The Democrats have become the party of complicity (good cop) while the Republicans move the agenda to where the government/those in power want it to be (bad cop).

This is false equivalency in sheep’s clothing

They tried. Starbound didn’t do all that great. Granted, it’s been 10 years.

If you don’t have moderation, your social media will turn into a Nazi bar.

Worse, it will immediately devolve into a CP haven. The dark web is dark for a reason.

One of my all-time favorites. If you don’t like horror games, don’t let that stop you. It’s too important a story to pass up, and worse-case, you can turn off some of the scary elements of the game. It’s really a sci-fi masterpiece first, and a horror game second.

Portal 2 has, hands-down, the most hilariously-written dialogue I have ever seen in a video game. That alone is worth playing the game, but it’s also a fun puzzle game to boot.

The game throws big bosses at you at a time when you won’t have range weapons, and expects you to dodge these big sweeping attacks that would be more appropriate fighting with ranged weapons. And by the time you get a ranged weapon, it’s too late, and they’ve raised the stakes again for future bosses to the point that having a ranged weapon isn’t even an advantage.

I was forced to reduce the difficulty just for the bosses. All of the other enemies were mostly fine.

Try playing Environmental Station Alpha. Super cutesy robot, absolutely unfair difficulty for a Metroidvania. Which is a shame, because there’s an interesting story and gameplay buried in that difficulty, and I love Metroidvanias.

I thought the reward for the puzzles was not good enough, either. When you play Outer Wilds, you figure things out, unlock a wonderful story, and learn tricks for other puzzles. When you play Tunic, you (eventually) figure things out and get a bad ending for a game that barely reveals anything, story-wise.

I also thought that requiring a web app or a bunch of paperwork to figure out the language was far too inconvenient for a game made in the 21st century. They borrowed the wrong lessons from Fez.

Launchers allow you to change settings before having the game up, for example, which can be nice.

Or you can change options after the game launches, like a normal game.

Yes climate change might bring famine, destructive weather events, or plague but in the meantime we are living in the safest, healthiest, and most technologically advanced era of humanity up until now, especially for those of us living in democracies.

Don’t take your democracies for granted. If people aren’t around to fight to keep them that way, they don’t last.

The thing is, it’s not the fear of injury or death, it’s the fact that people have forgotten the idea of public engagement.

Like I said, gradients. If people have a fear of public engagement, they certainly can’t get far enough to get past the fear of injury or death.

Have you seen PeerTube? It’s a good attempt, but even with the P2P-style sharing, they are experiencing 100x the problems that Lemmy has here because of the sheer amount of bandwidth and storage they have to deal with from a tiny micro-fraction of a percentage of the content that YouTube or OnlyFans serves.

Right now, large corporations are the only ones with the resources to even attempt such a thing, unfortunately.

Any ethos that includes the phrase “dictatorship of the proletariat” cannot possibly call itself only a “economic theory”. Reducing it to that kind of category alone is inherently dishonest.

Communism makes it so, in principle, you have no reason to overwork yourself, other than if you enjoy what you are doing.

“In principle” is doing all of the work in this sentence. In practice, communism is nothing more than a dictatorship, dressed in fancy idealism. We’ve seen this lesson repeated over and over and over and over again during the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Communism doesn’t work. It will never work. It’s not realistic, and it doesn’t factor human nature and social instincts. At. All.

The fact that you think that’s sarcasm is troubling.

Name a social problem, and I will tell you how it’s definitely and sanely-proven to be caused by capitalism.

It doesn’t help when you have to share the planet with people who have the same power as you and are half as intelligent, who actually enjoy getting fucked by capitalism.

There are gradients to risk-aversion, and that’s certainly on the low end of the spectrum. But also, those same parents were the ones who were actively rebelling in the 90s or in the 60s and 70s, in some cases for very good causes that were worth risking injury or even a chance of getting shot.

We need those people, now more than ever. And despite it being a natural personality trait, risk-aversion is more pervasive than ever. We risk losing our freedoms to people with far more power than us, because we collectively decided that it’s too risk-averse to fight.

We are frogs boiling in water, unwilling to fix our situation, because there’s a risk of injury or death.

Which is why PC gaming will always be superior.

Video streaming is not cheap. Petabytes and petabytes of data transferred, stored, streaming, networked, etc., etc. YouTube is already barely profitable and only from pissing off their audience and streamers.

A comparison to Patreon isn’t fair at all because they have almost no infrastructure to speak of. What do they actually do? Host a web site with some forum software on it? Handle subscriptions and emails, with a light bit of payment handling? Really?

E was really damn popular during that time, so why not?