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that’s a sticky question, there’s no perfect answer sadly.

the solution of moving to a blue state is a good short term fix. However it won’t survive a long-term exposure. Eventually the federal level laws will outlaw the state level laws regarding it and their protections in the blue state won’t help them anymore. When that happens the only outcome is all red laws. We are already seeing that with him claiming that he’s going to outlaw abortion period on the federal level, which will overrule state level, an act that currently I believe would make it through the proper channels to actually get implemented as the red party currently holds half (if not all) the legislative, the entire executive, and despite it not being supposed to be possible, the judicial branches.

In a perfect world, due to everyone dispersing into the red districts, it would saturate the polls in those districts, requiring district remaps via gerrymandering to win. Unless there truly is more red voters then blue, in which case there is no solution to this problem while remaining in the US, the only valid option is either a second civil war, or moving to another country and hoping that it doesn’t spread. Neither options are ideal.

Him dropping out wasn’t his biggest mistake. Him choosing to drop out months after the primary process was his biggest downfall. He basically fucked the democratic party because he couldn’t swallow his ego and drop out when it was clear his popularity among the country was dwindling even in the party itself. Every advisor he had said “hey you likely shouldn’t run again” but he stayed, Hell fucking Obama even told him “yo you aren’t going to win this”. His stubbornness to run for a second term is what killed the chances of a democratic win here.

additional note: I don’t blame him though, like I could not imagine working my entire life up to that moment, and then having to say “I wasn’t the change I wanted to be I need to let someone else take the reins”, it must have been such a blow to his self confidence. The fact that he dropped out at all was a show of strength. I don’t think him dropping out at the point he was in changed the outcome overall, the damage in my eyes was done as soon as he decided to continue with the primaries knowing he was losing support

keep in mind this opinion also promises that it can’t be fixed, as the more blue voters that leave the red leaning states the more power those red leaning states have. Moving to a blue leaning state only removes the blue votes from the red leaning state in favor of increasing the power of an already blue state.

Of course if he somehow manages to find a way to do away with the election process this would be true, but currently the best bet overall is going to be stay in your state, honestly if you can lower solid blue districts in favor of saturating red districts that’s the best option but that’s a difficult task.

Our system does not operate under popular vote. It runs off the electoral college, its the main reason red states want to gerrymander the district lines to make all black areas be their own district, its less damage if every opponent is in the same district as it allows only one district to be in opposition instead of multiple.

their choices make it harder and harder to actually want to support their project. I haven’t seen a good PR release from then in ages.

I didn’t find my PlayStation 5 worth the money, I doubt I’ll find the pro edition for more money any different

about the time games move to stream only is when I stop buying games. I do not need that network saturation and latency.

I didn’t realize Atari owned most of those style games, they basically deadlocked that market to themselves, interesting

Oh man I fucking called this one, as soon as I read that article a few days ago saying that the Russian maintainers were removed from the kernel, I’m like man if Russia was smart right now they would do a country-funded version, this is completely legal as well under the licensing of the current kernel.

The biggest reason of why I struggle to get into any of the subscription-based games, because none of them are only subscription based, they charge you both for the game and the subscription afterward so you have both the price of the game plus any type of expansion packs plus the subscription cost monthly afterward and that’s without including any of the microtransactions. I don’t know why anyone plays them

yea I think if I shared a sub cost with someone it would be worth it, it’s the only reason i still have prime. I personally think that $120 for service rendered is a little low, but I believe that $240 is just too steep for a single person. For the benefits given, I think easily $5 a month for online, then like $7 or $8 a month for the games would be more then reasonable instead of the current $20 a month. I think 150-160 a year is more than fair for service rendered, but currently its roughly $15 a month for just the games(assuming the previous price of 60/year for only online which ends up being $5 a month), that’s almost a full indy game title monthly. Unless I’m actively playing more then 10 Indy games a year, or more than 4 AAA titles, it’s just not worth having for the current price. It’s usually cheaper to just buy the game outright

that being said, if PC game pass is what MS considers it’s Ultimate without online sub… they consider just the game portion as $12 a month, which for what is offered, I find too steep for my tastes for someone who would want to lock on for a year at a time.

