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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean sure, that is how some (mostly strategy) games do it, but for an FPS, figuring out where the buffer should be would be a programmers nightmare. I guess you would have to try to calculate all possible line of sights a player could have within some buffer time and then all players that could in theory enter them… Add physics and it is practically impossible.

  Also, corner hack is useful enough and it does not address aimbot. IMO the answer is some combination of human moderation and ability to play with “friends” instead of randos. E.g. you could ask people to like or dislike a player at the end of a match and try to pair players that liked each other in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That does not detect things like wall hack and aim-bots that don’t modify the game state directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddammit Texas!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you weren’t so broke, you would know there is also Switzerland. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddammit Texas!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize some countries in Europe have federal governments (Germany for example), right? And then these completely independent countries are part of the EU which have EU elections. So you have federation within federation. Also, the EU has higher population than the USA. We don’t even all speak the same language. You are allowed to move between EU countries whenever you like and have residence where you please.

  So what is your excuse again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I strongly prefer GOG to the point where I often don’t buy games that are not on GOG.

  That being said, one reason to buy from Steam is steam workshop. So if I want a lot of mods, I may buy from Steam even when available on GOG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syrup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately we are out of Czechoslovakias at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think switching to a frequency that a different region uses could be dangerous, since then the airplanes near do border would receive the signal but the airport wouldn’t. This could lead to misscommunications.

  Also, the airline pays for the jets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t command them, but they call them in like you call the police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the first place, looking at wealth is pointless. I could make a thousand dollars a day and as long as I spend them immediately on stupid shit, (e.g. permanently living in an expensive hotel, gambling) I could have net worth of $0. Wealth is not a good indicator of anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, that is actually an interesting point. If it is negative, does it bring down the sum in this? If so, how much of the world is my net worth greater than? A billion? Two?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that is a much better way to make the same point :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not lives on, but net worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The 8 richest people in the world according to investopedia have a combined net worth about 1,369 billion. Divide that by 3.6 billion and it is about $380 per person. Idk what the average net worth of the poorest half of the worldspopulation is, but I doubt it is below $380.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad. In a way, it is amazing that Sims 3 is 15 years old now and still, no game is able to match it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Duration Time on this Cookie...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does not seem available on mobile. On desktop, it is an extension called “Temporary Containers”. You may also want the official “Firefox Multi-Account Containers” for managing sites where you want to stay logged in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Duration Time on this Cookie...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Firefox temporary containers. So not only are they deleted 5 mins after I close a tab, but different tabs don’t share cookies unless I explicitly allow it or the tabs are opened from one source (e.g. open link in new tab)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There it is⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its been a long time since I finished the story, I mostly played multiplayer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There it is⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GTA SA is dope even today :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are literally saying we don’t need bosses to tell us what to do and don’t need competition. That we can cooperate in good fate. Yet you think taking more than your fair share is not an issue for such a system?

  You seem to be delusional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the goal of an economy is not to produce endlessly, as much as possible. capitalism is extremely growth oriented. that’s about all it’s good for: rapid growth, at the expense of equity and workers’ autonomy. we no longer need this growth and competition; we need to downscale and produce less. the goal of an economy should be to provide what people need, as seamlessly as possible.

  The current GDP per capita is about $1,050 a month. That is without taxes, without capital investment and amortization. If you believe we don’t need growth, that is what you should strive tile off of since that is your fair share.

  as always, this boils down to mistrust of your fellow man

  For a good reason:

  nbcnews.com/…/trans-adults-florida-blindsided-new…

  politico.com/…/doctors-abortion-medical-exemption…

  apnews.com/…/israel-palestinians-hamas-attack-mil…

  nytimes.com/…/iran-rapper-toomaj-salehi-death-sen…

  None of the above are related to Greed.

  this system of incentives rewards whoever is most willing to act immorally to undercut their competitors, essentially guaranteeing that the least ethical individuals end up in charge of everything.

  This happens in any political system: youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  anticompetitive and anti labor practices are fundamental to capitalism - you can regulate them all you want, companies will always find ways around it. wage theft (overtime violations, unpaid or underpaid wages, off the clock violations, etc) significantly outweigh all other forms of theft (larceny, robbery, vehicle theft, etc) combined.

  In my experience, these anti labor practices are not a thing where I live.

  in addition, something like planned obsolescence (companies intentionally making their products less long-lived so you have to buy more of them) cannot be completely prevented with regulation, since companies can always choose not to make their product better in a particular way, or no better than the absolute minimum requirement

  Funnily enough, the corp I work for is quite obsessed with making products last longer. How is that possible? Simple. We provide service contracts together with purchases, so customers pay monthly service fee and we have to keep the products functional. So it saves us money (and increases profit) to make repair costs low. You just need to think a bit outside the box.

  profit measures value extracted, not value generated. providing a service to people (postal service, healthcare) produces a measurable amount of value which is not directly profit. you can always increase profit by paying workers less and charging more for your product, and these both get more effective the more you have cornered the market. a high amount of profit tends to mean a huge amount of money being extracted from communities and working individuals.

  Profit is a function of the value created vs resources consumed to produce the value. As long as there are worker protections legislated, that is just efficiency.

  capitalism is competitive, and competitions have winners. you can make all the regulations you want, but even when everyone “plays fair” someone will eventually emerge on top

  What are you even talking about? Yes, the most efficient companies emerge on top which is exactly what we want.

  competition is massively inefficient; you have no incentive to share anything, so huge amounts of redundant research and work gets done without public benefit.

  That is true.

  an economy which is based on and rewards collaboration rather than competition would be better able to provide for everyone’s needs and ensure nobody is left behind.

