The fact that its a commodity that can be mass manufactured at will should steer anyone from engaging in speculation lol, funko pops, sports cards, shoes, etc… Its all insanely stupid.

like do westerners forget these things are made by people? The avg westerner is so distanced from production that its legit concerning how stupid they are

Imagine “investing” in cardboard that it’s availability is limited by a private company

It’s about which is more or less exploitative. When I briefly talked about Suptertux kart having modern ish feel, for an open source game that was impressive, while still retaining the benefits of being open source.

open source development might be even more exploitative since it’s literally free labour and relies completely on the charity of other well off imperial core workers.

This is because, on that post I mentioned how if one party makes a web comic series or similar, under a creative commons licensed, then other unrelated parties could then freely make a fan game and go all in on making the game and not have to focus as much on making new characters and plot.

I do agree that everyone should have the freedom to create stuff from any IP, but lets be real here you won’t find a fan game made by a group of hobbyists on their free time better than a game made by a professional studio, its simply a matter of labour-power spent developing these games.

I found out about the struggle session during the aftermath and made me feel guilty lol but not everyone lives in the same conditions.

The lack of centralization will always hurt open source games, they simply cannot compare to a AAA game in literally any metric. It’s not really a matter of the code being open or closed, it’s mostly the amount of people working under a centralized direction. Open source projects are hobbyist projects made mostly by privileged people from the imperial core, these are not comparable to game studios with hundreds of professional developers working towards one goal. Even indie studios cannot compare to AAA studios, these only succeed when they develop a completely new genre and find their own niche.

For example 0AD, it’s a good RTS game, FOSS, runs extremely well, distributed freely by most distros repositories but it’s only comparable to AoE 2 or age of mythology which are like 25 years old at this point, its been developed for 2 decades at this point too, a AAA studio could develop a more feature rich product in a couple of years with a much higher quality standard.

gonna be honest i only wear a mask when i go to densely populated places like a supermarket, most of the time i dont wear a mask. My job is open air (in agriculture) so i dont wear a mask most of the time.

The dprk keeping its traditions!

I was trying to think of a dumber president but i dont think Trump is that dumb

“demands” aka asks nicely.

The most moral army in the world doing the most moral acts as usual.

Gonna be honest here, i dont think this does anything meaningful. Poor people ultimately only care about the price of the commodity, if X certified product costs more than Y non-certified product, people will buy Y product and X product will fail.

Inefficient small businesses making a profit thanks to western worker aristocracy that are able to overpay for their products is not useful for anything, its literally just virtue signalling.

If small business want to compete against big business, they have to become more efficient at production, otherwise they are charity.

no clue, he only does a bad talk show.

That squad is like avg >35yo

It’s a lib website but i think that one was a typo.

the lebanon goverment is a joke, it’s the reason why hezbollah exists.

the one thing latin american oligarchs are good at is being shameless compradores.

Noboa is american actually.

Well that is a good way to force countries develop their own tech, good job Israel!

nah boomers are like this

Everyone i dont like is a communist basically.