While the vid is talking about disk space, I find that the games are also getting way too big in terms of length with most of the game just being filler. This is especially true for open world games where there’s very little actual content to be had. Most of the game ends up being repetitive fetch quests, or grinding for levels with a handful of hours of actual story sandwiched in here and there. Once in a while you see a game that can genuinely justify its length, Last of Us series is a good example of this, but more often than not games feel long for the sake of being long. Another aspect I’ve come to resent is how games have to pile on different mechanics like crafting because it’s just what’s expected. A lot of the time it doesn’t really add anything and just forces you to do more scavenging quests.

Nowadays, I pretty much exclusively play indie games precisely because they tend to be shorter and more focused. Sometimes less really is more. Viewfinder is the latest game I’ve played. It’s like 6-8 hours in length, and it’s just perfect.

thanks, I hate it 😄

You gotta love how every single communism trope actually becomes realized under capitalism sooner or later. Turns out it’s the capitalists who want to take away all your personal property and turn everything into a rental. You don’t own your media, your books, or your computer. Everything, is an internet connected subscription nowadays. As soon as you stop paying, or the company decides to cut service you’re shit out of luck.

oh bread lines are very much a thing in US https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/04/these-photos-show-the-staggering-food-bank-lines-across-america/

Right, the government people should be worried about is the one that has agency over them.

That’s right as long as it’s private companies collecting the data and then selling it to the government then it’s just wholesome surveillance capitalism.

I’ve always found this extremely funny because we know for a fact that all western companies share their data with western governments. So, the only actual difference is that this data is also sold to any private interests willing to pay for it. Looking at it from this perspective, you have far more data privacy in China than you do in the west.

it’s funny how for a while there was the whole narrative about China being scary because they do mass surveillance, I notice western media has been largely avoiding mentioning surveillance lately

I can’t imagine any possible negative side effects from hijacking your sleep cycle to work.

That’s precisely what I’d expect as well, and what APIs in languages like Java do.

This is literally how every sane API works in languages built by adults. For example, here’s what happens in Java:

java.time.LocalDate.of(2023, 3, 31)
> #object[java.time.LocalDate 0x2bc77260 "2023-03-31"]
java.time.LocalDate.of(2023, 3, 31).minusMonths(1)
> #object[java.time.LocalDate 0xac0dc15 "2023-02-28"]
java.time.LocalDate.of(2023, 3, 31).minusMonths(2)
> #object[java.time.LocalDate 0x44b9305f "2023-01-31"]

I have no idea where people get this notion that a month isn’t a defined size. Do people just not understand the concept of a month?

The amount of people arguing that this is a fine behavior in this thread makes the whole thing even funnier.

I see that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Israel

Key part to keep in mind is that he’s not talking to the west here. He’s addressing the other 80% of humanity that already supports Russia.

Just buy yourself a slave camp… err prison.

I love how the question of what actually causes inflation is never actually addressed in the mainstream. They just keep acting like it’s some mysterious force acting on the economy that nobody understands fully. Meanwhile, the answer is very simple. Prices are set by people who own businesses. Inflation is just a result of business owners choosing to raise prices because they want to raise their rate of profit. That’s literally all it is. Inflation in capitalist economies is a direct result of the capitalist class leveraging the fact that they own the means of production to raise the cost of living for the working class.

easy, just be rich

This is what’s known as creating the reserve army of labour. It’s a good reminder that the capitalist class understands Marxist economic model perfectly fine.