Every time a debate about trans women in sports against cis women, I see this idiotic line being spouted. First up, I am a fan of women's sports, I enjoy watching women's pro tennis (I in fact model my game after theirs) and women's MMA.

Most importantly, why exactly must one be a fan of women's sports to feel that trans women competing against cis women is unfair? Hormone therapy may weaken the muscles, granted, but frame size does not change if one has gone through puberty. Being an MMA fan and casual practitioner, I know that the male skeletal structure is much more capable of throwing punches with force - broader shoulders and narrower hips make for much more turning force, and thicker fists and wrists deliver force better.

Take this argument and apply it to other social issues:

"You didn't care about Ukraine till Russia invaded it"

"You didn't care about Gaza till Israel started killing"

"You didn't watch pro cycling and care about Lance Armstrong doping"

This is silly and a bad faith argument. Please do better. Spamming this line everywhere only makes one think you are more of an idiot.

Edit: reworded certain wording on the last sentence as per mod advice, thanks

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Just a little idea I had recently; what if you had the ability to return the items that a Raider brought in after you fail to save their buns from a Rocketeer (or another Raider)? Or secure your dead teammate's gear if there's an extract nearby?

I put this concept together in a short time so let me know if there are any terrible consequences you foresee with this or if this is a terrible idea altogether.

Edit: Addressing some of the replies in the comments,

What is the incentive for the depositing Raider?

Nothing, it would just be a kindness-of-heart mechanic, as rewards could incentivize griefing. I intended this to be a feature that isn't used very often, just something that goes along with the whole 'will I get shot?' or 'will I get de-fibbed?' PvPvE social dynamics.

Wouldn't this remove the risk from the gameplay loop?

In PvPvE, I don't think it will. This system wouldn't guarantee you get your inventory back, in fact it's unlikely, since a Raider can just keep your loot for themselves at no additional cost and there's no incentive to return items back to their owner. They could also just perish before making it to extract. At most, you would get some guns/blueprints returned to you every couple of matches. I would argue this mechanic adds more depth to the loop than it removes.

I also understand it would be less interesting in PvP/PvE only lobbies since either, items would never get deposited, or they would get deposited almost all the time. The later could be rectified with a per-raid deposit limit on the depositing Raider, as suggested by the replies.

I wouldn't remember what items belong to a dead Raider in my Inventory.

This is addressed in the infographic; the items that cannot be returned will be greyed out in the Deposit UI; the game tracks what items belong to which Raider.

I think I've addressed most of the concerns, and again, this is just a concept I came up with, there's no need to be combative/mean-spirited.

All religions suck btw I am agnostic but it doesn’t make sense trying to pretend like one religion is morally superior.

I am not sure if anyone here has noticed it or not but the medical subreddit is having a full fledged meltdown after someone here posted why they don't want to marry a doctor cos of XYZ reasons.

Apparently men having preferences in whom they marry is shallow and all men should just go around marrying doctors and prioritize their lifestyle 🤡

I know so many women who will never marry the folks from following professions.

1. Lawyers
2. NRI men
3. Merchant Navy
4. pilots
5. actors
6. police

But women not marrying the above men is their choice but if a man doesn't want to marry a doctor, its misogyny blah blah blah.

Considering how entitled asf the women in the medical subreddit are with their comments on a guy not wanting to marry a doctor, I guess the guy who didn't want to marry a doctor dodged a bullet after all.

What's your opinion on this? Can only women have preferences in terms of not marrying a guy of particular profession? Is it a sin for men to have preferences now?

Edit - Even this post reached the medical subreddit and they're once again losing their minds over it. I don't know what the guy in the original post stated as to why he doesn't want to marry a doctor but apparently they were shallow reasons. At the end of the day preferences are preferences and whether they're morally shallow or upright is subjective. Even women have several shallow preferences but do a better job of hiding it than men. If not, I urge all the women medicos out there to marry all the bald, short, fat and broke men and show us "misogynistic incels" what it is to be a "better" person.

no friends, no one to talk to, not a single soul would even say hi to me but they do stare for no reason. mean people are everywhere. it cant be my personality since i'm a super bubbly and friendly person. im soft spoken and not judgy, quite supportive and a really open person. im tired and i want to know what's wrong w me. if its looks i can handle. please help but please be nice to me

Are the majority of names now an attempt at a joke, vulgar innuendo, or getting some generic term as if it’s a prize?

