My uncle's name is Cody, he is 39. Unfortunately no one has strangled him yet. 🤞

By came from I mean it originated from there.

Neither the neoliberal technologists and futurists he charmed nor MAGA are on his side any more.

This is true. The only people that will remain loyal to Mush are centrists/ politically disinterested people. I think that will turn out to be a lot of people, but not enough to really do any damage. I can see some neolibs who bought Teslas stanning for him in the hopes they will regain some of the value in their vehicles.

I'm more concerned with Musk's wealth, he can do a lot of damage with that still. Not as much as the government can do, but not insignificant either. If he feels like he is being attacked, I can see him doing some really disgusting things to get revenge.

I’d be curious where Peter Thiel stands, the handler of Vance.

My guess is as long as Trump plays by the rules and continues to chicken out on the Tarrifs, people like Theil will be content to stay in the background, silently pulling the strings. As soon as he starts actually hurting peoples bottom lines, that's when we will see dissent. That is almost certainly why Musk cut and ran.

If Thiel backs the impeachment Thiel will become president and that might align with their goals to dismantle democracy in the US.

I think people like Theil and Trump are equally committed to dismantling democracy (in practice if not in name), so I don't think it matters who is running things. They have to be careful about it too, since they have propped him up and Trump is a megalomaniac who actually thinks he deserves to be where his and his base are rabidly, stupidly obedient to him.

I'm more surprised that a city in Germany didn't switch to Linux a decade or more ago.

Late to the party is still showing up, good for them.

Once again, I'm not guilt tripping anyone. I'm just stating my opinion. If you don't think your post comes off as self righteous and superior, I'm not sure you know what those words mean. I also never claimed to be a victim.

You had zero sympathy in the first place, you said it yourself, and once again I really don't give a single fuck what you think of me. I don't know how I can make that any more clear to you.

I have read up on second hand smoke, which is why I don't smoke around other people. I rarely even see other people unless I'm shopping, and you can't smoke in stores.

If you think that the studies on second hand smoke say that simply catching a whiff of cigarette smoke every once in a while will instantly kill you, you should probably reread them. Those were about prolonged exposure in confined areas, not walking past some dude on the street.

Maybe think about if your attitude plays a role in your miserable life.

We've already established how you are perfect and completely flawless in every way. I'm sure your sanctimonious attitude contributes to a perfect life full of joy and happiness. Good for you.

Most likely? Unfortunately most people either don't care about software freedom, don't know about it, are actually scared of it, or just don't have the time or know how to switch. Couple that with the fact that Microsoft and Apple are determined to lock it down and the trend seems clear to me.

Ofc I would Love to be wrong, I just don't have much faith in people knowing or caring about what is in their best interest.

I'm almost the exact opposite. Life is literal hell for me right now and while I'm 90% positive that oblivion awaits, there's that 10% that comes from being brainwashed growing up that still scares me.

I wasn't aware of existence before I was born, and I imagine it will be exactly like that after.

Knowing my luck though there will be a God, who is just as big of an asshole as the Bible makes it out to be. Hell will be real and I would definitely go there, because even if I were certain that God was real, if it's the God of the Bible I wouldn't worship it, not in a million years.

From the POV of someone who just wants the Genocide to stop, "Burning all Palestinians and tuning Gaza into New Vegas" and "Burning all Palestinians and tuning Gaza into vacation homes for rich Israelis" is functionally equivalent.

That was by no means the only issue I based my vote on, but I also don't think it's unreasonable for someone to conclude that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil

I'm 99% certain Musk helped Trump rig this election. I think the only reason the Dems didn't fight it was because they had spent the last 4 years telling everyone how solid our election system was and near impossible to rig.

She ran on Bidens policies because she is exactly like him. Middle of the road, pro establishment, corporate suck up, and always has been.

For a moment I thought the coat she is putting on/taking off was part of the other lady's dress. I was intrigued by where her left arm was going.

It's too bad that "modern" people can have the attitude of "If it makes you happy, go for it". Everyone wants to tell everyone else how they should live.

"....its portrayal of trans characters is anything but progressive. Many gamers have criticized how Cyberpunk 2077 and its developer, CD Projekt Red, choose to fetishize and commodity trans bodies and trans identity."

