The first game is much creepier than the second, I think due to a combination of the character designs, the writing and the general plot. The second game feels more akin to Danganronpa, in that the characters and setting are a bit surreal. Because it was a 3DS game, it also uses cartoony 3D models that make everything a bit lighter and less gritty than the original game. I haven’t played the third one yet (still need to get around to 100% completing the second game).

I found 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors to be very unsettling. I played it in bed at night with headphones on and it totally sucked me in. I guess this is a different type of horror to many of the games suggested here, which I personally don’t find scary.

One that is concerned about a public backlash. I’m not sure if you’re from Australia, but the community is very divided here over this issue. It’s also an issue that tends to be divided by age groups, with older people being more likely to support Israel’s actions or see criticism of Israel as anti-semitism. Classical concert audiences tend to be quite old. With this context in mind, I suspect the MSO received a handful of complaints and incorrectly assumed this position would be less inflammatory. It’s possible that it actually is within their immediate audience, but the problem with making a big public statement like they’ve done is that it automatically puts you on a "side’ in this heated and highly polarised environment.

They should have just spoken to the soloist privately and explained their concerns to him prior to the next concert, instead of turning it into a big controversy. As triggered as some people may have been by the introduction, it wouldn’t have been enough to turn this into a real controversy the way it has become since they cancelled the concert. Like this news story is not actually anywhere near important enough to make World News communities and get outraged replies from foreigners who had never even heard of the MSO before this. It’s the story’s connection to the situation in Gaza that is the big issue here, and deliberately involving themselves in that was a massive PR mistake.

The MSO has already backed down and is rescheduling the concert.

He was cancelled for calling Aboriginal people victims of settler-colonialism in Australia

Extremely unlikely. Australia’s colonial history and its impact on Indigenous Australians is a very common theme in modern Australian classical music and many concerts I have been to, including one just the other week, have conductors or soloists introduce the piece and specifically cite the context behind it. Unless the MSO is significantly different (which it doesn’t appear to be, based on some quick searches of Indigenous-themed concerts) this is not the reason. It was his comments about Israel targeting and killing journalists (what you quoted is not the actual introduction he made at the concert) which led to the cancellation.

It wasn’t actually that broad, he specifically mentioned that Israeli armed forces have targeted and killed journalists in Gaza.

People pay to see and enjoy listening to a symphony, not listen to political opinion.

I guess you don’t attend classic concerts often? It is very standard for conductors or soloists to introduce modern pieces and discuss their sociopolitical relevance. I literally just went to one the other week where the director of The King’s College Cambridge Choir introduced a piece about the massacre, dispossession and forced assimilation of Indigenous Australians.

This is just an argument for ceding space to conservatives, which makes them seem more prevalent than they are, because they’ve driven the opposition away.

The irony of a Beehaw user trying to making this argument in a Beehaw thread…

Whether social media is essential to life or not, it’s a normal part of modern life, and telling people to avoid it is no different than telling people to avoid bars or clubs if they don’t want to be harassed. It’s just victim blaming.

The correct comparison would be that it is like returning to the same bar, on the same day, at the same time when you know the people who have harassed you previously will be there. It is not victim blaming to suggest avoiding that particular bar if attending it is causing the person to have a mental breakdown. Giving choice, power and control back to the victim is not the same as blaming them for their situation. Again, we are having this conversation in a Beehaw thread; if you don’t understand the significance of that then I don’t know what else to say.

I would encourage you to read OP’s post again and ask yourself why the only top level reply in the thread might seem to be addressing an idea rather than a person.

Have you tried the various Firefox forks? If one of your primary problems with Firefox is a belief that they are “evil like Google” then switching to a browser developed by Google and further entrenching their monopoly on the market is a very strange decision.

Is it actually viable for ordinary people to purchase small amounts of cryptocurrency for the sole purposes of making more private purchases online or taking advantage of cryptocurrency discounts? All the coverage on them is about large-scale investing which makes me feel like no one buying and selling actually has any interest in cryptocurrencies as an alternative currency. Instead it’s just about getting rich, which is a massive turn off.

And now, you’re changing the subject.

I don’t know why you keep saying this. Do you still think I’m someone else you replied to earlier?

They weren’t “going off on a rant”, though. They were responding to something you said and it was a pretty good reply too with a lot of detail and thought put into it. If you didn’t want to discuss the election, you shouldn’t have quoted a sentence about the election. Getting all snide and dismissive after the fact is very strange behaviour on your part.

Do you even read the usernames of the people you reply to?

I see a lot of people reacting negatively to minorities and leftists breaking down on social media

The thing about that though is right wingers will push and push and push. They will spend all day every day harassing someone until they finally break down and have an outburst.

If you don’t spend all day on social media, you can’t be harassed on social media all day. If an online space is so toxic that you are “breaking down” then you have a responsibility to yourself to reassess whether it is actually healthy for you to be spending time in that space. Don’t get hung up on some kindergarten ideas about “fairness” or “they started it”, take a step back and realise that you actually have agency and choice. It is very strange to me that people complain about how toxic social media is and then change absolutely nothing about their own behaviour. Social media is non-essential to life, you do not need to be using it. Particularly not if it is causing you severe mental stress.

Why are you going off on some rant about how to win the election? What you’re saying is correct about how to approach the election and that’s not the subject of this post or this conversation.

You directly quoted and replied to a sentence referencing Trump’s presidential campaign. It is perfectly reasonable for people to assume you are interested in discussing the upcoming presidential election.

I have that problem too but I find using a Chromium-based browser is the solution. I doubt you actually need to use Chrome for these websites you’re having problems with.

Yes, Trump’s campaign is contributing to the effectiveness of the “weird” attack by very obviously allowing themselves to be triggered by it. Running counter-ads where they try to co-opt “weird” and use it to describe the Democrats is a massive fail on their part.

That was a good read, thanks for sharing. I agree with his caution. Probably the most important line there is the one people seem to most often forget:

Online subcommunities vastly overrate how representative their views are of the larger electorate

You could also say online sub-communities often vastly underestimate how important the views of a minority of the electorate are. It doesn’t matter if a majority of your peers in the US, or even the world, think Trump is unelectable or that Harris will win in a landslide. The young left in the US sometimes loses sight of that because their social media bubble constantly reinforces a positive news cycle about their candidate and a negative news cycle about their opponent.

I recently reset a laptop with Windows 11 on it, prior to installing Linux, and went through the setup process again. It is so bad now, the offline account option was completely missing and it was constantly trying to push Microsoft services on me. It felt very reminiscent of how freeware installations often try to trick users into accepting additional third party garbage.