I'm not saying every name has to be RP. Non-RP names have always been around. But I'm genuinely wondering what happened.

Old non-RP names were still kind of cool: like you’d see something like Aftermath, Battletoad, Safenuke. Now it feels like most of what I see is a joke, vulgar innuendo, or a generic word grabbed like it's a prize: Deerty Sloot, Ben Dhover, Orc Peon, Zug Penii.

I’m seeing people brag about names and it’s confusing as fug. Is it streamer culture, paid name reservations turning names into collectibles, or am I just getting old?

Should indie devs really have to suffer the consequences of being witch hunted and harassed when AAA developers are all using AI without disclosure willy nilly and get none of the hate? Let your voice be known in steam's survey for nextfest participants, remove the AI disclosure tag. A game should be measured by it's quality, not it's tag.

I see a bunch of people talk about how not voting is a red flag and deal-breaker and then go on to talk about the issues that are affecting them personally. The explanation doesn't match the point. The explanation reveals that your actual deal-breaker is anybody who doesn't vote for who you did and that includes people who don't vote

When the truth makes somebody look ugly they choose hide it in lies and misdirection

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Mir fällt immer wieder auf, dass Männern bei ihren Problemen vor allem gesagt wird, sie müssten an sich selbst arbeiten, besser werden und Verantwortung für ihre Situation übernehmen.

Egal ob es um Beziehungen, Karriere, Einsamkeit oder persönliche Schwierigkeiten geht: Die Lösung wird meistens beim Mann selbst gesucht.

Bei Problemen von Frauen habe ich dagegen häufig den Eindruck, dass eher darüber gesprochen wird, was sich gesellschaftlich ändern muss, damit Frauen diese Probleme nicht mehr haben.

Warum wird bei Männern so stark auf Eigenverantwortung gesetzt, während bei Frauen gesellschaftliche Verantwortung im Vordergrund steht?

Woher kommt diese unterschiedliche Denkweise, und warum wird offenbar nicht bei beiden Geschlechtern derselbe Maßstab angelegt?

Feminism must remain centered on the material realities of being female as its goal is to liberate women. Women’s oppression is rooted in sex-based biology, including reproductive capacity, sex-based violence, and the historical exclusion of females from political, economic, and social power. A movement that cannot articulate what makes women a distinct political class risks undermining its own purpose.

The reality is, feminism is not for males. It is impossible for a male to become female, and vice versa. Seeing as TERFs are the only ones to not cater to and center these males who think they’re women, they are the only true feminists.

These are symbolic presentations for the people in the building. They have never been associated with the start of individual television programs. Broadcasting them is gratuitous and a waste of broadcast time.

Edit- Yes I am talking about pro US sports leagues, not international competition

Stop watching then. Instead you watch every episode and come here and bitch and it shows up on my feed wasting my time like I am right now.

Last episodes were good. I enjoyed them. Yeah they're are some duds.

I get posts saying how horrible an episode is then I watch it and enjoy it.

So please go back to jerkin off or whatever else you do with your life.

Hey Reddit!

We’re Feed 64, a small indie team. We spent nearly five years making Gennady, invested over $300,000 in development, and today we finally released it.

You know, the quiet life.

Who’s Gennady?

Your average, slightly out-of-shape, middle-aged dude. He finds himself in his underwear inside an alien meat factory and has to figure out how to escape.

“Figure out” mostly means fighting grotesque creatures, dashing through enemies, and using his own body as a weapon.

The result is a fast-paced action roguelike platformer with mostly black-and-white visuals and absurd humor.

Everything is drawn by hand. Yes, all 7,000 animation frames too.

In an age of AI slop, we’re especially proud to show off our artist’s work. All the artwork and frame-by-frame animation were created by hand, with no AI-generated images.

There’s an artist behind every movement Gennady makes and every disgusting alien creature he encounters. We’d love to talk about how we drew this world and brought it to life.

And it all started as a mobile game.

During development, the project grew into a game for PC and consoles. Along the way, we had to rethink decisions, tackle new challenges, and learn from our mistakes. Nearly five years later, Gennady is finally available to buy and play.

