There are also a thousand video game genres that don't require shooting.

Not for me :( got "bad" and "is still" the other way around at first

Honestly, I didn't even consider this as possible. I'm saving the post in case I'm very bored and want to do it.

I don't think "our operations run on green energy" matters that much. Energy is energy, if you give other people green energy, you are still reducing emissions. You are just reducing other people's instead of your own, but global warming is a global issue.

Not saying I'd do it, just throwing one more option out there.

1-party = voters have no choice, therefore that one party can do whatever they want. 2-party = there is some choice. There's an "in power" party and one opposition. The opposition acts as a limit of what the "in power" party can do, because if people are unhappy, they'll vote for the opposition.

Sure, you can't choose what kind of opposition they want, which most of the times leads to a "least bad" voting. But you still have a way to influence government.

Having some choice >>>> having no choice.

I never 2-party is enough democracy, but it is still way more than 1-party. It's not just a 2x increase. "Democracy" doesn't scale linearly with the amount of parties.

Source?

There is no freedom of press because there isn't even freedom of speech. You can't mention tiananmen square. You can't show imagery of Winnie the Pooh (because it was used to depict the supreme leader of china in a non-positive way), and you can't show support for taiwanese independence. Neither of those are baseless conspiracy theories.

The topic of east-germany deindustrialization I've been recently aware of it, so I might be wrong about some of it. As I understand it, first, east Germany's infrastructure was stolen by the soviets (railways dismantled and sent to the USSR). Later, when Germany was unified, east Germans wanted to exit communism so hard (and they voted like so) that east German companies didn't have time to adapt to their new market. East German companies benefitted from protectionism and weren't competitive when markets opened up and they were competing with more efficient west German companies.

How is that fault of west Germany? They were crippled by the USSR, didn't improve due to the USSR's policies, and then they voted for a fast reunification. The deindustrialization of east Germany looks to me more like it was done by the USSR and east Germany, not west Germany.

1. I'm not a US citizen and I don't remember mentioning it in this thread.

2. That's not what one-party system means. The US is in principle a many-party system, but because of how their system works it means that voting anything that isn't one of the 2 top parties means throwing away your vote. Making it a functionally 2-party system, which is way more democratic than a 1-party system.

They don't want to block site from Spain+ireland. They want to block sites from Spain. Later on they also want social media to also enforce this ban.

Ireland is only mentioned because it's the preferred tax haven for tech companies in Europe. They're not targeting Ireland in particular.

It's easier to park when there's another car already parked, for reference.

And only stole most of east Germany's infrastructure.

I guess not having freedom of press and a very censored internet is an easy way to have the population like the government. You could feed people worms if you don't let them know there's other food out there, they'll like you if you tell them out there not even worms exist.

The people of Hong Kong absolutely LOVED having their democracy suppressed by china's (#1 best democracy of the world!!!).

I guess nobody even asked the Uyghurs how they feel about their government. Or they're <10% of Chinese population so who cares, they don't need democracy.

Retirement age of 8 years ago (to prevent extending it for themselves) - 4 years.

So the most Democratic countries on this planet according to you are cuba and china. Both of them are 1-party states, and China is straight up a surveillance state. Ok lol.

Does china pay you or are you spreading their bullshit propaganda for free?

Not just Europe and the anglosphere. It's also happening in Latin America (ecuador), and that's basically all the regions where democracy used to be prevalent.

The middle east is still as dictatorial as it always was. Asia is still as dictatorial as it always has. Africa is still as dictatorial as it always has. I know all of these regions are huge and diverse, and that there are democracies. But none of them I can think of has gained democracy.

So the places that had democracy are turning less democratic, and the places that had little democracy still have little democracy. I'd say that's an "All over the world" thing.

Inflation is not the only factor in the pricing on products. Otherwise a potato would cost 1000x what it does.

Even then, all the things you mention are media that was already produced, and the only cost associated to them now is licensing and distribution. Satisfactory is still in production, which costs orders of magnitude more.

Not only material costs go up with inflation.

Those materials have a price because you need labor to obtain them. The cost of everything is driven by the price of labor. The price of labor goes up with inflation.

There is no product that is unaffected by inflation.

Any editor that support LSP has the same (or better) auto complete. All IDEs also have the same (or better) auto complete, don't even need LSP.

Well, that's the thing about multiplayer games. If you want to play better than the average player, you must put in more effort than the average player.

Why do you want to be "decent" at playing it? The matchmaking will do its best to place you against other players of similar skill level. Doesn't matter how much you improve or degrade, you are always gonna win about 50% of the games, and lose about 50%.

That's just how online multiplayer games work.

If you don't like that, there are 2 options left still: play games with whoever you want without matchmaking (which will be even less balanced) or just play single player.

In single player you can choose whatever difficulty you want.