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  • now I have to clean my keyboard....

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  • Still, I think it's easy to forget AAA's successes next to the overall shitty syesten. Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Spider-Man 2, Doom Eternal, Horizon Forbidden West, God of War Ragnarok, Ghost of Tsushima, Diablo 4, Armored Core 6 are all AAA with solid launches in the last 5 years as far as I remember, and arguably with distinct soul.

  • now I have to clean my keyboard....

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  • These days, probably Expedition 33, but there lots of others every year. Probably moreso than 15 years ago by raw numbers.

    People over focus on AAA budget games, but there are several indie and AA budget games that are comparable or even surpass production quality of AAA games 15 years ago.

    AAA budget these days should really be called like S-tier budget. In 2010 and earlier, the top end of budgets were like $50-100 million ($70-140 million after inflation) including marketing. Budgets started ballooning after that and hese days, top end budgets are more like $500-700 million)

  • 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames

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  • You know, we restrict and ban certain drugs like fentanyl and heroin respectively because their addiction potential is so high and can cause a lot of harm at the population level.

    Sure people have individual responsibility, but it's also unrealistic to expect most people to resist an entire social and structural environments geared around certain behaviours, like drinking alcohol or smoking back in the day. Not everyone has the same has the same ironclad will and perfect emotionless reasoning as you, especially youth--remember they used to have smoking ads aimed at kids? And now it's vaping.

    While a lot of things I can easily resist, like narcotics and alcohol, I still get influenced by certain types of ads to try things, get addicted to certain games, and eat way too much junk food. For a lot of things, you can't know it's going to be a problem for you until it's a problem. Plenty of people buy a few loot boxes here and there and don't develop a gambling addiction. That doesn't mean gambling addiction isn't a risk and problem to take seriously and address at the systemic level, not just leave it to the individual.

  • Chapel in the Woods

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  • I don't know, I think adopting sanitary practices tops it easily.

  • No thank you for your service

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  • I suspect survivability bias plays into it, as I imagine an empathetic and self-reflective anti-war film in the is more likely than a straight "US are the villains" film to be funded and see financial, and therefore popular, success in the US. It makes sense why domestic industries will tend to tell domestic-facing stories. I'd say the size of the US film industry means you actually get more diversity in war films compared to ones you see in places like Japan or Germany.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • Because sadly, the attitudes and views of people making up Jan 6 are shared by a large proportion of the US population, even if they would not have participated given the means/opportunity.

    Jan 6 is viewed by them with analogous sentiment to how the left views civil disobedience for civil rights movements, regardless of the substance/justice of the event.

  • Republican party right now

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  • While Ukraine is not anywhere near the scale of WWII, they're hardly isolated. While the hot battlefield is geographically isolated, the logistical and economic battlefields deeply involve many countries around the world, including NATO countries, China, and Iran. It's much bigger than a proxy war.

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • Depends on what class you are, which I think a lot of comments in this thread understandably seem to assume from a middle class perspective, even assuming "wage" as the main source of wealth.

    Real estate is one major source of capital gains, but for a lot of the 1% and investors, capital gains is primarily from financial instruments, i.e. stocks, bonds, etc.

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • I'm sorry, either I'm dense or your explanation is confusing. How is what you described different from the capital gains tax?

  • California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program

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  • At 3ml/pen and 100units/ml, that puts it on par (retail price) with Canada and Germany and around 50% more than France and UK.

    As with a lot of US health prices, listed prices are massively inflated compared to average out of pocket expenses, creating horrible holes for uninsured people. In the US there are some recent caps for insulin cost of $35/month at the low end, and other caps in the $100/month range from what I've read.

    Here is a good price comparison https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11147642/

  • Trump touts Canada-U.S. ‘merger’ in White House meeting, says Carney will ‘be very happy’ after meeting

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  • He can't promise anything about the FDI, it's not up to him, it's private investment. Like I said, both sides can make a deal that incentivized FDI. "half a trillion in the past 5 years, probably a trillion in over the next 5" is not exactly the language of a promise.

