Interesting. I hope it's the first of many times we hear that loading times are too short to read tips. Wouldn't a better solution be to have an in-game place to read all the tips from the loading screens?

It's a failed city. They had over 45 days of riots and weren't doing anything about it. I think this is the best way to do something about it. In direct confrontation it could lead to a lot of bloodshed. For all the bad things people say about Trump he does avoid all-out conflict a lot.

Of course.

We've seen Battle Royale emerge. And games like Paper's Please. And games like Outer Wilds which is not exactly a walking simulator but more like an exploration game. And survival games. I would almost consider a game like Half Life Alyx a new genre too, or at least a new subgenre because they are so very different from the PC counterparts. Souls games.

This generation + the last one has brought quite a few refreshing things. Especially this one. Who knows whether the next one will be as refreshing, but I think games will continue to evolve, slow or fast.

A bit silly to use all that access for a bitcoin scam. They should have given it to me. I hope they at least took the time to peek around. They obviously weren't too scared to access accounts of people in powerful or politically relevant positions. You think they got something?

Would be interesting to talk to them before they get caught.

He never takes into account online and game prices. Although PC game prices have been raised quite a bit this generation.

They are now burning statues of Mary.

Why is it that Marxism in practise often incorporates the removal of all or most private property? It's the single biggest problem I see with communism aside from the potential lack of drive, is the idea that you cannot own something anymore. It makes everything much less psychologically important and personal. And aren't those elements very useful to keep people engaged in a society?

I don't see a good reason why everything would have to belong to the state in communism. You could pay people reasonable amounts of money for work done and a living wage for no work done. And have people buy their own things with that money. Maybe some people don't want to/need to drive a car so they instead buy a bigger house. You can allow for personal preferences in life. You would still reward people for work done, just not in a way that creates an ever growing gap between richer and poorer people. Remove inheritance, if that's still a problem.

Sure it would be slightly less efficient on paper I suppose than knowing exactly how many of this TV and of this car you need to produce but with the rise and shine of machine learning I think that's actually going to become a non argument soon enough. And you get to celebrate the rising unemployment rates as automation kicks in.

And also this idea in communism that you have to appoint people their jobs is something I do not understand. That's not very Marxist is it? Marx was very much against the idea that you are forced to work somewhere that you cannot put your soul into. One of the reasons he started thinking about all his ideas was exactly because he saw that capitalism was heading into mass production taking the soul out of doing work and the satisfaction out of it.

I'm clearly not an expert on Marxism but I do recall some of it and I remember the one thing that I truly disagreed with was the notion that profit is inevitably and inexcusably a form of corruption. Profit can be very much like a wage a reward for something well done. Those who employ people can be fulfilling a service and keep things afloat, they're not ALWAYS useless. They don't HAVE to die. And it's OK for someone to produce more than someone else and get rewarded for it to some degree. Maybe they can help increase the production of other farms and facilities with their techniques and enrich the community.

Reading up on it it sounds like a fantastic idea. It is going to allow people to see what it is they actually do and why they do it. There are some things like that where I live. Since our prison system is running empty, you can sign up here to get locked up in prison temporarily to see how prison works and what life in prison is like, and how arrests work. Things like that.

I think it's good because we make a lot of assumptions about what they should be doing and what they do. And going on a course like that shows you what it's actually like and what they actually deal with.

In fact, when I was in high school the civics class teacher took my class to a center where immigrants were granted papers to stay, or lost their rights to stay. It was an inconspicuous building in the city center without a sign or anything that I can remember, but inside of the building it was full of hopelessness and doubt, but also good intentions and sudden tensions. The stories I heard there from both the immigration office and the immigrants were eye opening. It was very educational and I would recommend that to any school.

I am on there. 6 minutes ago Cyberpunk posted:

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If you were only allowed to listen to music from one decade for the rest of your life, what decade would you choose?

#poll#music#parler

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I don't think it's very different from Twitter. There's much less harassment than on Twitter so far, but the average posts are more 'out there'. I've definitely seen some 'outspoken' opinions on Parler. But I can handle that. It does allow for more characters per post which is useful.