This is applicable to any number of things. Those of us who are into computer games would mostly like companies to release them in a finished state but are pretty helpless against abusive marketing and peer pressure. Our friends in gaming are also a network.

The important takeaway here for me is that we meed to abplish the idea of „voting with your wallet“ since this mechanic is broken in the presence of networking effects. E.g. you not only miss out on the game/app/product but you hurt your network and become more isolated.

Thats why I stopped using the fog light to fuck up high beamers. It’s just another fight you‘re waiting to get in. People will overtake and brakecheck you or do the same just to get back at you. A large portion of the polulation is literally braindead. I just step off the gas now and make them overtake since they think I‘m too dumb to find the gas pedal. Less hustle, faster solution.

Great advice, thanks! With my honesty and gullibility I probably will end up in that situation anyway though. :)

The ideas of „you can only own a building you live in“ and „companies can’t own residential buildings“ keep popping up in my head. Any reason that can’t be the solution?

I understand you frustration but you are hurting everyone with this statement.

At this point, russia is still struggling for total control (not yet n korea) over their citizens. If we cut them off, we hand over the keys to everything russia to that insane individual.

This would have very dire implications.

1. russia would 10x their propaganda capabilities as there is no way to gain outside info for the people
2. russia would indeed become another nk but with 142 times the size, 6 times the population and very near the european borders
3. have you ever heard of the axis powers? They were tiny in comparison to russia. Now think who else would likely join that totalitarian power grab? China is already working with russia. Have you any idea how fucked we would be?
4. dividing the internet is actually in the interest of any propagandist in any country on earth. Far right movements anywhere would have a field day. Think of the mass murders that are first reported on the internet. They would go quietly in the future and much more successful.

Thats only what I could come up with in a couple minutes but cutting russia off is just not a good idea at all.

Have a good one.

Back when I used facebook, not the boomers sent me the worst stupidity evidence but people who were severely undereducated and isolated from others. Those incidentally were also the most likely to fall for alt right propaganda or other conspiracy theories.

Not saying thats the rule, just some anecdotal evidence.

More explanation without toxicity. I think I have gotten shit on on lemmy more than I did on reddit by this point.

Don’t get me wrong. I‘m incorrect sometimes but if I see someone being confidently incorrect, I tell them and explain. And if I tell them that I find their attitude lacking and would like to learn, they get even worse.

A lot of people here are just dicks and the moderators don’t react to reports. They can tell you you‘re a fucking moron for not knowing everything and get away with it. Worse, they dogpile on you with their schoolyard bully attitude.

This is kind of a reason for me to leave if this goes on and it will keep other people from joining, hampering the growth.

I really hope this changes.

So let me get that straight:

Instead of doing their due diligence, they just bought up as many studios as they could and are now considering selling, shrinking or closing them (I assume while keeping the IP for themselves if there is any as well as any valuable assets).

This reads like a „we need to homogenize the game industry so lobbying for anti competitive measures becomes easier.“

I still don’t understand why shit like this is even legal.

Uk is driving itself off a cliff for quite some time now. If it were a person I‘d institutionalize them to stop them from harming themselves.

Anticompetitive strategies of other universes.

The fact that more pay is not equal to the amount of skill required but the ability to endure pain is just cruel.

Welcome to trickle down economics