    I don't necessarily agree with the policy or trade deals in their entirety and I'm actually more worried if we're opening up Canada for more US foreign investment in the same deal.

    And we are making better friends in the rest of the world. We've been strengthening partnership with the EU including a new defense partnership. We're also finalizing new free trade agreements with the south East Asian bloc (ASEAN). And there's preliminary work ongoing on expanding free trade with the UK.

  • Trump touts Canada-U.S. ‘merger’ in White House meeting, says Carney will ‘be very happy’ after meeting

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  • To clarify, they are talking about foreign direct investment, like Canadian billionaires buying stocks in US companies, which the fed does not directly control, but can incentivize through trade agreements. The US can change their taxes on foreign investment on their side. From the other side, FDI is a reflection of how many shares of US companies are being bought up by non-US investors. The Canadian government does not own foreign stock afaik.

    Part of the mind boggling numbers is due to massive inflation of certain US stock valuations in the last few years and related reinvestment of capital gains. For example, if I had $1000 invested in Intel last year after it crashed, it would be worth $2000 now. If I sold that and bought $2000 worth of Nvidia stock, that would count as $1000 net increase in my foreign direct investment, even though I haven't moved any "new" money into the US. Did Intel suddenly double in its assets or revenue? Hell no, it's a lot of speculation. People are gambling in the US market or seeking to influence US companies for economic advantage.

  • Virginia Democrats call for Republican John Reid to exit lieutenant governor race in Nazi porn scandal

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  • Yeah, both possibilities mentioned are plausible. Some actual investigation and evidence tying him to the account are warranted.

  • A Canadian politician is openly spreading Nazi propaganda

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  • Thanks for sharing that idea! I appreciate what you’re getting at: that basic care (food, clothing) embodies the tenet of equality in socialism. However, the example of a parent feeding a child doesn't quite capture the power-relations, freedoms, and systems aspects of socialism. I don't think we really want to say a master feeding/clothing their slave or a king feeding/clothing a favorite court jester is really "demonstrating socialism". Socialism is about how society as a whole arranges ownership, production, and resource distribution (i.e. collective ownership of the means of production). It's a counter to capitalism.

    Parental relationships are, ironically, a special case where limiting freedoms and greater power disparity are justified in most egalitarian systems. We usually don't give children ownership over the means of production.

    Good formal description: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socialism

  • Cause and Effect

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  • Oof don't get me started. He read that line from Hawking and stuck to it. I had a blast watching nuCosmos when it came out and he's done plenty good science communication, but Carl Sagan he is not.

  • A Canadian politician is openly spreading Nazi propaganda

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  • So if socialism is bad because it's in the name of Nazis, then democratic republics for the people must be pretty horrible too, going by the DPRK.

    While we're cherry-picking, the Kingdom of Norway is consistently one of the best countries to live in across several metrics. So clearly we should go back to kingdoms, because it's in the name. Sometimes the old ways are best XD

  • Cause and Effect

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  • It's not a new thing. The same issues were the case for television, radio, and newspapers. They had to teach media literacy before the internet too. You go back into the archives and you'll see some wild misinformation that's very reminiscent of what we see on the internet. We did have a brief few decades where we had a more consistent and adhered to set of standards, but these were by no means universal. The perception of reliable information is also skewed the combination of being less aware of misinformation when younger and by a unique period where mass reputable media were all saying the same thing... But that also meant they were leaving the same things out.

    But the internet did change things. Standards have been blown up, misinformation is much faster and the volume of it is much higher. Our brains couldn't keep up with 24hr news channels, let alone the cesspools of social media we have now.

  • Cause and Effect

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  • Cause and Effect

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  • That's why you teach philosophy and critical thinking. Science will follow if that's the kid's interest. But learning to be being self-aware of your own position amongst others, including the position of Science, is key.