doomcanoe

Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think.

Lol, bruh... You cant be serious.

Defending COBOL would require a statement to the effect of "COBOL should be kept because X". Do you see any affirmative statement to that effect? No? Wanna take a guess as to why?

I know you won't be honest about it in your response, but you know exactly why. Because this post has nothing to do with COBOL being good, bad, or in-between for the task at hand. It's exclusively about calling out bullshit and misinformation spread by unqualified idiots.

Which brings me back around to the fact that your opinion that "COBOL should be replaced" is not a valid defense of idiots, who don't understand the systems they are tasked with using, making false claims based on misunderstandings caused by their ignorance.

Let me get your point straight, because COBOL is an old language, you believe calling out misinformation that shows the people tasked with "finding corruption and financial mismanagement" are completely unqualified for the job isn't a "valid defense"?

A valid defense of what? The post doesn't defend COBOL, it makes no claims regarding the best way to track this data at all. It just points out that the dipshits making the claims of corruption are blatantly wrong.

Then you go on to claim that these same dipshits are going to "probably" address legacy systems? Why would you want someone who can't understand the legacy system to be in charge of replacing it? That's a recipe for disaster.

Or to put it another way. Saying the government shouldn't use COBOL "isn't the defense (of DOGE) you think it is".

but review bombing a perfectly good game because you wanted or expected something else seems a little much.

You're not wrong. And DA:V not "being the same as prior iterations" is actually kinda the norm for the DA series anyways. It really wouldn't be "Dragon Age" if fans of previous titles didn't complain about it being different.

That being said, expectations play a huge role in enjoyment. So if the publisher wants to pull out an old franchise to play off expectations to generate hype and drive sales, then they should expect the backlash when they deliver something that fails to meet those expectations. It's a double edged sword.

That doesn't mean it's a bad game, or that people shouldn't enjoy it. But it's also fair for fans of the old games to review it from their point of view. That's not review bombing, that's just how opinions work.

Maybe this is just coincidence, maybe it's directly related, but a mod to add Rango as a companion was released lest month.

>Be me, 27 with enough money to afford pot and cool posters
>Enjoy conspiracy theories
>Little brothers friends come over
>am high af
>Little bros friends awkwardly come into my room to smoke uninvited
>themorethemerrieriguess.pcx
>dont know what to talk about, figure I'll tell them some dumb shit I read to make them laugh
>they leave
>later go downstairs to make a sandwich
>overhear them calling me a loser
>mfw

Who tF asked you?

First day online? You see, when you post on an open forum, you are implicitly asking anyone who bothers to read. Confusing I know, but you'll figure it out in no time.

It cray cray that words have meanings, amirite😂

It's crazy right? I guess they hope that blaming the "DEI Boogyman" enough will draw attention away from their actual comic book evil levels of corruption.

Well, if you want to take it from the horses mouth , its supporting DEI and LGBTQ+ rights internationally. Which sounds less like "corruption" and more like "the point", but what do I know?

And to save everyone a click, here is the link I posted's full list of "corruption" :

Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.

Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.

edit: they say the list goes "on and on", but I couldn't find anything. Presumably stuff not added to the aforementioned post were even less convincing, and as such didn't make the cut.