The only SMS I’ve gotten in the last 5 years are the double authentication ones. WhatsApp is the default way of texting in many countries. Outside of the US, when you ask people to stop using WhatsApp, chances are you are asking them to give up texting entirely. Which you must realize is complicated to say the least
Almost all jobs in which you have to interact with people, so most of them. I work in an office and i need it to communicate with clients, with my boss or coworkers, or with a government agency. You have to understand that WhatsApp is ubiquitous outside of the US. Here we never got free SMS, so WhatsApp became the default way of texting. Even people on iphones use WhatsApp here
When everybody uses WhatsApp to communicate, which is a meta service, it’s a bit complicated to cut off communication with literally everybody in your country (work, friends, businesses) just to not use a service. It’s disingenuous to expect this without some sort of change within the current status quo. And this is coming from someone who doesn’t use any of their other platforms but has to use WhatsApp, because that’s literally the only choice
I love this! Using screens we display 3D environments on a 2D surface. This is displaying a 3D environment on a 3D projection. I wonder how would you go about displaying a 4D environment in this 3D projection. The difference in dimensions would be akin to our conventional 3D in 2D setup, so I’d be intrigued in the comparisons we could draw from projecting 4D in 3D.
It’s always the classic not-rule to take-away-your-children slippery slope, they always warned us of that in school
You keep referencing the community as if I wasn’t aware. I made a comment yesterday here in this very thread referencing it, so I clearly know this is a place for unpopular opinions, that’s why I’m debating in good faith and that’s why I said in my previous comment it was ironic.
But no, please re-read what I said, that you started the post with an assumption, and you presented it as fact. That’s not debatable, you stated that games aren’t supposed to be realistic. You didn’t back that up with an argument, you just repeated how you think games should be perceived and then proceeded to trash a popular franchise as an example.
Like I said, I mean no animosity towards you. But I chimed in literally because this community invites to debate
I expressed my counter argument in my first comment. You then replied with a non-answer, trying to justify your lack of argument with the community name.
And let me be clear, I’m not criticizing you, I’m criticizing your debating. You started the original post making an assumption and stating it as fact while failing to provide a compelling argument to back it up, so when people inevitably try to discuss it, you did hide behind the curtain of ‘it’s my opinion, I’m not harming anyone’. Which makes it the more ironic when you brought to attention the community name in response to me calling you out.
Yeah, which invites people to discuss and to offer counter-arguments. So why are you on the defensive about it? When you open up a topic for discussion and people have a different opinion than you, usually instead of resorting to ‘is my opinion, deal with it’, people often offer a footing for their argument to stand on.
To answer your first question first, empathy is a social skill and if you truly want to understand other people’s opinions, it’s a skill you must hone. No one is saying you must be empathic, but if you want to truly get why some people like it more when they can immerse themselves in a piece of art, then you do need to be able to try to walk in their shoes.
Regarding your second point, you framed the original post as a fact of life and not an opinion (‘games are not supposed to be realistic’ vs ‘i think games shouldn’t be realistic’) so don’t be surprised when people argue against your opinion as if it were fact.
One of the most compelling arguments I’ve heard. I must say I was a skeptic before but this really opened my eyes
I personally don’t enjoy games like COD, but it’s disingenuous to believe one of the most lucrative franchises to exist, played and enjoyed by billions worldwide, is garbage. You may not like it, but you can’t declare it a garbage game as it certainly has its appeal. Doing so reeks of ‘old-man-yelling-at-kids-to-get-off-his-lawn’.
As for your other point, it is certainly an unpopular opinion. For a lot of people gaming is an escape from reality, yes, but video games as an artistic expression can also represent reality and even mirror it. I don’t know what you mean by ‘realism’; is it graphical fidelity? Is it mechanics and its level of abstraction to model our world? There is certainly a conversation to be had here, but I would say how closely a game should mirror real life should depend on what type of game we are talking about, after all.
Yeah, i recognize the brand, but i thought it had to be more than that. The purpose of censoring the logo is usually legal and to be clear what is and what is not product placement. That is done correctly, so i’d say this doesn’t fit this community
Can somebody explain what i’m missing? The logo is blurred correctly and can’t be read
The golden rule of the internet. Anything hated at release has a high chance of becoming beloved once those who grew up with become adults.
Truly bad stuff at release simply ends up forgotten.
Nostalgia is way more powerful than rage
Laughs in Argentinian with regular +40°C Christmases lately
Not that I doubt the scientific accuracy of space Dinos coming home in a rocket, but technically speaking monkeys didn’t exist by the time dinosaurs went extinct, so the space Dinos wouldn’t have known about them. We were all the size of rodents
Reddit’s life blood is arguments for the argument’s sake, even when you don’t have a flu what you are arguing against or for. So it doesn’t really surprise. Besides, Reddit’s been heavily moderating positive comments about Lemmy so it may be that bias showing
Because not everywhere works exactly like the US? Besides the point, if you work at a McDonald’s, they are not going to give you a phone so you can text your manager. If you don’t have a means of communication you are not getting the job.