Anki might be worth your while if you are trying to learn something.

Load it up with a flashcard deck of something you want to remember, and it’ll show you those flashcards. Lots of people use it to learn languages, but it’s also good for anything that requires memorisation.

Ah no, that sucks. I’ve been using a lot of those apps.

In my experience that loophole has not worked for a long time. I have never been able to redeem gifts from friends in a low-cost region while I’m outside of the country. Even though my Steam account is also based in that same region.

Steamdeck…
Steamdeck 2…
Steamde… Uh oh…

I don’t know what the point of your comment is.

Trans and non-binary people are becoming more accepted as normal over time. The people screaming about pronouns don’t actually care about pronouns, they oppose that gradually growing acceptance.

Is this going to impact their ability to offer region-specific pricing?

This comment raised my blood pressure.

Bloody hell yes. I have to select text on my phone all the time and that little hovering Android context menu is utterly atrocious. How that passed any UX process is completely beyond me.

1. It hovers over text, rather than appearing in a predictable location like every other context menu in the OS does.
2. The menu just doesn’t appear sometimes. Usually when the selected text is large or near the edge of the screen or the screen is zoomed in.
3. It’s unstable. Every time you bring it up, the context sensitivity might add additional options. That context sensitivity is good, but it also means that one has to scan the menu for the desired option every single time, no matter how proficient one gets.
4. It’s uncustomisable. One of my most-used options requires me to select the text and wait for the menu, tap the three-dots to open the second layer of the tiny little context menu, scroll that tiny sub-list past a bunch of less-commonly used options to the option I use all the time, then tap on that. The menu is sorted arbitrarily, not even alphabetically, and is completely unmodifiable.
5. And what is given sort-priority over my actually used context menu items? “Share”. I can share text with two taps, which I will never do, but the action I use dozens of times a day requires three taps and a scroll to find it.

Gamers have gotten quite lucky so far that the company that has been in the position to turn the screws and establish a monopoly has been content to only make gobs of money, instead of trying to make all the money like pretty much every other entertainment industry.

,“Identity politics” in this case meaning “trans and non-binary people exist and are trans or non-binary respectively”.

The removal of the mod shows that activist fiat is necessary to present the illusion that people buy into gender ideology

Bullcrap. It shows nothing of the sort. It shows nothing more than that NexusMods doesn’t feel like hosting assholes.

No, sorry, I’m not willing to play your stupid little word game where you try to semantically differentiate a demographic from the “ideology” that that demographic meaningfully exists and should have the right to pursue happiness in society.

The set of ideas that you refer to includes the ideas that transgender people exist as transgender, and non-binary people exist as non-binary.

Yes. Existence.

Trans people exist. Non-binary people exist. And they exist in ways that people refer to as “woke garbage”.

Well, sure. Lots of people don’t want woke garbage in their games.

“Woke garbage” being things like “the existence of a type of people I think should not exist”.

No, there is no difference.

Your previous comments implied that there was a difference in type between the inclusion of women or people of colour, and the inclusion of trans of non-binary people.

There is a difference in magnitude of the controversy. But not a difference in type. Something can be more or less controversial, but it’s still the same type of controversy.

“Gender ideology” is doing exactly that.

As are women and people of colour, and their inclusion in media. These are all demographics of people. There is no difference.

Rejecting gender ideology isn’t bigotry.

Referring to a demographic as an ideology generally is bigotry, though.

I dunno, being a man, woman, or black person isn’t political.

I agree, they should not be, but people still try and make them political.

Trans, non-binary, etc is

No. Absolutely not. Trans people and non-binary people are types of people who exist. Exactly the same as men, women, people of colour, and so forth. They are no more or less political than those other types of people. People still make them political, but that’s exactly the same thing as with other groups.

My earlier analogy was about having a pro-life/pro-choice option forced on you, but I guess to make it more accurate it would be more like the game just telling you that you’re pro-life as part of your character settings? Because it’s not just putting the politics in the game, it’s taking a strong side. Again, rightly or wrongly, I can see why some people would reset that in their escapism.

You are mistaken. There is no political opinion here. None is being asked for, and none is being assigned. The character creator having additional options is just allowing players to make trans or non-binary characters. This isn’t asking you for a political opinion, it’s simply adding options to create more types of characters.

Which is why the bigots are upset. Because they don’t think those types of characters should be allowed to be made.

Not really a good example. A more apt example is if these people were getting angry that the character creator allowed a player to create a woman, or a person of colour. The game offering you a choice of pronouns is not asking you for a political opinion, it’s literally just an option to create a type of character that these people don’t think should exist.

And that’s the crux of it, they aren’t angry about pronouns, they’re angry about trans and non-binary people becoming normalised.

Because it’s not actually about the pronouns. These people aren’t actually angry about pronouns.

They’re angry about trans and non-binary people. They’re angry that people are growing to accept these people, who they do not think should be accepted. They are angry that a group they don’t think is normal, is being accepted as normal.

And other people are doing that in the comments. I addressed your point about ad-hominem specifically. So your response is kinda irrelevant to what I wrote.

People are questioning the narrative the author is painting based on their motivations. That’s different to ad-hominem.

Ad hominem applies to arguments. The source of an argument does not affect the soundness of that argument.

But it’s not a fallacy to question an overarching narrative based on the source. If a person keeps selectively choosing facts and twisting words to forward a specific narrative, it’s not fallacious to view what that person says with skepticism.

Edit: Typo. Also changed “valid” to “sound”.