By definition it is selfish I’d say. BUT! Huge “but” here, like you wouldn’t believe - sometimes it is alright to be selfish. Sometimes you just need to put yourself first. This is most definitely one of those times.

I will provide a point of view of someone who is a bit more pro “live service game” concept.

While I agree these can be scummy it depends on the game. I see them as evolution of the subscription model on which most MMORPGs functioned back in the day (and few big ones and several niche ones still do). You used to pay monthly sub to be able to play the game, now you have the opportunity to pay for the season pass. Depending on specific game you get content for free (no neex to pay the sub to access the content) and alonv with the content they will launch a season pass which gives you some goodies for playing. Gives them engagement numbers and expectable revenue stream.

In the above model, I usually decide whether I like the content that they bring and if I would realistically play it enough to get majority ofnthe rewards from the pass (because, and this isnthe worst part - once the season ends in 99% of the cases the pass goes away and its rewards are gone forever if you didn’t have time to earn them). Then there are also games like Destiny where the content is not free but tied to the pass, so you basically purchase x months of content (+the rewards from the pass).

There are many shades of season passes - some could be considered fair, some are alright, some are ignorable and some are bad. All of them are made to make money - which in a live service game is I think fair, as they need to fund the ongoing developement. It all depends on the way they want to takenyour money: can be used as a nice bonus you can purchase if you are enjoying the game - in which case I’m fine with it. It can be used so they want to manipulate you through various way to feel forced to purchase - in which case I’m very much oposed to it.

Though I think we all agree that the part when the rewards you purchased are only available temporarily is a scam and shouldn’t be a thing - and I do realize I will be called out here for sometimes purchasing them. I try to view them as simply making a voluntary payment for the content I got from the devs. And the rewards tied to it a bonus.

Ok, I’m not Polish (hopefully somebody Polish will chime in soon) but from neighbouring Slavic country so tried to figure this out with some translator help. My gues it’s something like “tam idzje” (or close to it, might not be comoletely gramatically correct), but pretty butchered - I understand your father doesn’t speak the language but probably heard someone in family as a kid say it and tried his best to mimic them? I’d expect it not sounding quite right.

I think I can get reasonably close to pronouncing “tam idzje” weirdly enough for it to sound something like “yadja”.

Agreed, but adjusting tactics often is part of the puzzle, no? You need to solve the puzzle (find out what work = changing tactics) and then executing that solution

So basically not being sustainable and harmonious with nature would be the Great Filter.

I really like this theory, makes sense. Though in context of humanity and our trajectory it’s a bit depresing.

It’s very much in the “cool motive, still murder” category. I’m not living in the US but I heard the healthcare horror stories and I can relate to someone just snapping. He who sows wind, reaps the whirlwind.

All this did was made me want to rewatch the original tbh

I meant no disrespect. I was mainly thinking pre-Vista, possibly pre-XP. Certainly didn’t expect someone in their 20s to be around Win 95. Maybe I’m just seeing myself older than I actually am.

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It is the limitation of democracy and why it is the worst (except all the others) - because it allows this.

How to fix this? These would be a good start: don’t polarize the society like this and create us vs. them mentality. In place of power hungry populists have people in charge who want the best for the country. Don’t enable fascists - they never should make it this far. Respect other people. Invest in education so people understand these basics.

And this is not just about US. It’s scary that this is wherr us got because they are such a big player on the world stage

I wish you luck and safety.

Take it up with Winston Churchil - I was just paraphrasing his quote.

The point is democracy is terrible, but we don’t have anything better.

Democracy really is the worst form of government, just not as bad as all the others…

Unfortunately in such polarized times like now, even though majority wants this, the ammount of people for which this is unacceptable is only slightly less than “the majority”. And besides, I believe a big part of “the majority” is just gullible enough to be persuaded they want this while it actually goes against their interests

Rationally I know you will smell one another but I still maintain the opinion it will cancel each other out as a joke - to great frustration of my wife

Let me put it this way - I know nothing about programing and was also scared of all the terminal talk and stuff. And I can vouch for Linux Mint.

You know how you sometimes havento use command line in Windows for some issues? That’s pretty much comparable to terminal usage from my layman perspective. I installed Linux Mint on a separate drive and only booted to Windows once or twice since then - it’s been couple of months now

You are in your 20s so you probably won’t have a referrence point but to me it felt like going back to simpler, older Windows version

Depends on what you are looking for. I think Lemmy works great and I only really go to reddit when a google search leads me there for something. Though I do miss the niche communities and the “there is a subreddit for everything”.

Lemmy is also healthier, I used to just scroll through reddit for literal hours, it’s possible to reach an end of sort for the time.

Definitely feels more like reddit used to feel - though with caveats.

I’d expect some equality be ensured on federal level for at least federal level stuff. Just… wow. I knew US was fucked up, but I somehow always learn there is yet another level to it

How is thay even legal, wtf?

The Broken Empire trilogy. Also Red War trilogy, which is spin-off (though uses these themes a bit less)