@HazelAppleyard I think she has every right to keep her pen name secret until she feels comfortable sharing it.
If anything the more he demands to know, especially trying to go through her laptop behind her back, the more he proves her right in not trusting him with it yet.
Long post--sorry.
The fixation around physical media is a red herring.
People who obtained physical copies of Crimson Desert early weren't able to play it because the PS5 locked them out of playing it. You can look this up, multiple articles about the topic. Clearly physical media didn't save you then, and it won't save you when a licensing agreement expires and a game will no longer run on your software until you download an update that might remove features/content.
A good example of this is ironically Mixtape. Because the game has a large amount of licensed music, it's plausible that one of those contracts will expire and a patch will be pushed that removes a song from the game. If you don't download that patch, you will no longer be able to access or play the game.
Physical media isn't the holy grail, consumer rights and protections is. Why aren't we using Apple lighting cables and we are using USB-C instead? It's not because of Apple, it's because of the EU.
While PC players have more work-arounds for this issue, console players are at the mercy of updates they have no choice but to accept. Physical media won't save you from that.
The convenience of digital downloads should not be viewed as a forfeiture of consumer protections.
The reason why record labels still sell vinyls is because people still buy vinyls. While there are I'm sure some people who still purchase video games physically, I would guess that number is decreasing every year. If physical copies were popular, Gamestop would still have video games in it instead of Funko pops and tshirts.
I know this is the unpopular take to have. but you can't expect companies to keep making physical editions of games if not enough people are buying them.
My point with all of this is that a lot of peoples' concern and frustration comes from the lack of control they have over the media they "own". Physical media does not solve this problem when it's at the mercy of the software running the consoles/game launchers.
If you want to solve the problem, you should be supporting initiatives like Stop Killing Games @StopKilingGames.
@Pirat_Nation Consumers have a right to know and choose whether or not to support it. If you think they're dumb or wrong well that's just their prerogative. Whichever side talks louder with their money will eventually win out anyways.
Doesn't help when women being in the workforce suddenly sees households needing two incomes thus making it more difficult to start/maintain a family.
Then women are sold the lie that a career is always more fulfilling than motherhood. Which also caused widespread disrespect of mothers.
Women in the workforce isn't necessarily the issue it's the 3rd/4th wave feminist agenda destroying the perception of motherhood that comes afterward. I don't know how it is in Japan but that's certainly an issue in western society.
Here is a list of the trans-identifying men who have made it into the news after sexually assaulting a woman or a girl over the last few years.
Tremaine Carroll
Michael Maria Pentholm
Karen White
Katie Dolatowski
Jessica Winfield
Tara Desousa
Janiah Monroe
Kristen Lukess
Lisa Hauxwell
Laken McKay
Aliea Rose Brown
Paula Witherspoon
Davina Ayrton
Johanna Wolf
Hanna Tubbs
Christopher Hambrook
Dakota Nieves
Tarah Jo Morgan
Marie Dean
Jessica Brennan
Rachel Smith
Marcia Walker
Synthia China Blast
Michelle Winter
Paris Bregazzi
Melissa Wilson
Barbie Kardashian
Jessica Smith
Wolfgang Schmidt
Chloe Thompson
Denen Anderson
Kadence Pinder
Beth Hannan
Leah Harvey
Julie Marshall
Blaine Maney
Amber Thorden
Evi Amat
Babs Longmire
Rachel Fenton
Jorven Seren
Claire Goodier
Kim Marie Johannson
Steven Hayes
Jacinta Brooks
Alexander Eshawn Lions
Ashley Winter
Steph Ricciardi
Vicky Green
Ella Davies
Melissa Addis
Madilyn Harks
Jessica Marie Hann
Michelle Martinez
Nicole Summers
Shauna Patricia Smith
Evelyn Young
Claire Goodier
Allison Woolbert
Nur Ahmed
Vyvyenne Ward
Laura McCann
Lisa Jones
Rayne Aloysius Constantine
Rose Bennett
Louise Ford
Robert Glanowski
Lily Bate
Alyssa Celusta
Sora Kuykendall
Lydia Helena Vision
Ava Jones
Alex Ray Scott
Diego Melendez
Paris Green
Tiffany Scott
Zoe Lynes
Vicky Green
Pauline Long
Chloe Walker
Toni Prince
Lana Laws
Christyl Knight
Carrie Cooper
Jasmine Hill
Diamond Blount
Nicola Florida
