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Glide

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Glide ,

Yo, that Mushroom boy is holding a HUGE knife.

Glide ,

Holy shit that is a Goomba. It's just one of those images that the longer you look...

Glide ,

I purchased Rayman Legends on a big Steam sale because it is a great game and I wanted to play it again. I installed it. I hit play. It tried to install the Ubisoft launcher. I uninstalled it and refunded.

Fuck off, Ubisoft.

Glide ,

Imagine calling the difference between people who do stupid things and people who are born with diagnosed mental illnesses "splitting hairs".

It's very, very simple. In one case, you are attacking someone who is completely in control of their mental facilities. In the other, you are attacking people who are literally incapable of defending themselves, from birth. They are not synonymous. If you think that level of punching down is okay, then be as indignant and self-righteous about it as you want, but you deserve to be told.

Glide ,

So, we're just going to pretend that language doesn't evolve because it justifies your bias?

People didn't put their foot down when the meaning of those words began to shift, and now they mean something entirely different. In our more socially and culturally aware culture, we as a people understand nuance and are generally educated enough to see what's happening. We have by and large decided that it's a bad thing to continue normalizing attacking the mentally disabled.

Fuck off with your pseudo-intellectual defense of toxic, dehumanizing culture. Words mean things. The things they mean can change. Those ones, in a less educated and accepting time, did. The ones we have now have not. Your attempt to dismiss that is genuinely hateful.

Glide ,

The push to get people to stop saying it Streisand Effected the word into a slur. There's no reason it shouldn't have just gone the way of "moron,

Sure. But it didn't. And now it is a slur. And no matter how much you'd like to defend your version of the word, that isn't what it means. Sitting in your own bubble and insisting on your own version of language history doesn't change the meaning of the word to the evolving world.

Glide ,

God, I wish I had a mortgage.

Glide ,

God, I wish I had a mortgage.

Glide ,

Watching the wheels turn when a straight person, upset by being forgotten, is told that this is what LGBTQ+ people are used to and have had to deal with for most of history.

chef's kiss

Glide ,

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Glide , (edited )

Damn, my grade 7 class is cringe af. Kid keeps naming himself "skibidisigma" every time we play Blooket.

Glide , (edited )

It's kind of like Kahoot, but there's a greater variety of games.

The teacher hosts a game with a question set they either found it made, and each student joins on a device. They're givegiven the questions and selecting correct answers earns them something relative to the game.

The most traditional one is the one that was described here, where they are given every question in sequence and are awarded points for the accuracy and speed of their answers, but there is some great variety. There's a tower defense game where correct answers give you the currency to buy and upgrade towers, a "survivors"-like game where a correct answer is required to be given a choice of weapon upgrades and several variants on slot machine-esque games, where correct answers gives them a random bonus ranging across gaining score, multiplying score or stealing score from other players.

I like to use it with the kids whenever I require some rote memorization. Ie, we're reviewing terms we've used or will be using in a unit, or we're refreshing things they're supposed to have learned in previous years.

There's some great single-player options too, if you ever find yourself struggling to deal with rote memorization for any courses you'd take as an adult, too. While it's definitely targeted towards classrooms and kids, the games are imo substantially more engaging ways to memorize things that are in general hard to care about outside of a requirement for some job, diploma or degree.

Glide ,

I'd think, for someone who loves China so much, you'd understand the value of a social score telling you that you're doing a bad thing. Guess you only like to listen when that score is managed by a fascist regime.

Glide ,

Not as scary as the propaganda you're spreading with your original post.

Glide ,

Not as scary as the propaganda you're spreading with the original post.

Glide ,

I didn't call it nonsense. The truth of the statement isn't in question just by calling it propaganda. I'm criticizing it because cherry-picking economic successes to celebrate an oppressive regime is a concerning behaviour.

Glide ,

"Steal a little, they throw you in jail. Steal a lot, they make you a king".

Glide ,

I'm in this post and I don't like it.

Glide ,

Sushi is just made with sushi rice. It has literally nothing to do with the shape of the food.

Glide ,

The problem is there's a massive divide between racism and the colloquial racism. One is a discussion of how beliefs and systems disadvantage people based on the status of their birth. The other is being mean to people because of the color of their skin.

Sure, both are "bad". But suggesting that they're the same thing or have similiar impact is laughable.

The "racism" Elon is on about doesn't exist, because people born into every potential benefit being unable to reap those benefits because we're doing our best to change the system aren't disadvantaged. But when you've been told your whole life that you deserve to win, you're inclined to cry "cheat!" every time the system is changed to be more fair.

Glide ,

You could have just stopped at "allowed."

Glide ,

A 1080TI still plays every release at medium or higher settings. /shrug

Unless you're worried about 4k or VR, I wouldn't upgrade anyway.

Glide ,

This is actually a super fascinating example of the way data can be displayed in a technically correct way to lead the viewer to completely invalid conclusions.

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