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  • Lockdowns help highlight a lot of “just because it’s what you do, not because it’s actually good” things for people.
    Theatres are generally awful. They are really only good if you want to do an event as a group, and not one has a space big enough to host.

    The food costs too much, people make gross mouth noises when eating the expensive food, the seats aren’t comfortable, things aren’t clean, people talk, people pull out their bright phones, the sound levels are all over the place, you sometimes have a bad viewing angle, you pay a lot of money but still shown 20 minutes of ads at the start, you need to worry about things like bed bugs, you need to plan a specific time to go, people bring their kids to non-kid movies, going to the bathroom is awkward, colour balancing is all over the place, drunk/high people react in distractingly bad ways, and probably many more reasons.



  • It’s generally the difference between using it as a descriptor, and a noun. Noun bad.

    Compare “I really like watching the female football game” and “I really like watching the women’s football game”
    “Female” isn’t trans-inclusive, but people aren’t going to look at you weird either way you say it.

    Now compare that to:
    “I really like watching the females play football.” and “I really like watching the women play football.”
    “Females” here makes you sound like you’re getting sexual gratification from watching the players, or that you see them as nothing more than a vagina, “women” sounds like you might like the game.











  • Did you read the article or the written decision?

    It’s a question of whether the dismissals of these employees were wrongful or not.

    If they were fired because they were trying to start a union, that would be wrongful dismissal.
    The corporation can be compelled to rehired them, because the firings would have been invalid, so they should not have taken place.

    If they were fired because they hosted a media event on company property, which is against the company policies, then it would be a valid dismissal.

    edit: spelling






  • The story is that he was so vain that he fell in love with, or was so horny for, his own reflection that he died.

    Some versions have him starving to death because looking at himself was a higher priority that eating, others have him kill himself because he couldn’t marry/fuck himself. Nothing to do with him “not dating anyone”.

    I think he was a teen in the story, but since no one was fucking, I am not so sure it was pedophillic


  • DerisionConsultingtoOut of the loop@lemmy.worldWhat happened with Starfield?
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    6 days ago

    Which is saying something, because the main quest in Fallout 4 is awful.

    • Be frozen in time for an unknown number of years
    • Get unfrozen, and watch your kid get stolen
    • Get refrozen for an unknown number of years

    You learn that you were frozen for over 200 years total. It is most likely that your child is dead, just like everyone else you have ever known, so why would you look for them?