That’s a Steam issue with automatic updates. I much prefer games that distribute on their own and let you download any of the old versions you want. I’m not the type of person who plays old versions to exploit bugs in a single player game, but I don’t have any issue with people who want to do that.

The Canada Post strike was annoying but I’d hardly call it nation-paralyzing. Most people barely receive any mail as it is. It was most troublesome for elderly people who still rely a lot on the mail.

A nation-paralyzing strike would be a strike by all truck drivers which would lead to empty shelves in grocery stores. That would really affect people in a serious way.

I wouldn’t worry too much about people complaining. People always find things to complain about. I work in a mail room and we get angry letters all the time because we send mail to people who have moved but not updated their address in their account. People get ridiculously angry at the thought that we might actually take a while to update our records when someone moves!

Nor sure why you’re thinking about nation-breaking strikes. What makes you think there’s anywhere even remotely enough support for one?

To me that’s like asking what the NDP would do if earth was invaded by hostile aliens from Alpha Centauri. I know a lot of people on Lemmy like to fantasize about these massive worker uprisings but the truth is most people are way too content and have way too much to lose for that.

The conditions of modern Canadian life, as expensive as everything is, are just about a million times more luxurious than early 20th century Russia. People have abundant food, shelter, clothing, electronics, and entertainment out the wazoo. Most working class people these days work service jobs which may be boring or frustrating but they’re far better than working in a logging camp, on a farm, on a fishing boat, in a steel mill, or on an oil rig. People are warm and comfortable with air conditioning and regular breaks.

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The AAA game industry wants to leverage FOMO to keep you engaged, keep you buying the newest game, forgetting about your backlog.

If they had their way, older games would no longer be playable, just to force people to keep buying new games.

Sure, though you don’t need a state of the art PC to play 90% of the games ever made. These days I play a lot of my games on an old 3DS (hacked to the gills)!

I also have a huge steam library of games, many of which I bought for next to nothing in huge bundles during past sales. Many of them I still haven’t played! They would run fine on a 10 year old PC though.

Gaming is cheaper than ever. Just don’t buy new games. I haven’t bought a new AAA game in decades. There are thousands and thousands of games you can play for free or nearly free.

It’s like music. You can listen to lifetimes worth of music for free or nearly free. The only expensive thing is going to some fancy concert and giving a ton of money to Ticketmaster.

It’s not just money. It’s any time a small group has some kind of shared interest. That interest usually is money, but not always directly. The shared interest ties that group together is what allows them to work against the interests of wider society.

Start working together is, in my opinion, the single hardest thing to achieve as a species. It’s called the Collective action problem in psychology and there’s a ton of research into why it is so challenging.

I’ve seen many people on Lemmy who seem to be unaware of it at a surface level but aware of it at an intuitive level, and it’s extremely frustrating for them.

Do you understand how the wealth is growing? Who these people are? They’re the owners of all the news media, the grocery stores, the food producers (bread, meat, vegetable oil, potato products), toilet paper, cable/cell phone/internet, sports teams and channels, car manufacturing (supply chain)…

To stop funding them you’d have to go off the grid, grow your own food, no car, no internet, no news media, no sports. Sounds pretty difficult for the average person.

Used to love plug-in-heavy, customizable tools. Then I realized I loved spending time customizing and installing all those plugins, and not a lot of time getting work done.

Now I just prefer good tools that can do everything I need but not necessarily optimally. As long as they feel really efficient for 95% of use cases and the other 5% are possible (but not optimal) I am good with that. I don’t need to reach for “the perfect tool” anymore.

The Saudi regime is our problematic ally. Iran is Russia’s. Except Russia doesn’t care whatsoever what Iran does to their own people.

Wait, what difference does it make whether the stocks pay dividends or not?

They are for marketing but not in the obvious way. Achievements really exist to tell game developers what parts of their game people are actually playing. Sure, some obscure achievements may be very hard to get and thus not tell them anything useful, but a lot of games have super basic checkpoint “achievements” like “start the game for the first time” or “play through the first level.”

With enough of these, a game developer can tell what parts of their game were entertaining and engaging and what parts were not. Sometimes this information can be used to decide how to improve the game. Other times it may only be useful as a lesson for future games (by that developer) to learn from.

This is not US news media, this is the Guardian, a left-wing paper in the UK.

Homes aren’t a commodity, they’re a depreciating asset. Land is what has real value in our society, and this is a cultural development dating back to Enclosure in the Middle Ages. We realized back then that if you don’t own your own land then you are effectively a slave paying rent to someone else for the privilege of having a roof over your head.

I’ve seen other solutions proposed around here, such as government ownership of housing where we all pay rent to the government. What I don’t get is how people can say that with a guy like Trump in power. Do you want Trump to be your landlord? That sounds horrible!

I don’t play AAA games anymore (haven’t in years) but I still feel somewhat sympathetic to their plight. What has happened to them is the same thing that happened in the music industry and the film industry and a long time ago in the book publishing industry.

The marketplace is too crowded with quality stuff and so it’s extremely difficult to compete with what’s already out there. The only real answer is to take massive risks and hope you can hit a home run. Unfortunately, AAA studios just like big movie studios aren’t set up to take risks anymore. They’re set up to spend a huge amount of money on a project that’s supposed to be guaranteed to succeed. Indies can survive more easily in this space because they’re small so they can take more risks.

It’s like the dinosaurs after the asteroid impact. The big ones are dying off and the tiny ones are surviving and will eventually become birds. Or something I dunno!

Except the US is not one person. It’s a bunch of people, some of whom you can call abusers, others would better be called friends and family.

If someone in your family is in a relationship with an abuser do you abandon your family member to their fate with the abuser?

I suppose that’s one way to never be disappointed!

The relationship isn’t dead, it’s just going through a tough time right now. Half of Americans never voted for Trump and are appalled by all that’s happened. They’re poised to take their country back from all the MAGA insanity, starting with the midterms and over the next few years to follow.