GTA 6 is estimated to have cost over $2 billion USD to produce. imagine what they could have achieved if they had spent that money making a good game instead

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I'm wondering if a potential answer to "why would people want a CW for something as seemingly simple and harmless as eye-contact" would be better explained with cats?

so... dogs... they like attention and tend to like eye-contact, right? it's this sign of attention and often, affection but for cats? eye contact feels hostile and really uncomfortable

the single greatest compliment a cat can give you is "I feel comfortable in your presence", and one of the ways they show this to you is something you might have heard of: the "slow-blink"

a slow-blink is a cat's way of physically showing you "I feel comfortable in your presence while robbed of one of my primary defensive senses (sight)", and is used both between cats and between cats and humans

p.s. I generally don't feel uncomfortable with direct eye contact, but I figure having it suddenly appear on a screen that's close to you is a similar feeling to when a spider pic doesn't get a CW and I suddenly have a (digital) spider less than a millimeter away from one of my fingers... sudden spike in heart-rate, adrenaline, cortisol, and a mood you might have trouble changing for a little while

@JamesBont @alternativeto Unfortunately Linux is not going to be a viable path forward for a great many people.

But Microsoft sure is making the "I want/need to stay on Windows" paths forward as frustrating as possible, aren't they. :/

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

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@inthehands Exactly, yeah. It's why conflict resolution, de-escalation, consensus building, and all the like are so important to political processes. But also, it's something that I think applies at a broader level as well — don't demand that fellow progressives *feel* a certain way. Like, don't let each other off the hook for being jerks, but also recognize that emotions are real and don't always point in the most useful and just directions?

I said a thing in visibility-limited replies that I'd like to actually bring out into a more general context: political movements that don't make room for people to have unproductive emotions makes about as much sense as building bridges with zero safety tolerances.

People are, well, human, and *will* have feelings and emotions that are not fully compatible with even their own proximate political goals.