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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I think it doesn't, unless you start preaching about it. Then the critique is that it's physically impossible for current humanity to all be living like that. So as long as you recognise that and don't make it about ethnicity, I think it's fine.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It could still be seen as extremist, but mostly left-wing. The right wing part comes from it being ethnonationalistic.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It's genuinely insane how people buy into the idea that a nation with the largest amount of nuclear warheads in the world feels threatened.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Too bad the court has no power to do anything and countries are free to ignore arrest warrants.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

And those same people are the ones gleeful about the idea of AI replacing workers en masse, because nothing feeds the economy better than people not having money.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Love that last bullet point implying that the newest smartphone/laptop is innovative or gives any noticeable productivity boost. Part of the reason people hold onto tech is because newer models are now a marginal improvement at best.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

On the surface, it's because they belong to different branches of Islam. But it's mostly about both of them wanting to be the main country in the Middle East.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

They'll still blame the democrats or "wokeness", somehow.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

There's also a horrible water crisis in Yemen.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Could probably make one with very polished metal. It's not like the reflection has to be perfect.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Skill system being designed in 2 weeks really explains a lot. It will never cease to amaze me how Starbreeze leadership has managed to fuck up what really should've been an easy hit game.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

And the Nazi concept of Lebensraum was based on Manifest Destiny.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It's like those "as seen on TV" gadgets. Many of them were invented to help people with mobility issues. But then companies went "But what if we market it to lazy people?" and the the rest is history.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Yeah, but finding a use for other ingredients is kind of the point of meal planning. Obviously, if you buy 500 grams of meat to make 2 burritos and let the rest rot, you'll end up losing money. But easier than ever to find recipes to use up ingredients.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The point is that you can't compare the cost of 1 burrito you buy with the cost of ingredients to make your own. Obviously, the ingredients will cost more, because you won't be able to buy the ingredients for just a single burrito.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

While not the best example, but Concord had a price tag and died instantly. Perhaps it would've died even as a F2P, but your game would have to be absolutely amazing to justify a price tag these days.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For co-op games, I wonder if making it so only one person needs a copy to play with their friends can work. Some games(like It Takes Two) do it already, and launching it after like 6 months since release can make it easy to convince your friends to try the game without killing the release sales.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It does kinda seem like with those massive live service games with constant substantial support, you can't just make an indie multiplayer game and survive. But even in the past, so many neat indie multiplayer games died. I'm thinking of Monday Night Combat, Loadout and Lead and Gold.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Warframe is probably one of the bigger indie hits, though by this point they aren't indie. Payday 2 has also managed to maintain 10k+ playerbase for over a decade until recently.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Yup, apparently, it's somehow been spun out of a thread on a Buffy fan forum. Kind of like how Snopes exists because of usenet discussions.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The right will promise a better budget to get into power and then blame the left when it inevitably cannot deliver.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Probably because those aren't as focused on how people look, which reduces the creepiness of it.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Pretty much. Lots of fun stuff like "selling promises to not cut down decorative trees(which wouldn't be cut down anyway) for carbon credits".

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's an attempt for businesses to keep emitting CO2 while reducing emissions on paper. That's really all there is to it. It's much easier for businesses to pay some money to keep emissions than to reduce them in the first place.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/11/2024

Mind boggling hour on the seas yesterday. For over an hour before sunset this humpback whale breached dozens of times, at one point breaching only 36 seconds after their previous dive When you remember adult humpbacks weigh as much as OVER A DOZEN OF MY VAN, it's absolutely astonishing #MarineLife

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

hands up if you hate golf

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Educating only works if people want to be educated. But most people would rather hear "Elect me and economy good" than be educated on complex economic and social theories.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Yeah, at this point, elections are a popularity contest. Voters aren't educated and/or interested enough to actually research what your platform is. So it's all about bullshitting your way to power and the left should recognize that.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The problem is that many people happily touch the stove over and over again.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Always makes me wonder where we would be if Supreme Court didn't hand that election to Bush. Though given the fossil fuel lobby, I doubt even Al Gore could've done that much.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

But didn't you hear? Activision devs said CoD is apolitical and the player base likes how the game has no politics in it.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

And for some reason, the art direction for character models is considerably worse than the environment.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

"Layers of complexity" is a good description of Dota, so having that for Deadlock is par for the course.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Third attempt, don't mind me

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Let's see if Bsky RSS is working

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Nah, he only means it for himself and his C-suite buddies. Regular employees get the "robbed out of any potential for joy" bit.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Lmao Alex Jones is crying on his show right now because he has to sell his ranch to pay off his legal bills because his lawyer accidentally emailed all his texts to the plaintiffs attorney

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

He's being prosecuted while still being allowed to run for president. With Bin Laden, everyone acted like guilt was a given. With Trump, there's a very good reason that he'll participate in elections while still being prosecuted for obstructing the previous elections.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Yeah, but he was actively hiding. Trump is literally running for president.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

But then I'm using Pinterest.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Aside from sharks being old, Polaris is a giant star(which is why it's so visible) and those have lifespans measured in millions of years, instead of billions, like our Sun.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Current Ashens is bald, but Mr. Beast is somehow looking older than how Ashens looked like 10 years ago, and he was already in his 30s by then.

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Laerin @laerinelt.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Accelerationists of all stripes are some of the dumbest people around.

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