What grinds my gears

The modern social justice cult divides people into groups based on how "oppressed" they are, and assigns more rights, privileges, responsibilities and guilt onto people based on which such group they belong to. At the very bottom of the barrel are, of course, white men (although jews might or might not be even lower, depending on the social justice warrior). White women are just slightly above them, because they are women (and thus more oppressed than white men). White people in general, and white men in particular, are considered the bottom of the barrel in more than one way. Not only do they get no respect, consideration or rights in the eyes of social justice warriors, and not only are they despised, vilified and hated, but to an increasing extent social justice warriors think that white people are pretty much a different species from other people, who are literally, not just metaphorically, genetically predisposed to racism and oppression. It's literally in their DN...

In 2015 Valve implemented the now famous refund policy on Steam: Within 14 days, or 2 hours of gameplay (whichever comes first) you are allowed to refund a game you have purchased, no questions asked. The media and the public lauded Valve for being so consumer-friendly, and one of the very few good and fair corporations out there. It seemed to be a fresh deviation from the corporate greed we are all so accustomed to. What the vast majority of people don't know, however, is why Valve suddenly decided to implement this policy. The reality is that Valve didn't do so because they were thinking what's best for their customers. They did it because they were thinking what's best for Valve. It was purely for self interest. After all, Valve's non-refund policy prior to this change was quite strong. For example, customers in the EU had, in principle, the right to a 14-day refund of any purchases, but there is a caveat in these EU laws that state that a customer may waive...

When a bit over a year ago Donald Trump was elected the president of the United States, leftist social justice warriors, celebrities, and pretty much the entirety of the leftist media, predicted pretty much an era of Nazi Germany for the country. Many social justice warriors, including many celebrities, were literally crying in desperation, and making somber videos and posts about the grim future, and how it was pretty much the end of the world. They quite literally looked like they were jews being led to the showers of Auschwitz. And I'm not even exaggerating; you can find videos made by these people on YouTube, where they sound and look like they are expecting the state police to kick down their door at any moment and take them to concentration camps to be gassed. A year has passed and... well, nothing much, really. Trump enacted, to a varying extent, some of the promises he made during his campaign, such as repealing the affordable healthcare act, and the travel ban from cert...

This is the Aim Controller for the PSVR: Do you know what it looks like it's perfectly designed to emulate (all the way up to its very color scheme)? This: Yet, sadly, Valve will never make a Portal game for the PSVR (much less one supporting the aim Controller). That's because Valve has stopped developing games altogether. (Also, even if they did by some miracle develop a game for it, it would probably be a crippled game, because Valve doesn't believe you can move with a joystick in a VR game.) On a similar note, this is the PlayStation Move Controller (which is fully tracked in PSVR): Do you know what it looks like it's perfectly designed to emulate? This: Yet, so far there isn't a single Star Wars PSVR game where you get to use a lightsaber. Maybe in the future there might be, but I'm not very hopeful.

Suppose you are a completely healthy person, in quite good health and fitness. There's nothing medically wrong with you, and therefore you most certainly don't need any sort of medication or other medical treatment. Would it make sense to deliberately start taking medication that you don't need, and that has severe physical detrimental effects on your body and your health, just because you feel like there's something you don't like about yourself? Many transsexuals take cross-hormones like candy, even though most of them are fully aware of their negative health effects. When you take them for long enough (and not even necessarily for that long), they sterilize you, they increase the risk of several kinds of cancer, and may have a myriad of other long-term detrimental side-effects. And the only reason why they take these hormones is to try to change their appearance to be more of the opposite sex. (Some of them even do it without even planning to have a sex change ...

I'm not here talking about their ergonomics (which are rather horrible), but about an infamous flaw in the Joy Cons, which should have never went into production. The Joy Cons are the two half-controllers that attach to the sides of the Nintendo Switch, and can be detached (allowing them to be used when the Switch is docked, or even when it isn't, especially if using the grip peripheral, or even on their own. Some two-player games even have each player using one of the controllers.) When used detached, they have strap attachments that ought to be connected to them. Most people don't notice it, but the left Joy Con has a "-" symbol at its top, which ought to match the equivalent symbol on the strap attachment. Likewise the right one has a "+" symbol. For an unfathomable reason, however, they can be attached in the wrong orientation (ie. upside down, or on the wrong Joy Con, likewise upside down). An extremely basic principle of engineering desig...

How many times have you seen someone say or write "it's a private company, they can do whatever they want"? I have seen it tons of times, and I'm getting sick of it. Quite obviously a private company can't do whatever they want. I can't even believe this has to be stated because it's so utterly obvious. Can a private company, for instance, hire a hitman and murder people? Of course not. Can a private company, for example, put poison in their products and cause thousands of people to die from it? Of course not! I'm not straw-manning the issue here. That sentiment is often expressed by people when a company does something that's controversial, or something that's unfair towards somebody. People will often defend the company with that sentiment, without any qualifiers, implying that private companies, just by the fact that they are "private", have some kind of carte blanche to do whatever they please, without restrictions or limita...