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You're gonna need a Dem supermajority (plus a few, to offset any potential Lieberman) in both chambers of Congress for that. I wouldn't hold my breath for it. In the meantime, this will have a tremendous impact for a lot of Americans, which is great!

I don't see how this relates to my comment? You can't dig up fortitude to install a Supreme Court Justice. You either own the presidency and the numbers in congress, or you don't. The Supreme Court is directly tied to the long-term voting patterns of our citizenry and that's why it looks the way it does right now.

Just one supreme court justice flip would do wonders. Two would give us the edge. If I have only one reason to ask people to vote for Biden, it's that.

There's conflicting narratives coming out of Israel again. It's fully possible they tank this, but I wouldn't take those comments from the UN rep as a rejection of this deal (yet).

They never took it from me! Animal Well and Dread Delusion are phenomenal experiences just from the last couple of months. Indies are always generating good games, even when AAA is just following trends.

Oh, no, I wasn't tying that to Linux. It's just an example of how you can generate a very negative situation for your game if you do not maintain anticheat to a quality expectation.

Yep and that's a separate issue I think you would be perfectly entitled to be upset about. I'm just thinking through serving something as complex as anticheat to an audience the size of Fortnite's for the potential gain of a small Linux footprint (for now). Not many businesses would jump for that.

The wording in the tweet in the article is a little less bombastic. He's concerned about maintaining anti-cheat for custom kernels and other Linux-exclusive issues at the scale that Fortnite runs at. Given how large the audience for that game is and the age range (which has a lot more time to dedicate) I can see how that would be a costly endeavor and look at TF2 right now as an example of what happens if you fail to do so. Combine that with the much smaller footprint of the Linux base (which is changing!) and thus, less incentive to tackle any of that in the first place.

Maybe I'm just trying to not read ill intent, but I see "Linux gamers are a hard audience to serve" as "You guys use an OS focused on freedom and customization, which means it's literally harder to serve you all effectively" and not as "Linux gamers are mean".

Hard to keep track, but wasn't almost everything shown going to be in Gamepass as well? Not a great option for some folks, but potentially cheaper if you don't think you'll be playing for longer than a few months or if you're interested in a lot of the other titles.

Okay, maybe you can help me out. I loved Doom 2016 but bounced off of Eternal because the beginning felt so arcade-y in tone compared to 2016's "wake up in a tomb full of dead scientistsand punch the monitor" intro. Then I saw the DLCs and this newest game's trailer and they look so cool again? Did I read Eternal wrong, does it just have a weird intro, or do they somehow integrate that arcade-y feel?

I also think the internet is the primary driver for this, but I'm sure it's a vastly complex set of circumstances on top of that. I don't know how we fix this... Increased polarization is always going to tend to negative outcomes. Even if you "win" that first inevitable conflict, there will be another one. I think even my political enemies have a vested interest in fixing this, although their answer would likely just be "restrict the internet once in power".

I do not believe that these statistics corroborate that view, but I'm open to hearing out your analysis!

That would reflect differently in the stats, so no, I don't think so. If that was the case, you would see a shift in one direction, not a split showing each direction getting more "intense".

Interesting stats! Gallup is showing that Democrats have shifted leftward socially and Republicans have shifted right, but not as much as the Dems did left. The economic side should not be a huge surprise (showing that Americans as a whole trend conservative) but it is showing some movement.

One takeaway is that polarization is increasing on both social and economic issues. We all feel that, but it's always good to see numbers. Another takeaway is that this is why I despise conversations about the "Overton window". It's completely different for different slices of our politics. These numbers clearly indicate that the Overton window is actually shifting left socially and remaining relatively static economically (in a place we all here likely dislike, but it's been consistent).

Completely agreed. It's the difference between your political views being an excuse for you to feel morally validated or being a mechanism to improve lives. If it's the latter, it's time to get to work. We're failing and thus losing our ability to do what we stated. If it's people being idiots, educate them. If it's people being lied to, reach them. Regardless, we live in a democracy and the entire point is that the people get to choose and the people are rejecting us. We cannot fail to heed those cries.

We must create an inspiring vision that resonates with voters and alleviates their concerns. The stats clearly show people are concerned about immigration and the economy. The right has a cruel, but effective approach in just stopping immigration entirely and many, many people think that is a good idea right now. What is our better answer? I'm no expert and I don't know, but that is in and of itself a serious problem. Why do I not have a Meloni I can point to as the beacon of my ideology, that has at least some of the answers?

... or don't introspect, blame the voters, and lose forever. It could not matter less what is true, it's only what the populace believes. That's politics. If our ideology can't stand up to this, it must adjust or it deserves to fail.

I agree with you, and yet... It's winning them elections. We can be upset about it all we want, but it's increasingly clear that bigotry and xenophobia are winning arguments in this era. We're fucked if we don't adjust. I'm not proposing we abandon migrants, but the one thing myself and the person you replied to likely agree on is that the left is increasingly losing sight of home and the average citizen, not in terms of rhetoric but in effect. We're about to lose the EU and possibly lose support for Ukraine, see even more immigration restrictions, and see an empowered global far-right. The voters are telling us they have different priorities, which we need to focus on in a more altruistic way than the right. We have to be introspective here if we ever want to accomplish our goals.

Of course they can. If they get power, they'll define anything to be whatever they want, consistency be damned. Anything that hurts their favorite punching bags will be fair game even if it makes no sense at all. Let's not give them that power, if we can help it.

It's 2024. I'm more surprised when a subculture doesn't have a Nazi problem, sadly.

It's Murc's Law. People think Democrats are responsible for everything that happens in politics. To a lot of people, Republicans are just an obstacle that if Dems fail to hurdle, it's all the Dem's fault. Republicans have been broken for so long, many people have just written their agency out of politics entirely.