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I know how history works. I don’t need a time machine to know that a country in economic dire straits will find someone to blame. I just need to look at contemporary US politics. If you’re ever in doubt start a war, preferably somewhere in poverty so you don’t get your asses handed to you, inevitably miscalculate, and get said ass handed to you. Wait 20 years and then do the same thing all over again.

We kind of do know though. Hitler latched onto a movement that already existed he didn’t create it, the world is full of potential leaders they just need a cause. I’m so someone would have been found.

That’s what I mean really. Having one group of people be the enemy is what been a racist is all about. I’m not sure how you have one without the other.

I suppose the question then becomes how much can you change Nazi ideology before it essentially becomes something different. If an alteration to history can make the Nazi movement not racist and not so genocide focused isn’t it really just a different political movement now?

It’s the temporal ship of Theseus, how much can I change history before it ceases to be my history?

Yeah this is the Hollywood version of time travel but in the real world that’s not how things work.

Adolf Hitler didn’t invent Nazism, any more than Donald Trump invented MAGA, they were just two individuals who were the right moment in history to take the opportunity, have they never existed someone else would have done it, possibly later on, but it would still happened.

Nazism for example came out of frustrations with the rest of Europe over the treaty of Versailles. If you want to prevent World War 2 it isn’t enough to kill Hitler, you have to first prevent World War 1, in order to prevent World War 1 you really have to prevent all the stupid little wars that predated it. The number of people you would have to kill in order to prevent Nazis is enormous, probably in the thousands. It’s not one easily removable Nexus point

Yeah they call that artificial data and tout it as a good thing

It just shows that these tech bro CEOs possess the interpersonal skills of a potato. This exact same dynamic plays out in every human interaction, this isn’t some AI exclusive thing. How you choose to act dictates how people will respond to you.

However because these idiots have barely anything in common with the rest of the human race this is actually new news to them.

That’s because they’re back end devs. There is one way to do things, you learn the one way to do the thing, you do it that way, you’re done.

The fun is in front end, there is 15 different ways of doing things, but you don’t like any of them, so you develop a 16th way, eventually you get bored of the 16th way so come up with a 17th way. Eventually you get sick of all of this and go back to SSGs as God intended.

I think it’s only France where it’s explicitly banned. Mostly because otherwise CCTV cameras are legally complicated.

Beer and milk measured in pints but no other liquids are.

How many half a giraffe is that?

Living as someone who’s in a WhatsApp country, they absolutely won’t respond to texts. Nobody texts anybody, even old people don’t use SMS.

If I get an SMS I won’t even see it because I have notifications disabled because all I ever got was spam.

They’re also typically the laziest people in the world. The hate to expend any amount of effort and they don’t get much from commissions if it’s a rental.

When I was buying my house it took the sellers 5 months to sort out the paperwork. It took them any half a year to process the purchase of a single house.

I wouldn’t worry, we’re at least a century away from that happening.

We used to do that too. But wowbetired anyone that puts jager in mine. I’ve had some paint stripper in my time and being fine, but a milligram of jager and I’m throwing up. God knows what’s in it.

The vantablack thing is a bit complicated because while it’s utterly ridiculous he’s the only artist allowed to use the substance (and is an utter prick about it, which is honestly the larger issue).

It has to be a somewhat controlled substance because it’s ridiculously carcinogenic, obviously that doesn’t mean you can’t sell it to other people it just has to be dolled out carefully and with instruction.

The pink is amazing though, I saw some in a museum once and it honestly looks like it’s lit up, cameras absolutely do not capture it. It just looks normal on cameras. It’s worth going and having a look if you ever have the opportunity.

Personally I think the whole concept of gamers is stupid. You cannot have a demographic comprise predominantly of multiple different sections of a population, that’s two broader of net to be casting. It’s like saying that everyone who drives a car is a car enthusiast.

Anyone who plays games is a gamer but there’s a huge range of ages, ethnicities, and nationalities. Besides someone who plays a lot of FPS is not the same as someone who predominantly plays grand strategy games or the Sims.

Whether or not you want to make the moral distinction is a personal choice, but there is an economic distinction to be made as well.

Pirating a AAA game is fine because the studio is gonna make more games regardless.

Pirating an indie game is stupid though, if too many people do that then the developer won’t be able to make enough money and won’t make more games.

Doubling down on the idiocy I see. You could have avoided see me like a prick for the second time if you would just read the the whole article rather than cherry picking a bit of it that reinforces whatever random point it is you’re trying to make.

he’s not actually unhappy about the number of refunds or money he lost, or even Steam’s policy in general—he was merely expressing frustration with players who “bragged about having a fun time with the game and refunding it after completion.”

Which I think is fair enough.

That’s the thing they always tell you. It isn’t a mobile platform, people are prepared to pay higher prices but you need to set expectations with those prices.

If you’re charging $15 for a game people are going to expect at least 10ish hours of gameplay, if it’s going to be under that you want to be sub $10.

Although having said that I think I only paid £12 for Minecraft (about $15) and I’m probably thousands and thousands of hours into that.