All lepidopterists are entomologists, but not all entomologists are lepidopterists.

I went away for a little over two weeks once. When we finally got back our one cat came around the corner, saw us, and let out the longest, saddest yowl you would ever hear. It makes leaving now so heartbreaking.

This isnt anywhere near the level of mainstream game that most of these boycotts are focused on. It’s definitely a more niche audience.

The biggest thing is if streamers get in on the boycott. That’ll affect sales the most.

But they said they wouldn’t!

It was very much not an action oriented game. It was more about building resources and exploration. I can definitely see it not appealing to large swatches of the gaming population. Especially those used to the modern spate of action rpgs.

McDonalds marketing is getting pretty aggressive if they’re sending their cashiers to Wendy’s…

They’re literally selling faster than the original Switch, what the fuck are you smoking?

Wii fit trainer?

Because opportunists love a tragedy they can exploit?

Yeah, totally not engineered by people who profit off people getting dumber…

When all the nefarious people encouraging this abuse die off.

You’ll notice that they don’t exist in the future world of Idiocracy. That’s because it’s a fictional world, with a very basic premise only vaguely related to reality.

The problem isn’t that people are dumb, it’s that the people in power want to keep people dumb. Without that, it’s not like we’ll continue to devolve into helpless infantile people with no ability to think for ourselves.

That make sense for why the confusion is there. But… “bad actors” or not, the well is poisoned. You don’t keep drinking from a poisoned well just because you think it shouldn’t be. Especially when there are other wells that are readily available. If anything, being able to distinguish between the two is more helpful than trying to keep waters that are already irrevocably muddied just because archaically they were not.

It always seems odd to me that “politics” is often conflated with “nationalism” or just plain government. That’s not really what politics is, politics is power plays and public relations. It’s more marketing than it is governance.

Inclusion can be a part of politics, in the same way it’s part of companies advertising during pride month… but it’s not the foundation of it.

Itch is less a storefront, or even a social site, and more a developer playground. And real competition is no holds barred, bar-room brawl, knock-out drag-out free-for-all. People think “oh, if we just let people compete, everything will work out splendidly”. But the truth is, the strong will always overshadow and overpower the weak with “real competition”. It’s not fair play and love is the truest standard, it’s king of the fucking mountain. And whoever has the biggest wallet is often the biggest winner. That doesn’t mean Steam, or even Itch or GoG, that means Microsoft and Epic and EA. That means the bullies win.

No one really wants that, they just want a pipe dream that can never exist.

If it could be argued that it’s close to the difference in percentage Steam takes vs. other storefronts, I’d have a hard time saying it was unjustified

Don’t they take roughly the same as any other storefront, aside from Epic? And Epic mostly just does it as a marketing tactic, rather than to act in some way ethically.

Sometimes people have ideas that just don’t work out. Even if the same people make another game, unless they just make a carbon copy they’re going to try and do something different. Sometimes it doesn’t work as well as the original, but at least it’s not churning out the same thing over and over and hoping people don’t notice.

Granted, Gamefreak has basically been doing that for 25 years, so what do I know?

That’s not because they’re Jewish, though, it’s because they’ve let their ego and pride overcome their empathy for their fellow human beings.

There’s plenty of non-Jewish people who are also perfectly happy to profit off the suffering of Palestinians.

I just don’t understand their desire to be the center of attention

There is that aspect of it, but there’s also the aspect of writing your own destiny, about creating something you care about instead of just being a nameless cog in an industrial machine putting out consumerist crap day in and day out. Why is the latter more admirable to you than the former?

Who did you?

So not only is it “Us vs Them”, it’s “If you’re not with us 100%, you’re against us”.