they’re not suggesting a third party candidate can win
they’re suggesting that the democratic platform can shift
they’re not suggesting a third party candidate can win
they’re suggesting that the democratic platform can shift
which is what people said before biden was replaced
which is what people said before biden was replaced
it was her fault for spilling the e. coli in her lap
anybody on the left withholding their vote at this point fundamentally disbelieves in a system with exactly two discrete options, so this type of post doesn’t persuade anybody
workers losing their jobs while executives keep theirs is bad
“go off sassy ancap” good lord it’s like talking to a child
have a good one, mate
correct, because they’ll just wriggle off to another company
you know you can just admit you read the title wrong and said something stupid, rather than doubling down? rather than pretending you meant something completely different
note that even in your fantasy the execs aren’t losing out
the quote is literally “developers must get used to not having jobs”
execs aren’t the ones losing jobs with layoffs
it’s not the devs saying it, but it’s the devs who are punished
literally is objectively correct in this context
from the big stew out back
Hackers acting as if they’re doing a public service by bringing down a free publicly accessible tool is a new level of assbackwardness.
are the zendesk hackers the same as the ones who brought down the website initially?
giving somebody a gift card for a product or service you think they specifically will enjoy is objectively more personal than giving them cash, yes
e.g., starfield would’ve been a very different game had you been able to fly space -> surface, and had there been vehicles to do actual exploring with
it would’ve completely changed the way the game plays, and opened up new possibilities for design. it also would’ve removed many of the oft-criticized loading screens and made the whole experience flow better.
but they can’t do any of that, because the engine isn’t good enough to support it.
sometimes you can’t make a choice because the engine says no
Bethesda can’t improve because they keep catering for the lowest common denominator
even in your ideal world where they perfect the world, quests and characters, tes 6 is still going to suck if core gameplay plays the same as skyrim, which played the same as oblivion
they can’t improve that core gameplay without a better engine
new vegas and london are popular in the same way 1 and 2 are popular, which is “not mainstream enough to sustain a studio like bethesda”.
which is historically how they made up the difference between the lackluster gameplay
you and i must have been playing different bethesda games, because none of them have been particularly interesting story-wise
the average player doesn’t care about crunchy rpg systems. they do care if the core gameplay would’ve been outdated in 2010.
bethesda doesn’t seem to be able to improve the core gameplay because the engine can’t cope.
even if you fixed the writing and tossed out the awful procedural generation in favor of hand-crafted environments, at it heart it’s still going to play like a stripped down borderlands 1
the writing, yes
but if their engine is “perfectly tuned” then that means their engine is informing their design
they can’t make good design choices because they have to work within the limitations of an over-fitted engine
a significant enough chunk of her voter base credibly withholding a vote based on a desired policy change would force a shift toward that desired policy change
i’d say biden’s platform in 2020 was significantly more left-wing than clinton’s in 2016
this is the same “it’s too late” or “it’s too unprecedented” or whatever you want to pick that was exactly the justification for biden being kept in as long as he was
people the post targets aren’t voting red. they’re just not voting at all, or voting third party. it’s an argument to a position held by an insignificant fraction of the left-anti-harris crowd.
it doesn’t address the core issue they have. they’d say that continuing to vote for the least-bad party is the reason both parties are bad, and that at a certain point you have to attempt to force a more radical change.