Only 41 percent?

A few weeks ago there was this article posted here about why some game companies are trying so hard to kill their old video games and give 0 shits about preservation (as in delisting them from stores, not selling them anymore, etc.).

One of the answers given by the publishers in the article basically boils down to “old, preserved games would compete with the newer ones and eat into their sales”, which does say quite a lot - they don’t care about losing sales of older video games, all that matters is the sales of the newer ones, preservation be damned.

Disco Elysium features communism and communists (bad) but also has a couple of homosexuals (a secret cabal of organized people dead-set on destroying the ideals of nuclear family) as characters. I’d suggest you guys avoid the game at all costs, it’s too dangerous.

Someone poor gets murdered: You’re lucky if they’re gonna bother checking a couple of cameras and do some interviews

Someone rich gets murdered: Begin nationwide search for the culprit, look through every single camera in the city to see their tracks, plaster their face all over the media and offer $50,000 of tax payer money to anyone who might have any information

Media on their way to doxx and leak every single detail about a guy who killed some rich heartless exec

I’m more surprised there were ~50 republicans voting no/abstaining

Yeah, fair point

I had the impression this was a privilege exclusive to the conservatives

Maybe it’s because the guy is a relevant public figure, and if he were to say something along the lines of “the bastard deserved it” he’d face a ton of consequences for it? This is so much easier to do in an online space where you are anonymous, especially in an admittedly echochambery place like lemmy.

I do recall the Trump’s first assassination attempt, and some celebrities (can’t recall the names right now) did come out and say something along the lines of “shame the guy missed” which made the media start hounding and targeting them, with their colleagues being forced to disavow or kick them from their projects entirely.

It would be cool if Tim Walz or any influential figure went “rip bozo” regardless though

I mean, I get it - as a gamer myself, when buying a new title I don’t really care about things like if the game is fun or good or has a healthy community/playerbase, these things don’t matter. How many non-straight characters are there, now that’s much more important - in fact, if you feature too many it might bring the end of the western world or something.

Conflicted if this is actually good.

On one hand, Twitter has become a real neo-nazi platform that openly spreads misinformation/propaganda/rage-bait in the guise of ‘free speech’ with the owner also abusing their powers by stealing handles and censoring and whatnot. The world would be better off without it if it were to die.

On the other, Twitter is still quite a big name with a lot of influence, with alternatives being much more niche. If every decent person was to leave the platform and all that’s left are neo-nazis and “good-faith-neither-left-nor-right-people-who-always-strangely-support-the-right”, it’s just going to make recruitment much easier.

If you’re rich, a fine isn’t a punishment but rather just an extra expense

What years of anti-feminist propaganda does to a man

Wasn’t aware that tolerance to silence can actually be a cultural thing, that’s pretty fascinating.

In some countries, being silent is actually an interrogation technique since people tend to be uncomfortable with it and instinctually try to make some noise, be it through universal language or just talking which can make you reveal information you otherwise wouldn’t have shared.

Wonder how it’s actually going to be enforced. Judging from the article, it’ll all be up to the tech companies themselves which historically didn’t turn out to be that effective (examples: age fields on services like Discord and Gmail and porn).

The only effective way I can think of is having to send a picture of your ID but that’s hella invasive

Ducky keyboards if they were actually good

Fun fact: US is one of the few countries in the western world that legally protects violence against your children.

To contrast this, in most European countries, hitting your child is legally treated the same as hitting any other person or adult - it’s assault, and there are no legal exceptions when it comes to corporal punishment at home.

The far-right (and I’m pretty sure Trump) had already stated that “yup, project 2025 is the agenda”, but only after the election was a done deal.

To be fair, steam forums are a hot pile of garbage so the senator is correct in pointing that out at the very least

There’s torrminator for once, it has a section for linux cracks specifically. There’s also a large collection on the internet archive of native linux games that you’d have to find for yourself (to keep in line with the rules), but it shouldn’t be too difficult.