That’s naive. People already pay 80$-90$, publishers will pocket the cut and keep the price the same.

Most of the time, even high end computers don’t cut it because the optimization is dog shit.

Dependant is not the same thing as addicted.

Do you feel an uncontrollable urge to look at your phone, even when you do something else or when it isn’t appropriate? That would be addiction.

Not something I ever wondered, but it’s a pretty neat anecdote.

The US is providing a lot of resources to Ukraine and the second Trump takes over the White House, Ukraine loses that support.

The prices are ludicrous and the salaries are a lot less than our US counter part.

It’s funny because during the Covid, at the start of the latest housing bubble, we saw so many people saying “it’s easy, just move to a place where it’s affordable just like I did”. People have done that, and now even in bumfuck nowhere it’s expensive and people are now complaining that their bumfuck nowhere has become too expensive for them.

Shit’s fucked yo.

It’s funny that it went from ThreadX to Azure and back to Thread X.

So with the pricing as it is, it makes sense for you to buy the full suite since it cost 20$ than 3 personal licenses.

And that’s not counting the price drop the 2nd and 3rd year.

And do you use all their tools? Right now I’m only using CLion because I am 99% of the time coding in C and I sometime need to create python scripts.

Im not sure the whole suite makes sense for me.

This is why I prefaced my comment with the old man bit. There is a lot of exaggeration in my comment.

My experiences has been that meat substitutes marketed as such are usually chuck full of spices, ultra-processed and just taste bad on their own. 95% of the recipes I make with meat, I often replace with a vegan alternative protein.

I do think that vegan brands try to appeal to a lot of meat eater and lean hard on the green/healthy marketing, but it has been played out and abused by marketing and doesn’t mean much anymore. Just market the products on their own merits.

There is so much good vegan food out there, but it’s often branded as the X alternative. IMO, it hurts the product because it pidgeon hole it in that comparison.

But your points are entirely valid, and my point are really just an uneducated opinion without backing data. I just know that I avoid vegan products marketed as meat alternative to X because they taste terrible 99% of the time.

Someone will come along and say “You fuck dudes?”. To which I respond : Yes. I fuck my dude.

My old man yelling at cloud rant :

1. i hate vegan products that try to position themselves as the vegan replacement to a non vegan product. They have their own qualities, and it hurts the product that it is compared to the meat alternative. If someone wants to eat chicken, no amount of marketing and spices will make it taste like chicken and will always be inferior to their meat counterparts for the meat eater.

2. Vegan recipes on internet are 95% terrible. They try to put 100 flavors in one meal. Take whatever recipe your normally eat with meat and simply replace the protein for a vegan protein of your choice (pvt, tofu, bean curds, etc). Grill your tofu to your heart content, make that bean curd extra delicious by dunking it in soy sauce and eat with vegetables and rice or make a simple rice and bean with a side of fresh avocado.

3. There are so many good vegan products with fucking terrible marketing. Meat eaters will not change their habits because you green wash your marketing. Go balls to the wall with that shit.

Monopoly/Oligarchy is the consequence of capitalism.

Not sure why this is such a controversial opinion to you?

I mean, are we not in a gilded age right now with mega corpos engulfing as much as they can to make more money than last year?

Politicians are dismantling any semblance of regulation so that corpos can buy back their shares and hoard an ever increasing gold pile

In a perfect world, capitalism would be reigned in and allowed to exist under limited conditions in a limited capacity because companies have fucked us over and over unscrupulously for the sake of making more money and they cannot be trusted.

Let’s consider that there are economic systems between balls to the wall capitalism as we see today, and a tankie unicorn land.

Capitalism is absolutely destroying everything it touches to make people with capital richer. This is undeniable and has been documented over and over again.

Let’s be dumb here : I’d rather have the proletariat profit from the destruction of the planet instead of a select few people.

The sole goal of capitalism is to make more capital for the capital holder. Everything that can be monetized will be monetized, and everything that can be monetized will be diluted and dismantled until only a carcass is left to be thrown on the street.

It’s literally an insatiable parasitic machine.

What is the skill curve for Squad? Is it easy to get into and be useful? Or there is a period where you are just cannon fodder?

And I don’t think so, like many other people expressed in this thread.

The biggest advantage of self-hosting is that the game will be forever playable even if the company that makes the game goes belly up.

I am just getting started with i3. I think the issue was more with Manjaro Sway.

It’s been a few days now without any issues on Linux Mint. I haven’t done anything complicated yet, but it feels natural to open and move windows around, which is a great start.

And the sound works too. So that’s good.

Don’t kink shame Jesus. He was human like all of us

Why wouldn’t it be? You can already make custom games with pretty much anyone.

Thanks for the info. I will save that comment and hit you up if I decide to start again.