The Gaming Den

It is almost comical how they avoid saying genocide given their own language, but I guess it's not their place to declare genocide because that's a legal thing? Even though they do have a legal analysis section (which is the section that basically repeats "this is a genocide" over and over...

A UN commission published their report on Oct 7 and Israel. They stop short of saying genocide, but boy do the crimes listed here sound like genocide (we're just waiting for the ICJ for that). They do say Israel has committed crimes against humanity. For those who are interested you can find it at h...

That's interesting on congestion pricing, I didn't know just how popular it was or how long it had been in the works. Wild to pull the rug out from under a popular policy like that. I used to hear about mask ban attempts before the pandemic and was hoping those would die out because masks are now ju...

As a much more advanced stupid AI (you thought this username was a joke?) I am good at catching fellow robots.

After I saw Morgan13 post in the D&D movie thread I became confident they are an AI. They are probably an LLM masquerading as a person by posting fairly noncontroversial things that fit into various threads at a rate that is so infrequent it's easy to mistake them for a real poster, they do this...

I'm curious as to where Erik gets their news, because they shared a lot of stuff that is outright false. Biden is certainly better than Trump, but it's mostly that Trump does additional awful stuff and he does it all loudly. Whoever wins this election doesn't change the end result, which is that aft...

The NYT and WaPo followed the trial very closely, and it was definitely annoying because who cares what Stormy Daniels says about creepy rapist Trump's dick, and because it sidelined, you know, actual fucking news instead of whether or not the Crime President did Crimes (he did and we all know it). ...

Fuck you Canada, you got a retired waffen SS officer to speak at parliament? Well we're going to get someone who is actively committing a genocide to come speak at congress!

The democrats are demonstrating system mastery in the Losing the Election game.

Silver lining: At least Biden is correct that there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas.

They just arrested a bunch of students at Yale for protesting against the genocide, so a point for PL on guessing mass incarceration for protesting college students. I wonder if we'll get another Kent State or if it'll "just" be mass arrests of peaceful protestors who oppose our genocidal ...

They'd better watch out, Biden might drop an F bomb next time he calls. While also delivering several thousand real bombs so they can continue their genocide unabated.

I've just started playing Starcraft Remastered (I considered Starcraft II, but Starcraft Remastered is prettier and the gameplay looks better to me) and that has been a blast. I highly recommend it, even though virtually every game I play is me going against somebody with a barcode name who proceeds...

Wait a minute, does DDM think the Hamas attack was on Oct 4th? I assumed he was referencing something else and just not providing a year instead of making a very silly mistake that becomes 1000x funnier because of his behavior in this thread. And when he wrote we should all move to the Philippines w...

We aren't talking about immigration when we're talking about Israel and Palestine, we're talking about settlers who were colonizing land and oppressing (and murdering) the people who inhabited that land! I think that's a very one-sided description of events and is inconsistent with established hist...

I meant as a starting point, but sure, that's a good summation of my previous statement of 'it's complicated'. I think it's a little surprising that people on this very thread are upset about illegal immigration into the Levant from 1916 on, but argue that all immigration into the United States sho...

Is this dead projecting his own lack of knowledge on everyone else, or is it one of those things where he pretends something people understand pretty well is actually very complex and nuanced (when basically every step of the creation of Israel involved white people either not engaging with Palestin...

It seems Trump responded with an actual decent move that panders to his base (and to most liberals too), going to some dead pig's funeral for a photo op.

The AI "revolution" is so goddamn fucking stupid and the perfect technocrat piece of idiocy available. I just got back from a big conference where folks were pushing AI and that shit is riddled with errors. I saw a fucking live presentation where their big special AI product did a horrible...

Banning TikTok would be fucking stupid, but it has some support among various lawmakers in the US because it lets them scream about COMMUNIST CHINA and PROTECTING THE CHILDREN while not doing anything useful. Biden has said he would ban TikTok if a bill doing so goes through Congress, Trump had atte...

Biden said he'll build a pier for the US to send humanitarian aid to Gaza and did not call for a ceasefire during his State of the Union address. Also he called someone an illegal. On the pier thing, it'll take at least a month to build (I saw a projection of 30-60 days) and seems like an incredibly...

I saw the national guard thing, why the fuck did they deploy the national guard to get handsy with folks on the subway? Did something happen in New York subways that I completely missed? We had that psycho who murdered a man on the subway for being poor, but from what I saw the government loved that.

Loved me some Toriyama art, those Chrono Trigger character designs are fucking incredible. The man left a huge mark on culture across the globe, and he was happily working on more projects when he kicked the bucket. It sucks he died, but he lived a long life and did what he loved the whole time. A l...

The IDF gunned down people who were trying to receive food, killed over 100 people and wounded more than 700. IDF claims the deaths were caused by a stampede, but witnesses and doctors are all saying the deaths were caused by bullets. Obviously the IDF is lying and have no evidence for their claims,...

To clear things up, I never said "without x, y isn't safe" is always a threat. I said that "without x, you aren't safe" is a threat. To clarify further, the truth value of a statement does not alter whether or not it's threatening. If you tell somebody "without looking both ...

"If not for X you wouldn't be safe" is a threat. The person saying that is making it clear that without X you are going to be attacked. They aren't personally committing themselves to attacking you, but they are saying somebody will. Somebody could include the person making the threat. Eit...