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    4 months ago

    This is an critique on the gaming industry, not the players.

    I remember moving from the first sims to the second which was a spectacular difference, and then the sims 3 expanding on the tech with an open world. You could smell the future on the book that came in the box with the disc that you read on the way home.

    Compare the early and modern versions of wolfenstein. The first game was revolutionary, can you tell apart generic stills from the last 3 games?


  • Can you name a single person who is threatened by a democratically decided punishment for organizing genocide.

    At worst its a statement in support of using systematic violence as a punishment for crimes against humanity. But discussion isn’t a threat.

    Saying: “Everyone who think x, must be killed” is a threat to violence.

    Hitler did not just think racist things. He was not only expressing himself or identifying as a Nazi. He was unmistakable guilty of organizing a genocide.

    There are many self identifying nazis today but there is no demographic of people who belong to the specific group that fits actual Hitler and actual mussolini.

    I can think of a handful alive today that are heading that way but even if those empires broke down tomorow they would not have committed enough evil to qualify.



  • I recognize that this is a very different angle but there is a global trend for free open source software which are non profit by design.

    Of course this basically means you need to be a developer and than there is still the question about how to survive within economic society.

    I doubt you want to live from donations coming from where you are now.

    The sweet spot, which might be viable for you is an open source devision within a for profit company. Many industries have started to understand the massive value of open source software and standards. Companies like redhat build open source tools on one side but then sell industry tailored packages and support to enterprises for profit. Even Nvidia has started to open source some level of their drivers because they realized that enthusiast will often improve on those for zero costs.

    I imagine in some of those divisions its just like a normal company with not just devs but all kinda of roles your direct product will be used by the for profit stuff but also be free for everyone else out there that might need it.




  • Its a tough question because lemmy is for a cleary majority a variation of political left. ML is infamous for being tankies for example. One reason i observed for this is because corporate sites, you know which ones ars increasingly leaning if not full on political right.

    There are right leaning communities oc but i doubt there is much truly Neutral. You may also encounter a lot of defederation with those communities to protect targeted communities from fascism

    The far right takeover happening in the US is not helping because what even is the center position at this point? Feels like a full on information war.

    Having said that i fully agree that there should be neutral ground if not purely on the basis that the word is not America and there is plenty of political spectrum in the world besides (Anti)Facism.

    I have noticed that the big political communies all allow US posts because we are still reasonably small. As we grow we will see more diversity.

    Which brings me to the my last point, do not be afraid of empty communities. Be the user you want to see and subscribe to it, maybe post something. Someday someone may and as an early member you get the privilege of helping to shape it towards what you believe we need.