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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • You can find critics of its use that are almost as old as its use. Oddly, for some reason critics of its use don’t seem to show up… Until it started being used.

    Poets and authors have been artistically butchering, changing, and shaping language for as long as language has existed. This is neither an argument for nor against any particular change. Just look at the nonsense that James Joyce did.

    I have a non-binary partner and I respect their pronouns, but personally if I cared enough to change my pronouns I would be more comfortable with “it” to avoid any confusion when discussing a mixture of singular and plural nouns. Heck, if I was going to make my own language from scratch singular vs plural pronouns would be much more commonly used while gendered pronouns would be reserved for specific scenarios where gender is relevant.



  • It’s a shame how many people here are willing to just pretend those statements don’t exist and handwave then away because they like the game.

    Also, the game has never gone on sale, and in fact saw a price INCREASE years after launch. $30 was already a bit steep for a game like this when there are tons of similar indie RTS’s for $10-$20 that go on sale, and they increased it to $35. And then added a $30 DLC on top of that. If you’re looking for a good value RTS- Dwarf Fortress is free, and if you want you can pay $30 for the nicer version and support devs who, afaik, do not have such controversy attached.




  • Just because she’s a YouTuber doesn’t mean that she even received these comments, but let’s just say she did.

    It’s a much further stretch to assume that the same people saying “your husband wrote that for you” are re now saying “AI wrote that for you”. Both men and women are equally subject to being accused of using AI maliciously, and both men and women have an equal capacity to maliciously use AI in the first place. This is an issue about society and technokogy, and bringing alt-right gender identity politics into this only serves to muddy the waters and undermine the legitimate criticisms of AI.








  • And Google, Amazon, Apple.

    Steam peaks at ~40-45 million concurrent users so far. The Switch sold over 150 million units. Of course, there’s no way to know what the peak concurrent switch users were, or the total count of unique steam users from 2017-2025, but I still think these numbers are good indicators that Steam is NOT the gigantic monopoly that the vocal minority of haters think they are.