I’d argue the dragon age series died with dragon age: origins and everything since then has been a pale imitation. A “good dragon age game” is a solid CRPG with branching quests and story decisions. Which we haven’t had since DA:O.

“I didn’t read the article.”

Okay then read it or don’t participate in conversations that you’re walking blind into? What the fuck lol

I’m not going to argue this, but no.

https://whyquit.com/joel/Joel_03_31_is_cold_turkey_the_only_way.htm

Important to note that Joel has no citations for any of the claims he makes in this article tho 🤔🤔

Why don’t you pay attention to how medical professionals treat addiction and keep your anecdotal, poorly educated experience out of it?

Okay, I want to dicuss this more later. It’s interesting to me to think about something as taboo as limiting free speech, but I get what you mean. The power the bourgeoisie have to control the news and media and therefore public opinion is crazy. My first thought was limiting their twitter usage, which I do think would be wrong. But limiting their ability to manipulate twitter with money or other, similar tactics would fall under the same umbrella. (Hopefully Ninja edit: but should be prevented, I mean! They shouldn’t be allowed to use their wealth to influence. But I don’t think their literal speech should be restricted! Unless they break the rules or something and get banned or something ykwim)

I know, I see the .ml 🤣

I think the morals of it are important for the sake of optics in the least. If oppression implies a cruelty and injustice (at the very least in some minds, mine included, and probably most people given the dictionaries I read/bing search results) which is not associated with the movement, it might be better to not use those words. Fair?

Okay, so what I’m saying is that the definition I’m reading cites “injustice” and “cruelty” as prerequisites.

“prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control” (oxford)

“the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control” (oxford)

“mental pressure or distress” (oxford- but this is the third definition and seems like a much more general word that isn’t really useful in these conversations when trying to define systems)

“unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power” (merriam-webster)

Merriam-webster then also has 2 more definitions similar to the oxford counterparts.

“a situation in which people are governed in an unfair and cruel way and prevented from having opportunities and freedom” (Cambridge)

I stopped looking after that, but I think that’s fair, no? So then if we DO agree about these definitions, do you really consider it cruel or unjust towards the hoarders of capital?

Anyone who has experienced addiction knows that addiction is a permanent disease and that obviously partaking in the substance again will more than likely lead to continued substance abuse. Jesus christ.

But, and maybe this is a semantics argument then, I don’t think we are in agreement by what oppression means. I’m just using the google definition. Are you using a different definition that makes more sense in the context of theory/academic circles? I am a layman, after all

Also, follow up, it’s not stupid, that’s literally how we ween people off of addictive substances. You have literally 0 clue what you’re talking about and your input provides no value in this conversation. Instead of participating by asserting your (strictly wrong) opinions, perhaps you should ask questions of people that are clearly smarter and better disciplined than you?

Right. You weren’t literally forced to vape. You were left with no other accessible choice except vaping to continue your addiction.

And you completely failed to refute what I said. Your situation was just completely different. The other commenter went into the situation deliberately intending to cut back on their tobacco use. You, on the other hand, went into the situation deliberately intending to find a way to sustain your nicotine addiction. Do you not understand that? Your situation is that you were seeking to dive further into addiction. So that’s what happened. And you can blame the chemicals for your addiction all you want, but as an addict myself, I know that you are self-indulgent and not blameless in that situation. You. Chose. To. Start. Vaping. Because. You. Wanted. To. Continue. Your. Nicotine. Intake.

Did that slow it down enough for you, bud?

I guess I understand that, but separately I take issue with the use of the word oppression? The bourgeoisie cannot be oppressed, really. If they were ever in a position to be oppressed, they would no longer be considered bourgeoisie. No? But yeah the rest of what you’re saying makes sense.

Take a picture and show us what cones you bought so we can make fun of you more. If you refuse, you’ll get made fun of anyway because we will all assume you realized you were in the wrong.

NOT A DEFENSE OF ISRAEL

They won’t violate shit. There is no ceasefire lmfao.

The difference between you and the person you’re responding to is that they made an intentional choice to stop smoking and used vaping as the medium through which they slowly weened themselves off. You, on the other hand, were “forced” to vape and chose to indulge in it at a “much more constant rate” because you weren’t trying to quit in the first place.

How is the proletariat oppressing a non existent class? Under socialism, wouldn’t everyone be considered proletariat?

Well, equality is sometimes referred to in the vain of “everyone is equal” rather than “everyone is treated equal”. I think that might be what it’s saying. When the social idea of equality first emerged, I cannot imagine even for a second that they were like “yeah, everyone should be given exactly the same things regardless of their personal situation”, because nobody striving for an idea LIKE equality would come to that resolution. Like, equity is just what equality should have been in the first place.

Reminder that we are talking about teenagers being groomed and targeted by adult military recruiters.

Reminder that we are talking about teenagers that are almost completely politically unaware because they can’t vote yet and have no reason to know what’s going on.

Reminder that we are talking about teenagers who can’t vote, can’t smoke, can’t drink, at 16 maybe can’t drive yet, but are old enough to be recruited by adults who are introduced to them as trusted government officials, usually through our own education system.

No one said otherwise.

The original commenter said they hadn’t seen anyone fuck up this bad since Bush. The responder is simply implying that they think the covid response was an equally bad fuck up.

Caught my 7yo niece consuming disney princess cosplay ahegao content on youtube shorts yesterday. =\ she’s not allowed on YouTube anymore, the platform is too unsafe for children.