This decision is not unexpected. But we were prepared. Hence, we're pushing forward with @Europarl_EN ammending #StopKillingGames to the Digital Fairness Act. We can move on without the Commission and their non-decision, as @accursedfarms mentioned before: https://t.co/UqQ9AsJo4J
A weapon designed to specifically maim and kill children.
Illegal under the Geneva Conventions for numerous reasons, including being disguised as an ordinary object, and being specifically targeted against civilians.
A War Crime of the highest order.
>leaked audio recordings
>from the situation room
There was a time when this would have triggered a massive purge in an administration - now counter-intelligence just looks at Mossad agents like this
1.3 MILLION PEOPLE ASKED THE EU TO STOP COMPANIES FROM DELETING GAMES THEY PAID FOR.
THE ANSWER WAS NO.
The "Stop Killing Games" initiative wanted one thing: when publishers pull the plug, don't let them remotely destroy copies people already bought.
The European Commission's official response:
- It will not require publishers to keep games playable - says forcing them would go too far
- Reason given: publishers' copyright and IP rights come first. Your purchase comes second.
- The solution: a voluntary code of conduct, developed together with the same industry that kills games
- Plus an awareness campaign reminding you of the consumer rights you supposedly already have
1.3 million signatures. Years of work. Multiple hearings.
And the part that says everything: according to the campaign, Ubisoft got a seat at a closed-door meeting with the Commission before the decision. The 1.3 million people who signed did not.
Publishers can still brick your purchase whenever they feel like it.
If buying still isn't owning, then at least now it's official.
“The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.”
— 1 Corinthians 7:3-4
God I remember 4-5 years ago watching Phil Spencer just buy up studio after studio and soup brained console warrior losers twerking for him as he did it and now we are losing ALL that talent because Microsoft only made a bazillion dollars instead of a squitillion like they wanted
By the time a man is looking outside his marriage for sex and contemplating cheating, or divorce, it’s because his wife isn’t willing to change, because she uses sex not as a form of intimate interpersonal connection but as a form of interpersonal leverage to gain power over him.
Willingly having sex for reasons other than personally being horny IS consensual. For example whores do it for money, middle class whores do it to lock down a man early in the relationship (then get married & start witholding it).
As for duty, yes you have obligations to other people generally, and specifically when you take vows to love and cherish them til death do you part.
If your husband wasn’t in the mood to go to work, would you just tolerate life without a steady breadwinner earning an income? Or would you expect him to figure that shit out and pull his weight in the relationship, for the sake of you and the children?
And if he failed to, would you take matters into your own hands and either become the breadwinner yourself thereby rendering him redundant (at which point you would likely cheat on him & dissolve the relationship) or find another man willing to fulfill that role since he won’t?
If the answer to either is yes, then you understand all the elements at play here, you’re just being wilfully obtuse.
the fact that this is the longest QTE in the franchise means that this is literally the hardest thing Kratos has ever done
easily the greatest QTE in gaming history
this shit pissing me off so much it’s literally months away you CANNOT know these dates yet, people are going to see this and believe it’s official information even though there is NO SOURCE. Please be careful out there and always question the information you see
"relying on your partner is dangerous" but you expect guys to get married in a system where a woman can take half his money and his kids on a whim for no reason at all.
Ladies: imagine trying to talk to your boyfriend/husband, and he just flat to your face says "leave me alone, I don't feel like talking tonight."
How many times would it take hearing this to crush your spirit?
Sex is the only case where this could be mistaken for a sound argument. That’s due to the weird sexual ethics of our time designed to legitimize behavior that used to be condemned and condemning perfectly fine behavior. But let’s make it a little more obvious and replace sex with another act of physical intimacy, say a back rub (one could call this non-sexual touching). I’ve never wanted to give my wife a back rub. I don’t particularly enjoy doing it. But she’s my wife, I know it makes her happy and that matters quite a lot to me her husband, so I’ve given her hundreds? Thousands?
There are dozens of such acts both she and I do for one another in the name of our marriage. Acts where we are neutral or would simply rather not but because of love and our holy vow to one another means we perform them without complaint nor resentment. Acts of love that transcend other emotions.
If one were to take her advice literally, that a wife or husband should never do something they don’t feel like for their spouse, they would find a quick end to their marriage. Again you probably shouldn’t take marriage advice from a divorcee.
Makes me think about all the husbands I have known over the years that had absolutely zero interest in learning how to ballroom dance but dutifully keep showing up week after week because it makes their wife happy.
The horror of the movie is playing off zoomer anxiety from feminist socialization that they don't have a right to desire girls and to want those girls to like them, and that this makes them evil; with added metaphor for how BPD is no "real" solution to male desire to be desired.
Really hard to take the tiktok feminist reading of this movie seriously when we all know they would have the exact inverse interpretation if the accidental wishmaker was a female being repeatedly forced and manipulated into sex with a mentally ill psycho she had to take care of.