I miss being able to play Rivals of Aether 2 with a GameCube controller. My to my knowledge there’s no good way to connect one on Linux.

I completely agree with you and disagree with the dismissal of some of the other comments. I grew up in South Carolina and worked in factories for years. I’ve met a lot of rednecks of all types. There’s this weird tendency on the left to associate rural people with backwards mindsets which is just straight up classist IMO.

Most of them have felt politically abandoned by neoliberal policies sending their jobs overseas and politicians courting city-dwellers. Trump told them he wasn’t going to abandon them, that he was going to bring back factory jobs, that elites in business and government have been giving them a raw deal. I can’t blame them for taking a chance on Trump when the alternatives were career politicians giving them more of the same. People like to pretend that rural voters aren’t voting in their best interest but they knew Kamala, Biden, or Clinton weren’t going to do shit for them. South Carolina is filled with small “historic downtowns” that are clearly 50 years past their prime. They’ve seen what the status quo does.

The good news is more of them are seeing trump for what he is. I know this from actual rednecks telling me this. These people are anti-establishment, anti-government, and often pro-union. I really don’t think it would take much to swing them left. The one sticking point is…

Racism is still very much a thing among rednecks. Most have lived a blue collar life and developed a thick skin. As a result, they see “woke” stuff as a bunch of soft people who never really worked demanding everybody cater to them rather than deal with life like they did. Nobody is irredeemable and many of them are quirky weirdos in their own way. I worked with this old trump voter redneck that used to DJ and introduced me to Baby Metal. Another kept a my little pony figurine zip tied to his toolbox. My brother had trouble making friends in high school until he met the rednecks. He later told me “if nobody will accept you, the rednecks will accept you.” There is capacity to accept people not like them.

IMO, a politician running on a platform of economic left-wing populism would run the rural ballot. Literally rework Trump’s “drain the swamp” narrative except actually mean it. And actually follow through. Invest in rural communities. Go after corruption which is huge in rural areas. Actually listen to their concerns and address them rather than dismissing them. Any worker can be an ally in the working class struggle.

They wouldn’t have been forced in if they didn’t provide Israel with so much military support. Iran would have only retaliated against Israel.

Is there really anyone out there who doesn’t know that raping someone is fucked up?

Everyone agrees rape is bad. But there are plenty of people with a very narrow definition of rape. They think rape is only when someone forces themselves against a kicking and screaming victim. Teaching young boys not to rape means teaching them about consent, how to confirm it, knowing it can be revoked at any time. It means calling out your friend’s bad behavior. Also, we can still teach girls to defend themselves too. Nobody is saying we shouldn’t do that. Just that it shouldn’t be considered the main solution. That’s a victim-blaming mindset that minimizes all of the social norms enabling rape and sexual violence.

My crackpot theory is that we’re 10 years away from e-ink displays becoming the new hot thing. The clarity of looking at something that isn’t backlit is great. If they can solve refresh rate and resolution, we’re there.

I think you’re probably right. I still think it’s important to point out that this lawsuit, even if successful, won’t take down Valve. Steam and CS2 will still be around. If it is successful, it might force other platforms to change how they handle lootboxes too. Singling out Valve won’t mean that steam is down and we all need to use the Epic store. The flaws of this lawsuit and it’s motivations don’t mean that we need to excuse Valves bad behavior. You aren’t doing that here but many people feel the need to pick sides. We can call out the lawsuit for being largely a political stunt and call out Valve for profiting off of child gambling.

Billionaire owned tech companies that controll a market so tightly they pretty much have a monopoly shouldn’t be anthropomorphized so fondly. I want you to vomit up that Kool aid.

Again, those other marketplaces are bad too. Saying Valve is bad isn’t saying another company is good and calling another company bad doesn’t mean I have to say valve is good.

Village toymaker? Wow.

Not everyone, but plenty of people in this thread do. And plenty of gamers in general excuse their bad behavior.

In this thread: a complete lack of moral clarity as gamers simp for one of the most profitable companies in the industry. Valve was a pioneer of loot boxes. When they got in trouble for CS:GO skin gambling, they did the minimum to make it look like they didn’t allow it and allowed it to make an easy comeback. They sit back and make 30% off the sale of every game on the platform. People should be saying that Valve is very bad and Epic is even worse. Instead gamers feel this strange need to pick sides with a giant company that controls almost all PC gaming. No, we can easily say they’re all bad.

I wonder if this will actually be any good. In general, you want to let air out of tires when driving off-road so the tread can confirm to the terrain. This tire will be stiffer and likely won’t have as much traction. It will be more resistant to the tire getting blown off. I guess time will tell if that compromise is worth it.

I’m getting tickets in the nosebleeds and getting paid 100s of thousands to be there.

It’s crazy to imply that electoral politics (especially in the US) represents the will of the people.

You don’t pass them? When cars pass me and then get stuck at a light, I always pass them and then pull right in front of the light and block them. I want the futility of passing me to be super obvious.

I’m no Epic Games fan, but this is an overcorrection. Valve makes money hand over fist and they aren’t making those products simply out of passion. They’re doing it to make even more money. The company are pioneers in micro transactions and loot boxes. The other large game companies (and especially alternative storefronts) have just been so shit that gamers feel a weird attachment to this company.

To me, this illustrates exactly why “human supervised” autonomous driving makes no sense. Nobody can sit there hour after hour, day after day doing nothing at all and still be ready to intervene in a moments notice. The whole point of autonomous driving is to take away the mental work of driving.

Also, when you’re driving, you have perfect knowledge of your own intentions. If you don’t know the intentions of the system, you’re purely reacting to all of the information presented to you which is a small subset of all information the car sees. Is the car swerving because a kid ran in front when you weren’t looking that way? No way to know in the moment whether a sudden input is life ending or life saving. The only reason supervised autonomous driving is considered acceptable by anybody is because the alternative is for car companies to take responsibility in the event of an accident. Politicians and car companies are happy for some flunky behind the wheel to take the heat.

A lot of people on here probably don’t need this video. There are people out there who aren’t all in on climate denialism but they’ve heard some of the misinfo and feel that “both sides have good points so we probably shouldn’t make any big moves until we clear things up”. This video is aimed at them. They don’t fully buy climate change but they haven’t made it part of their identity.

I think he’s smart for barely even talking about the environmental aspect. He’s selling the idea that it’s just way better economics and pointing out why all the arguments against solar are bullshit and always have been. Somebody could see this and realize they’ve been fed lies to make them confused about a very straightforward decision.

I have a white cat and like to wear black. I’ve found out which lint-rollers are best.

Fun fact, in Japan, they drive on the left. As a result, they also walk on the left on the sidewalk. However in Osaka, they walk up stairs and use escalators “international style” on the right. They still walk on sidewalks on the left side. The rest of the country is not like this.