I still have hope emotionally but intellectually I fully expect to be disappointed. Development hell of this magnitude can’t be healthy for the end result 😮💨
It’s PC using an Xbox controller, which is the best way of playing any game that lets you IMO.
But the game has no idea what kind of button I’m gonna push since the keyboard and mouse are connected too and I’ve yet to press any key or other button at this point 🤷
Expressing the number of people shot as a tiny fraction of 400 million people would raise at least as many questions about accuracy and make it EASIER for people like you to distract from the point by obsessing over an unimportant (to the point being made) detail.
Analogies and third decimal-accurate statistics just don’t fit together.
There’s 4,947,342.562 kinds of people in the world: those who obsess over needless numeral exactitude when faced with a rhetorical argument, and those who don’t.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by ‘people like me’
Pedants, the easily sidetracked, those who will jump at the opportunity to distract from the message itself by hyperfocusing on an insignificant technical detail.
Of distracting from the actual topic by needlessly fixating on an only tangentially relevant detail? Yeah, I’m kooky like that.
Is it not possible for someone to agree with a message, but think we can improve on how we tell it?
Sure, but that’s not what you’re doing. You’re, deliberately or not, pulling all attention away from the message by demanding a fix to something that, in the specific case, is unimportant.
If we want to convince people of something, is it not best to provide as convincing an argument as possible?
As I said before, being more exact would invite MORE distracting arguments about it, not fewer.
I’m not trying to distract from the message
You’re also not trying to NOT distract from the message either, though. Or you are and you’re doing a piss-poor job of it.
I’m wondering how we can tell it better
It was told just fine. You’re actively obscuring the salient point with your pedantry.
The choice of 1 almost certainly wasn’t a deliberate exaggeration of the actual amount. It’s just the nearest number that isn’t too specific to distract from the overall argument and/or small enough that pro-gun advocates can use it as an argument for gun violence not being a problem at all.
So what you’re saying is that 400 is completely random and because of that, it follows that 1 is meant to be accurate? 🤔
I’d say that it’s much more likely that they’re operating under the (incorrect but commonly believed) assumption that the US population is closer to 400m than 300m and both numbers are rounded up for simplicity.
Xbox users booting up their console today were greeted with a large splash screen prompting them to buy it now that the new campaign is out, and some of them aren’t too happy about it.
Remember the good old days when you got ads INSTEAD of directly paying rather than in addition to forking over already extortionate sums to profiteering megacorps? Pepperidge Farm does.
Absolutely. Hell, with how much of the heavy lifting they’re doing for corporations destroying most aspects of the world, it should probably be illegal to advertise at all except in strictly limited circumstances.
Not to mention the fact that huge billboards along streets and roads are by definition either ineffective or an impediment to traffic safety, depending on whether or not they manage to catch your attention while you’re operating a vehicle…
Nah, as far as I remember from the last time I accidentally paid attention to him, he’s more like one of those “homesteader libertarians” who believe everyone should just mind their own business in whatever situation their own family can afford for them and neither workers, minorities nor people with disabilities should ever receive any assistance that wealthy white people wouldn’t need.
A real “guns don’t kill people, but letting government stop disadvantaged people from needlessly dying kills my boner” type of guy.
Nobody’s idolizing anyone. You can agree with some of his ideas without being with him on the rest and while unreservedly condemning the atrocities he employed to spread them.
As I see it, the choice of him in stead of someone with similar ideas who’s NOT a mass-murdering fuckhead, as Eddie Izzard put it, is 100% self-deprecatory and 0% celebratory.
They like the secure feeling of confined spaces. Balrogs are very catlike in only that aspect. Ok, that aspect and they like to yeet things off ledges too.
Other than those two things, they’re very unlike cats.
They’re pretty good at using a litter tray, though. Dammit! Amongst their similarities to cats are…
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