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  • Who decides if someone's a pedophile or not? How are you going to track that? Force people to take a test or something? Hell, currently we're in a world where queer people, especially trans people, are called "groomers" and "pedophiles" for the sheer act of being trans. So you call people you don't want to come in pedophiles and then they can't come in. Nope, no trans people allowed because we're all "pedophiles" according to the government.

    Okay what, you're going to limit it to people who've been convicted of child sex crimes. Well, then they make the existence of people who they don't like count as sex crimes. Again, as is happening to trans people. Existing in public as yourself is a crime so you're charged and treated the same as a pedophile.

    So we've already covered why your logic is completely broken and this idea is stupid. But let's push all of that aside. For the sake of argument, best case scenario, we are only talking about actual genuine pedophiles. Have they committed a crime? Are they in prison? Then they're not crossing any borders since they're incarcerated.

    What if they haven't committed a crime yet? Well then we'd have no way of knowing they're a pedophile unless they admitted it themselves. And no these people shouldn't be punished just for having those sexual desires. For one, most people are able to control themselves despite sexual urges. Cases of rapes and sexual assault are the result of power dynamics, not random uncontrollable urges. And two, these people should be given help given this could cause genuine mental distress.

    What if they've committed a crime but served their time? Well, what justification is there to stop them? What if they harm another child? Well what if they do it in their own country? That's not going to make a difference. And this also goes into the complex issue that is the prison system and how it's largely useless at doing anything other than containing people as a punishment rather than actually attempting to help reform people.

    Anyway no, I don't think there's any justification for restricting any kind of "undesirable" from entering a country. Beyond anything else, it just ends up a loophole to punish any group of people you don't like by branding them as that undesirable. Same for every human right. If it doesn't apply to everyone then it applies to no one.

    And if you're a special kind of dumbass who'd say "well what about nazis/the kkk/etc", the answer is that ideologies that are inherently intolerant of other people just for existing do not get the benefit of tolerance themselves.

  • Knowing that the system as it is now is wrong does not make me an expert on how we could prevent issues. But some people being able to "do a bit of crime" easier is probably better than the human rights violations that are occurring now. And even otherwise, open borders doesn't inherently mean nothing with no one checking people. Just means you can freely travel. But also, Europe doesn't seem to have an issue of people popping cross the border to "do a bit of crime" and go home to get off scott free. Because that's not how borders and laws work.

    And human trafficking is a problem with the world as it is currently. So that's not stopping anything. And hell, it makes "illegal" immigrants easier targets of this kind of exploitation. Can't really get much help if you're in the country illegally and your family member is kidnapped.

  • I feel like "illegal" immigration as a concept is inherently racist and being upset and anyone for not coming over the "right" way is also racist.

  • I mean I have no actual respect for any of these companies. Their goal is money before anything else. Them "taking shots" at one another is meaningless to me.

  • Who still uses Facebook?

  • Why couldn't you believe that? So many other games announce whole season passes before launch. This is super common.

  • I can't imagine this would be any less soulless feeling.

  • Story matters in a lot of games to me. But not in borderlands. I play borderlands for the looting and shooting basically. And 3's the best at that. Though I've heard 4 is even better still in that regard.

  • 3 was the best out of all of them from a gameplay perspective. People don't like the story but I never cared for any of the borderlands stories personally.

  • The issue is the many people who complain when a game or other media have women that look like actual women. Calling them men because they don't look like the perfectly sexualized women in media that they're used to.

    Yes they can't tell the difference, but they're still doing real harm.

    Banning sexualization is not the solution, but the prevalence of it in media to the point it is expected and people get angry when it's gone is a problem as well.

  • I mean yeah I guess that is one.

  • We can hate them as much as we want, but it doesn't change the fact the hoyoverse games are massive in terms of popularity and incredibly successful. By all accounts, yeah it's a massive crossover.

  • Well whether you like it or not, you're just insulting people for criticizing a game. Not even just for it's difficulty, so you couldn't be more off base.

    Legitimately this mindset is why most gaming forums are so toxic. It makes it difficult to actually discuss problems with and opinions on games without people basically going "git gud."

    There is room to bring up the fact that some games are just not for everyone, but that also doesn't invalidate the criticism they have.

  • I haven't played silksong, but most games like Dark Souls and the like, getting back to the boss without taking damage is pretty easy. It's not difficulty, it's just time.

  • I'm not really used to metroidvanias having runbacks honestly. Most I've played either have save points close to the bosses or just drop you outside the boss room if you die.

  • Why people resort to insulting anyone who criticizes things they like

  • Wintersaga by Wind rose. My favorite band by a long shot.

  • Why even comment if you're just going to regurgitate AI garbage?

  • Was this just conservatives? I never saw anyone say anything positive about the changes. Potential problems with some decor they might have, I don't think that reasonably translates to completely scrub it of all personality anyway.

  • When I tried out fedora on my gaming PC I noticed most games ran noticeably worse on my Nvidia card. They still ran, you could still play, but the experience was nonetheless worse. Elden ring went from rarely dropping below 60 on windows to hovering around 45. FFXIV which would often be at 144fps, usually around 110 during dungeons and only dropping below 100 in really busy cities, went to never even reaching 100.

    It's doable but be prepared for games to run worse. When I looked up issues I found this was normal for Nvidia cards. So just be prepared.