They sell you 15 minor features for $10 each and then every tutorial/gameplay video you watch has 5-10 features you've never seen before. It fills you with fomo and when you do cave you end up spending $80 to make a $40 game slightly more interesting. It's predatory as fuck, paradox can go fuck themselves.
Inflation exists, you're gambling every day on whether or not your money has the same value tomorrow, or even any value at all. Like you said, this conversation can easily break down into semantics.
I don't disagree with the general point of, "there's no guarantee". But I think you can make an argument that taking the safest course available to you is not gambling.
When talking about longer time frames you have to account for inflation, holding on to your money instead of investing it is a risk in itself, which makes this entire conversation about semantics.
This joke only makes sense to you because you have zero understanding of what is meant by people when they use this phrase. All you have to do is spend 30 mins or less listening to the perspective of the other side and you will have the context necessary to realize this "joke" is nonsensical.
I live in Vancouver, easily top 10 city, probably top 5. And yeah you're right, I do know two people who advocate, my aunt and uncle. No one else I know is even remotely passionate about urbanization efforts. Lots of people I know use public transit, but they don't view it as something that can be relied on as their main form of transportation. Yes, the fact that our public transit is not nearly as good as it could be is a huge part of it, but the point remains that most people do not feel strongly about improving it.
I'm sure my privilege has kept me in a bit of a bubble but there are seriously very few people who feel strongly about public transit and cycling infrastructure. Even my less privileged friends are hardly advocates for better infrastructure and the people I've met through sports leagues all drive, I'm literally the only person I know who rides a bike everywhere they go. I used to frequent a local news website and any article that mentioned road diets or public transportation became toxic battlefields between pro and anti car folks.
There is absolutely a significant group of advocates in the city, but I really feel like you're misjudging the percentage of people who support urbanization efforts.
Idk if anyone can define conservative at this point.
If I was being generous I would define conservatives as people who are in favour of less regulation, less social support systems, more privatization, anti-legalization/decriminalization of drugs.
I'm not arguing for affirmative action, but the current system does not treat everyone equally. People applying to jobs with black sounding names get hired/interviewed much less than white sounding names on equivalent resumes.
I don't know what the solution is but the current system is not working.
I live in a city with solid public transportation and bike infrastructure, easily top 10 in North America. Almost everyone I know takes public transit only when it's convenient (ie they want to drink) but otherwise drives everywhere. I don't know a single person who advocates for more public transportation or bike infrastructure.
They sell you 15 minor features for $10 each and then every tutorial/gameplay video you watch has 5-10 features you've never seen before. It fills you with fomo and when you do cave you end up spending $80 to make a $40 game slightly more interesting. It's predatory as fuck, paradox can go fuck themselves.
Sorry, I really hate paradox.