I wonder if this is a factor in why the steam link app (which allows you to stream your games) seperate from the steam app that lets you buy games.

Just yesterday I sarcastically referred to the upcoming American concentration camps as “round up ranches.” I didn’t mean it to be a prophecy

People in power should learn that these social contracts and norms are a peacekeeping measure and violating every single one isn’t a good way to keep the population peaceful.

That contextualizes their motivation to post this in a whole other light if true…

“Look at these people (whose infrastructure we destroyed and who we have made desperate through starvation and inhumane treatment) acting so uncivilized (trying to get to the aid before we have a chance to destroy it)”

I’m also not sure what point you’re trying to make but it’s worth pointing out that “drawing borders” and “European colonization and ethnic cleansing / genocide” are very different degrees of fuckery and you’re conflating both types here.

This is all happening under the Democrats…

Do you realize that the Democrats have been in power the whole time this full on genocide has been taking place?

Democrats were the ones giving false ultimatums.

Democrats were the ones making excuses and giving the green light.

They’re exactly the same on this issue. Do you think Democrats have held Netenyahu back at all?

while you’re busy debating whether these are Nazis or just sparkling fascists you’ll end up in the same spot regardless

that’s just simply not true. if you look at the project lifecycle for a game very little resources are spent in preproduction, the bulk of the time is in production. preproduction usually has all of the core mechanics and ideas implemented by the end, then it’s just about executing on that plan. there’s not a lot of experimentation and iteration once you are in full tilt production mode

much of a game’s development time is spent creating assets, using a new engine doesn’t mean your existing low fidelity assets suddenly look better, just better lit

yes and if human well being was the goal over profit. profit benefits the few, and it’s an amoral driving force. unfortunately it’s been conflated with freedom and fairness.

If your goal is to achieve realistic looking city streets the best way to do that isn’t an expensive online infrastructure and much more advanced simulation.

If the developers had the skills and time to do that they could more easily have more dense NPC crowds and richer local simulation.

The reason the games aren’t already like that is likely just cost, talent, and target performance, which you’d need a lot more of to execute your plan.

there are lots of systemic forces that incentivize being an asshole as well

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If the only difference between you and them is who is in the in group and the out group, you might not be so different after all.

My man is trying to make a point about gender equality in a genocide. People should be killed equally in genocide.

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Too bad the campaign is over they could have paraded him around

Can you explain to me how you’re supportive of Israel’s government and its actions without it being from a conservative or fascist perspective?

What do you identify as?

I never called you antisemitic, I don’t conflate opinions on Israel or Zionism with people’s Jewish identity. There are many anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Jews.

That’s giving the algorithms too much credit. They don’t encode user desires they encode user engagement bait. Like everything under our capitalist system the motivation is profit: in this case ad revenue. Sometimes positive things or agreeable things drive engagement, sometimes negative or divisive things. As long as users spend time scrolling on the platform they’ll both be given equal weight.

As with anything profit motive driven it’s just about what makes more money not what makes more sense or what makes better outcomes. The core assumption of capitalism (at least how it’s sold) is that profit causing activity correlates with improvements to human well-being. How anyone still believes that, I’m not sure.