If they don’t wanna be cooked they shouldn’t be made of bacon.

Based. Hope they never find who did it.

Tell me you only play mainstream titles without telling me you only play mainstream titles.

You can’t be older than fucking 12 acting like this.

This is my current issue

I have a 2080Super, which should be good for another couple years, but my CPU is an old i5-9600k and only 16 gigs of DDR4.

I can still run games but the last few years I’ve struggled to get a steady 60 frames.

Lol, ok child.

No, not really. Every economic model is based around who has control over the means of production and how they distribute access to it. That’s just economics. It isn’t a novel or profound thought.

The fact that both communism and capitalism/fascism requires taking control of the means of production is no more interesting of a thing to ponder than the fact cooking your food and burning people alive requires the use of heat

It’s been the central mentality of the owning class since the ability to individually own the means of production was conceived.

“much like communism” then follows up with a description of capitalism.

Capitalism is when the means of production are seized to empower an elite few while simultaneously disempowering everyone else. This is the essence of class division.

Communism is when the means of production is seized by the people and then shared equally, as communism is classless.

Normal and bad/negative aren’t mutually exclusive.

Feeling sad initially isn’t like anything to feel shameful for. I’m just saying a good way to cope with that sad feeling, which I consider negative because sadness feels bad thus impacts my emotional state in a negative way, is to recontextualize our framing of the events into one we can feel differently about

Yes, he is gone and that is a sad thing, losing someone cherished always will hurt, but he is also now at peace and won’t suffer the horrors of onsetting Alzheimer’s and dementia and in that thought I can assuage my sadness into acceptance.

But it is for the reasons stated above that this isn’t an event that should make someone sad/mad/whatever.

Be happy at the life they had and that he is now at rest without suffering. Take those irrational emotions and turn them into rational ones. Why let it be negative when it doesn’t need to be?

He was old mate. With the report of his death came the release of his medical troubles. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body Dementia. T’was simply his time to bid adieux and exit stage left. He earned his rest.

Was banned over a year ago. I still cannot make a new account with getting flagged within a week even if I only stick to commenting on niche game subs. I know cause I just tried again a month or two ago to try and post some questions on the sub for Nivalis Nights when that came out. Reddit sitewide bans are for life and they do not delete the telemetry metrics they kept on you.

If I wanted a new reddit account, I’d have to use a different device on a different network to both create a new email and the new account itself to avoid the telemetry metrics that reddit logs and make sure to never log into that account from any device or network that was used with the banned account or else it gets flagged.

The human mind is predisposed to convenience and habit. The capitalist economy exploits this to no end. The owning-class does everything in their power to ensure that no alternatives exist without requiring massive hoops to jump through first before they can be accessible, making their option the fastest and most convenient option, even if it isn’t the most efficient or effective option.

Most people would rather sit and suffer because it is “easier” than take the risks or put in the effort involved to do better.

Yes. By those parameters they meet the definition of “indie”.

Remedy would be considered an independent AA studio.

Independently developed but not independently published.

From there it just depends on if you personally consider that still being “indie” by your definition.

Does “indie” for you mean “a studio which independently develops games” or does it mean “a studio that does everything independently”

Cause reddit doesn’t ban the account, they are banning you, the user. So all alt accounts get flagged as “attempted ban avoidance”.

To circumvent this you have to do a bit of legwork to ensure the new account has nothing linked back to any other account to avoid getting flagged, and reddit logs a ton of your user data, so mostly it isn’t even worth the effort.

Disenfranchising laborers is never a good thing. More indie games (that barely work because they were vibe coded with AI) at the cost of countless coders being put out of potential employment because some numpties with no solidarity decided to use a robot that half assed the code is not a fair trade.

Also, being used in the process of an artistic endeavor makes it an artistic endeavor. To bring art to life is itself a form of art and it demands a level of quality that AI cannot replicate.

In one scenario you continue to aid in the degradation of the industry while the other you have dignity.

Sorry, I just cannot jive with the sellout mentality.

Denial of Labor > malicious compliance but you seem to get the gist.

Again, how is that relevant to the point being made? Just because it sucks doesn’t mean we should just give up and continue to make it worse.

Devs need to quit working for AAA studios, leave them high and dry, and go start up their own indie production.