of course i am not making it better, at least not for him
as i said, i am past that point
people have tried to explain to him and he called them blue pillers
so there isnt much left to seriously talk about
i literally just beat a dead horse with a troll comment and you got stuck on it
Call him a red piller then, and you can both move along.
Just don’t resolve to sexism because you run out of gender neutral insults.
Happy internetting! 
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It’s a pretty standard practice for prosecutors to make a few unprovable claims in the initial documents. The defense will of course deny everything and make counterclaims of their own. I wouldn’t get too hyped up until they start presenting evidence. It’s an adversarial system for a reason. The truth likely lies in between which looks pretty bad in this case.
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You really out did yourself my man!
That’s the whole point of mansplaining. It’s not about “a male is explaining something”, is about explaining something obvious that everyone already knows, almost as if talking to a child, when talking to woman. Underestimating their intelligence. It’s extremely annoying.
Yes, I’ve seen that word used the wrong way, like @Lolli42 just did. There’s always people who are too radical and ruin the original meaning and intention of the word, or just straight trolls.
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Gives new meaning to “Development Hell”
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It must be a global conspiracy against despicable behavior!
This comes with an assumption that the market, and arbitrage, is working remotely like you want to believe it is.
Leaving money on the table happens every second in every market around the globe.
Probably because to some people, being able to be despicable, is “worth” more than any money they might lose.
Yep, spot on with your entire post.
Economic theory is well and good. But just dont take it as an actual description of how economics, or humans, work.
Let’s be real here. These days “red pilled” refers to believing in fake news and conspiracies about how the world works. And not in any way dealing with how the world actually is.
Indeed.
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It depends on the use, the context, and the biases of the user. Lets be real here people use the same terms for contradictory purposes.
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And women do that to women and men and children too!
-You could call it overexplaining instead of using a sexist term.
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There was a point in time long ago where if someone did something to you that was inappropriate, grotesque, offensive or abusive, a good knuckle sandwich or a good telling off was usually sufficient to nip the problem in the bud before it flowered into a larger problem.
If it was a physical altercation, the fight was broken up… Maybe a night in jail for those involved with a small fine. A good telling off will surely draw attention from those around, depending on what words used and the reactions of the one being told off could “shun” them enough for them to not do it again.
That no longer works in todays society, we can’t respond that way anymore in fear of offending someone or having felony charges pressed against us for assault and battery. So we have no choice but to take the abuse until the problem builds way out of proportion, large enough at least for a lawyer to make a career out of it.
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It’s not the same thing and you know it. People who overexplain for the sake of overexplaining are one thing.
But when you’re a girl in a Magic the Gathering tournament, and every single fedora tipper in that game shop gathers around you to “teach you how to play the game” even though you are a veteran at it, it was definitely related to gender. Just an example I’ve seen happen.
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I mean, can’t fault them for being attracted to the female magic player, it’s their wet dream. The problem isn’t actually them wanting to teach the female, or that it was a female on the receiving end.
The problem is when people cross the line and belittle people purely based on looks. However in the example you put, i can’t help but think that people will treat you differently when you stand out.
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Brandy don’t work for blizz no more?
Oh man! She was so genuine!
Like the type of person that would of lined right up with brevik and the schaefers all game all customer and none about self image or ‘got into blizzard’ menatlity or, even worse, ‘group play’ gaming (the 2015 or so until now pandemic that plagued online games). zelda isn’t a group play game, mario isnt’ a group play game, diablo 1/2 were not group play games, mario kart doesn’t have to be a group play game, wonder why these solo-focused games are so well done and long lasting. they don’t depend on other people to have fun, f/e a greater rift comp like d3.
Blizz let go / she left (don’t know the story) a great worker in brandy. def my favorite post d2 era worker there. she seemed to care about us first, what we wanted, and being as transparent as possible w/o upsetting the higher ups who surely mandated secrecy about “diablo immortal” at the time. its such a shame to have all that secrecy all that does is divide the co and the playerbase when they hint and wont talk its terrible strat.
secrecy only works / hinting only works if what they deliver isn’t for cash but exactly the product everyone or most want and obviously d immortal is an example of not doin that. like if they were secret about d4, AND, d4 was made the right way (like actually modeling after diablo 2 instead of 3) then you’d have ok, sure, you hid a great game and now delivered but when they hint and then deliver something unwanted its like much worse than not hinting at all and making an off game.
hinting is like “we know what you want and we gotchu” and in reality esp w diablo an extremely split in half playerbae of 2 and 3 ppl, you aren’t going to know what the bulk of us want, its not a proper product line to hint and secret up about. they should of promoted brandy to like a top 5 position for diablo 4, bc with that care, we’d all get our questions answered and more importantly questions asked TO us during development.
Once I was playing HotS and I called my personal friend “faggo*t”, (I couldn’t post the word here, maybe I’m committing a crime 
) I call him that and he calls me that since I was a kid when we tease each other, we’re friends and brothers. I was banned for this, even though I resorted it seems that my conduct was ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.
It doesn’t seem like that, does it, Activision? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
It is this discrepancy between ideology and reality that makes me disgusted with some politicking/ideologies like this.
I am praying for Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil.
This is exactly why Blizzard( Silicon & Synapse, Inc. at the time, and eventually Chaos Studios, Inc. before being Blizzard Entertainment) needed to stay a smaller independent company like when it first started with Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham, and Frank Pearce. They actually cared about their games and put their passion into making their games. Once Blizzard was bought out by big corporate companies things started to change, and Blizzard is no longer the Blizzard of the early days. There is a reason why a lot of the early employees, and management are no longer with Blizzard because they actually cared about the creation of their games, and not all about the money.
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Did you say the word that starts with a “vi”? The Brazillian one? It’s not a big deal here in Brazil, everyone uses that word, but it’s considered extremely offensive in the US and other english speaking countries. It’s a cultural difference, and arguably a different meaning too (here it’s not nearly as much of a slur as it is in english), probably why you got banned for it.
This is very true. She cared a lot. The higher ups though really really do restrict what CMs can say and do.
Brandy was the only one left in Community (that I know of) on Diablo after the last round of layoffs. She was juggling everything herself for all Diablo regarding community, publishing, engagement campaigns, etc.
She left on her own to go to one of her other dream companies. She now works for Wizard of the Coast in Community on Dungeons & Dragons.
Here is her public goodbye letter to the Diablo community in March 2020.
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I used the word in Portuguese, in the Portuguese translated game for my Brazilian friend/brother in a context of complete relaxation.
The ban wasn’t permanent and didn’t hurt anything, but I was really impressed with it, here it’s nothing.
At the same time, people use the word “monkey” to refer to Brazilians all the time, and to tell you the truth I don’t care, but some groups find it extremely offensive, and nothing happens automatically.
I am in favor of no words being prohibited, but the offensive use of any word. That’s how I think.
Market forces, including arbitrage, exist just like gravity, whether you believe in them or not. The reason is that people, in the vast majority of cases, are looking for their best interest or what they believe to be in their best interest. As long as there is some economic freedom, that is.
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Hi!
Humans go for the best ratio of results to price when they have a chance (as long as they are aware of it). And you have to be quite “rational” to remain successful in a highly competitive environment for the long run.
None of that you wrote counters my argument. You may not like what I said and I understand.
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