Capitalists don’t know shit about what the working class wants. These video game folks continue to prove this true.

I’m a lefty to the bone and have been since I was a kid. I’ve spent most of my life in the south and have met some amazing redneck folks that don’t fit into this mold.

Basically, don’t put your potential working class allies into a box.

Lmao that is wild. I’ve tried a couple others and Mullvad has been my favorite so far.

My identity comment was tied to Mullvad itself. They don’t require any identifying information when signing up. For the kind of protection you’re talking about, yeah you’re gonna have to go further than just a VPN. Their fingerprinting capabilities are ridiculous.

I signed up for Mullvad and it’s worth it. Super cheap and no data tied to you.

Such a great game. I’m actually being really indecisive about games to play, and now I want to play that.

I still have some of my game booklets from NES, Genesis/Master System, and N64. I always kept them in bags as a kid so they’re nice and crisp.

The alternatives are that you find other servers to post on, or you go back to corporate-controlled websites (which would honestly be silly with the amount of Lemmy instances that exist now). So if you commonly find yourself at odds with the subject matter, you can post elsewhere. I’m sure there’s some conservative/other flavor Lemmy communities out there that function the same way. That’s the beauty of the open internet, but it also means people can ban you for whatever reasons they want and there are no repercussions.

So you wade in at your own risk, which you’re doing either way because there is no strict corporate structure overseeing the rules. It doesn’t mean that every decision people running those sites make is suddenly good, but you at least have freedom of choice when it comes to what servers and communities fit for you. Just like instance runners like myself can also decide which servers to federate with, while blocking others.

I’m the type that will leave views up so the conversation can happen, unless the comment is racist, homophobic, blatantly trolling, etc. I’ve read the Lemmy.ml rules and they’re pretty rudimentary, so idk what some of their mods are doing.

That said, this is what happens when people have control of their communities vs a corporation. It’s a welcome freedom that comes with its pitfalls. The positive is that there are tons of servers with similar communities. If you’re not of the communist flavor, it’s probably a community that you will constantly be at odds with.

I’m subbed to a handful of communities in .ml and it’s not that bad. I consider myself communist, but not of the tankie flavor. Authoritarianism is never a good thing.

If people don’t like those views, they shouldn’t wade in unless they’re willing to have a grounded conversation and not just drop a played out one-liner. I think the most recent uptick in complaints about .ml are because of how often it criticizes liberalism.

Lemmy instances are essentially forums. If I go to a conservative community and tell them all that Marx was right all along, I’m not gonna be surprised when I get banned. Complaining about mods is a tale as old as time itself.

I did a double take because your cat looks like one of my gingers.

I read this stuff but I’m never inclined to vote for that idiot because of it, and if I share or talk about things like this, it’s due to cautious optimism and not trusting politicians. It’s good to keep things in check and not get swept up in the same old party Obama sold us. If this kind of thing is enough to swing someone to vote for POS Trump, they were probably going that way regardless.

It should also be noted that the wealthy benefit from fascism and right-wing bullshit, so of course Fortune would post an article like this.

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Sounds weird and dirty.

I remember downloading BF4 from GamePass and not being able to play any of it. They’ve truly ruined that franchise.

Live out of spite.

Simpler times.

I think it’s just part of this “move fast” mentality. We’re at a point where we’re forced to move so quickly that things get thrown out the window just to meet a deadline.

Software teams solved this a fucking eternity ago through shared component and design libraries. Meanwhile, all of these FAANG companies are out here pushing surveillance tools that are all clearly built by siloed teams with zero collaboration.

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The trackpad is amazing on the Deck.