up with her videos from two years ago? Did she completely change her makeup style just to look more attractive in thumbnails?

It’s easy: there is no satire, only reality.

Is this going to be the new Saddam’s Hideout meme?

All of her thumbnails are literally:

The fascists’ weakness is their extreme overconfidence in everything they do.