Its been a while so my memory is hazy, but basically, she recently lost her support systems and was brought to a new country where she basically couldn’t afford to lose that job. This adds a lot of context to her statements after when combined with other details about the company. Hopefully someone else remembers better, because Im sure there was something more sketchy about it Im failing to remember.

Keep voting for the lesser of the two evils till there is nothing left to be saved.

If you actually kept doing that you’d have not only much to be saved, but you’d eventually have a good option if following the rest of what I advise.

You types literally never have workable solutions. Your suggestions are all impractical hail marys because you refuse to acknoledge the actual solution is slow, and uncomfortable.

Of course , you sound very ignorant or just use palestinians for political reasons.

Its this type of insane take which makes it impossible to have useful discourse.

There are literally 2 options, and you would rather choose the one with the worse outcome because they both suck. Thats simply immature and self harming in nature.

Wallhack is an obvious one or anything that reads client and modifies the display.

Absolutely, but thats strongly mitigated via not giving the client information it doesnt need to know.

And you can blame the people all you want, but that doesn’t change reality, and they’ll still stay home.

The problem with this logic, is that these are the options you have, and the DNC doesn’t care about this, so you, as not the DNC have 2 options. Support the democrats, or support trump.

All of the whining in the world won’t change this.

I think what’s embarrassing is your approach. You saw 2016 and 2024 and you still haven’t learned from either of them.

Why are you talking to that other commenter as if they are the DNC? They’re not the ones responsible for their political strategy.

and a simplistic approach like yours is a failed approach.

They’re taking the only logical option within their locus of control, and you’re acting like somehow they should have done what exactly?

The fact this is the type of shit that gets upvotes here is why you’re never pulling out.

You rant about democrats as if you choosing to lop your own legs off will make them so angry they’re suddenly going to do what you want.

You act like children, and ignore the obvious because it feels good to be angry at someone, and the democrats are the closest thing to being an org that will listen.

Instead though, you, as you admitted, in the most important election in your life, choose to stop caring.

Look at how childish all of your retorts are about all of the various things that she absolutely would not have specifically hurt if she had won.

You think she would actively be encouraging israel to flaten palestine?

You think she would be making ICE the actual gestapo?

As for Roe v Wade, how exactly do you expect democrats to do such a thing without a senate super majority?

You literally expect the impossible, and then give up and cry when you don’t get that.

Her backers, her sponsors, her consultants, her party infrastructure all made sure she refused to stand for anything. Ever.

Yet that was clearly the better option that shooting your own legs off.

How do you not realize that the DNC literally is incentivised to offer less and less if the country keeps flipping back and forth? Then, all they have to do is correctly assert that they are the non insane option, and offer to undo some of the damage done.

This is what they’ve done. This is what Biden has done, and somehow to you, you think that throwing a tantrum and literally getting marginalized people killed really got one over on the rich conservatives at the head of the DNC who will never see the inside of a grocery store.

And I blame you Lemmings for allowing this shit for actual decades.

What does this even mean exactly. You are clearly angry at some group you can’t actually specify.

This comment really reinforces how much you misunderstand your own system. You’d rather hurt people because you can’t get your idealistic wishes.

Im very happy to see people aren’t downplaying what a shitty guy he is here.

Like the way you treat your employees and the people you work with is shit that actually matters.

I don’t give a shit if someone is clumsy for entertainment, I give a shit when their workspace is a good ol boys club, sweatshop, and then when they decide to threaten a defamation lawsuit against a former female employee they brought in under very suspect circumstances in the first place all because they couldn’t find evidence within their company they admit has an awful HR department.

Just a fucking mess, and I hate that shitty people just succeed nowadays.

Its not the users fault at all.

That is insane behaviour, and part of why every desktop app should be a flatpak

Truly, the amount of people on this website who will bend over backwards to push third party/protest votes despite all evidence that that is insanely naive and the equivalent to shooting their own legs off is insane.

Somehow, these people, after decades of it not working, think that the democrats losing will magically bring in progressive Valhalla, because they literally refuse to acknowledge that the very obvious solution, that is equivalent to eating your veggies and doing exercise, is that the democrats have to keep winning, and they have to keep voting in progressives through primaries, state and local politics.

Its extremely obvious to anyone who understand the 2 party supporting winner takes all/first past the post system they have.

Nor do any llms I’ve ever seen that is immediately accessible.

It also doesnt matter. AI isn’t killing anyone with those any more than call of duty lobbies are killing people.

Then that doesnt really help your point then does it?

Absolutely the case, but we can’t throw nuance to the wind just because bad things will continue to happen. SA propaganda is definitely note worthily worse than many other forms.

Whats more, I feel that gaming generally is more focused on trying to use marketting dark patterns to encourage spending than pushing any messages typically. This makes them, in my mind, even more vulnerable as they won’t even be expecting it as their viewpoints change over time.

