I can’t remember seeing a game so totally flame out like Outriders.

The beta/demo was so promising! Devs were responsive, answered questions, released patches (on a DEMO!). All was right with the world.

I bought it on launch day, completed the campaign in a week, 1st patch comes out and the game absolutely shits the bed.

Connectivity problems, blanked out inventories, armor values not being honored resulting in 1 hit kills, and the devs who had been so responsive went radio fucking silent as the game became unplayable overnight. :(

I don’t know if they ever actually fixed it or not, I got my campaigns worth out of it and never looked back.

Keep hope alive! They got baby Jessica out after 56 hours… She’s apparently 38(!) now!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Jessica_McClure

Substack isn’t allowed because there’s no way to vet each individual blog and because it is a blog site, there is no inherent accountability like there are with proper news sites.

With a proper news site there are services like Media Bias Fact Check and others that will provide a deeper insight as to who runs the joint, what their agenda is (if any), if they’ve failed fact checks, and so on and so on.

Subatack is a lot like Facebook or X in that anyone can post anything and maybe they’re reliable, maybe they aren’t, but we can’t check every single blog out there.

I get that the rule seems harsh, but it’s kind of like liquor stores that say “We ID anyone under 30.” It just makes the policy easier to enforce.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

If it were an actual news site with actual reporting? Sure, I’d allow that because to do that WELL there would have to be some level of fact checking, accountability, etc. etc. Naturally there are exceptions to that (cough) OANN, Breitbart, NewsMax, whatever passes for the Weekly World News these days.

Man, I love me some Bat-Boy, but not all news is created equally. :)

We don’t allow ALL news sources, there are truly awful ones. Check out this one I removed from Politics the other day:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/dnyuz/

"DNyuz is an Armenian website that plagiarizes content word for word from major news sources. They literally copy and paste entire articles and embed their advertising code for profit. As one can imagine, a source like this completely lacks transparency as there is zero information to be found about authors, owners, location, or mission.

Since November 2019, the Drudge Report has been linking to this website presumably to bypass paywalls on major news sources such as the New York Times. According to a Buzzfeed report, Dnyuz was founded and is run by “Hayk Karapetyan, a web developer living in Armenia.” They further report that Drudge has driven 8 million page views to DNyuz from November 2019 through May 2020."

It’s all good. My personal beef with Substack is that literally anyone can do one. I have better things to do with my time than personally vet each and every Substack blog, keep a list of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice and share that with all the other mods. That’s why we just go “Yeah, Substack? No.” Same if it were Medium, or Blogger, or X or Youtube or Reddit.

If it’s a real news story, there will be (eventually) a real news article to link to, as happened here.

Let’s say RFK Jr. sets up a Substack about how vaccines are all causing brain damage. That would be removed as well, we don’t even have to bother debunking it, just being on a source that has no vetting is enough.

Because you disagree with someone who thinks all black lives matter, not just the ones killed by white cops. Got it.

This entire thread started because I responded to this comment:

"You’re really having this conversation here…

… while simultaneously being part of the mod team that bans this source and topic in all the .world instances you moderate?"

See that bit at the end? ALL THE INSTANCES I MODERATE.

Primarily, that means Politics and World. There are other tiny ones nobody but me and maybe 1 or 2, maybe as many as 5 care about.

You’re the one insisting I address community I DO NOT MODERATE.

So while I can speak authoritatively about what I mod, I can’t speak to News.

Me: Well, here’s why we banned it in Politics and World…

You: HOW DARE YOU NOT TALK ABOUT NEWS!!!

Well, that’s not the question I was asked. I was asked about the ones I moderate.

Here, come back after you have someone explain this to you:

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/nearly-half-of-teenagers-globally-cannot-read-with-comprehension

Oh, so you think it’s totally OK to ignore when black people are murdered by people other than white cops? Good to know.

That would be something to take up with the News mods, all I can explain is why we don’t allow them in the groups I mod.

News may have similar opinions or they may have their own ideas. I haven’t talked with them about it.

Hmm… I guess I need to use smaller words just for you:

Me not news mod.
Me can speak for Politics and World.
Me can no speak for News.
Me explain mod rules for Politics and World.
News has own rules.
News rules not my rules.
News does their thing, Politics and World do their thing.
Two things not same thing.
News can do things Politics and World don’t.
Politics and world do things News doesn’t.

If that’s not good enough I can see if I can round up a below average 6 year old to explain it to you.

I can’t speak to what News does or does not do, I’m not a mod there.

I have told you why it’s removable under thr rules for Politics and World, both of which have different rules than News.

That’s the way the communities work.

That’s pretty much what I found, like any good product category there’s an entry level price up to “Well, how much would you like to pay?” ;)

You can spend 5 to 6 times what I did, but now you’re talking about something that one person can’t manipulate by themselves unless you drive it instead of a car.

Even if world allowed Substack, which it doesn’t, it STILL would have been removed for being internal US news, not world news.

See each community has a thing called a “Sidebar” that explain the rules for the community, you might try actually reading them sometime.

Here, I’ll make it super easy for you:

Still not clear? How about now?

Again, News has their own rules separate from Politics and World News.

Even if Politics and World News allowed Substack, the Klippenstein post would have been removed for it not being politics in one case, and for being internal US news in the other.

Lots of Teslas in this town including a surprising number of Cybertrucks with custom wraps. I can’t tell how many silver ones there are as I don’t remember plates, but I’ve also seen a black one and a red one.

Different communities have different rules, what applies to News may not apply somewhere else.

A mod who enforces the rules… I know, I know, kids hate this one restrictive trick!

Also bought a headlight for it to get in and out of movie theaters. :) Plugs into the charging port and gives me a USB port too.

Tell him to look up the stats on Discrete Math. Almost everyone fails it the first time. My kid did, he passed it the 2nd time, got his degree and now does crazy AI stuff for 300K a year.

He’s up in Vancouver B.C. presenting a paper right now.