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  • This is solid advice.

    Also, the macOS ecosystem is predicated on you being rich enough (or fool enough) to buy it, and everything is nickel-and-dimed.

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    What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?
  • Subnautica; at the beginning your pod drops into the surface of the ocean, then you open the hatch and you climb out... to see an infinite expanse of blue sea under a blue sky.

    That triggered so many memories for me, I had to take a minute. The color grading on that scene was on point.

    One of the Quake games has a section where you get captured, then put on a conveyor belt where you see other people in front of you get mutilated, then that happens to you. That scene almost triggered a dissociative episode.

    The original ending of Mass Effect 3 brought me to tears because the Clint Mansell music meshed so well with the on-screen segments, it really moved me. That said I also like the remastered ending; the latter is like the last few chapters of Lord Of The Rings, the former is like an American movie ending.

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  • To your last point: money being created != Wealth/value creation; it's more like wealth redistribution (if you create a thousand bucks out of thin air, in an economy of a trillion it's small potatoes - but it does add up fast and affects everyone).

    There absolutely is value in banking, but it's not nearly enough as much as advertised.

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    Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left
  • There's Marxist-Lenninists, and there's Lenninist-Marxists, and both groups hate each other.... Much like the Monty Python sketch...

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    So how long until the Fediverse is monetized?
  • Capitalism is relatively good, gives performance & frugality incentives. Unrestrained late-stage capitalism... not so much. Think of it like oxygen. At 21% you're great (and need it to live), at 90%+ you spontaneously combust.

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