You say it was, but I don’t recall it ever filing for bankruptcy etc, so I have to wonder what these claims are based on, and why you felt their journalism was actually good and the type of thing people say they would pay for in the first place. In essence, you are still using the bad example, but with a new unverified claim that still doesnt work because it is a bad example.

You took a leap from someone being excited about a company they hate hypothetically being bought, down their throat

I’m just going to stop you right there. You’re reading in a whole lot of malice into a pretty benign comment pointing out why someone might care in spite of not caring about their games.

and what downstream effects that might have on American culture.

I don’t believe any specific country was named in the context of that point. The USA was only brought up to preempt comments derailing the point of my comment by bringing it up.

It’s tellingly ironic that for you it’s totally okay to make a broad statement, then when being called out cut it back to “where relevant”.

This is you restating your dishonesty. Acting as if you found something telling when you’re just reasserting the same bad faith lie isn’t telling anything.

And in the same sentence you make a strawman yourself, claiming that I’m acting like you are “talking about not having a game at all”.

Hyperbole is not a strawman. You in essence imply that if I don’t have the bucket, I can’t have basically all other critical game features because they all share something with the bucket (being server side solely in some situations).

Given a certain observable trajectory it’s freakishly easy to get a good enough point of origin to get an unfair advantage with that information.

How can you disagree with 2 different solutions with an answer that only responds to one of them?

For the grenades, a small change in the angle of impact massively changes the angle of launch. To the player having the grenade thrown at them from out of line of sight, this means they can’t use that information to snipe or prepare other than a very general direction, and its completely lost if there are any bounces or other randomizing elements in the grenades path.

To say this isn’t solved is to be irrationally demanding.

As for the bullet tracers, if someone is in line of sight, and shooting at you, the use of tracers is extremely limited/could be used regardless client side. I’m not sure why you feel this is a strong argument. Maybe you can elaborate but it seems like something more likely to obstruct than help if a target is visible.

Correct. Client side anti cheat can only make it so hard. Never impossible.

If you are willing to go to that logical extreme, where the point of my comment was to say that decrying server side in place of as opposed to alongside client side system watching, is unexpected. It feels like you didn’t quite receive the message there, which is that every system is imperfect, but of them, technically speaking, server side is the least able to be compromised.

And that’s not true. Wall hacks would still exist, as necessary information can be used to determine an enemies position. To a certain extend.

That to a certain extent is what I’ll focus on here, because to me its “in some exceptional cases, the thing that is largely eliminated can still exist” and to that, I would say that if we are being so strict for server side, we should be so strict about client side.

If we are so strict there, then we already know that client side fails too under these overly tight considerations, and I mean client side that magically works perfectly as intended.

This is as game audio is easy to use outside of a machine, and direct memory hacking exists as mentioned earlier.

The point is, sure, but as I covered with the point about grenades, the problem is pretty much solved, with some caveats as all things have.

And yes, put to an unreasonable extreme it would eliminate wall hacks entirely. Just nobody would want to play such a game.

This is where we disagree and it goes back to conversation above.

I don’t see any reason there could not be found an acceptable balance. For instance, even if you add some frames worth of prior information, giving that to everyone instead of allowing cheaters to have it is one possible solution, that even according to your feelings on what would make a game unplayable, would keep it playable. That is just 1 solution.

That one Steam user will be hyped as fuck.

Finally, a games company that praises the glory of the regime.

I think subconsciously I realized that people obessed with defining words were attempting to assert power or dominance over me or my interests.

It is. Language is powerful, and you can’t bow out, because you only ever have to win with a casual on looker to have tremendous impact on a small group. Heck, this even works for larger groups.

Wording is a big part of that.

Its why Im always disappointed to see anyone who isnt a maga doing mental gymnastics to pretend they were hoodwinked as opposed to simply being ok with tremendous levels of sacrifice if it means hurting marginalized people.

Their arguments are never honest. They know what they actually want, and are for the most part getting it.

Where did you read me saying it was their fault, or that I expected them to stop it?

I said neither thing.

All I am saying is it’s something to pay attention to, and its not good when media sources are bought by the saudis.

Why keep this in mind? In case there is ever somewhere that does make this relevant. Like maybe it should be in the eyes of the public more such that its a political talking point so regulating agencies are less happy with letting companies be sold to SA.

I’m talking about all sources

Yet the only ones you listed are the billionaire backed ones. Curious.

Almost as if your argument is in bad faith because you yourself don’t have any great examples of the sort of thing people would want to support that are also news outlets with reporters, and so you are forced to use bad examples.

Ill give you an example though, just like the other person pointed out, there are smaller sources popping up everywhere. Even youtube journalism such as HowTown are pockets of not yet corporate information sources that people are fine with supporting.