I just… Don’t care. I bought horizon zero dawn, thought it wasn’t good, and never even finished it. I haven’t bothered with any of their other single player pc releases. There’s so many good games already out on PC.

Yes, I that’s because it’s a horror game

Look into the concept of a gift economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

Communities would have social norms revolving around the exchange of goods without expectation of sone kind of payment. You do what you can to provide for your community, and in turn your community provides to you as well.

Eating vegan doesn’t make you a good person. Shit’s complex and there truly is no ethical consumption under capitalism. But - being leftist and not being vegan is suspending those leftist values selectively towards animals. I think that we ought to care about stopping the subjugation and abuse of both humans and other species. There’s no such thing as a zero-harm life, but making conscious choices to reduce the harm we cause isn’t something born out of a simple worldview.

A couple months back I picked up a copy of Resident Evil 2 for the N64 at a retro shop nearby. Honestly a great way to play the game. I don’t really buy modern releases physically these days though since I play on PC.

Your mentality that feeding a domestic cat while also being vegan is hypocritical, is at it’s core, because you view veganism as some kind of “purity test” when it isn’t that, and never has been that. It’s about preventing harm to animals as much as is practically possible. We’re imperfect, we make selfish and bad choices. There’s no blanket judgement that someone is a terrible person just because they eat meat. Simply a bad choice. A choice I hope that more people would reflect on, and opt to reduce the suffering their life causes. That’s a huge part of what leftism is about, isn’t it? Equity? For more people to live their lives, not harmed by others? Why should this not apply to other sentient life?

Yeah, you’re an omnivore animal - we evolved that way because it helped us survive. In survival settings, where food is scarce. You exist in a society where you can walk into the grocery store, where foods from around the world are imported and supplements are inexpensive. Much of the food we purchase at the store has already been enriched with varying nutrients. When you’re buying meat “for nutrition”, you’re choosing to kill an animal for that nutrition when you absolutely have just as affordable options to get that same nutrition, without killing an animal. Because you’re not in the wild, the pressures that cause natural selection to select for an omnivorous diet aren’t applicable to you. You’re choosing suffering, on purpose, then coming up with excuses to make yourself feel good about it. You’re setting your leftism aside, deciding that other animals don’t deserve the same kind of equity you grant to humans, because eating them brings you pleasure.

Imprisonment? My cats would be alive without me, and cats are an invasive species that cause great harm to local bird and other small animal populations. Outdoor cats have far shorter life expectancy outcomes and a lower quality of life. Doing what I can to keep them happy and healthy, while personally doing all I can to not harm animals unnecessarily is hypocritical? Killing animals for pleasure is somehow humane? You’re blinded by your preconceptions. There’s no such thing as the humane ending of a life that wants to live. I’m not wealthy, far from it. If I can do it, so can most anyone else living in a post scarcity society like ours. I never claimed you aren’t a leftist, rather that your leftist ideals get ignored when it comes to animals, and you have not expressed anything to change my mind on that. I buy meat so my cats can survive. You buy it for personal pleasure. There’s a world of difference.

Cats can theoretically do just fine on vegan cat food so long as their nutritional needs are met by it’s formula. It’s not available or affordable, however. Cat food, however, is made from meat byproduct from animals slaughtered for human consumption. I feed my cats meat out of necessity. That’s rather different than you choosing to end a life for pleasure. “Local husbandry” doesn’t equate to ethical. It’s not even about purity tests, we’re all out here trying to do the best we can - meat consumption and generally the way we treat animals is just a huge thing where people like to leave their leftist values at the door.

These are all things you can get in a vegan diet without supplements, without being rich. I’ve yet to land in a hospital after 8 years, you don’t need to choose to continue to exploit animals outside of survival scenarios.

There’s… In fact a lot of things other than animals to eat.

“im physically capable of making other creatures suffer therefore it’s acceptable for me to do so”. Aight dude. Clearly there’s no changing your mind, but for those looking - this mindset is the same as people who sexually assault women.

https://abacstallion.com/2024/07/03/valve-finally-fixes-team-fortress-2/ That really is an exaggeration. I play FPS games on PC, mostly older ones from before kernel level anti cheat, and cheating is rare. Quake Live is one of my more commonly played ones and I may have run Into a single cheater there. I remember MW2 having an aimbot problem… But it also lacked any anti cheat or report/banning system.

Anti-cheat that isn’t kernel-level has been around for ages - and even with the kernel level anti-cheat people still manage to cheat. I don’t think a special OS with it’s own kernel, just for gaming, would be practical. Most people aren’t going to install something like that, hell, most people that use a PC have no idea how installing an OS functions. Just have anti-cheat that isn’t kernel level, and have a robust report/banning system. Team Fortress 2 was practically unplayable for a long time due to it’s botting problems, but they managed to resolve it without kernel level anti-cheat.

People do in fact, still manage to cheat on consoles. Also, a locked down ecosystem for games is very far from a solution and comes with many of it’s own drawbacks.

Every night when I get in bed, my cat Nepeta runs over to make biscuits and get cuddles. It’s a good routine.

As someone else here already said, the desktop market isn’t where they make their money. Licenses for enterprise computing is where they make their money, and until we see most major businesses ditching windows entirely, we won’t see them worried.

I think once you’re into concepts like a “stack”, you’re working with very niche specific software that most users will never touch. And absolutely, use what fulfills your needs. The vast majority of people I know that ever use a computer, just use it as google chrome. Web browsers work great in Linux. Depending on your needs, a lot of creative software works great on Linux too.

Art is about the process, not the end result. Any artist you see doing public posts with detailed art has many thousands of drawings that are rough. And that’s okay, the internet has everyone showing off just their best stuff, but that’s just the best stuff. If you want to make art that fulfills what you’re looking foe, just keep doing art. You’ll get there.

You don’t get creative skills without many hours of practice. You should.

Denuvo notably impacts both the performance and long term preservation of games. I imagine many people might buy a game, then download the cracked version without denuvo just for the performance gain.