If the game developer's post was good I was thinking of reading it, but apparently it's just Medium.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI've always been more of the 'respect people for who they are, not what they are' mindset.

Which is fine for you at an individual level. But if (category of people A) gets kicked in the street by 20% of others, and (category of people B) does not, then even if you're not among that 20%, it's clear that there are different things that need to be done with respect to category A and B. Even at the individual level, there wouldn't be much point in you saying you support category B kicking victims, 'cause there, like, aren't any.

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Quoting: ObsidianBlk

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Linux_RocksAlso, corporations being PC or inclusive cause it's good for business is annoyingly fake. But it's better than the other options.

Yeah, for me it's just bigotry in the other direction. Instead of Corps asking people to stop being bigots, they're asking you to put other types of people on pedestals. Which is still bigotry, because certain other types of people are not put on those pedestals.

Whether a company's display of support is genuine or self serving is a matter of debate.

Ehhh, not usually. With small ones, or privately held ones, sure, there's plausible debate room. If Valve does something, it could just be because Gabe wants to. With big, publicly traded ones, no--being self-serving is their fiduciary duty and their only function.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: TheSHEEEPHilariously edgelordy, but not really something you want in official products.

I looked over all of it, and it was not some silly edgelord stuff. It was just downright disgusting.

Well, let's just say not all of us are easily disgusted and have a bit thicker skin.
Honestly, I was quite entertained by the sheer insanity of it.

In theory at least, I actually kind of get what you mean--crazy people can be fun to laugh at (although this brand never gave me much of a hoot). This particular variety I'd find a lot funnier if they weren't in government or threatening to form government in lots of major countries around the world.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mountain ManThe problem is not capitalism, it's human nature.

Meh. It's like the nature/nurture debate--the two both operate. Human nature exists, kinda, but societies are not all the same and how human nature is expressed is different depending on the social environment. Even within the broad system of capitalism, the broad umbrella of "the West", and the narrow confines of the present day, Finns seem to act quite different from Americans in how they approach economic life, despite both being human and presumably heir to the same "human nature".

Really, IMO invoking human nature is a bit of a dodge. It means nobody has to be responsible for anything and nobody ever has to try, because if anything is shitty, well, that's just inevitable because human nature. That's not how trade unionists won the weekend.

It's not a dodge at all. It's simply pointing out the fact that every economic system is vulnerable to the same greed and deceit that people often mistake for the "evils of capitalism".

Yeah, but that isn't actually true. Different systems are vulnerable to different things. Not that greed goes away, exactly, but feudalism's problems generally involved destructive wars and dynastic squabbles--political ambitions of the warrior class that ran things. Merchants could be greedy . . . and nobles could take their stuff if they got uppity. Craftspeople could be greedy . . . but their guilds regulated them and their greed could only operate on a very small scale anyway. Sure, there was greed, but it wasn't a huge driver of behaviour or political events. The other big problem with feudalism was its decentralization made it hard to do big things, like create infrastructure or mount big national armed forces; also not related to greed.
Theocracies as far as I can tell tend to be all about dogma and schisms and sort of McCarthyist witch hunts and brutal enforcement of tradition. There's surely some greed happening, but what they're vulnerable to is conformity gone wild.

A lot of people imagine that other economic systems were just capitalism with different clothes on, but they weren't.

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Are there any clues as to what D.O.R.F. stands for, if anything?

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Dorf! But is it romantik?

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Quoting: BalkanSpyEpic Games is getting more and more desperate now that their cash cow Fortnite is losing popularity.

People don't think ahead, do they? Games are going to wane in popularity eventually; I didn't expect Fortnite to stay at the top as long as it did. If I'd been running Epic I would have made at least a minimal plan where it's like, 50% of windfall Fortnite profits go to harebrained expansion schemes, the other 50% save for a rainy day.

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Quoting: matiaslavikCan't wait for next BlizzCon: "Do you guys not have Windows??"

Just tell them "Didn't you get the memo? You guys are Microsoft now. And Microsoft loooves Linux, they said so!"

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Quoting: Mountain ManThe problem is not capitalism, it's human nature.

Meh. It's like the nature/nurture debate--the two both operate. Human nature exists, kinda, but societies are not all the same and how human nature is expressed is different depending on the social environment. Even within the broad system of capitalism, the broad umbrella of "the West", and the narrow confines of the present day, Finns seem to act quite different from Americans in how they approach economic life, despite both being human and presumably heir to the same "human nature".

Really, IMO invoking human nature is a bit of a dodge. It means nobody has to be responsible for anything and nobody ever has to try, because if anything is shitty, well, that's just inevitable because human nature. That's not how trade unionists won the weekend.

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