Sure, they've been sending more slop lately but at least there was some aspect of providing a livelihood for game devs. It sounded like that was the comment was expressing anxiety toward, at least how I read it. I guess game devs will just have to shift to something else, but as a (non-game) dev from the before times it's really not clear where to shift that energy. Especially if you used to depend on it to provide all your essentials for life.
I hear you and I don't really have a solution. However, what I suspect is that status quo can't go on as-is anyway. I can't say I am not worried about what is on the horizon, but just propping it all up so that company can release Modern Warfare MM seems wrong on a different level.
I got back into it around a year ago, highly recommend. Very refreshing to experience parts of the old world that have survived like soulseek and torrents again.
It sounds like you have some kind of other confirmation for this? Anything I can find online points to this HN post, which is "heard from a friend of the family". You couldn't rely on the guy to be telling you the truth so confirmation of the death using one of his pseudonyms isn't even close to official.
Looks like wikipedia won't allow a death date on his page yet anyway.
The AI giants got where they are by pushing similar limits and setting aside moral (and legal) issues to be settled later in court, so the idea seems to fit the general zeitgeist we're living in. Not really criticism, just an observation.
America has the highest prison population per capita in the world bar none. Everyone who is the slightest bit motivated to take direct action has already been eliminated as a threat, years or decades ago. Only the complacent are still allowed to walk the streets.
> I'm confused why americans don't do literally anything more than vote
That has been enough for a couple of centuries, and it still may be the path. Sadly, skewed voter participation rates mean that even voting isn’t necessarily sufficient to have a government that more accurately represents the electorate.
> read the New York Times
Most people don’t do this, even liberals. The NYT has lost its magic.
> and show up to glorified block parties.
Fair, but maybe that’s the right amount of protest by American standards.
> Where is the rioting over NSPM-7?
Almost no one knows what it is. If they did, many of them would support it.
> Where are the assassinations?
Well, tried and missed. There are also probably credible failed attempts that have not been publicly announced.
> Where's the fucking self respect?
No shortage of that.
> Of course capital is going to treat americans like the doormat they are.
Sure. That’s capital.
> But yes, continue to shove your head up your ass because that's more comforting than realizing that despite all the propaganda, liberals & social democrats learned absolutely nothing from the Weimar Republic
Hmmm… that’s not really constructive or accurate.
IMHO, liberals have really dropped the ball in terms of presidential candidates since Obama. They also dropped the ball by leaning hard into DEI and extremely lax immigration enforcement — two policies that are not widely supported as implemented.
A consequence of those decisions is that voters in swing states had to choose between the lesser of two evils, and it wasn’t necessarily clear to those voters at the time which one would be worse.
There are some folks, Buttigieg being one, who are talking the right talk. It really just boils down to whether the democrats can be unified in promoting universal policies that help everyone (rather than niche groups) and vote accordingly.
“Liberals” in the US can be somewhat snowflaky, so I’m not sure how likely that is to happen. That said, the ham-fisted policies of the current administration may unite them. Time will tell.
Voting hasn't been sufficient pretty much ever. Whatever improvements you're thinking of in the last couple of centuries they didn't come about by voting.
Why would we throw away our institutions after just a term and a half of a bad president? We haven't even made it to the midterms yet, where Trump and the Republicans look pretty likely to eat shit. Calling for assassinations and riots is entirely reactionary.
All of the ones that matter, just because the current president doesn't fit your ideals, doesn't mean society is collapsing.
All the doom-gloom feelings does not change that objectively and statistically the US and world is better off now that anytime in the past over long periods of time.
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