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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Depending on what games you play it's anywhere from unusable (games with incompatible anticheat) to flat out better than windows even ignoring all the surrounding bullshit. But many of these gsmes with anticheat are among the most popular games in the world, so there's plenty of reason not to change just bc of those for a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A lot of them are though (often times the health issues stem from being homeless anyway). And for the ones that aren't, they can still have a home, even ignoring that I think it's a basic right, I'd rather they do whatever they do inside their home than in a public park.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People do this with artists too. Especially the moment you offer anything in the way of free commissions for a specific community and such.

Many forums had gfx threads, where members who enjoy putting together banners and such would offer to make something for those who asked. A good friend of mine ran one in a certain game's forum for a while and the absolute entitlement in which some of those people acted (in regards to speed and nitpicking about minor things) was disgusting. It was maybe 1 in 25 people but it soured the whole thing for her, understandably so. The moment you give people a little finger wrt their requests, one of those people will take the whole hand. The same likely applies to modding.

And I'm sure being a woman doing gaming stuff isn't helping because there's way too much sexism in gaming culture, even though there are also a lot of subcommunities that are super welcoming to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When there are 2 choices and you choose neither that is opting out of a decision, and nothing else. It's throwing your hands up and saying "well i cant change it anyway, let's just do nothing".

Also, stop pretending like trumps and kamalas stances are identical. They're not. Trump is right up there with netanyahu in seeing palestinians as subhuman.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And american voters also didn't get to do anything about the palestinian genocide because there were two choices and pretending there were more is delusional at best. And the choice was between a party unwilling to take a strong stance against it vs a party actively encouraging it and saying they'd help. While also openly wanting to genocide minority groups in their own country.

Well, there is a third choice. It's the centrist choice of either not voting or voting for an irrelevant party, equivalent to saying "let the others decide".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you have to request the source code by asking for it via a form and get sent the code printed out via snail mail that is still "publicly accessible". Not saying companies would do that since it seems like it'd just cost them money for no benefit, just that there are usually ways to really hinder people's access without being closed source.

There could be lines drawn, but it'll be hard to find the medium between reasonable and preventing exploits. Forcing an upload to third party services like github seems dubious. I guess a zip file somewhere on the company website wouldn't be hard to do, provided the company isn't bankrupt (which is an entire different can of worms, what do you do then).

I'd still be heavily in favor of such legislations fwiw, perfect is the enemy of good and all that, but there's a sweet spot of "actually does something and doesn't kill all live service games" that would need to be found

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those will always be a small part. If it's culturally clear what is harrassment and shouldn't be tolerated, it's far more likely that 1) there are actual consequences to sexual harrassment because victims feel comfortable speaking up and 2) that bystanders will try to intervene. Both of which make it less likely for anyone to even try.

When speaking up is met with "you dressed wrong", "he was just trying to get to know you", that is the core problem. Adding "you were on the wrong train car" isn't necessarily helpful.

Japans women-only cars are sadly necessary, but the focus should be on making them unnecessary, not adding gender segregation in more places.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

This would be about other governments on earth enforcing that. Which really does seem sensible at this point, even if only to make a statement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The idea that medieval peasants somehow had more free time than the average modern american still is absolute bullshit as far as I'm aware. Unless "necessary preparations for survival" count as free time just because it's not contracted work (it doesn't that's not what free time means).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It's moreso in the fact that trumps followers were also totally convinced that the child was about to be punched. Everyone likes to think their view of the world is objective and everyone who acts against it does so fully knowing what they're doing.

That aside if any of these politicians actually cared they would've attempted to fix your election system long ago, so of course he's doing nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

This isn't wrong but the far right party with openly fascist plans just won the popular vote in america, pretty sure europe is not there. Yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, would feel much more accurate to say good at things the hormone roulette in your brain decides you want to do (which does lead to you actually wanting to do them at least), terrible at everything else including things you want to do as a result of actually thinking.

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