  The issue is building such an economy. Most people will always pursue their selfish gains. Capitalism channels this by making “creating valuable things we can sell to people for minimal cost” result in large profits. Where the selfishness would show up in a cooperation based system you describe would be much more difficult to predict since it depends on the details of your system. But the results are likely to be worse exactly because it is hard to predict and therefore regulate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  co-ops get outcompeted by corporations. this is a capitalist economy we have, and so it’s very geared towards competitive profit seeking.

  Remember that profit and created value go hand in hand, or at least, our legislation should make sure it does.

  co-ops provide better worker protections, better working conditions, better stability and resilience, and better products. corporations are better at being single-mindedly profit driven, which is what our economic structure rewards.

  True, but corporations have to generate profit for shareholders. This is the profit that should be used for improving worker conditions etc. by communes. Also, some worker protections should be legislated leveling the playing field even more.

  communism is not a vague concept

  At least here on Lemmy it seems to be. Kinda makes no difference to me if someone has the secrets to successful communism if I can’t see them.

  it’s important to remember that under capitalism a company is very much motivated to curtail workers’ rights and anything that would threaten the status quo.

  Within the company, sure. Outside, it has motivation to hinder any competition and this has to be prevented by govt. regardless of whether the competition is a co-op or a corp.

  the system is rigged against it, which is why they tend to fail.

  I am not accepting this without concrete examples. How is it rigged?

  capitalism is not markets, nor is it free trade. capitalism is the specific system where there is an owning class that dictates how the economy is run (CEOs / shareholders), thereby holding that power away from the working class, whose lives are dictated by their decisions.

  That is a misconception. Any individual CEO/shareholder have very little control of how the economy is run. And while they may cooperate in some areas and situations, they are ultimately competitors most of the time. If you make the simple assumption that they chase profit, than they have even less control. I think they are far closer to just another cog in the machine then to any dictators. That is the appeal of capitalism, as long as you align your goals with profit for corporations, they will fulfill your goals with ruthless efficiency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are the one who said it was not vague. If you don’t want communism, but just social policies in capitalism, then I am on board with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re making claims about a subject you are not an expert in, and refusing to read any literature on the subject.

  I unfortunately don’t have unlimited time, so I am forced to refuse to read books that are unlikely to be relevant.

  But also Capital is written that way to preempt arguments; it’s an academic work. His other works only suffer from 3 page long sentences that require significant contextual and historical knowledge of mid 1800s europe. Lenin is an easier place to start.

  Then maybe can you point to a work that does not assume a 1800s economy? Also, Marxism was tried already by the Bolsheviks. It failed terribly. If there were no improvements made since, what is the point? While I like the scientific method, I am certainly not willing to try the same thing again and see if just as many people die a second time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bot those are details you are leaving out. How is this public funding collected, who decides where it goes, how are these people elected.

  These are the kind of things you need to figure out. My belief is you can’t, because it does not work. You will not be able to create a system that works for the greater good.

  But maybe I am wrong. Prove me wrong. Show me a detailed plan. “Some committee will distribute some funding” is so vague there is no way to debate over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The size of a nation doesn’t inherently determine the success of socialism. There have been historical examples of relatively small nations with socialist-inspired policies and economic structures that achieved positive outcomes.

  Ok, so its not size that is the issue.

  I was moreso making the point that nations are different from communes existing within capitalist nations on a variety of levels.

  Yes, I get that is the point you want to make but I don’t believe you, since it sounds way too convenient. “I can’t show you a small scale proof of concepts because evil capitalism exists.” So my question is, what exactly are the issues? Concrete examples.

  For taxes, while infrastructure and services are vital, a truly communist system wouldn’t depend on taxation in the traditional sense. The idea is for the community to directly produce the goods and services it needs. Again, this runs into conflict when a commune needs to exist in a capitalist framework.

  Ok sure, but that does not prevent a commune from existing. If it can produce enough economic value, it does not matter if it builds infrastructure itself or pays taxes. Just treat the commune like a micro-nation that can’t produce firetrucks and bulldozers and has to obtain them from abroad by bartering using money as the medium.

  The challenge lies in managing the complexity of large-scale bartering or exchange systems on an international level, but it’s not necessarily impossible. For a small commune in a capitalist nation, though, I can’t see that ever happening.

  Why? International trade is already pretty much barter facilitated by money. Why couldn’t a commune treat the surrounding system the same as a foreign nation from trade perspective?

  Trade and international exchange would likely be based on cooperation and needs fulfillment instead of pure profit motives.

  So a communist nation can’t peacefully coexist and cooperate with any other system? Doesn’t sound very robust.

  For the legal stuff: you’re right! Legal structures exist to support collective ownership (co-ops, land trusts, etc.). The issue is how those structures interact with a dominant capitalist system and its legal frameworks.

  What exactly? What laws would we need to change to make this possible?

  For anticommunist interference, yes it is illegal but when has that ever stopped anyone from harassing their political opponents?

  Sure, it can’t stop it but it can limit it. Again, if your system falls apart due to little push back, its not a very robust system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that is kinda my stance.

  On the other hand, I am always open to being proven wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ;D Maybe if your understanding of economy does not go beyond people in factories make things :D

  I mean, you have no right to act this clueless when the mai post gives one of the issues away. How do you get investments into new companies? Or are we done inventing new thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In which one? If it is true, I would like to correct it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want communism, you can start a commune⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then does the nation have to be a certain size? There are plenty of micronations in the world. Tuvalu has only around 12,000 people. Does socialism not work in such nations?

  As for taxes, what is the issue there? Surely even in communism, you would have to give some portion of production to the government to build infrastructure, run emergency services etc.