Dawn Love
Stacey Pool
Alexis Herschell
Scarlet Shadows
Karen Louise Lawson
Nicola Cope
Gina Owen
Kayleigh Louise Woods
Claire Darbyshire
Kira Leverton
Kathleen Carpenter
Donna Perry
Karen Jones
Carol Lea
Michelle Lewin
Alanna Nicole Partin
Yostin Murillo
Peter Selby
Wendy Jones
Rose Whitby
Daryl Graves
Diana Guevara
Jason Croker
Jody Matthew Burke
Patricia Trimble
Sally Dixon
Milan Wash
Adree Edmo
Jayden Dean
Paul Denyer
Bruno Meirelles
Pandora Electra
Robert Gordon Cummins
Danielle Rose Gemini
Brooke Lyn Sonia
Nonnie Lotusflower
Tianne Miller
Narsimha Bichappa Shirvati
Brandy Wood
Kelly McSean
Michelle Renee Lamb
Andrea Balcer
Ketan Shende
Serenity Alana Mann
Sacho Samson
Harryetta Thompson
Jenna Hansen
Jane Beck
Audrey Robinson
Lexi-Rose Crawford
Carissa Marie Radcliffe
Jolene Charisma Starr
Zara Jade
Rhiley Carlson
Claire Fox
Robert William Perry II
Tanya Howes
Loana Luna
Dwight Chisolm
Amy George
Stuart Bulling
Lorena Santana
Christopher Williams
Alyssa Christine Trenchard
Danielle Edney
Julie Shepherd
Izzabella Raymundo
Stephanie Hayden
Sophie Louise Carter
Autumn Cordellioné
Katana Paris
Shauna Kavanagh
Zera Lola Zombie
Nicole Rose Campbell
April Welsh
Tânia Ferrinho
Scarlet Moon Shadows
Laura Miller
Thorsten Heinz
Tara Pearsall
Adam McDonald
Samantha Norris
Abigail Waller
Rachel Queen Burton
Maria Childers
Xenia Jade Millar
Krystel Lauzon
Amber Faye Fox Kim
Ash Cooper
Natalie Pershall
Kazumi Watanabe
Claire Caballero
Jacqui McWilliams
Sabrina/Morrigan Hetke
Jo White
July Justine Shelby
Joanna Evans
Louise Thomas
Miquel Toni Riera Prats
Emma Davies
Lexi Secker
Pierre Parsons,
Claire Anderson
Michell Silva Perez
Michelle Blessent
Cassidy Honsinger
Elijah Thomas Berryman
Sean Windingland
Duane Owen
Dana Rivers
Alfie Howe
Marceline Harvey
Chloee-Mae Danvers
Jamie Kim Belladonna
Catarina da Lapa,
Renee Mills
Aria Peers
Danielle Marie Whitebird
Makayla Craig
Angel Hill
Farin Kinar
Reiyn Keohane
Michelle Ward
Levana Ballouz
Francesca Bartkus
María López Barrera
Autumn Tulip Harper
Richard Kenneth Cox
Oliver Smith
Rebecca Clark
Dakota Rose Austin
Catherine Lynn
Naomi O’Brien
Nicola Watson
Bunny Autumn Colasimone
Tiffany Aching
Sophie KoKo
Many of these assaults took place in what should have been - and once was - a female-only space.
This man is about to tell his SO that he plans to transition, and once again I’m overwhelmed with sympathy for trans widows.
Imagine being with someone for years, thinking they’re normal, and then they spring something like this on you, and tell you everything about themselves has been a lie. You’d end up rethinking every single memory: every single comment and compliment, every joke, every argument, every time you made love, and realizing that all of it had been shared unwittingly with a total stranger.
What a cruel thing to do to the woman you claim to love.
This man said he was GLAD Charlie Kirk was murdered…
Then admitted: Charlie’s videos & debates changed his life completely.
His family reconciled.
He saw through the lies that he had been fed all this time .
Charlie is now his HERO.
This is the legacy of Charlie .
Watch every second 👇
@CryptoMoth3 If you are at risk of throwing a child to crocodiles then you do not belong in public in any capacity whatsoever and you should be in an asylum for the safety of others.
You can't just go "awww poor thing" and then do literally nothing to keep people safe.
A double standard of the worst kind.
When females say they need their own spaces away from males where they are vulnerable, they’re told, “Not all males are predators!” and expected to get over it and share. But when trans-identifying males say they feel unsafe around males in male washrooms, suddenly everyone agrees that males can be dangerous and that their fears are valid.
Apparently, concerns about male violence are irrational when females raise them, but legitimate when trans-identifying males do.
@Critical_Scribe The minority of women who enjoy games aren't the ones asking for change, we already liked it the way it was.
It's weird woke activists that are aiming for forced, unnecessary, changes. Some of which literally said they hate gamers.
Guys Asmon's not defending Deme just her looks. He's not even defending fatness he cares where the fat falls (ass and tits) if she lost weight overall her body type would be the same regardless. It's not that deep.
Leftists preach tolerance but are becoming increasingly hostile towards those who disagree with them.
You're mistaken if you think this is hypocrisy.
It is a strategy called "Repressive Tolerance."