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Current me, ironically? Still a dick.
Edit: didn't realize what community I was in lmfao not a programmer, just a perpetual douchebag.
You should consider committing to reading an entire comment before chiming in, next time. Your comment was irrelevant and didn't really add much to the conversation. Yes, he's a pedo. No, that's not relevant to this comment thread, which is discussing the Republican party's projections.
They just released a large content update lmao. 10 years after the initial release.
Make sure you know what you're signing up for, tho. It's very much a minecraft-style game. There is some story, and it isn't bad, but it definitely isn't the focus. It is a fun mystery to kinda discover tho. The game has a lot of mystery/exploration aspects.
I took a look! Hell yeah, I will get on it... as soon as I put down No Man's Sky, which I picked up recently.
I have! Another interest of mine is TTRPG, specifically I am a frequent DM. I love designing custom encounters with unique mechanics to engage my players.
I have also dabbled in coding. I started with HTML and BYOND (I never made anything beyond a 2d tile map of grass, an icon to move around on it, and a "hello world" message).
When I was a teenager, I tried to get into modding New Vegas via the GECK, but it was complicated and tedious looking. I wonder if I could go back now, as an adult, and make something I'm really proud of.
More recently, I got into making a mod for Stardew Valley. Idk what the code language would be called, but it's an extremely simple text-based system. I was making a mod to add a pop media character to the game because my close friend really likes him. It was going pretty well and honestly the scope creep got big, I was really fleshing the character's custom story out. Until I realized I had missed something in my testing, and noticed that certain triggers weren't working, and realized there were character limits for triggers. Which meant that I couldn't set up events with complex enough decisions to meet the goal I wanted to reach.
So I've taken a step back from that for awhile.
I did want to design video games as a kid, but it seemed like such a lofty goal that I never even tried pursuing it.
Sure, but you could have maybe tried to interpret it a little bit and ask them what they mean? Instead you opted to make public spectacle of something that a lot of non-native speakers are self-conscious of.
Or you could just have not engaged. But again. You opted to make fun of someone because either you were being thoughtless/careless, or because you're an asshole. Not a huge deal, but deserves being commented on.
You quite literally attempted to place blame directly on the hospital and its staff at least once, and implied it multiple times. You also are attacking the for profit healthcare industry in the US (which is bad), but also are refusing to acknowledge the failure of a UK entity which is participating in, and profiting off, the same for profit industry. Rereading all your comments, you have refused to acknowledge the insurance company as the party at fault. The closest you come to admitting it is saying "the system is bad."
So maybe we can end it with a conciliatory agreement, since you "admit defeat" by writing out a comment attempting to reframe me as some sort of aggressor.
So: we both agree. The American hospital, by participating in the for profit health industry, de facto sucks. The for profit health industry in America, sucks. The insurance company, by participating in the for profit health industry, de facto sucks. The insurance company, specifically, is the party directly responsible for this specific issue.
Agree to those statements, as each one is factually true, and I'll concede that you aren't trying to whitewash the insurance company's participation in the course of events.
Sure, but you could have maybe tried to interpret it a little bit and ask them what they mean? Instead you opted to make public spectacle of something that a lot of non-native speakers are self-conscious of.
Or you could just have not engaged. But again. You opted to make fun of someone because either you were being thoughtless/careless, or because you're an asshole. Not a huge deal, but deserves being commented on.
And yet you still have the opportunity to chime in about how you have televant qualifications, and you haven't.
Yes, like I said, we already agree that the system is bad. They were failed directly by the insurance company in this case, and there is pretty much nothing additional you could reasonably have expected from a hospital in an emergency situation like a premature birth.
Your original comment put the blame at the hospital's feet, not the insurance company's feet. When called out, you justified it by saying "the whole system was wrong, I'm not here to argue minutia".
Indeed, you are here to force out a point, backtrack and move goalposts when called out, and act as if your messaging has an underlying "the system is bad" message, when you could have just said "yeah, the insurance company sucks in this case. Whole system is bad."
These people were failed (directly by the insurance company), and it shouldn't have happened.
Insufferable. Just learn to back down when you misspeak instead of getting defensive.
Yeah man, I know I need to give cyberpunk a try sometime, but there is truly such a back log! On your recc, I'll definitely move it up in priority tho.
TTW has been so good because Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game and New Vegas is my favorite.
It's awesome. But yeah, the installation I think is more complex when you have it like that.
Something I noticed after replaying Fallout 3 for the first time in like 10 years, also, was how bad the voice direction in the game was. Like it isn't always bad but it is obvious that the voice actors weren't given much to work with at all.
Yeah, that's fair lol.
