As a child of lesbians I can tell you first hand the only ‘negative psychosocial outcomes’ I had as a child did not come from members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community… I’ll give you two guesses who they did come from… but you will probably only need one.

While I grew up in the south, I was lucky to have grown up in my tribe’s reservation, in a small college town. While there was no shortage of people who would today be maga, there was also no shortage of people who had no tolerance for that bullshit.

I am fairly certain that’s what the person you replied to was implying.

Honestly this is what is confusing me the most about Xbox’s move here. They have spent the better part of 10 years dumping exclusives specifically to become the next Steam. Now all of a sudden they care about console sales again and it doesn’t really make sense with the direction they have been going.

Given that the study was done on data that started at 1972, how do we know that testosterone levels weren’t just really high in the 70s?

There are a whole bunch of us that don’t participate in that but you don’t see us because we aren’t popular.

Valve is one of the few companies that has historically honored people’s bequests and allowed bequeathing their libraries to others after they die. Unlike say Apple who has outright said that your iTunes purchases disappear into the ether when you die.

Most of those guarantees involve mailing your receipt and the proof of purchase to the company along with a letter explaining how you were not satisfied before they will get around to mailing you a check for the $4.73 in 8-12 weeks.

I am happy to tell you that but I am not sure it’s true.

Then they shouldn’t have allowed themselves to be bought out.

I was blaming Microsoft for what they became 20 years ago.

I have my phone set to silence unknown callers, if it’s a job and they are for some reason not emailing me then they’ll leave a message.

How close are your outdoor trash cans to your front door? In the hottest summer months it is sometimes hard to keep flies from laying maggots in the trash cans and even though it’s about 15+ feet from my door through a gate they still manage to fly in.

The problem with what you’re saying is that they’ve always bought out other studios and then fucked them up. Going all the way back to their original IP Halo; Halo was a product of Bungie, a Mac exclusive game company at the time. Halo was originally going to be Apple’s big jump into gaming. The release of Halo was delayed to port it to the Xbox and today… today Bungie barely exists and all of their IPs are owned by MS.

Xbox was a passion project, Bill Gates was obsessed with getting Microsoft into the living room. Once Bill Gates left, and later Steve Balmer left, there was nobody left who gave a shit about this passion project and it became a money grab. So Microsoft went back to doing what it does best, buying people out and running their IPs into the ground.

We tried the ‘end reliance on foreign oil’ tactic before, they responded by pushing things like compressed natural gas, tar sands pipelines, and the off-shore drilling that they are still on about. It’s the whole “it’s very hard to get a man to stop believing something his paycheck relies on him believing” quote that I am butchering but still.

Do you mean AT&T? Because MS had an injunction, but they were never broken up.

A lot of times we’re talking about something that was actually designed in the 80s or 90s, maybe not even by a company that exists anymore or in the same country where it’s currently being produced.

It sounds kinda like Tuxedo also wants to be Debian’s Fedora.

I had a feeling we were only disagreeing on the means not the ends.

You’re oversimplifying. Obviously if I want to buy a house I want the price to go down. What we are talking about here is that cheaper housing isn’t the only consequence of lower housing prices. And I’m not sure that comparing it to saying a higher tax bracket is in any way an adequate comparison given the tax brackets just don’t work that way at all. Like I wouldn’t even call that a half truth.

I’m also not saying that nobody would benefit, what I’m trying to point out is that the net gain wouldn’t be the same as say legislation that actually increased the housing supply. If your end goal is to be able to own a house wishing for a housing market crash isn’t the best wish you can make. Private equity firms bought more houses after the 2008 crash than the people sitting on the sidelines.

At the end of the day what you’re actually wishing for is one last housing crash otherwise you’re just hoping that it crashes again for other people after you buy your house and you’re stuck there.

You clearly have a reading comprehension problem or you’re just being a troll either way I’m done with this conversation.