That's.... the entire point. There is a big, big difference between how CDPR feels about transgender people, and how the Late Stage Capitalist Pigs in Night City treats trans people.

Yes, the advertisements in the game are gross, they're supposed to be. Human beings are treated like garbage in 2077. You were never supposed to look at these ads and be like "Hey, this is totally cool and normal." If your reaction was "This is gross", that's exactly how you were meant to feel. It was supposed to make you reflect upon the culture the game takes place in and realize how messed up and broken it is.

You don't (I sincerely hope) watch a film and conclude that the views expressed by the villains of the piece are the views held by the actor or director do you? There is a reason Ad Agencies in Cyberpunk treat human beings as commodities, because that's exactly how they view them.

"Obviously, Cyberpunk 2077 presents a dystopian society rather than an aspirational one. Trans identity is treated as a product because everything is a product designed to be sexualized in this future. However, there's never any contrast established. With other elements of Night City, players see how the commodified image contrasts with the rougher, harsher reality. This is not the case with LGBTQ characters, especially not trans characters."

One of the main characters in the game is a trans woman, and she isn't fetishized in any way. There are also some very prominent LGBT characters, and they are treated respectfully as well imo. The person who wrote that article never even played the game and it shows. It's possible the "reviewers who have played anywhere from 40 to 60 hours have yet to encounter any meaningful trans NPCs." simply missed the fact that Claire was transgender because no one makes a big deal about it, but it is most definitely mentioned. She has a trans pride flag on her racing truck as well.

Edit: The same is true of the Gay and Lesbian characters as well. The "reviewers" may have missed that that's what they were because they are not treated as if they are different, they are just treated as people. You wouldn't know whether they were or not if you didn't spend the time to build a relationship with them so that flirting seems natural. I think that is actually really heartwarming, despite all the brainwashing by the corpos, (the people that V interacts with at least) don't seem to really have been affected by it.

E: In my first playthrough, I was a * "Male" V. Another one of the main characters is a woman named Judy. After spending dozens of hours with her and going through hell together we became really close friends. Then there was this really sweet 'mission' where Judy took me scuba diving and basically opened up her heart to me and told me what a good friend I had been to her. I awkwardly made a pass at her and she just gently brushes it off to let me know that I was barking up the wrong tree. I could easily see someone spending 40 hours in the game not having a clue what Judy's sexual orientation was- especially if they were a jerk to her.

E: With a couple of the guy characters it gave me the option of flirting with them, which I didn't try because my V was already in a relationship with a different character. After beating the game I still had no clue which one would have been receptive to my advances, I had to look it up. Basically the game seemed to be saying that someones sexual orientation is really none of your business unless you are tying to get with them.

E: * "Male" in this instance just means masculine voice and body type, sex organs aren't factored in when determining who you are able to romance.

During character creation you can choose genitalia for your character independently from their 'body type'. You can also choose a 'male' or 'female' voice artist for V no matter how your character looks. I don't know of any other game that let's you have that sort of freedom in character creation. This game let's you be whoever you want to be in a way rarely (if ever) seen in other games.

"Cyberpunk 2077 never makes an effort to reflect on this fetishization, which erases any possibility of satire or social commentary. If a game presents transphobic advertisements and never addresses these depictions, it just regurgitates and upholds transphobia."

Cyberpunk treats players as if they aren't idiots, as is the case with any good satire. The idea that it must specifically call out any bit of satire it's doing or 'it doesn't count', is insulting and ridiculous. Would "Monty Pythons Life of Brian" have been a better film if at one point the main character had turned to camera and said "This is just like Jesus, get it?"

After the tweet received massive backlash, the social media account responded with a non-apology.

The fact that they used CDPR's apology as proof that they weren't sorry is just... come on. Calling it a stretch seems inadequate.

I just think it's really tacky and gross to do a surface level scan of a piece of media you haven't personally experienced, put no thought into it, and then write a hit piece to get clicks on your website. There are plenty of actually transphobic assholes out there to call out. At the very least CDPR got people talking about these issues, name 3 other games you can say the same thing about.-