Haha that’s a funny joke.

I don’t think most publishers (Remedy in this case) care. The ones that do are ones like Epic and Microsoft who were trying to promote their own stores.

Like, yes they want to diversify their platforms. But if you want to bring in revenue quickly and start paying off thr debt accumulated from 3-5 years of developing a AAA game. You have to choose whether to delay your game’s PC release entirely for a couple of months, or whether to release on Steam ASAP and collect the vast majority of revenue from that and just delay the other platforms that are an insignificant fraction.

Remember that marketing budgets are a huge factor too. I suspect Lemmy users are probably more ad-averse than average, but your average gaming consumer probably saw a lot of ads for this game leading up to launch and was riding that hype train. Delaying the PC release means that you either need to pay for those marketing costs for longer, or release without that benefit (a death sentence). Or you delay the console launch too, which means even more time spent with financing tied up in debt and accumulating interest, waiting for the revenue to come in.

And even if you DO decide to go ahead and delay… The vast majority of PC gamers are going to buy it on Steam anyways. Only a tiny fraction of people care about DRM. Personally, I avoid anything with Denuvo and a lot of the publisher-specific stuff like EA Play.

You are paying a premium to buy a launch day game anyways. The reason people want to buy games on launch… Some people do just really want their gratification and don’t want to wait to enjoy the game, but a LOT of it is about social status. These are people who want to read articles, watch videos, engage in discussions both online and offline. They want to ride the hype train. And for people who want to maximize that experience, Steam is the platform of choice. They blow Epic and GOG put of the water in terms of social features. They are way better than any of the consoles too.

As someone not socially motivated myself… Well, I absolutely loved Control and I have been gushing to people about it for a couple of years. I’m in absolutely no hurry to buy the sequel. I’ll wait until it goes on sale for some reasonable price, probably $25-$30. Then it will sit in my library with my ~700 other games until the time is right. My mood, my schedule, the weather, etc. And I will almost certainly buy it on Steam for the convenience of having it on the same platforms as my other games, including cloud features that let me switch between my Deck and PC seamlessly, and stream to basically every screen I own.

Remember that US midterms are right around the corner. The media networks, which are owned by a handful of billionaires, do everything they can to be disruptive and divisive. Black vs white, man vs woman, gay vs straight, trans vs cis, Christian vs Muslim. Anything they can do to distract people fron rich vs poor.

So the Clancy trial gets blown up with a ton of attention. No one talks about Palestine or Iran. It even quiets some of the talk about inflation and jobs.

Remember the Casey Anthony trial? That was October 2008. Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard? That spanned several years, but arguably most of the headlines were made around August-October of 2020.

The truth is that these kinds of court cases are happening all the time. People go crazy and murder their families. It is waaaaay more common than being murdered by a random stranger. But you only hear about the ones that the Big networks WANT you to, and in a contextual narrative that that create.

Oh thank you- sorry I meant to say SEC instead of FTC initially.

Like… I agree with you, but i’m confused… Would that be someone other than the FTC?

He can push through a bunch of unpopular policies, retire for “health reasons”, and secure full pardons for himself ans his family members from Vance.

The question is: would Vance want that? He would take over in the wake of those unpopular policies, on top of Trump’s already incredibly unpopular regime. The Republicans would, presumably, have control of neither the Senate nor the House. If we assume that there are meaningful democratic elections in 2028, what hope does Vance have of winning? I guess that’s where I have a hard time buying this theory. I also have a hard time envisioning Truml trusting Vance enough to step down.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1456852/world-leader-approval-ratings/

Mohdi at 70% is crazy. Milei at 48%… Like yeah it’s less than half but still crazy high. Truml may only be 38% but it’s quite depressing that puts him roughly middle-of-the-pack.

And like, sure I have some complaints with Macron, especially recently, but 18% seems wildly low.

If these numbers are to be believed then people around the world sure do love their right-wing nutjobs.

And Twitter users.

And, perhaps most importantly, the investors who allowed Musk to go from just another moderately wealthy silicone valley dude to the wealthiest person on earth. And the FTC for not throwing him in jail for decades for stock market manipulation.

Not just that, but US police are extraordinarily different from police in most of the world. They trace their roots back to organizations first formed to hunt escaped slaves. They are heavily militarized, almost never face any consequences for abusing their power, and are usually encouraged to use violence against left-wing protestors.

At points during the BLM protests, Trump called in the National Guard, who proceeded shoot and kill both protestors and bystanders.

Personally for me I begged my mom to take me out of catholic school and put me into public school, and one or the best parts was not having to put up with uniforms.

I’m not sure what part of the world you’re in, but in the US school uniforms cost more than regular children’s clothes. And I still needed regular clothes, so my mom had to basically buy a second wardrobe for me just to go to Catholic school.

My first job out of college was processing expense reports for a corporate relocation management company. Basically, global corporations want to move their employees around the world, and offer benefits to those employees and their families to cover extra costs they will experience and to incentivize them to take those jobs. Part of that included education Costa for their children to go to international schools, many of which required uniforms, and I can tell you those reimbursements got to be crazy expensive.

