[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

I really don’t think it’s a protest on the part of Minecraft anyway; what they were really saying is that because subs were no longer enforcing rules and content moderation wasn’t happening anymore (or was being actively discouraged) and porn among other things was becoming more prevalent on the site, they didn’t feel comfortable having an official affiliation with Reddit, even if it was only with one sub.

The protest worked in a way, but I wouldn’t give Microsoft credit for actually backing the protests.

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Can't login to the game at the moment; Blizzard is apparently looking into the issue.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

There’s always a chance another service will pick it up if Paramount+ really goes away I suppose.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

What spez wants is to be a notorious billionaire, respected for making reddit a profitable social media company. What he is, and what he probably always will be, is a shitty leader who doesn't actually have a lot of business sense making decisions using emotion and ego and alienating a chunk of the user population.

Hard to say if he will suffer any real consequences for this, but at least in some important circles he's lost a lot of clout.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Better that than suffocating to death slowly on the bottom of the ocean. Sympathy for their families.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Android hamburger menu doesn’t feel right in a native iOS app

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Think of it as killing two birds with one stone: they monetize users by getting AI firms to pay for all the valuable content redditors have posted over the years, and they kill off app competitors who are giving redditors alternatives to the mobile app.

That’s really all it’s about.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I agree; Discord is great for voice chatting, but I can’t follow conversations in there. Maybe I’m getting too old but it’s not a style that I think is a natural evolution from Reddit.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Is meth a cause or do people who become homeless eventually look to meth as an escape from their life circumstances? I suspect that it’s probably a bit of both.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

I am shocked and surprised.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I hope the Democrats hammer away at every single Republican on abortion rights and reproductive healthcare over the next election cycle.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I wonder if Alexander eventually followed up on his desire to bring peace between the Houses and ended up dying instead of Worf? Maybe he somehow learned of Worf’s fate and decided to intervene, ultimately sacrificing himself to save his father. That might be part of why Worf has changed so much; embracing the things that Alexander believed in (peace and calmness) and making it a part of who he is in honor of his son.

I hate to think of Alexander as dead, but at least as a Klingon if he went out fighting for his father it was an honorable way to go.

[-] zombiepete@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

That Worf is a bad father to Alexander is canon; I wish that Jadzia had lived and he could have had a second chance at fatherhood with her. I think his episode with Yoshi on DS9 showed that if he’d had a chance he could have become a good father.

The situation with Alexander was particularly challenging though. Kehylar hid Alexander from him until he was a young boy; she raised him to essentially hate/fear everything that Word venerated; then she was killed and Worf without more than a few days’ notice suddenly had an angry, hurt, and resentful son. His solution of sending Alexander to live with his parents was obviously a huge mistake because it exacerbated Alexander’s abandonment issues which stuck with him the rest of his life, and Worf wasn’t emotionally mature enough to either recognize or deal with it properly.

Anyway, I guess that’s a long way of saying that I understand Worf and Alexander’s relationship even though it’s sad and kind of painful. But I do think that Worf had it in him to be a good father eventually with the right partner. His bad luck with the women in his life certainly didn’t help though.

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