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Or perhaps it's just an attempt from straight men to not have to confront the fact that what they say is harmful. Again, it's easy to say that I'm creating a straw man, but the fac…

To be completely fair, if you're not a straight white man and people are regularly mistaking you for a straight white man, that generally means only one thing: you're on the wrong …

It's incredible how men, especially straight white men, can demonstrate their understanding of the point by using all of its parts in twisted fashions to support their argument, bu…

So, there are two points that you've yet to address and I doubt ever will, which casts an extremely negative light on your argument: 1) You have yet to provide any concrete example…

This is absolutely not the situation that he has presented it as. Someone else has already stated what is going on here. These people do not identify as a slur. His entire argument…

No, you didn't. The original person did. You then told me I was making a straw man by calling him out for it. You could have just as easily not commented and I could have been deal…

You can call whatever this bizarre and obviously false claim is what you want, but this entire subthread is very transparently an attempt to justify using a slur. It has very "why …

Nobody can stop you from trying to shut down arguments by telling people that the insinuation that their existence is somehow so controversial that people can just casually suggest…

You know, telling people they're acting morally superior when they're confronting the fact that people are calling aspects of their identity controversial and acting like said part…

If you don't understand that the problem is that detractors have made simply being LGBTQ+ a political issue, you are not qualified to have an opinion here. I'm curious what you thi…

> Humanity either needs to "agree to disagree" on wide swaths of things we care a whole bunch about ([...] lgbtq [...]) or we need to go back to not discussing those things in publ…

> If I steal from you, you no longer have what I've stolen. If I copy your software, you still have it; I might just have deprived you of profits (if I had otherwise bought the sof…

> And what you're missing is that "perpetuity" is a lie. You are now actively misrepresenting my point, which was that someone is going to have to reverse engineer something in ord…

> I can list the two I've played: Elite Dangerous and Planetary Annihilation. Another one I can name is The Crew. I don't know enough about Planetary Annihilation, but Elite: Dange…

> Hardly. Diablo 3 is probably the most famous example (partly because it's so popular, partly because it's direct predecessor didn't have an always-online requirement), but hardly…

I mean, I know it's convenient for companies, but there are other ways to look at this, namely that it obsoletes actual DRM and provides you with something in return, which DRM doe…

Can't you use the auction house from single-player? If so, this is part of my point. This isn't some grand conspiracy to limit ownership of games. This is the kind of thing that mo…

Okay, have fun in your alternate reality where users host all of your data and you regularly lose characters or accounts you've spent months on because they decide they can't be ar…

I literally didn't say the network code was different. But server load, internet requirements (have fun hosting an Ultima Online server for your friends on a 56K modem), and more m…

> So we know the ability to have dedicated servers and in game server browser exists inside the engine. You can continue to spout conspiracy theories if you want, but the fact of t…

Ummm...more and more games are forcing you to be online during play because, in reality, that's what people want . People want their universal auction houses that connect with othe…

Why do any rightsholders care about anything? Because it's about risk management and looking like they're actively protecting their IPs.

> Steam This is a bad example because Steam's DRM is notoriously terrible and even multiplayer games that use Steam's multiplayer services can be played entirely without Steam with…

...to push the narrative that piracy is evil and they need to take more measures against it.