I recently upgraded my stone axe with some flint. Those guys with bronze are doomed.

Fr. Even the right wing broadsheets had good investigative journalism at one point. It’s all gone now.

If it wasn’t so tragic it would be amusing to see the bourgeois factions stumble over each other. The parties had their obvious policies and they made a certain twisted sense for a time.

Now that none of it has worked, they’re both running out of policies and simply stealing the other’s lines. You can see the visceral confusion in the demi-gods and priests of capital and in the faithful.

It’s the same across the western world, as the ‘left’ parties are unanimously trying to out-compete the ‘right’ on immigration. The politicians and pundits are tripping over themselves and each other. They just don’t know how to frame it.

Who now is the baddy and who the goody? If we all agree that immigration is bad, does that mean the baddies are now the goodies and are the goodies now the baddies because maybe being a racist isn’t the best look.

Major policies have been swapped before. It’s like light through a prism and the right colour is distilled and purified. The GOP takes up anti-abortion and we now see the result of that policy-swap once it becomes the platform piece. Fuck knows what horrors we’re in for when all the ‘left’ parties steal and horde the anti-immigrant policy as the right abandons it in favour of ‘more imported servants, please’.

What do you mean by deep state?

In another sense: these CEOs are the people responsible for infiltrating other countries with the shitty US model of healthcare.

Not quite but there’s overlap.

Tell me about it. When I first learned that the website developed and run by Communists had Communists on it, I couldn’t believe what was happening.

The only moral stance is to post about the US election in lemmydotEthiopia, the Australian election in lemmydotSuriname, the Bolivian election in LemmydotAlbania, and so on, but only if it’s months out of sync. Anything else is suspicious.

That fits nicely because it’s always people who have and will continue to have enough food in their belly that they can indulge in an extra meal while indulging in fantasies like ‘one more election cycle, pleeeease, I trust them to stop murdering millions of innocent people, just one more election cycle and then they’ll fix everything, pleeease’.

What’s non-wealth-based fascism?

Fr when I’m filling in my spreadsheet for the people I have to watch, it’s a lot easier if everyone goes in column A or column B.

Column A is titled ‘Radical speech but thinks that voting will change anything – no action required’.

Column B is ‘Radical shitposter – maintain eyes, no immediate action required’.

The other columns, though – damn it’s a lot of paperwork.

Column O, ‘Organising their community, feeding people, and providing healthcare’ is the worst. Luckily for me, the agency’s action means they don’t stay on the list for long so the paperwork is finite. I probably shouldn’t be saying all this as it’s top secret. But we do know what’s up in our department.

Depends if you’re hungry.

I’m fairly sure that’s a thing, too, lol. I went to buy a printer recently and couldn’t find a decent one in my price range because they’re all essentially leased nowadays. It seems you have to use their ink and you can only get it via monthly subscription. Even if your cartridge had ink left in it, you wouldn’t be able to print with it unless you had enough page credits. Fuck that.

If it works, it’s yet another example of how China is superior to the west.

Or breakroom, by the sound of it.

It’s either a self imposed limitation for some users and inclusivity by default, or a design-imposed limitation and exclusivity by default. Considering I spend so much of my time arguing and fighting against against exclusion and for inclusion in every other part of life, I see no reason why games shouldn’t get the same treatment.

I’m afraid you’ve moved the goalposts or something. I don’t really care about optimization. Games should be accessible. Not having a pause button means I can’t play the game at all. Optimization doesn’t come into it. The person I responded to argued that having a pause button makes games less tense. I understand that because being able to pause the game gives the player a breather. But just because there’s a pause button doesn’t mean the player has to press it. If they want the tension, they can simply choose not to press it. It’s not up to me, the end user, to solve the problem beyond demanding accessibility.

So not building in a pause button automatically makes gameplay wildly suboptimal?

If there was a pause button and you wanted the tension, all you would have to do is simply not press pause.

I don’t play games that don’t have a pause button. I’m an adult with adult shit to deal with. That might be as simple as cooking dinner. I don’t have long for leisure in the evenings but if I can pause a game in between e.g. cooking, I can play it. If I can’t pause, I can’t play.

If devs want to say ‘fuck you, user, we aren’t making our game accessible,’ then fuck them, too. Just another symbol of the shit hole that is game development. I don’t really care what their justifications are. Online games could be made with a pause button as well if the devs cared about accessibility. It’s an industry that takes itself far too seriously, as if games aren’t supposed to be a bit of fun. That’s what happens when games are commodities, I guess.

It’s another factor in gamers being so reactionary; so much of it is de facto the reserve of people without responsibilities or people who don’t care about their responsibilities. Down with inaccessible games.