For you first paragraph I mean, fair, I guess I had an inexplicit assumption that you’re gonna vet the creator/know them (like, say, from social media). Ofc it doesn’t guarantee everything but. Maybe I shouldn’t have said “I don’t see how”, it’s strong wording. I know sex workers irl so it’s them I had in mind.

But still, yes, you’re right, things are, as usual, always a bit of a mess in our world.

Unfortunately, as much as it sucks to say, there’s no way he won’t be haunted by the war for the rest of his life. I hope he will be able to relax one day, but…

Burden of proof, generally

I mean if you pay a creator directly I don’t see how that could be unethical

But also, every job under capitalism is unethical. The system is fucked but people still need to eat, so you know, choose your evil I guess

At least twitch is a bit different than YouTube in that the culture there it’s normal for people to pay and donate to streamers. Even though the owners still suck massively, of course

1984 ass

It would definitively be nice to see them on FOSS platforms, they probably just want to be where the users are. But yeah, I do agree

I would absolutely love to work towards making the world a better place and not to make like 3 guys richer

If you’re concerned about the site shutting down, seed some of their torrents from their site so that it’s easier to re-launch it if it happens

Norway isn’t dense. It has less population density than the US does

It has happened, I’ve had at least a few trump-supporters/right-wingers yapping at me in comments saying stupid stuff

Yeah we are almost the worst case scenario for stuff like public transit or EVs and what not

And yet, somehow it has been made to work. Where there’s a will there’s a way

…and probably something to do with the technologies being more practical than most people think

That’s not my experience in my local areas. I guess we just don’t tend to have strong winds, and you do see a ton of people with umbrellas doing just fine

10% of all crashes is definitively a brag. Crashes due to faulty hardware/bitflips is rare rare, generally I would expect that percentage to be less than 1% in any complex app

There is no way that picture won’t be in history books in the future

Nothing encapsulates the capitalistic moral decay of the modern world quite as much as this

While it is not realistic to eliminate all cheaters, what I will say is that cheaters can easily ruin a game, especially one that has lasting consequences such as, for example, Tarkov. Which I did end up stopping playing due to cheaters.

In addition, if you start seriously questioning whether you lost due to the other person’s skill or their cheats after every engagement, then it erodes the game’s foundation and things start falling apart. You can’t do the process of analyzing what you did wrong or could do better, because you might have done the right thing and just lost due to a cheater. You can’t be confident that you could have gotten good enough to win that engagement next time, because it might just be a cheater and be impossible. Strategy goes out the window because you cannot assume that the other person acted rationally in a non-cheaty context. It subverts the rules of the game that you agreed to. Like when you’re playing chess and the other player keeps knocking over your queen with their finger. It simply stops being fun. The game turns into something else

Playing competitively is fun and relaxing for me though. Not everyone is the same

They should live for 1000 years but require 22 hours of sleep per day

Ankle lows