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  • One of my biggest recent gripes is that I have to use WhatsApp for work. I have disconnected myself from all privately owned giant social media, but I can't drop whatsapp because I'm required to use it for communication at work with students.

  • Both current gen consoles are RT capable, so they'll just use lowered graphical settings, some amount of optimization, and upscaling. Indiana Jones ran great though, way better than you'd expect. I was getting a perfectly smooth 75 fps on a 6750 XT on 1080p high, no upscaling or framegen in use.

  • People don't get this. Steve's team has definitely less than 20, and I've seen weeks where GN pumbs out 7+ videos, there was a week recently where they did 4 case reviews the same week, and that was just case reviews, they had other videos. LTT has at least 5x the number of employees, of course he can pump out way more videos.

  • I'm with you, comrade. People on Lemmy need to understand that as long as you're playing by capitalism rules, you've already lost. Liberal ideologies are a losing game, you can't win if you're playing the same game as the people who WILL use their money and power to oppress you. This american election is the proof. A man with 400+ billion can play by any rules in the capitalism game.

    ...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. -Rousseau

  • If we ban social media companies* we won't.

    Privately owned social media is a tool of media manipulation. You can change the weights of some inscrutable algorithm and boost exposure to political ideologies that you want while no one can truly make a case against you, "it's just the algorithm" they say. There's no scenario where they should be allowed to exist in a sovereign country.

  • Americans are blind. They think their capitalism is also not state funded. The only difference is that in China corporations are owned by the state, and in the USA the state is owned by corporations. "It's not fair" yeah, obviously it isn't, the USA has been imperialistic and monopolistic over the entire global south for the past 7 decades, nobody wants to be playing with your bullshit rules anymore. The "free market" is heavily stacked in their favor, and always will be. Case in point? BRICS are about to move away from the dollar, and the USA immediately goes ballistic saying it will impose tariffs and sanctions and whatnot if we dare challenge their authority. Where's the free market in that? Where's the free market when your 2nd in command has said before that the USA will invade and coup whatever country they feel like it in order to get resources? Yeah, we're not playing your stupid free market game anymore, it's rigged. And yes, China is part of the global south, they have been so since they were oppressed and enslaved and explored by the global north for decades, they just did a good job of turning around. I wish my country had done as good of a job...

  • Honey would look for coupom codes, and sometimes it would find them, it wasn't always, but also wasn't never, so yes, they were "saving money" for the user as far as people knew at the time. After MegaLag's video we know that the whole "find all available and working coupons to guarantee the best deal" was horseshit, and they were in partnership with business controlling the whole thing, but back when LTT and other creators dropped Honey, that part wasn't known yet, just that they poached affiliate links. Which is very scummy, but likely not illegal.

  • Played 50h of it, did absolutely everything that can be done in the game. It's amazing. Really solid Indiana Jones game, with a good story, phenomenal voice acting, good levels, and a great feel of cohesion across the whole game. Gotta say though, the ending could have been better (too many cutscenes), and the secret ending is not worth doing (a lot of extra fetch quests to unlock it, and it felt underwhelming). It's a solid 8.5/10 game by itself, or a 9/10 if you really love the Indiana Jones movies, which I do. As I said, the worst part is the amount of cutscenes, but if you really like the movies, it feels as if you're watching a slice of a movie that never made it to the big screen. But don't mistake me, there's plenty of gameplay in it, I'm just one of those gamers that just hate cutscenes.

  • From your comments, what're you're looking for seems to be extremely restricted. Give them a try, you might surprise yourself. Indie fps games with modern realistic graphics are really hard to come by, as there's basically no reason for indie devs to venture into a genre completely taken by AAA devs. Going back to the topic though, I'd take a look into Road to Vostok if you haven't yet, it's the closest to what you want (from what I can tell).

  • Sure, don't trust your government. What are you trusting then? Sure as hell not corporations, I hope. Yourself? That's what I would call of naiveté. An individual power is irrelevant in the modern world, even most communities are irrelevant (Lemmy is an example, we're the 0,001%). Revolution sure is a nice idea, but I don't see anyone getting off their arses and doing it (talking about it on Lemmy doesn't matter, it's a tiny little bubble), and honestly, I don't even think revolutions are technically possible anymore (the powers that be are very keenly aware of its processes, mechanisms and risks, and media manipulation is so fucking easy these days). So you got to do something, you have to stand behind some power that can actually make a difference: there's only one real/realistic choice: your government. I've seen what happens when the left starts voicing their mistrust of the government too carelessly. The right will take those complaints and shift them into their own, and things will snowball very quickly. People often mistake the idea of trust with the idea of blind faith. You can trust someone/something and still complain and fight against some of their actions and decisions. But you have to pick your battles very carefully. If you want a history lesson, look up what happened with Brazil in the period between 2011-2018. I was there, I lived through history. I can tell you that we should all really be fucking afraid of social medias and the internet, and if a government moves aggressively into regulating that, we should take a step back and think very hard while analysing the whole picture. Even if it looks like authoritarianism, it might still be the correct choice.