You tell me? Why bring it up if it wouldn’t work?

But you haven’t, have you?

Come on. He got 200+ vaccine shots. That in itself says he was never fine to begin with.

Probably language barrier. That figure of speech is not the easiest for Germans to grasp.

The first thing coming to mind is “we tried to add a checkbox, but failed, it just wouldn’t work”

To my German mind, failing means “trying and not managing it, giving up in the end.”

Failing to so somehing by forgetting doesn’t really make sense. :) How can you fail something you’ve never attempted.

It’s just a figure of speech, I know.

Have you read the article? It was about misrepresenting historical figures, racism was just a small part.

It was about favoring diversity, even if it’s historically inaccurate or even impossible. Something Disney is very good at.

It’s okay when Disney does it. What a world. Poor AI, how are they supposed to learn if all its data is created by mentally ill and crazy people. ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶

I would disagree.

Make that maximum amount of buyers.

It’s not party catering. Or art. It’s a money business that has to create games that sell, so that the developer can get paid. That is the main goal. If there is room for a message, without alienating buyers, that’s also an option.

Anyhow, we have robots, those sell. We have aliens, they sell. We have unidentified that sells. There’s elves and orcs, which sell. Bunnies and hedgehogs. Various made-up things. Tons more. They all sell copies. Find a way to make it profitable, and it will happen. It’s not about representation. And it never will be. Unless it makes enough money to make more after that.

It’s clearly not about diversity. Capitalism isn’t about demographics and equal representations.

That lies in demand. Create actual demand, and game developers will follow. They always do.

Why do I think that? Because that’s how a capitalist market works.

Demand creates potential value. And no game developer would leave potential value untapped.

If there were a few really bestselling LGBT games, others would hop on the wagon, the market will get saturated for a while, and then it levels out a bit and some good concepts remain.

Deserve how? I might be too simple to understand.

The ratio of representation is off, because the ratio of clientele is off.

When the demand grows, demand from actual paying customers, the representation will rise. Get more diverse people playing and creating games, and you’ll get more diverse games.

Forcing representation has never helped any group, ever.

I’ve just played doom and liked it. Now I’m in an identity crisis.

It never really matters in any case. What gives.

How about just playing the story as intended. Not everything has to be individualized.

Have you heard about context? The post and my reply were about purchases and online data. And naturally, “everything FOSS” is about stuff you can run on said root-server. Which would be email and cloud-storage. Bought music and videos. Stuff of value.

It was also about people who care. I don’t protect my stuff out of fear. It’s worth something to me. I don’t eat healthy out of fear, but because I’m worth something. I care about my parents, not out of fear they might die, but because I value their life. You have it the wrong way buddy.

You somehow made it about smartphones and illiterate elderly people. I never said “everyone needs to do it” I said it’s the way to go, and then showed ways how even illiterate and elderly people could do it, if it would be important to them. By using standard ways of using services. Like people do. And that I did only because you said that they couldn’t.

What is your problem with generalizing? Underprivileged people? What? It’s about people who care. And they find a way. Are you aware that all of that stuff can be run on a $25 minicomputer?

You obviously don’t care, but rather enjoy misquoting people, so it fits your agenda. And then going the narcissistic route and belittling them.

You don’t care. Fine. Many people do, from all areas of life. And people manage, because they care. You have a disabling attitude and act like a victim. Fine. Be that way. Live in fear of the actual world. I hope it won’t bite you in the ass.

And I really don’t know why I should phrase my posts so that a media addicted person is interested in them. I don’t care what you do. At all. Value your possessions, don’t value them.

Self-hosted private data run on FOSS is the way to go. Period. Things one buys and own should be theirs to keep.

Fine. Be that guy.

Setting up that complicated FOSS stuff took me six hours, ten years ago. With another hour every six months to maintain, if at all, as most things update themselves. And you know what? My parents can use them too, as they are all set up to be multi-user by default.

You just don’t care. Why argue about it then, trying to make others not care, spreading your ignorance. Even calling me a fearmonger. You being afraid is not on me. It’s your own ignorance.

Perhaps, just perhaps, you should have taken a minute to learn about the tech you are using. Torrented for years, eh? And now you are the literal jock putting down nerds, because they did learn? And we nerds spent two decades at making it all easy. Installing your own cloud on a root server takes five clicks and ten minutes for heaven’s sake. Installing the root server itself is done in a matter of two hours. They even come hardened out of the box.

I can’t argue with ignorance. I’ve never talked about replacing each and every technology with FOSS. Just the sensible ones, the ones with money attached. With privacy attached.

And that is both cheap, and easy to do. And your parents could just hire someone. You know, like hiring a carpenter, doctor, gardener. Have you heard of businesses? You don’t have to spend ten minutes on it.

FOSS is being used by a fringe part of the population. Why change that, you don’t care. Why should anyone think differently?

You are strawmanning, adding new topics at will too. I can’t write a book here.

Feel free to take it as a win. I wonder though, why are you here, and not on reddit? Oh. Right. I would guess: because of your freedom and privacy, right? Did you get banned there? Your comments deleted? So you do care. Just not enough? Just a tiny portion of people use lemmy, after all.

Where to draw the line? Damn double standards, eh? .

Making fun for STILL using it. If our navy would navigate by the stars at night, it would be laughed at, right? And rightly so. ;)

In germany as well. We had a week where we could try out a few jobs and occupations hands-on. It was great. Seventh grade, I believe.

And that was 33 years ago.

Yes, of course I would. It’s a great experience. We actually did that back in school, had a week when we all went out to check out different jobs. It was a great thrill and fun for all. Certainly not labor. We got to do grownup things. That was shortly before seventh grade, iirc.

And then, we’ve had school things where we would bake and cook and sell it right there on campus. Is that labor as well? Oh, and when I was in the boy scouts, we sometimes went door to door raising funds and selling trinkets. Child labor?

It’s not like we had to do eight-hour days, week for week. A few hours, once in your life. That’s not labor. That’s a fun thing to do.

scoopie night The abuse has to stop. Look at those abused kids. The horror.

Nobody s documenting anything with that photo. It’s an out-of-context snapshot. Could be anything. Part of a make a wish with a cancer patient. A school thing to experience five minutes of adulthood. A prank. Staged. You name it. What exactly is documented here?

So yeah, just posting some picture is weird as fuck.

Thank you for taking the time.

Those launchers will be installed even if you use steam. You are mixing up store and launcher. The launcher often exists to have a viable game without steam running.

Saying it has absolutely nothing to do with it is a bit weird. I have bought most of my games on Steam since 2014, yet I have all the launchers.

Gog is the way to go for non-online games. And all the classics. And yeah, of course, the games often require online components. Not much to be done there. Sometimes, things just die.

Sometimes, they don’t. I still run a Trackmania server. Glorious.

So if steam went down, my games with launchers would still work. All others would be a crap shoot, at least until valve releases some offline-steam as a farewell for their customers.

Or they’ll have to resort to cracks, which could be illegal, or even criminal in some areas of the world.

What fearmongering. Being cautious and talking about it is fearmongering now?

And why shouldn’t privately run FOSS solutions be viable for the majority of users? Millions and millions are doing it.

That’s like saying that cooking isn’t viable for home-use and that all people should just order their food, trusting that the service holds up their deal regarding quality. If they even follow a standard.

It is just a matter of lifestyle and how much one values their own authority over things. You seem to be biased in this area, yet I’m sure, in other areas you are doing exactly what you are calling me a nut job for.

You are throwing opinions out without any reasoning attached.