I think windows pc gamers are irrelevant. To me, this is more about getting console players. Particularly where this pc is being advertised for living room tvs. To me this is for getting console gamers into pc gaming, not about getting pc gamers into a different kind of pc gaming. Console players are use to game exclusivity, and where steam hosts a far wider variety of games than any console, the fact you cant play BF6 I think is somewhat irrelevant. Could never play Halo on Playstation, but that never stopped people from buying Playstation. But this strategy hinges on Valve’s ability to put the Steam Machine at a price that console players are comfortable paying.

Edit: when it comes to phone an tablet, yeah I agree. But I also don’t think the Steam Machine is gonna be more than $1000.

I am at the point any amount of effort requires the same lengthy recharge

See I’m just not super into board games

Edit: but yeah also having friends that are also into warhammer is tough lol. Especially when you live in a rural place like Maine

If you think about it, a mouspad is simply a plate for you mouse, is it not?🧐

I am Vothos when it comes to Warhammer 40k. I don’t play the table top, I just like the minis and lore

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Just one called lemmyunchained

This is exactly it. We never know what each other is struggling with that limits their capacity to do things, we don’t know what supports they need to succeed.

Thats fair. I guess its more so just hierarchy in general. When people are in power they get to decide what is an isnt valued.

I went and fixed my original comment

Also I apologize for immediately assuming that you were trying to be rude

Do you think this is a gotcha or something? I’m an anarchist, not a marxist.

There is another similar quote that I think fits your roommates situation.

“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities. In reading the biography of great men, we are struck with the number of “idlers” among them. They were lazy so long as they had not found the right path; afterwards they became laborious to excess. Darwin, Stephenson, and many others belonged to this category of idlers.” - Peter Kropotkin

A reminder to people that there is no such thing as a lazy person. Only a person who’s work is not valued

Edit: erased “under capitalism” at the end. The problem of certain work or skills not being valued is not limited to just capitalism

The POUM was made up of anti-Stalinist socialists and communists so yes that tracks

For me it was a combination of the BLM protests in 2020, finding real life examples of anarchism through HOI4 with the Spanish Civil War, watching “Living in Utopia”, and reading At the Cafe by Errico Malatesta.

Prior to that though I started off as a very uneducated 14 year old self identifying as Trotskyist. And I really just became a communist because I cared a lot about fairness, and I didn’t think a system where there is an owning class and a working class was fair. And because originally my only knowledge of communism was a freshman understanding of the Russian Revolution, between Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. I picked Trotsky cause I liked his emphasis on international revolution, and at the time I thought he was the most democratic. Then slowly I became more libertarian socialist as I learned about other Marxist ideologies like Council Communism and Luxemburgism.

The BLM protests really pushed me to the conclusion of abolishing the police, and that laid the foundation for everything else that came after to build off of for me becoming an anarchist

So not any of the world’s governments or corporations

Bro, I am just going to assume you are ragebaiting me cause no way did you use Its Always Sunny as a source lmao

They argued you cant make it better cause the improvements impact does not scale with costs. As an example they mentioned, implementing sidewalks would make walking safer, but cost ridiculous amounts of money that tax payers would have to fork over. Something they likely won’t do because costs will likely outweight the benefits for a lot of people

Getting my ADHD diagnosis was very validating for me. It validated the struggles and experiences I have, and allows me to be kinder to myself

If the majority of mentally ill elementary schoolers at the place my partner works know that 9/11 was real, I have a hard time believing the average kid thinks its just some weird cultural reference. And when it comes to the Edmund Fitzgerald, they just don’t know what that was. I didn’t know what it was till I saw the meme.