oh my god this is gold! can you hold for a couple hours so I can paint this real quick?

thanks for expanding the title

I don’t think it matters. the specific ways in which email services work or are used are not what the analogy is supposed to explain.

it’s supposed to explain how two people who log in to different lemmy instances is different from logging into Facebook and MySpace, or Twitter and Threads.

"how does it work? aren’t they different sites?’

“you know how you can have a gmail and someone else can use an outlook email but you can still send emails to each other”

done. even 70 year olds would get it. problem solved. easy, approachable analogy.

yeah it’s completely legal to torture people so long as you don’t call them your prisoners

yeah… for me I was willing to give black flag a chance to see if they would find a way to make a new series, maybe with a new current day plot, but nah. people seem to dislike the current day portion of those games but to me that was the main interest, along with the mythology…

black flag’s current day portion was so goddamn awful, they turned abstergo into a parody of ubisoft? I don’t even know what they were thinking… but it was so immersion breaking. completely killed my interest.

pirate stuff was fun, and it still had a nice plot twist near the beginning… but it was clear that the overall story was going nowhere so I just quit playing after that and decided that the series ended with 3.

it ended in 3, they’ve been treading water ever since.

I’m trying really hard not to derail the thread by shitting on Borderlands right now

are you kidding? god, please YES. I can’t wait for the inevitably shitty games this studio would shart out. it’s gonna be like those anti woke cartoons.

vacuous, cynical rehashing of extremely outdated ideas with zero artistic vision and almost certainly full of stupid references to memes and ancient pop culture? PLEASE LET US HAVE IT NOW

that’s not a Venn diagram

Before it was about between eating processed food over eating meat

no it wasn’t. you made that comment, and I specifically replied to tell you that this isn’t about that. it was you who moved your position from saying it doesn’t matter as long as you cook your own meals to saying how maybe you don’t even eat meat at all.

are you hoping to grow your own vegetables? then yes. if not, you’re still feeding the industry. it’s not like the environmental impact starts and ends with the processing.

this is not about junk food or eating healthy. it’s about environmental impact. your home cooked meat is still not environmentally friendly.

i think you’re not thinking about what efficiency means for corporations.

it won’t if you don’t force it to. that’s like saying companies will pollute less if you give them enough time. no, you have to grab their balls and force them to do it.

YouTube soon to update terms of service to include “We must secure the existence of ads and a future for youtube-watching children”

copilot did the same with basic math. just to test it I said “let’s say I have a 10x6 rectangle. what number would I have to divide width and height by, in order to end up with a rectangle that’s half the area?”

it said “in order to make it half, you should divide them by 2. so [pointlessly lengthy steps explaining the divisions]”

I said “but that would make the area 5x3 = 15 units which is not half the area of 60”

it said “you’re right! in order to … [fixing the answer to √2 using approximation”

I don’t know if I said it then, or after some other fucking nonsense but when I said “you’re useless” it had the fucking audacity to take offense and end the conversation!

like fuck off, you don’t get to have fake pride if you don’t have basic fake intelligence but use it in your description.

that sounds crazy. that makes the idea of federation pointless imo… thank you for the response

could you elaborate for people who don’t use it?

I don’t think it’s really new. Just short for dragged through the mud. super old phrase + ellipsis

how can I befriend this person because my friends are sick of hearing my shit