The combat gameplay during open beta was terrible feeling to me. This video makes it look like a Diablo clone though… Did the game change that much? Or is this just a hype video and the core mechanics are still kind of wonky?

Because it’s pronounced “Rafe”. You are mistaken.

https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/ralph-fiennes-name-pronunciation-origin-394951-20230201

Antennapod is the best podcast app available and has been for years!

Yeah, cause he kept the rights all to himself and squandered the character’s popularity.

I’ve got a license to confuse. What’ve you got to lose?

Oof this currently stands at 6 up votes 39 downvotes as of an hour in. Random quotes from the religion that is currently trying to destroy the US’s separation of church and state is not “uplifting news”

stating that all devices that enter the Chinese network have something on the root changed so that it calls home and even reinstalling the OS can’t fix it.

Can someone with more expertise explain how this could be possible? Are you actually saying any device manufactured in China and sold within China have something changed? I don’t see how this could be true if your bringing your own device from outside into China.

Americans can have a little education, as a treat.

What? That’s literally the opposite of what I’m saying… I’m saying words can have multiple meanings depending on context.
But the point of this was how does “liberal” having a different colloquial definition from how op was using it have anything do with “developing class consciousness” which can be done regardless of this single word?

Yes

Sometimes the evolution of language isn’t so much organic as it is a political project, such as a century of red scares and socialist purges.

Ok. But regardless of the cause, organic or political project, it doesn’t change the fact that the language has moved on correct?

We can’t simply use their terms, because their terminology is both muddled and lacking.

But there’s the rub. You/we ARE using their terms and the message is muddled and lacking BECAUSE OF the difference in perceived definitions. And as the past couple decades have shown there is zero chance of getting the American people to learn things, or unlearn as the case may be.

I assume very few people this far down a thread into a political discussion, on Lemmy, don’t know what the Overton windowS are and how fucked the US is because of the current far right position on the left/right scales. I find it lacking and dislike it’s libertarian origins. We are even now discussing the difference of a word being used for social vs economic ideas and these two scales do not necessarily overlap.

I’m not sure how colloquial vocabulary usage prevents developing class consciousness. I’d potentially argue refusing to accept the evolution of language and refusing to communicate to people in the terms they use and understand inhibits said deprogramming.
Again very US centric in this definition but it’s who needs deprogramming.

I’ll say it again, in the United States the term “liberal” is used to refer to liberal social ideas NOT liberal economic ideas. To the average US citizen left and liberal are synonyms. This doesn’t mean your definition isn’t correct for academics and the entire rest of the world. But this meme, and this left vs liberal argument for this post, are US based.

The original Call of Duty. Just installed this weekend and haven’t played it since early 2000’s. After that I plan to play the very first Call of Duty Black Ops which I never actually played the story of.

Every headline I’ve seen says successful booster catch, but starship destroyed. And it happened yesterday afternoon, only 20 hours ago as I write this. Are you thinking of the first successful chopstick booster catch which was a few weeks ago?

No worries. Especially in the US where our credit report is made to feel so important and yet when you do good fiscal things it hurts your score, or knowing that doing the right thing is often punished here, being worried about being responsible is understandable.

Renewal has nothing to do with your driving record.

This is hilarious to me

I had the exact same experience and don’t know what I’m missing that everyone else loved so much. It was all just so tedious.

No see, he’s saying the woke_mind_virus is protecting him! He can no longer accidentally run the rm command and erase his entire mind. It’s 4d cheese or whatever to tell the woke they are actually correct and this right wing posturing is a plot /s

It hasn’t been a notorious gang sign since the early 2000s. It was already main stream with white kids doing it over 20 years ago.