Despite apparently hailing from STEM backgrounds they are typically very unscientific in any take that is not their discipline and latch on to any idealistic nonsense to defend Western Hegemony

Ah, so basically the tech libs in lemmy.ml (especially from other federated instances).

https://tankie.tube/w/9coNT19Q6hT8vLJN93NeNN

I prefer to post invidious links for people’s security and privacy. I know it’s annoying if it doesn’t work for you. Maybe try a VPN or just change the link from “inv.nadeko.net” to “www.youtube.com”.

The judicial system is such garbage. Finding a “neutral” jury just means you get a bunch of cop-loving people with a shitty centrist bias that end up locking people in prison even when the evidence showed otherwise. If most people lean a certain way, perhaps their opinion should count.

I like that they used librespeed.org

Exactly. I just put a disclaimer there because it sounded a little distasteful without it, at least for anyone new who didn’t know my beliefs. I just wanted to be clear I’m not relishing in the genocide of a people for sake of radicalizing people.

When I first listened to the video, I was also thinking about how Bernie just keeps repeating his same old lines, sounding pathetic as the masses, who have further developed class consciousness over the past decade, are not putting up with the censorship and ongoing whitewashing of the genocide. They demand radical change which Bernie is straying away from as he compromises more and more with the far right democrats and republicans while refusing to put up any fight.

Messages like the rich need to pay for their fair share aren’t enough. The rich systematically maintain a system through violence and austerity to keep their power and wealth, instilling bigotry and reactionary ideas among the masses to keep them competing and working against each other, and dismantling rights fought and won by previous movements. As Parenti said, the people really want to be liberated from the bourgeoisie’s control and domination of their lives. They are tired of struggling for survival. Bernie’s pathetic fight for concessions are not enough. The people want full liberation, to finally dismantle a system which perpetuates horrors that no one should ever have to experience, and they want to replace it with one that will ensure it never returns.

I’m honestly glad the crisis the Palestinian genocide has created (of course, I believe this goes with saying, I wish it never had to come to this and that Palestinians were free from the beginning and never faced settler occupation and this holocaust nightmare) has happened while Bernie is still alive. It has turned so many people against Bernie and other socdems, undoing much of the harm they caused toward the socialist movement and finally radicalizing people who would have been radicalized earlier. I’m glad Bernie will have to die knowing he’s a monster who perpetuated genocide, and that people are beginning to not settle for an imperialist social democracy but for actual revolution to dismantle and replace this horrific system of oppression that threatens humanity’s survival.

It saddens me to see dementia worsen in Parenti. He was a brilliant man, and I hope the last years of his life are as peaceful as possible.

Same band to tell people to vote Hillary Clinton. Supporting Palestinian liberation is pretty low bar at this point, and it’s not uncommon for libs to support “Free Palestine”. Nevertheless, Green Day has been supportive of the working class and has some revolutionary themes within their songs, so maybe Billie is radicalizing.

I prefer IDLES at this point, but I did grow up listening to Green Day, as have other comrades here and irl, so I do agree this was nice and a bit unexpected to see. They did the bare minimum while most mainstream artists haven’t, though it’s a bit late and would have had more impact closer to October 7th.

I’ve worked at a company that did injection molding, and they made people have to work at superhuman speeds with equipment that continued to give injuries. Part of the reason is because they would collect data from the fastest person on the machine and expect everyone else to work as fast. The mentors who were being timed caught on and started working slower to make the pace less ridiculous. Management would also let go of people who had injuries because they didn’t want to pay for it.

Personally I would like to work in a semiconductor factory as an engineer or even start in an entry level position. Probably won’t happen in my lifetime if I stay where I live, and it will probably become more difficult to achieve in Amerikkka as tarriffs lead to domestic industry crumbling while the working class begins to lose access to basic necessities like education and healthcare. My dream at this point is revolution or move to China, if I even survive.

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That’s my president

Sure, if the financial backing comes in the form of a donations without any strings attached. Sponsorships can be a deal with the devil, I know from first hand experience

I was meaning donations, or funding from a socialist state. I guess I forgot financial backing could mean manipulative sponsorships, which obviously would be risk and could damage the project.

I’m also writing my own 3D software renderer in a project of mine, also no libraries (the renderer at least) and written in C99/ASM and single threaded

That’s pretty cool! If you have your source code public and care to share, I would like to bookmark it.

I’m curious how they’re avoiding floating points. Too bad they don’t provide source code.

They mentioned they would consider open sourcing the project when it is finished. https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/GraphicsProgramming/comments/vbpk3j/comment/icauijl/?context=3

They do have some parts and related projects open sourced, including a subset of the integer-only software renderer used in the game.

I don’t doubt that there are professional game devs who love the art

I’m guessing all of them loved the art when they first went into the industry, but as with every job, capitalism turns it into a slog, draining all of the passion and creativity, alienating the workers, eventually laying them off regardless of their performance because the corporations want to inflate their quarter earnings with stock buybacks. However, the passion that game devs, especially professional, have for the craft is insane. They unjustly put up with so much abuse and yet many stay to make more games. I do agree the devs that develop open source clones of popular games tend to have more passion for open source philosophy than the craft of video games themselves. If open source games received more financial backing, however, we would probably see more passion and quality in both areas.

