I got banned from /r/WorldNews and /r/ukpolitics for saying that “from the river to the sea” isn’t antisemitic. It was in the early days post Oct 7th when reddit was virulently pro-Israel; I don’t think they’d do the same nowadays.

I didn’t leave immediately but thinking about it again really pissed me off as I’d been a regular commenter without much issue for years. It genuinely left me feeling quite depressed thinking about how little I mattered to them. When you get banned there’s always some shit about how you should ask if you don’t understand the ban, but one sub never replied, the other went further and told me to stop messaging their mods (I did so once a week when I wasn’t receiving replies, to not spam them) so that was meaningless.

The irony is that here I’m usually getting downvoted for being insufficiently anti-Israel.

At least on lemmy we can just block instances that do idiotic things like that and still use the rest of the service

Mmm, no, I think plenty of people are annoyed by pointless comments on discussion boards.

r u ok hun

Do you understand why your original comment was annoying?

OP here had a response to the opinion expressed in the meme. All you did was say “I disagree”.

You don’t have to have a take but if you’re going to go to the point of writing something, not having anything to contribute is annoying and that’s what I’m complaining about. Understand?

Good, now go back to downvoting everything you disagree with, like everyone else does.

Hopefully it’s obvious that when I talk about a communist state or other state initiating huge state-run enterprises like game studios, the current US adminstration is not of much interest.

At least they had a take, unlike you.

Exactly. The alternative to most companies setting prices dictated by what they can get away with charging is some kind of state involvement in setting prices, or even in production - you can imagine that in a communist state, there might be a government-run game studio, for example, and it would put out games at a certain price point calculated to be acceptable to the government’s goals and ideals.

I think this could actually work just fine, and think it’d be a great way to solve the problem of copyright. But we also shouldn’t kid ourselves: the government isn’t going to take vast amounts of money it could allocate to healthcare, transport, etc and allocate it to non-essential entertainment like video games. Look at government expenditure on the arts nowadays. So there would be fewer video games coming out in that system, and fewer opportunities for a Hollow Knight to come out of it all.

Blender releases are routinely mind-blowing.

Same reason people never bothered to do a proper search when all knowledge on the internet was indexed on forums - people can’t be bothered, and want another person to find information for them before they make a real effort to find it themselves.