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- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 16 hours ago:
Because the political right doesn’t actually like functional markets.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 day ago:
I don’t drive a BMW, so yes.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 4 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 5 days ago:
I believe in meds and I believe in science. Especially the science of complex systems. I don’t believe in political philosophy branded as science. The reproducability metric of social sciences and political economy is so bad that the complete field should move into humanities and philosophy (which isn’t bad, but it isn’t science). Aspiring sciences.
I mean it isn’t a secret that huge amounts of resources has been poured into neoliberal think tanks since the 70s. It’s an ideology which justifies the rich getting richer. Such stuff always get at lot of funding. It’s inherent.
I don’t think I’m the one who’s in lack of critical thinking here Mr 420.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 5 days ago:
Tariffs will be super hard on american economy. There is no universe where current tariffs and migration policy wont mean stagflation from hell. But that’s a price that might be worth/necessary paying. However, if american blue collar are able to organize, there is a possibility that blue collar salaries will keep up with inflation and that implies economic power is transferred to the working clas (supply and demand will be on the side of blue collar at least). Transfer of economic (and political) power is very much needed if the US democracy shall survive (or return from the dead).
But it’s all a big gamble for sure. Chaos and feudalism/fascism is probably the most likely outcome. Everything is so complex that it’s impossible to know for sure. Hopefully evolution has empowered us with enough accurate intuitions.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 5 days ago:
Take them meds bro.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 6 days ago:
I believe the tarrifs are good. Though for other reasons than Trump. The current (previous) situation is super unstable and unsustainable. It basically require a global US monopoly of violence (which was the case for about 30 years). Trade imbalance implies war (as stated by Keynes).
However, the arguments of the Trump administration are completely false and uneducated.
We’ve all been drenched in neoliberal propaganda for about 50 years (disguised as science), so it’s not weird people are unable to think outside of the box on this matter.
Also, super valid question. Don’t get the down votes.
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- Comment on Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release 1 month ago:
Just buy a Steam Deck instead.
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 months ago:
Steel Division 2 and Hearts of Iron 4.
- Comment on Got any must-play games for strategy fans? 2 months ago:
RTS: Zero-K RTT: Steel Division 2 and Warno TBS: Dominions 6. Songs of Conquest if you want a modern casual HOMM3 clone. TBT: Battle Brothers and Field of Glory 2 Grand Strategy: Basically everything from Paradox. Victoria 3 is my current favorite.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 2 months ago:
As a millennial, I’m probably not alone when I write Red Alert, Atlantis, Diablo and Fallout 2 on a computer without internet connection. Also endless demos from PC Gamer CDs.
The more unusual game I want to add is Warlords 3. Got it as a Christmas gift from my cousins boyfriend (he was maybe 20 years older than me). Probably because he wanted someone he could play shared screen PvP with. Spent a lot of time with that game.
Also playing Tibia on a 33k dial up connection was special. A very laggy and expensive experience. Always afraid that mom would just turn off the connection because she had to make a phone call. And the true horror I felt when I encountered another player or a new monster deep within an unexplored dungeon. I didn’t like WoW when it came out. Probably because of emotional bluntedness that free PvP in combination with gear + xp loss causes.
And I’m still chasing the dragon.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 2 months ago:
That must have been really awesome. ❤️
- Comment on what unbiased media sources do you use? 3 months ago:
I don’t think unbiased media exist. But some are at least less biased. And you want some bias towards scientific reasoning, honesty and meritocracy. Otherwise you introduce too much noise (which is one reason why being absolute about free speech leads to less free speech, and also the reason electronic warfare is something prioritized by weak political and military state actors). Less noise usually correlate with what people perceive as left leaning or liberal bias. Also, I think it’s OK with biased media as long as one is open and explicit about it.
In Sweden I use Omni which is a commercial news aggregator, which I find relatively unbiased or balanced. Public service is pretty good as well.
For American news, I usually go for NPR first. Don’t know if they are super unbiased, but at least they are not full on crazy.
I’ve tried Ground News, but I feel it’s a bit too focused on politics of the English speaking sphere.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 3 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s sexist but it sure as hell is annoying. Don’t tell people to smile if you don’t have a very good reason.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 3 months ago:
Ah! LOL!
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 3 months ago:
WH40K: Chaos Gate
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 3 months ago:
Just quit.
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- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 3 months ago:
Total war: Warhammer 3? Baldurs Gate 3? Maybe those are available on console as well…
- Comment on What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? 3 months ago:
Also went for BG1! Seemed like a really good deal.
- Comment on What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? 3 months ago:
Lots of CRPG and TRPG. A few experimental indie RTS. And a few indie auto-battlers. Plus a few casual co-op shooters. Oh, and some indie horror as well.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 months ago:
Found the answers in the Bar FAQ: beyondallreason.info/…/what-are-the-differences-b…
TLDR: Zero-K and BAR is based on the same FOSS engine. Zero-K is less micro with better unit AI. BAR delivers a more vanilla and micro intensive Total Annihilation experience.
Supreme Commander is proprietary closed source and has some different mechanics. Larger but worse maps.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 months ago:
It must be playable for casual and single player gamers. I’ve never seen a casual friendly multiplayer RTS I believe. The FPS genre manage to do this, so I think it should be possible.
Nothguard, Dune: Spice Wars, Line Wars and maybe Total War, could be considered casual friendly multiplayer RTS.
Though I must admit I want a good e-sport RTS I can watch and maybe dip my toes in, now when SC2 and AOE both feel quite dead. It’s the only e-sport that really entertains me. (we’ll maybe chess is an e-sport as well nowadays)
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 months ago:
I hope we will se more non-micro RTS games. More like HOI4, but that takes less than 1 hour to finish a game. Dune and Line Wars are on the right track.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 months ago:
How does it differ from Zero-K or Supreme Commander (or any other TA clone)?
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 4 months ago:
True!
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 4 months ago:
I don’t think so. Probably not, but I’m really not sure. It’s a classical argument when starting a war (Germany/WW1 and Japan/WW2), that’s why I brought it up.
I.e. if you believe there is a very high risk for war at SOME point, then you probably want to take control of the situation and start the war at a time and place of your choice. If you can destroy 90% of NKs ICMBs (or other kinds of carriers) today, it’s better to start the war now, if the new technology will bring that number down to say 50% by tomorrow.
The conspiracy theorist in me says that it’s not impossible that the recent coup attempt in SK was somehow related to this kind of thinking. This is how the military tend to reason after all.
- Comment on Went Off SSDI to work, hit with large FTB tax bill, lost power and can't pay for meds. Now what? 4 months ago:
Maybe you could move abroad? Canada or the EU? I.e. some western country with a better welfare system. If you don’t have friends or family, that might be an option. And if you’re healthy enough.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 4 months ago:
I guess the counter argument would be that the situation will only get worse the longer you wait. This has happened many times before.