The only annoying bit of this is that I’ve seen Steam labeled as the latest hive of unregulated social networking. Valve has often been very hands off in their moderation, which allows for some pretty extreme far right types to post content and conspiracies in bubbles around Steam Community.

It could be a good thing, though, could lead to Steam also getting positive change.

Seems like there’s moderate risk of aggression for everyone getting around, given all the road rage about.

If you’re attacked on the bus, at least other people can defend you. The survivability of crazies on the bus vs the road seems very nebulous to me otherwise.

And has also advocated for increasing taxes on the rich such as himself.

It sucks that music replacement is almost expected. A track was popular once, they’ll ask for 30x royalties on the next go.

Not that it succeeded long term, but I salute Apple Arcade’s venture on this. It’s a subscription service that aimed to highlight iPhone games that had no monetization, and were usually small indie games with a fun idea.

If you hate Windows 11 and don’t mind tinkering, I’d almost think Linux would be a better option especially if your preference is for retro games.

Since everyone’s posting their anecdotes:

I tried out Bazzite, a distro intended for gaming. Much of it was great, but often after coming back from sleep mode, the whole desktop would be suffering from graphical corruption; something I’d largely chalk up to bad drivers.

And, somewhat ironically, I’m also a cyclist, who needs to plan out winter trips when it’s often going to be dark and people are drunk.

Decentralization is a bit like showing people “Here’s how to make friends. I won’t actually introduce you to anyone, though.” I kind of want to at least get a starting point off a general topic.

I agree; and I personally believe that the fault is with all the voters. All the voters need to do better next time.

There is potential to put yourself in an unmovable situation when you deny the capacity for individuals to find fault in, and correct, themselves. When they’re all “special snowflakes incapable of fault, for whom the horrible and evil politicians must serve to attain their vote” you may set yourself up for either a failing relationship, or lies. Contrary to what one might expect, saying “I’ve heard the opinions of others, and I think I was wrong about X” is not a social death sentence. I’ve said it online before, and others need to be ready to do the same.

Maybe JFK expressed that thought better than I can.

I agree that right now, our economists have a terrible way of defining a “good economy”. They have praise for a set of numbers such as the stock market rates, which have almost no connection to the well-being of common people.

We need more medians and fewer averages; not to measure wealth when it’s spread among the extremes.

This statement implies popularity = good, universally.

In the 1800s, slavery was popular. Hence, should a candidate have run on preserving slavery?

“Jill made bad choices. I blame Bob because he didn’t convince Jill to make a good choice.”

This is such circular fucking reasoning. Apparently it’s literally impossible for a voter to make a stupid decision, because all blame will circle back to the candidate for “Not being convincing enough”.

Being right doesn’t automatically make you popular.

No, was not directed at you. I was agreeing; Nintendo is stupid and trigger-happy with its lawsuits, but going after this guy makes sense.

I imagine a lawsuit would likely bring up the topic of how hard it would be for a developer to keep the game around past purchase.

For instance, imagine a massively multiplayer online game; everyone playing the game is acutely aware of how much server hardware is needed to maintain that online presence, and it’s unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

That’s probably why attention was pushed onto The Crew. It’s a racing game that shouldn’t need much from a server, so it’s arguably unfair to tie it to that access and take it offline.

It annoys me how often my standpoint on topics on Lemmy has been “I hate the same people you do, but your reasoning for hating them makes so little sense.”

Source: Pretty much every episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (and, of course, real life)

I’m also curious if there’s any risk of the Japanese government finally cracking down on those places and setting stricter laws on gambling. Maybe not in the next few years, but sometime in the future.

I think the reason the advice is so pointed to one group is, there’s many people who disrespect the opinion of every minority, and think they’re all in a sympathetic league against them. Being belittled by another white man baffles them and makes them worry about being disincluded.

The people you’re protecting also didn’t necessarily answer that dumb bear question.

Or, it says a lot about the intentions of each and every person that either voted for him, or didn’t vote.

“It’s Alice’s fault for not reminding Bob to pay the heating bill”. And I do mean reminding - as in an extremely obvious thing.