Answering your questions today:

- Denis Zorin - Art Lead u/Zealousideal_Rule_14
- Ivan Chikalenko - Game Designer u/Feed_64

Ask us about:

- How a mobile project became a PC and console game and what had to change.
- Why development took nearly five years.
- Where the money went and how we funded the project.
- What it’s like to draw thousands of animation frames by hand.
- The combat, enemies, and game mechanics.
- What inspired us, where we went wrong, and what we’d do differently now.

Or anything else. It’s an AMA - see you in the comments!

Game Launch Trailer: https://youtu.be/QC3mMOwxHt8

Steam, PS4/5, XBOX

The video had the most cold takes everyone's already been saying about genshin (except for a few) and it had the most overblown reaction ever.

For context, this youtuber posted her first vid talking about the issues she had with genshin. And with these types of videos, they tend to be opinion-based as far as im aware. At first, most people seemed to agree with her in the comments. I know because I was there before the video blew up. But I think after a few weeks(?) there was just a massive influx of hate which im pretty sure mostly came from other content creators(like wattsfl) reacting to the vid

From what I recall, most of her points were already popular within the fandom. Example being: Natlan, female characters' clothing and writing, villain writing... but some were definitely new such as linnea being a creep so it was a suprise to me when the video was massively hated on when most of these points were already talked about? So after this, people started calling her a misogynist, a pedophile, racist, ableist all those words and their proof of that? "Well she called Linnea a pedophile! She called Navia a slut, Nefer a stripper.." which btw was a twisted form of what she actually said in the video:

"It reads as extremely fetishistic to me which is a problem to me when the people she's fantasizing about look like children"

"This design is basically a stutter version of a traditional French aristocratic gown"

"Nefer literally does the stripper crawl"

I'd understand why people were led to that conclusion for the first one but the other two? Completely different context and meanings. I'd also like to point out that alot of these arguments against her are parroted and I think alot of them came from wattsfl's video reacting to candybug. And if you thought candybug's video was bad? Wattsfl is just as bad if not worse imo. But yeah the fandom's reaction was horrendous, accusing her of every horrible trait in the book with armchair psychology mind you. I think the worst was when people started using misogynistic insults against her to defend her supposed misogyny to the female characters? An example I remember was someone editing a shirt saying "I love fictional dicks" on her sona which to me is so strange. If you're trying to fight against misogyny, why would you resort to misogyny to achieve that? And there was people accusing her of being an ableist for the linnea take when they in the same breath infantilise her and dismiss her crossing over boundaries because she's "autism-coded", basically stereotyping. I mean if youre gonna pull out the ableism card the character at least has to be stated that they're ND. And sometimes when I check my comment notification, there's still people to this day commenting hate on her vid which was like months ago

But yeah that's my rant I dont even know if people are gonna read this bcs I just recently remembered this situation

Wer kennt es nicht, der Golf R oder der AMG mit den Furzgeräuschen beim Schalten.

Wer ein leises Auto fährt, sollte steuerlich begünstigt werden, da seine Schallemissionen niedriger sind als die des Furz-Golf oder des fetten GLE mit seinen breiten Reifen, dessen Abrollgeräusch extrem laut ist.

Die Straße ist keine Rennstrecke und leise Fahrzeuge sollten eine Pflicht sein.

My mom has this really old photo of her dad standing outside the little grocery store he used to run. It's faded, has a crease through the middle and she's kept it in the same frame for years.

I thought it'd be a nice surprise to restore it for her birthday. Scanned it, used one of those AI photo restoration tools and ordered a large framed print. Looked amazing to me.

Gave it to her over the weekend and she seemed happy at first, then got really quiet.

She pointed out that the software had straightened his crooked front tooth, removed a scar above his eyebrow and slightly changed his smile.

I barely noticed any of that. She noticed immediately.

She said those were some of the things she remembered most clearly about his face. Then she put the original photo back on the shelf next to the new one.

I feel like an idiot because I spent all that time making a photo look better without realizing I was changing the person in it.

I've ordered another print using the original scan, with all the scratches and imperfections left alone.

TL;DR: Tried to surprise my mom with a restored picture of her late father, but the AI changed his facial features and I basically gave her a picture of someone who never existed.