Lemminary

try to export their strict laws

No, not laws, but religious views and values. That’s what their laws reflect. Religious people are famous for trying to proselytize, convert, and meddle because they have a very fundamental belief that they’re dealing with larger forces of good and evil.

gives them so much personal joy at taking away our gay kissing

Again, please don’t reduce my argument to absurdity. That is not a productive or respectful way of making your point.

Whaaat, the party of small government is doing this? Impossible.

Telegram groups is where it’s at. ;)

Same, but a bit longer for me. I still find it crazy that so many people want to move to the US. It’s not the place people dream of.

Yeah, I have those games, but I want to know what direction they’ll take. I want to know how bold they would be if they wanted to.

Saudi Arabia is a country with one of the strictest laws in the world. Why shouldn’t anyone be suspicious of what they say or do? Why can’t people have a healthy amount of distrust and skepticism of their actions if, as you said, they’re trying to portray a different image of themselves to the world? Who says the mask can’t come off under the right circumstances, like the shameless right-wing downturn of the US?

The Sims IP has always been one of the most welcoming and famous platforms for non-traditional values that directly contradict their country’s principles. Because I don’t know if you know, but homosexuality in Saudi Arabia is currently punishable by death. It’s fair to imagine that some company-wide policy changes would take place when it’s acquired to align with its own views, which also align with the Trump administration’s crusade to eliminate liberal ideas. I mean, didn’t they recently bribe him with a luxury jet? Don’t you think they could have a broader joint interest at heart?

If franchises like Call of Duty have been targets of military marketing, it doesn’t take much to imagine how a corporation from an authoritarian country like SA would at least attempt to rein in social values in The Sims if given the chance.

I’d rather have that than the IPs being used to promote and indoctrinate some religious bullshit.

I wonder what they’ll do with IPs like The Sims. I can’t imagine they’ll allow same-sex relationships, naturally, but I don’t think they’ll allow divorce, either. :S

I agree with you, but I think you’re taking one idea to leverage another to arrive at a conclusion that I’m not promoting. The other commenters seem to have interpreted well what I’m trying to say.

I’m not so much pro-Palestine as anti-Israel if that makes sense. I realize the conflict is complex and they’ve all been horrible to each other for as long as anyone can remember, but Israel’s bullshit has gone too far. It’s inevitable to side with the Palestinians who have to live in terror every single day.

Because voting red has worked well so far? I don’t get the logic. There aren’t any other options.

Amen. 🙏

Awesome. Another reason to never give them money again. 👍

Inb4 the ackshually, homosexuality is a modern concept that’s been around for less than 100 years ☝🤓

It gets quite silly when you blame the entire dev community for supposedly downvoting you over ideals rather than being overly strict about them. I also prefer HTML-first and think it should be the norm, but I draw the line somewhere reasonable.

I can’t get to that page, so I asked a question

Yeah, and you can run the innocuous JS or figure out what it is from the URL. You’re tying your own hands while dishing it out to everyone else.

Not idol worship, rather, it’s silly to complain about JS when tools like NoScript allow you to selectively choose what runs instead of guessing what it is. It’s simply a documentation page like it says on the URL. I mean, they’re incredibly tame on the danger scale to leave your guard all the way up and instead take a jab at the entire community that had nothing to do with your personal choices.

The AI bullshit features as you call them are completely non invasive,

And yet I had to turn them off in about:config, not even in the regular settings. Why are the settings hidden? Why can’t I turn them on if I want them? Why isn’t opt-in and transparency their standard approach with such a controversial feature? Those are some serious dark patterns for a company advertising itself as user-friendly, that they had to backtrack on when they saw the community uproar.

Now it’s happening again, but on the developer side.

Stop the bullshitting and complaining over things are completely irrelevant

Irrelevant? I can’t afford AI threads running in the background, hogging my memory and processing power away from my productivity apps for whatever bullshit they decide to add that barely relates to what I use a browser for. I don’t live in a “first-world country” with standard hardware. That’s the whole reason I use Firefox, for the respect for their users that I have grown accustomed to, which they now seem to want to ignore. It’s a huge violation of trust that you’re downplaying when they want to add things first and apologize later.

The bottom line is that their approach has shifted recently, and I have every right to criticize them for it when they say one thing and do another.

The only important part was the first. I kept thinking, how in the world is it acceptable to charge that much for a degree and endebt students for the majority of their lives? What if you fail to find a high-paying job to pay it back? People would simply shrug it off as if it were normal and shared “tips” like paying the minimum of $50 forever without caring that they’d end up paying twice as much as they borrowed.

And because of that, our high school admins made sure to show us that trade jobs and community college were viable alternatives. I took the third option because of the family circumstances at the time.

And China, and possibly India. I’m so tired of the world powers being run by a bunch of dickheads.

'Twas I!