I just want to point out for a lot of people complaining abojt how often you refill your soap dispenser: consider how much soap you’re actually using.

Most of the world lives in a consumerist, capitalist society. Overconsumption is encouraged by pretty much everything around us. When you see an ad for a product, or even just look at the pictures on the packaging, the people shown using it often use way too much.

Laundry detergent for example. You only need a tiny bit, and studies gave repeatedly shown that thr pods of liquid are waaaaay too much detergent for a load, to the point where it is actually harmful to the washing machine.

Motor oil is another one. If you look on the bottle it probably days to change your oil every 3,000 miles, but if you read your car’s manual it likely says to change it every 10,000 miles, or more.

Toothpaste is another. You should use a pea-sized amou t of toothpaste to brush your teeth, but all of the pictures and artwork and graphics show a toothbrush oveflowing with 5-10 times that amount.

For soap dispenser that you pump, you absolutely do not need to use a full pump of soap to wash your hands. Each dispenser and soap brand is a little different, but with attention and practice you can get a feel for how much soap you actually need to wash your hands. The added benefit is that it saves the time it takes to rinse off all tbe unnecessary soap.

Unironically: yes

But more importantly, the people making fun of her for her looks are shitty. They’re reinforcing the unhealthy standards the media has of what women are supposed to look like, and they are portraying opposition to Trump and his allies as being mean-spirited bullies and sore losers of some silly popularity contest rather than proponents of actual causes. It encourages all of the harassment that right-wingers make against progressive women.

I can’t believe I had to scroll so far for some sanity.

It’s disturbing to me how comfortable so many people are with hate and bullying as long as it’s directed at the people they don’t like.

Not to mention this is just another meaningless distraction away from whatever these ghouls are up to this news cycle.

Yeah i get the message here, but the message isn’t very helpful. What happens if you do this for other crimes?

“What causes murder: murderers”

“What causes robbery: robbers”

“What causes theft: thieves”

“What causes heresy: heretics”

“What causes thought crime: thoughtcriminals”

It’s a statement that references itself. I understand the message that it is trying to send: victim blaming is bad, and a lot of powerful people don’t view rape as seriously as they should. It’s a good message hindered by bad messaging.

I know that false reports are virtually non-existent

This is a difficult subject to discuss, because as you point out the manosphere is saying that this is quite common, feminists claim that this is “virtually nonexistent”.

The article itself says “False accusations do occur, but the evidence is consistent that they are rare (Law Commission, Citation2025; Victoria Police, Citation2017). They are far rarer than these men assumed.”

So I went to the Law Commission publication looking for more info. It basically says the same thing without any data, but cites a 2023 publication from the Law Commission with the same title. And it too, doesn’t have any data, just makes the claim that they are “rare” and cites a 2021 publication fron the Crown Prosecution Service.

So what does this source say? “Other complaints of rape which have not resulted in successful prosecution outcomes always mean the victim lacks all credibility as a witness.”. Nothing to do with the rate of false accusation at all, but instead making the point that ant prior accusations someone has made before which failed to result in a conviction is not necessarily a false accusation and should not harm their credibility, unless there is “a proper evidential basis to allege that the complaint was false”. Which is a great point, but not adequate as a supporting citation for the original claim. It does not answer the initial question: how prevalent are false rape accusations?

It is a difficult question to answer. The range that seems the most legitimate to me which i have seen cited frequently, is 2%-8%. And while I have seen this figure in more respectable sources before, i’m going to cite this site which is dedicated to debunking manosphere myths.

This site uses the word “uncommon”, which i think is fair. The original article claims that false accusations are rarer than the participants assume, but fails to define either of those.

It comes down to the failure of the criminal justice systems of the world to operate adequately to earn public trust. A lot of that is a consequence of patriarchy, and one of the ways that patriarchy harms men. But it is also class-related when the criminal justice systems are biased so heavily in favor of the wealthy. As one of the participants said, "You don’t have a lot of room for mistakes, unless you come from a wealthy family.”

Are they really making much of a statement? Just “many young men see sex as a hazard to manage”.

I appreciate a comment pointing out sample size for the many people who don’t actually read the article. I see tons of “scientific” articles posted on Lemmy that make much broader and definitive statements with tiny sample sizes. It’s hard to conclude much more beyond “more study needed”. But in this case I think the paper has some interesting quotes for discussion.

The mobile app Connect for Lemmy.

I tried a handful of apps year ago when I started and this was the best at the time. And it has improved over time, to the point where it is better even than Reddit Is Fun was back in the day.

What an incredibly stupid, ans maybe even low-key racist article.

The Somali pirates were always fishermen. Their fishing villages have existed for centuries. Their priacy is a response to modern industrial mega-ships fron foreign countries illegally fishing in Somali waters and depleting the stock of fish. They didn’t need to be taught how to fish.

There is a pretty big difference between “citizens have a responsibility to educate themselves and governments have a responsibility tk enable that” and technofascism.

Also there are way older arguments against democracy. Like “I am more capable of physical violence than you, so why should care about your silly little ballot?”, “the gods blessed me with the authority to rule”, or even the classic “we don’t have time to let the masses squabble- we need a unilateral decision maker who can make quick decisions”.