Kinda relative aint it tho the median br**ish person still has an income an order of magnitude higher than most countries in Africa almost 2 orders of magnitude in some cases and several times higher than most other countries in the periphery, so are they really not rich?
why not corruption and criminality is the eu special the worse the crime the more yall love it, oh is that the problem? organ harvesting isnt bad enough? yall got used to doing all those genocides and crimes against humanity and now something which is merely horrific doesnt do it for u?
what simplicity? solid state is simplicity, a weight on a guide attached thru a cable and a bunch of gears to a generator/motor + the necessary safety features is the very antithesis of simplicity.
imma be real with u i can not comprehend how u can hold that view unless u only play “aaa” slop or very few games at all. because this just doesnt hold with reality, i dont think i even know of a single successful indie game where the love for the medium itself doesnt come across perfectly clear, there are indie games out there that were clearly just made for money but guess what those dont go anywhere because people can tell its soulless, its also true for most AA/small studios. And while someone just fucking around with a medium in their free time could maybe express themselves more (tho that is debatable too) i dont think it shows that they love games more than someone who made it their fucking life. Also being able to express themselves more because they arent limited by capital is a far cry from loving or caring about the medium more.
Also this doesnt even make sense, most of the biggest open source games out there are extremely derivative, basically copies of popular games and if anything display more of appreciation for the concept of open source software than video games.
Also also genuinely curious how does this view extend into other mediums do u regard all professional authors are hacks because they make money from what they write, what about musicians and other kinds of artists. Or is it only video games cuz u like open source stuff.
Bruh just because people gotta eat doesnt mean game devs dont love the art form. Actually game dev is like THE worst job a software developer could have people only do it BECAUSE they love video games, the corpos is charge dont give a fuck obiusly but indie game devs do and the actual devs in game studios do too again its not a good job to make money.
If we were talking about a world were people didnt need to money to eat then this would be a different conversation but here and now what u said is just ridiculous.
what do u mean wtf, did u think that just because their goals of stopping the american empire aligned with ours they were “good guys”, the Russian government has always had a very close relationship with israel, and has always been very supportive of it.
something something Lenin quote something something
alien didnt go out of circulation as a term to describe people they literally assign u an alien number when migrate to the us and its used sometimes in communication by the us government interchangeably with immigrant and a few other more specific terms, it is alienating and kinda rude for sure, but quite common, they are trynna make it sound like this is a new weird thing but, this is just what america has always been and still is trump or not.
Poor people in Liberia also often can’t got to a market in Liberia to shop. Like i get what yall are getting at disabled, oppressed, or just plain unlucky people in the core do sometimes live worse than average people in the periphery, i understand the feeling that yall are trying to put out that being poor in the core is brutal and its true but, its not a sensible comparison, capitalism is just as brutal and oppressive to poor people in the periphery except even more so.
Look im not saying that things arent bad in the core and especially bad in some areas and for some people, just that a little perspective is called for here, britain is rich by world standards, by any metric it is rich, in the article they weren’t comparing britain to any country in Africa, or Latin America but another country in europe. Pretending it is not rich obfuscates the reality of imperialism, there are 2 categories of capitalist countries core and periphery and britain is solidly in the core.
Also while its clear cut when looking at things like food, its simply cheaper in the periphery (tho ill point out in my personal experience i have found food to almost always be cheaper in the core as percent of income), other necessities are more complicated, if u look at housing for example yes in the core it is expensive but its also higher quality than in the periphery, the poorest people in britain may be living in moldy apartments with roommates or several generations of their families, but the poorest people in the periphery are living in makeshift shacks with no utilities.
As for China they call themselves a developing country and they share some characteristics with developing countries but in many regards they are closer to developed countries, so they make for a poor comparison with the core especially because it is a much more fair an equal society, to put it simply there is a reason that “second world” was a useful category and it applies here.