I’m using keepassXC with syncthing as my sync service, with my server as an encrypted longterm storage. It’s pretty flawless, just make sure that you keep file versioning on(its a setting in syncthing) for at least 2 versions, I haven’t had it happen yet but, with any dual system setup there might be a sync conflict if it fails to sync before being modified.

gamepass ultimate isn’t worth the value for me. realistically there is only maybe 3 games a year I really must have wanted to play, and most of them I know will go on sale later on down the road. Paying 240$ a year for a program that I only really am going to play maybe a handful of must play games on isn’t worth it.

The issue isn’t the selection of games on the platform, they have a ton. It is just cost wise, why pay 240$ a year for it, and get a handful of games I can only play while they sub is active, when most games I play are in the 20-40$ range anyway and if I just buy them it’s a once off can play forever purchase. I can’t even give them the argument of convenience, because it’s equal to 4 AAA titles yearly, that you need to keep paying for in order to continue to use.

I don’t care about a second layer of security on most of my things, like Lemmy for example, I really don’t care if it’s secure. My blizzard launcher, I really don’t care. my discord? ok maybe a little

Being said due to this, I have both my TOTP and my Passwords in the same program. It still requires a second password to access, but it removes a little of the security. My vault is encrypted by a private key plus a password, and any type of off-system storage is encrypted an additional level past that, if someone gains access to that vault, I have far worse issues at hand then someone managing to steal my accounts.

As someone who was late to the FFXIV train, I just started a few months ago so I started while the unlimited free trial system was already established. But I have many friends who do pay for a sub.

I think their decision to open the game to be an unlimited free trial was a smart move, however their decision to make it a one and done trial was not. I 100% would be ok with paying for multiple months of subscription in order to get the features that the sub provides as a player, but like I know that if I ever chose to do so, I will never be allowed to /not/ pay. This means that me as a player will likely never spend a dime on the game, because I don’t want to be introduced into that sunk cost.

If they were planning to go F2P they should have full sent F2P, the hybrid route of “Yea you can play as long as you want, but as soon as you give us money you will be required to give us money forever to play” route is counter productive and is likely costing them quite a bit of money itself.

How does this reflect on the monthly sub cost? Well it’s simple, removing the requirement of a sub to play on it’s existing userbase, while at first will be a money hit because the non-team players that are trapped with their predatory monetization scheme will leave, but a good majority of their player-base would keep their sub, because FF XIV is very much a team social based game, and the restrictions given for F2P are not viable in later on dungeons as the usage of the marketplace system and the free company system is moreorless a must have in order to play.

Players will swap to a stop the sub when they don’t want to play team wise, and renew it when they need socials again, but since the sub is now “optional” there won’t be as much of a need to make the sub feel worth the money. Which is their biggest problem right now with other competitors releasing highly successful expansion packs under a fully subbed model.

In my opinion the new update that they did which added new game modes was nice Devil’s mode on both are as fun as hell, but it was really a step backwards for people who play with their friends to make it so it’s not possible to see the cards that other people have when dead. It ruined the entire enjoyment of being dead for the game, I can understand why they did it for public lobby but a private lobby shouldn’t have had that restriction it just ruins the enjoyment and the content of people being dead.

A good portion of being dead when playing with friends was monitoring how they played their hand that way next round you could potentially use that but the person would know that you use that so they would know to throw up how they did it, now you can more or less run the same strategy for eight nine turns in a row no one’s going to know how you did it and then change it up it’s boring.

I would actually much rather have an elevator that set up like that, it’s super clear where the ground floor is, and it still has the star to bring your attention to it. Plus it is expandable by reprioritizing the open and closed door buttons to be if you had a basement one or basement two (or a service level) and then you could just move the buttons down a little

You know after the whole fixed the labels of the buttons issue is fixed.

I’m a firm believer that if a developer or company decides to brick your software/purchase even years down the road, they should be required to re-imburse you the price paid. It doesn’t even need to include full game closures, but like shit like this where you buy an item, then they update it which makes it so you no longer can use it should require it.

yea a that was my first thought, no bsky, no lemmy, no mastodon (edit: apperently has limited suppport for exclusively mastodon.social) , like are they paying attention to the trends?

I couldn’t use the quest, it seemed to be on par with the psvr in terms of frames which gave me massive motion sickness

I imagine the insane price to entry is a big thing.

I had some disposable cash so I went with the index, I love it don’t get me wrong but, 1k is super fucking steep for an enjoyable system, and that’s ontop of the requirement they do it right when they make a game, many of them take vr as a minority and you can tell when a game puts it on the side burner