Don_alForno @ Don_alForno @feddit.org

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Yup, Heroic 2.17.2, GE-Proton-latest (should be 10-9).

Edit: switched to a way older proton, that seems to work (see edit in OP).

In Steam or Heroic?

Edit: switched to a way older proton, that seems to work (see edit in OP).

Next week he'll claim he fucked her mom.

Also, slave labor.

The closest one to me is about 1km, I walk there if I don't have to get too much stuff. 3km? I don't know. In nice weather maybe, if I'm not in a hurry.

Enshittification is the process of squeezing money out of both sides of the transaction after you have built a sufficient customer and supplier base with initially attractive offerings that were possibly made at a loss.

First the service is great for consumers (and likely bleeding money). People flock to it.

Then they use that consumer base to lure more suppliers to the platform. Phase two. The service is great for suppliers because it means easy access to a big customer base.

When both a lot of customers and a lot of suppliers are using the platform they start making changes that redirect revenue from both sides to the platform itself. Prices increase, fees for suppliers increase or their cut decreases, maybe they have to sign that they won't sell under a certain price elsewhere, customers can't use all things on the platform anymore without paying extra, they introduce ads, maybe exclusives, that stuff. Customers won't leave because they are used to the platform, there are network effects (all my friends use it), sunk cost fallacies (I have paid them x dollars over the years and if I leave I keep nothing for it) in the case of gamepass they have maybe stopped buying games elsewhere and wouldn't have a library at all if they lost access. Suppliers won't leave because the customer base is huge and they have no other simple way to reach those customers. Both are the literal frog in slowly boiling water. "What's a few more bucks a month, what's a little additional ad before my game loads, what's a few more % to MS when the alternative is losing all those customers". That's the enshittification part.

greedy devs

Publishers, mostly.

This is stupid. We pay other people to do things we can't or don't want to do all the time. That's what economy is.

The fact that people who order takeout could also cook at home instead doesn't diminish the impact of the inflation spikes that began with Putlers invasion. You can't fix the problems of neoliberalism on an individual level.

How can it be so hard for devs to just include some additional sets of glyphs and allow the player to switch manually? Then nobody would have this problem.

That's the neat thing, they won't. It's pretty easy to apply a high tax on moving away. In fact the USA of all places do just that.

Also, what do rich people possess? Assets. Physical assets. A big part of that is real estate, owned privately or by companies they own. There's no taking that with you. They can sell their assets and try to take the money with them, but that means the society they leave gets it's assets back.

Huh, curious, I could swear we Germans (and most other countries I'm sure) used to do just that until a glorious neoliberal government came along and abolished the tax.

Oh, Daeran must be one of my all time favorite RPG characters, even though I hated him initially. Regill and Ember are great too.

Owlcat can pull this off, at least from the storytelling side. The shooter gameplay is something I haven't seen from them, so let's hope that'll work out.

I'm hyped.

If you want to blow the whistle on somebody and wonder if the Guardian is trustworthy I suggest you ask Julian Assange.

I legitimately do not, and have never had, any of the usual social media.

"Well that can't be right. Highly suspicious. What do you have to hide?"

I can't even really disagree with you, but not trying still isn't an option. It's our job to at least try to convince our immediate peers.

It's trivial to design an inheritance tax that doesn't tax a family's (first) home and starts above a certain amount (500k, a million, two, make it 10 for all I care) that still allows lower and middle classes to build reasonable wealth. It's also not that hard to not have a million loopholes for the excessively rich. That only gets difficult when people fall for the usual lies, like "businesses will close down and you will lose your jobs".

Start penalizing tax havens like Ireland.

Tax based on passport, allow for taxes at their place of residence to take priority (so, you can pay low taxes in Ireland, but if it's less than our tax, you pay the rest here), tax them a lot if they relinquish their passport. No need to start international beef about this.

Tax property, tax inheritance, tax capital gains no matter if realized or not, tax passive income of all kinds. Tax them progressively and tax the highest brackets high enough that these giant fortunes actually shrink. There is no other way (well... besides revolution) to reduce the spiraling inequality which is at the root of major problems all over the world.

Garbage out is what he aims for.

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