Can I get uh.. chimken numget?
Hard to take your original comment being excited seriously because we are on lemmy and woke is just the norm here lmao. Hence why we are on a popular post about intersectionality!
And yeah also I don't think they meant any harm. That's why I just said "ok xenophobe" instead of like, reporting it and moving on. So they can be like "oh yeah. I guess I did say something problematic."
...right, you still seem confused about what is being said, since the first half of your reply is just... stating that the practitioner themselves usually don't directly send the bill, the billing department does.
I guess I could see how you could misconstrue that from what I said, but it doesn't really address the crux of who was at fault here: the insurance company.
The system failed these people? Uh... sure... the American health care system is hot dog ass and insurance is bullshit. I agree, the system sucks.
My only point here is that your comment directly makes it out to be the US/hospitals fault.
But! That being said! I see where the confusion is, now.
I realise that, my connecting thought was that the hospital looking at their insurance policy should have been able to understand the pregnancy was covered.
You presumably meant to say "the pregnancy wasn't covered". Because of this typo, it made me think you were saying that it WAS covered and that the hospital made a mistake when reading.
Also:
You aren't the only one whose work has involved medical insurance
To be fair, when you say "I wouldn't choose to live or travel through the US", it makes it pretty fair to assume you aren't already there. If you are out of the states, I have no idea how your experiences with a different healthcare system could be relevant? But hey, maybe you should lead with relevant information about why your input has more weight behind it than the average commenter.
That being said... it still doesn't. You spent half your comment acting like I was being misleading because I said "the billing doctor/hospital sent it to the insurance company", when any reasonable person would extrapolate that obviously the staff is responsible for that? I said billing doctor because the hospital sends the bill in the doctor's name. They might not be literally penning the bill, but they are the biller, they are doing the billing.
Edit: also, insurance companies are mostly all closed on weekends and you can't just "call to confirm the policy" in every situation.
Bro must be 20 if they think 2017 was the year of alternating caps. It turns out, some sentiment is timeless. 😎 but yes, also, making fun of someone because they aren't very practiced at their non-native language is xenophobia. are you familiar of the concept of "laughing with vs laughing without"?
But okay, let's say it's not xenophobic to target someone specifically for a cultural/language difference. It's not xenophobia, it's just being an asshole. And yeah, assholes deserve to be called out and dogged on.
So what's your point? You just love assholes? Big anal guy?
It's xenophobic to ridicule a non-native speaker and ask them if they had a stroke. You are ridiculing them and making a joke at their expense.
You also have a lot of gall to comment on how other people speak, to be honest. Your mastery of the English language is lacking. Maybe it's not your first language either?
I can only info dump when I'm prompted to start talking about something now. I have special interests, but I have no interest in talking about them with people that I can feel aren't really engaged. And the only people who ever engage eventually do get worn down after a while, or they're more knowledgeable than me about something and that makes me fall in infatuation with them.
So if anyone wants to talk about modding video games and get married, hmu. Modding specifically is my special interest, and the games I mod include:
Elder Scrolls series (primarily Oblivion/ Skyrim but I have played some modded morrowind within the last 5 years)
Fallout series (all of them! Ok, I haven't played 2 or the offshoots, but... shut up. New Vegas is my favorite :3)
Stardew Valley (I have 2700 hours in stardew :3 burnt out rn tho lowkey)
Dark Souls 1/3, Elden Ring
Baldurs Gate 3
Dragon Age (mostly origins, it continuously went downhill from there for me. I have done a couple modded replays of inquistion tho)
Minecraft
If you were to ask me what I could go on for the longest about? Probably New Vegas? Especially since I recently put in a fresh 200 hours. I finally got into TTW (a mod for new vegas that utilizes your copy of Fallout 3 goty to combine both games into a single experience) and installed it alongside some modernization modlists and HOLY SHIT.
I hadn't played since 2021, an era that seemed like New Vegas was dying. People had long moved onto Fallout 4, quest mods weren't coming out at the same frequency, etc
There was a total renaissance right after I left. If you haven't played new vegas in a while: consider coming back and finding a guide or using a program like wabbajack to mod your game.
I personally followed the Viva New Vegas guide, then after deciding to jump into TTW, I found that the VNV people have a guide for a TTW list called TBoT (The Best of Times). Both of these lists are,'in my experience, more stable than the base game. A lot of important performance and configuration mods came out.
Then, there's another list called WSG that I followed (wasteland survival guide), which added new content to the game and made it more hardcore.
If you made it this far and you really want to hear more, ask me a question. :3
Hey what the fuck man! I was looking forward to arguing more! You can't kick me out!