I do find joy in small games made by indie solo devs exploring interesting areas as a hobby. King’s Crook is one of those games, built in C with no third-party libraries and avoids floating-point numbers, using only integers for triangle rasterization.

Even during the PS2 era, games like Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal had 9 month development cycles, with developers working 60+ hours a week. Many games are built with developers essentially sleeping in the office, ordering junk food, gaining weight, neglecting their families, sleeping 4 hours a day for months (nearly killing themselves), etc. because their passion is heavily exploited. While I miss the era of PS2 when many genres were explored and experimented with and games were more of an art form instead of some generic slop to sell microtranscations, season passes, etc., I passionately want game development to do away with abusive, crunch culture.

Adding to the discussion of multiple commenters’ desire for libre game development expressed here, it would be nice if China were to invest in its gaming industry, supporting open source games that can outcompete games made with blood in Amerikkka and the West (and the exploited Global South slave developers especially). To add to my previous comment here, I think China could really take advantage with developing open source games under the open source architecture and operating systems which they have been investing in. I believe it would be a massive soft power win. If they could make more professionally maintained alternatives to popular games like Minecraft, for example, and I think a lot of people would jump ship as they are fed up with Microsoft’s and other corporations’/studios’ bullshit, though the US pigs would probably ban the games because of tErRoRiSm. It already looks like China’s games, film, and animation production are starting to outcompete the West, though it would be nice to see them create and optimize their games like Black Myth Wukong under their sovereign open source tech and let their gaming industry skyrocket like their AI tech industry has due to open source tech and open collaboration across their provinces.

We could use more open-source games. It would be nice to be able to have open-source versions of RimWorld, Victoria 3, Factorio, etc. I know there’s open source versions already for each of these games, but they are in super alpha builds (I’m not counting Mindustry as an alternative to Factorio, even if it is a good game). Many open source versions are written in C#, too, or use Unity or Unreal Engine.

I would like to see more games that I can install with a package manager and have extra packages for mods, and games that are written in less Windows focused languages, like C, C++, Rust, Zig, Clojure, etc. Mods for most games are mostly config changes, reskins, new models, etc., and they feel inadequate. I would like to see people be able to fork games and create entirely new experiences, like the GZDoom and other Doom engines for example. Part of the fun of gaming for me is tinkering them, creating servers in containers like a sysadmin, and compiling games with different use flags. Open Source games are fun, but most of them don’t scratch the itch like the games I mentioned provide.

Some other things I want to see with games:

• Follow the XDG Base Directory Specification
• Luanti could use more development support, but it would be nice to see other Minecraft alternatives built in languages like Rust. Playing MineClone2 is a very clunky Minecraft experience, and the UI is a little shitty. Also Luanti and Minecraft both don’t follow the XDG specification mentioned above and refuse to do so like most developers, which is infuriating.
• Seeing more games start from scratch by developing their own engines (or start without an engine) would be nice. (Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4)
• More Vulkan and Wayland support.
• More terminal games. Kind of wish there was a Dwarf Fortress I could play in emacs, or games that used vim/emacs keybindings, even as far as mimicking programming with binds like 10j, yy, Ctrl+v I, @(letter for macro), g/G, Ctrl+0/$, etc. Sort of a game like Screeps where the game is played by writing code, but also a game where playing the game isn’t necessarily writing code but is played using the binds. A top-down roguelike would seem to be like a good example, or a strategy or sandbox game, especially one about automation.

Anyway, the reason I am mentioning all this is because if we could see games start from scratch and support this architecture, it would be a good time to start building games that properly support open source operating systems instead of being slopped together like most Windows games ported to Linux are. Proprietary code in games hold their potential back in chains, and open-source games are made by people that are not well financially supported and make them in their own limited free time.

Even if Russia and Amerikkka were to align for a mutual imperialist project, the working class keeps getting shafted with violent laws that make workers lose access to healthcare, education, unemployment benefits, housing, employment, etc. on a daily basis. Even if these nations stave off recession, workers are getting screwed over and only the bourgeoisie benefit. Even if fascism comes first, we’re still facing multiple crises like climate change, multiple crises that will still radicalize workers, but we have to organize. We can’t depend on China to save us. We can’t just sit and wait for world socialism to take over this settler nation. We can’t just hope for the fall of Amerikkka on its own.

Even if it does fall, we need to organize to bring upon a vanguard party that will give us an alternative to revolt and replace the warlords in power. Join PSL, FRSO, or start or join a local ML-favorable organization to help those around you (even if the organization isn’t perfect, though PSL has improved since the sexual allegations that keep being brought up here. I believe it has other problems, but those can be fixed over time, and the same applies to FRSO). Help the immigrants, trans, lgbt, minorities, poor workers, disabled folk, and other marginalized people. Just get up and rage on. (And if you are already doing so,) Don’t lose hope, but don’t let hope leave you complacent and distract you from bringing change to your community. Helping workers keep their heads above water while awakening their class consciousness eventually helps the working class gain political power.

Even if the odds are against us, we might as well fight as hard as we can with what we have left to potentially tip the scales and push humanity to a different course. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Yes, it’s a party in the US.

https://tankie.tube/w/8fPwWmszNf5VBm5seTpzpV

This was the video that led to me joining the party.