*screen flickers*

Yes someone did exactly this: it’s called “Dinkum” and it’s fantastic, much better than the Animal Crossing game that hit the Switch.

Any successful social change starts at the roots. Win local politics, build communities / working groups / unions, and then start aiming higher.

That is how socialism wins.

Every study I’ve seen on the subject said it helps or that it doesn’t hurt. Note that this tended to have a lot to do with the type of games and how they’re played.

Mobile games and similar attention vampires are worthless. On the other hand are puzzle, strategic, and some competitive games that challenge the user the most. The more you have to think or the faster you have to think, the more good it does.

Price out a build that will compete with this and not require an ATX tower.

The issue is that if you sell the PC at a loss, you’re effectively subsidzing every person and business who wants an SFF-PC but may not necessarily buy games for them. It’s not like the Steam Deck where you can bet the majority of those devices are ending up in the hands of gamers.

Meta Quest 3S is $400 CAD so hopefully Valve can bring the headset down towards that range!

This is the material analysis we need to be doing. During COVID I saw farmers shredding crops instead of selling them because we lacked the transportation capacity to get food to market. “How the fuck is that even possible?” you ask? We rely too much on individual truckers when we should be using rail… And that’s kind of an analogy for the whole market.

No system in place to ensure there is enough energy, water, food, steel, concrete, lumber, etc. to go around, just this vague hope that “the market will respond to price information as it always does”.

Well now that price information is telling people to invest in space mirrors to send sunlight to their AI-powered saffron gardens, employing cheap foreign workers rather than local labour so that they can sell the spice to wealthy people. So yeah I think that mechanic is busted now and needs a rethink.

Assaulting children is one of the greatest taboos across all of time. It’s why the elites use it like a ritual to indicate you’re in the in-group; there is virtually nothing else they could not get away with.

conservatives fucked that up

That was a Conservative + Liberal special, both of them selling off our assets all over the place.

Anyone focusing on race/gender/sexuality/etc. when this is 100% a distraction tactic is making themselves into a useful idiot in the service of the wealthy psychopaths who think they own us all. I’m tired of talking about DEI, immigrants, or what bathroom people are using; I want to talk about roofs over our head, food in our bellies, healthcare and education, unionization etc…

Right now, anything else is either bad prioritization or wrecker shit.

I couldn’t listen to some Led Zeppelin songs for years because they were on the radio ALL THE TIME. “Kashmir” probably being the worst offender, but “Rock and Roll” and “Heartbreaker” are up there too. They’re good songs too but come on, there is a whole catalogue to play from, play another song ffs.

Same, but also U2, Coldplay, REM… It’s all just so overplayed while simultaneously being so boring.

Ah that one is always a gamble: classic Bowie song that’s pretty good, or shit song that charted even though nobody liked it.

I don’t listen to French music too much, is it genuinely bad or just one of those songs that is/was played every hour for months to the point it causes trauma in any of us who had to work anywhere the radio was on?

Look up the drama around “leftpad” and Node.js. One day thousands of packages broke because of their dependence on someone else’s package. If a global army of software developers can’t deal with a mundane failure like leftpad, how is Valve supposed to manage against a targeted spearphishing campaign like this? Its not reasonable to expect Valve to comb through (or even be allowed to comb through) the source code of every game that hits the store.

I wonder how? Plex is actually worse to navigate and filled with ads and shit.

The issue I had: Jellyfin experience is a better on Firestick and Chromecast than it is on Roku, but the difference has been shrinking fast due to contributions from someone named 1hitsong on GitHub. That person has absolutely hammered patches out over the past few months.

Yeah where is the VOTE BLUE crowd now that there is a (hopefully) no-compromise candidate?

I’m no centrist and can’t speak for their values, but I vote third party and will continue doing so until they actually try to earn my vote. Sitting still on a bunch of wedge issues is loser shit.

They will fold at the last minute like they always do, their resistance is a show they put on for the people who still think voting blue no matter who actually keeps fascists out of office (evidently, it does not)