Progressives just follow the general vibes forward without thinking, they are mindless tools who want to go forward at any cost.

Do you realise how ridiculous your statement is once applied to another group? Change is constant. Adapting to it doesn’t mean people are without convictions. Furthermore, you are judging the destination (centric), regardless of the path taken to get there. You can end up a centrist by carefully weighing the teachings, convictions, and information multiple camps provide. Or you can end up a centrist by having no thought and refusing to take a side à la “the only way to win is not to play”.

You are also presenting a false dichotomy: either you have convictions and stick to them no matter what, or you have none and accept whatever argument happens to sway you to one extreme or the other. People are more complicated that “left right”, right-wrong, black-white,… The ability to weigh arguments, be open to comprimise, and thoughtfully consider new ideas isn’t a fault.

Do I have to belong to a group to defend them?

That by definition is not a centrist.

So what’s with the anti-centrist rhetoric?

Decisions are made by those who show up. If you don’t, you better have a lot of reach, because otherwise you’re giving up your decision making power. And if you did, I don’t want to hear a word of your moaning.

Not everybody lives in a two-party hell-hole. Being able to choose a little bit of A, B, and C is possible.

Don’t believe the ads. They are just trying to hype something that is too early for its time.

VR tech can, and it will, revolutionise gaming. It’s just a question of when. Headsets are too heavy and require wires which impedes movement. VR glasses are developed by big tech and are perfect for privacy invasions, plus their batteries don’t last anywhere near long enough.

Smartphones had already been invented nearly a decade before iPhones came out, but they were too early. The tech wasn’t ready. Look at where they are now. Solar panels were invented nearly a century ago but didn’t take off until then entire supply chain and manufacturing chain was built nearly 80 years later. The friggin helicopter was invented centuries ago and so were planes. You will find countless other examples.

Right now, we’re trying to make it possible to conceive children without any sex and to grow them in external wombs. This has been a quest for decades and we might not see it bear fruit for a few decades more.

Just because they have failed so far doesn’t mean they will always be failures. Every failure narrows the problem space to points of success.

OK, sure. If Valve bans you, how are you going to install your games?

I know that on GOG I can download the installer, back it up, share it with friends and family, and they can install it. Do the same with Steam.

And finally, Valve is a USAian company. GOG is European. That is pretty important.

How so? I’d expect getting people willing to publish their games there, regardless of the payment system, to be the problem.

What we need is an alternative store where opensource games can make money. That would change the business.

ps: You are already not buying games when you pay for them on Steam.

True, use GOG.

What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy!

La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem.

We need another revolution against the rich. This song should be blasted in front of the houses of rich fucks and whenever they show up in public.

And here, a perfect example. “there are only two sides, hurr durr”. Thanks for proving my point.

And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack

I grow weary of limited USAian “there are only two truths” viewpoint. It’s high time we cut the cord from US media and all the bullshit opinions that come with it. They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. “centrist” 🙄 People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world. “real love”, “true love”, “forever and ever”

why?

I think it’s really only the latter: if rich yanks benefit = good, if non-yanks benefit = bad. They don’t give two shits about USAians non in the C-suite being laid off. They haven’t since the beginning and won’t start now.

As if it’d be better run by private interests in the US 😂

The letter was sent on January 22 and suggests the debt-financed $55 billion acquisition, which will purportedly result in PIF holding a 93.4 percent stake in the Battlefield and Apex Legends publisher, will incentive layoffs, offshoring, studio closures, and other cost-cutting measures.

“incentive”

Also, isn’t this what yanks have been doing for decades? Don’t seppo businesses regularly fire a bunch of employees before the end of the financial year to have “record-breaking fourth quarter” and then hire back a bunch of people? Painting the Saudis as worse capitalists than the USAians is just hilarious

Good to know. Thanks. I’ll wait on the next post when the fixed version has been uploaded.

Ah, you ran into neckbeards. This is a typical interaction with them. They are afraid because they are finally in a position of power digitally whereas in real life, nobody cares about them. Honestly, ask LLMs https://chat.mistral.ai/ or something else.

I have Linux but am a casual user and my experience with Linux users has been nothing short of terrible. Before LLMs, I had to either find the answer on some *overflow website, the ubuntu forums, or just give up and move on. Now, LLMs help me out more than humans ever did. LLMs don’t tell you you’re stupid, they don’t ridicule your question, they don’t ridicule you. Of course they can be dangerous if they give you bad commands, but so can humans.

If you must talk to humans online to get help, what I’ve seen work is to tell them they are wrong and that your solution works 100%. Some neckbeard will show up, call you stupid, and give the solution. And if that doesn’t work, just ridicule them and say it didn’t work, which means your solution is the right one. It’ll make them try to prove you wrong even harder 🤷