The Off Topic Topic

[Eddie Teach]

Gaslighting?

[grumbler]

Gaslighting?

Yes.  Gaslighting is the attempt to make people doubt their own memories.  "Donald Trump's inauguration had "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe." "These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong,"

[Josquius]

Gas lighting implies intentional lying to make one doubt reality no?
Not the potentially less nefarious drift towards wrong beliefs.

[celedhring]

Video game industry now far bigger than the movie business. It's really weird to me how this is still not seen as a major industry/creative sector by governments - loads of countries (including the UK) will make lots of attractive tax deductions and rules to encourage the film/TV industry. It seems odd that no-one seems to be doing that with video games yet and that I suspect video game lobbying in the way other big industries do would still be seem as nerds and hobbyists:

Global box office is a fraction of the movie business nowadays, though. Netflix alone made more money that all theaters in the world in 2021.

That said, lots of governments are beginning to extend tax benefits to the videogame industry. It's quietly being growing a lot in Spain (mostly in the mobile game space - but hey we got Paradox Tinto!), and there have been discussions around extending them the same tax benefits as other cultural industries. I'm sure the UK has some kind of tax benefits for it, too.

[Syt]

[garbon]

[The Brain]

 

[Sheilbh]

[Syt]

I don't like to use the word "cringe" much, but I feel it's quite appropriate here. The Austrian chamber of commerce is running an ad campaign to attract young people to enter apprenticeships in banks and insurances. The intended message (as much as it's discernable) seems to be, "We don't care what you do or how you look in your free time, if you deliver on the job." Which is generally fine, but the execution ... well ...


"What's important is that your performance is good."


"What's important is that you present yourself well."

[Josquius]

Seems counter productive to me.
"look how backwards and conservative we are. We will make you wear a shirt and tie and cover up any tattoos!"

[The Brain]

Any ads with someone who isn't white?

[Syt]

Any ads with someone who isn't white?

They show a woman working in a bank, that seems pretty progressive for the Austrian CoC

[The Brain]

Any ads with someone who isn't white?

They show a woman working in a bank, that seems pretty progressive for the Austrian CoC

[Josquius]

But won't she get her makeup on the money?

[grumbler]

Gas lighting implies intentional lying to make one doubt reality no?
Not the potentially less nefarious drift towards wrong beliefs.

Gaslighting can be unintentional, according to https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/what-gaslighting-how-do-you-know-if-it-s-happening-ncna890866

But, the gaslighter doesn't necessarily need to be acting with malicious intent — nor does the gaslighter necessarily need to realize that she or he is gaslighting another person for it to be happening, Stern says.

It might be a result of how you were raised. Maybe your parents had very cut-and-dry beliefs and that certainty is how they (and now you) see the world and when someone sees things differently you assume something is wrong with them, Stern says.

Maybe you're upset because you think your boyfriend is always flirting with other girls. What you don't see is that it's the girls that are flirting with him and he's just being polite. But your worldview doesn't allow you to question that maybe you're getting the situation wrong. You make him think you know way more about relationships and there's something wrong with him that he's not able to see the "error" in his ways.

"Maybe at first you don't believe it, but over time you may come think that maybe she is right," Stern says.

It is commonly deliberate, though.