There are loads of different reasons that people become vegan. Some of those reasons might include not wanting to harm any living being, and if that’s the reason then yeah it is a little arbitrary to draw the line at plants or types of plant-life, but I’m not sure it’s really fair to place the expectations that vegans do not make any arbitrary choices like that.

Everybody sets those kinds of boundaries and makes those kinds of choices all the time, because it would be very hard not to, and I think making an honest attempt to reduce the harm you do to living beings is better than nothing 🤷‍♂️

That being said, I’m not vegan.

The trouble is that legal documents are often very specifically worded to avoid implications. Legal writing is almost like a different dialect to usual colloquial English.

Nice, thank you ✌️ just wanted to avoid getting into a nightmare!

When you say it’s remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness, what do you mean?

Eleven and a half years, surely?

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Bananas as a Service :)

Fantastic for building BaaS apps

What if pigs could fly?

Ah! I forgot about the bigger fool of it all, true. I guess it’s all just bluster and marketing then. God, what a nightmare.

I legitimately don’t understand money at this scale. Especially not in this context particularly, the context being “rich men investing in parlour-trick technology that most sane people recognise as off-putting and largely useless and yet somehow, presumably, keeps giving them a return on their investment”.

Where does the return come from? Where does the money go? Who has this much money? Who needs more when they have so much? Why aren’t they just enjoying a thoroughly lavish midlife crisis instead?? Haven’t they got hair plugs to pay for?? Why can’t they invest in something cool, if they simply must invest?? Were the men who are investing in this nonsense ever children with human hearts and heads full of dreams? Do they not have passions that they’d like to share with the world? Are they simply joyless bean-counters that continue to live day after day just for the sake of knowing that they’re gaining more uncountable digital money?

Sorry, I think I got off-track there. This whole thing is distasteful.

That was a best seller?? I tried it when it was free on PSN a while ago but didn’t get past the opening because I just found it too embarrassing lol

Must just be bored out of their mind I guess 🤷‍♂️ or seeking attention? Honestly I never really understood trolling, and the energy this person is putting out seems like… Unhinged? 😂

This guy is so obviously a troll

Sorry mate

I totally agree with what you’re saying, the very very simplistic and juvenile “go woke go broke” narrative often overlooks actual things that cause products to fail in the market.

As an aside, I found the character designs in Concord, at least the ones I’ve seen, actually really cool personally. Reminded me a lot of a sort of Kim Jung Gi street/comic style, and wasn’t as cliche as all the rest.

I agree with you. However, I won’t even engage with whether this assassin’s creed game is “woke”.

Instead, I’m focusing on the fact that Ubisoft, among many other games publishers and development studios, have a serious and systemic problem with sexual harassment, assaults, and discrimination based on gender (these places are often referred to as “boys’ clubs”).

To be clear: Ubisoft is absolutely not the only game publisher wherein male employees are alleged to have sexually harassed and/or assaulted female employees. Rockstar is another example off the top of my head. Activision/Blizzard is a third.

There is something absolutely rotten in the gaming industry. Abusing women seems to be part of the way these companies operate, for some reason, and no matter what games they put out, no matter what messages those games do or don’t have, I would not want my money going to support the companies that do this.

I find it interesting, and concerning, that this shareholder is wringing their hands about some interpretation about the content of this video game, ignoring the fact that three executive level employees of the company they hold shares in have just this month been convicted of sexual and psychological harassment.

Very true!

Oh god I’m so nervous for my wanking practical test. I only just passed the wanking theory!

There’s no definition where Ubisoft can be woke, given all the sex crimes. Three of their former executives were just found guilty of “sexual and psychological harassment.”

Very telling that the shareholders are less concerned about that.