The meme is a bit wordy, but uh no, plently of people in relationships are not great at communicating, setting clear expectations and boundaries...
But issuing an ultimatum is a power move, that if acquiesed to, sets a precedent where that can be done for anything. This is antithetical to a relationship where each person respects the other one. After an ultimatum like this, such mutual respect is impossible going forward.
The only correct choice, for both people, is that if an ultimatum like this is issued, or one person genuinely thinks they have no other option?
I think its pretty obvious that I'm just throwing out something that is almost certainly not related, at the end.
I did literally say its 'unrelated'.
Because sometimes I'm a petty little bitch, just like you'd have to be to surreptitiously write an ideological ban list into some open source software.
I'm just illustrating a similar level of dirty play here... if that confuses idiots, I don't care, in fact that's part of the point.
Also, why am I talking to a throwaway acount right now?
Too cowardly to say something on your real account?
The Greek Gods were said to be envious of mortals, because their single life meant that everything they did was more important, more impactful, more decisive, more meaningful than anything a God would ever do.
If Pheidippides is in some way looking down on all this... or even if he isn't...
He has achieved immortality, in the form of essentially a secular religious tradition stemming from him, that unifies the entire species in the peaceful furtherance and celebration of physical and mental discipline and perserverance.
I cannot easily think of much more noble a legacy to leave behind... he has transcended the specific cricumstances of his life and times, and become the father of a beloved tradition, dedicated to to the indomitability of the human body and spirit.
His particular name might not be as famous as say, Achilles... but ...
I feel he wouldn't mind.
It was, after all, about the delivery of the message, not the messenger himself.
GreyStar is illegally rigging rent prices, nimbys make sure nothing good can ever happen, the entire construction industry is corrupt as fuck, and all of Seattle's 'affordable housing' plans are total fucking jokes that won't create anything approaching the number of affordable apartments actually needed, and mostly just functions as a subsidy to landlords that sucked at managing their own finances.
Seattle is the Delusional Rainbow Capitalism capitol of the country. At least San Fran knows its capitalist as fuck, Seattle for some reason pretends like it isn't.
... really, how could they actually ban specific models? From business use? Yeah sure, ok, but... there's no way to fully ban some particular kind of data.
Just another subsidy to the idiot pedophile rapist owner class that can't even run anything well.
Yeah haha, 'casual' as a word for that... I tried to expand on the meaning confusion via stealth edit, I may not have been fast enough lol.
But yeah, a lot of bog standard dudebro games are not casual in the sense of uh ... sweatiness?
But they are casual in the sense of 'you only have to be casually aware of video games to know... CoD, or Zelda, or Halo'... like, opposed to niche, basically.
You are precisely the kind of exception I was trying to describe.
I know not all console primary gamers pretty much only play games from well known publishers... but most of them mostly do, as you seem to agree.
'Casuals', as we used to say, though the vocabulary has changed in the last 20 something years, so thats probably not a great word to use these days, as 'casual' is now more of a genre or an attribute, games that tend to not require intense/precise input sequences, or very much thinking, are designed to be low intensity, low frustration.
Back then, we meant it as 'casually interested in the hobby of gaming', as opposed to some kind of diehard nerd that was always looking intently for the best or the weirdest or rarest, or something like that.
Most console gamers, console primary gamers... have no idea what an indie game even actually is, let alone how many of them there really are.
(Indie means self-published, btw... Independent -> Indie)
The expections to this are the ones that specifically hunt for really niche, not advertised things, or go hard into emulators.
Only true console peasants are in hysterical despair right now, or denial, or whatever stage of grief.
If your brain can only process passive consumption, if you're not capable of or willing to actively seek out specific games, find out which ones actually jive with you, put in some effort?
Then you have an abusive parasocial relationship with a or multiple corporate entities, which is mostly just sad.
Maybe try like, actually talking to someone, an actual person, who actually knows games, instead of just following the herd and listening to marketing branded as 'journalism'?
See this right here is your maybe stealth 'Mimi is a bit off' indicator.
She's wearing a full sized sweater, but also carries around another full size sweater, in her purse, not for a camping trip, but for a presumably routine commute via metro.
How... does that make sense?
... I feel like Agent K shooting only the cut out of the school girl with PhD level books in hand, lol.
I think that Victor may not have English as his primary/first language, I am trying to use a simple comparison that is more likely to convey the general, fundamental concepts.
The meme is a bit wordy, but uh no, plently of people in relationships are not great at communicating, setting clear expectations and boundaries...
But issuing an ultimatum is a power move, that if acquiesed to, sets a precedent where that can be done for anything. This is antithetical to a relationship where each person respects the other one. After an ultimatum like this, such mutual respect is impossible going forward.
The only correct choice, for both people, is that if an ultimatum like this is issued, or one person genuinely thinks they have no other option?
You two are done.
You do not work as a couple, wrap it up.