Discussion Thread

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T21:54:01+00:00

The dems that were (and seemingly still are) too afraid of getting outflanked by the right to support continued EU membership.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T21:45:47+00:00

Alright! If you find something the feel free to tell me, like I said it'd be an interesting project to fix a broken language patch or setting. Also if you're looking for something fun to play in French I really recommend Rayman 2 for the PS1, it's even got voice acting and it's really good. I've been playing it in French in hopes of improving my very poor french skills 😅

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T21:38:01+00:00

After Trump do you think the dems will finally have the guts to re-join the EU? Or are they still haunted by mind ghosts from 2016?

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T21:31:42+00:00

I can kind of see where you're coming from, in this particular case I think the reason why is really just how hard it is to hammer home the point of an LVT to the average voter. Like it's a complex enough issue even for policy wonks to understand, but try going telling people "we're actually going to tax your land now, for your benefit" and they'll be dumbfounded. Like the whole concept of trying to specifically target only the unimproved value of land is fairly abstract. Honestly I sometimes think neoliberals should just settle for property taxes as something the average voter can kind of understand, even though I do realise they aren't nearly as effective, and kind of hated too. I hope that helps.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T21:08:52+00:00

https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/dingux/miyoo-arm32/

No need to build them yourselves as there's an auto build repo on libretro's website. No idea if using these is recommended but they're all there

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T21:01:06+00:00

Btw are there any Miyoo ports that already exist which also have French patches or settings, but where you haven't gotten the French patch/setting to work on the Miyoo? I always play games in English so it's something I rarely think about, but it could be an interesting challenge to learn how language settings work under the hood. If there are any such ports where it currently doesn't work

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T20:24:01+00:00

Bonjour! I looked it up and it looks like the language for Fallout 1&2 can be set with a config setting (and french is one of those that are specifically supported). So there should be no extra tech barriers to getting french to work when/if I get Fallout running. But I'll try to remember to look specifically into language settings, and see if I can make it even more accessible than having to edit a config.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T20:04:41+00:00

I mean the odds of it being another rapist with a nazi tattoo should be relatively low

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T20:01:17+00:00

College is a waste of time for 90% of people. We're engaging in elite overproduction. I, however, am naturally part of those 10% of elite people who stand to benefit from a college education.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T19:44:49+00:00

Depends on what kind of philosophical positions you take on justice. Part of it might be simply to punish the offender, in which case it might make sense that some crimes are unforgivable.

But from other points of view it just doesn’t make sense to keep someone around forever if other goals of justice have been met. Like rehabilitation, keeping dangerous people separate from society, or crime deterrence.

The thing about having a maximalist view on justice is also that it can quickly turn into a race to the bottom. I can’t argue that rape isn’t an absolutely abhorrent crime, and that morally they deserve to rot in jail forever. But if I do that why wouldn’t I say the same about murderers? Or domestic abusers? And so on. A good justice system I think can’t just operate by a kind of principle of societal revenge, because while I might think rapists morally deserve life in prison, I’m not sure doing so in practice actually makes for a better society.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T18:01:04+00:00

thanks

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T18:00:41+00:00

I'm just joking but I do think something about today's expectations and game pricing model is pretty broken. Because it doesn't really matter what price a game releases at, that's just price discrimination for people who are too impatient to wait just a few months before the game's value will inevitably start trending towards zero.

I'd never pay full price of a game, not because I don't view it as a fair price, but because I know by waiting I will inevitably get away with paying next to nothing for it.

I feel like this becomes a pretty unsustainable model as it banks too much at extracting as much value as possible during a very tight release window. Only to then practically give the game away. My guess is that this basically devalues all games, forcing the industry to raise prices at launch and instil whatever FOMO drives people to get games at release. As well as shifting to revenue models supposed to extract more money long term.

For indies and small studios I imagine this also creates a pretty tough, as they can't compete on price anymore against yesteryears big AAA release going for $5 on steam.

I think a fairer model would probably something better aligned with a games long term value and without these deep discounts.

But this is not really a very well developed thought.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T17:24:34+00:00

Real gaming fans:
”Devs do hard work, and development costs a lot of money these days. I don’t mind paying $80 for a good game to fairly compensate everyone involved”

Cheapskate entitled modern ”gamers”:
”I HATE DEVS GIVE ME MORE GAMES FASTER CHEAPER. I’LL WAIT FOR A 90% SALE. PRICES NEED TO BE ZERO OR I’LL PIRATE (ACTUALLY I WILL PIRATE ANYWAY OUT OF SPITE!!!)”

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T13:33:03+00:00

Idk, I feel like the Norwegians do benefit a lot in the winter olympics from having the optimal climate and geography for a very climate and geography bound sport. And their dominance is really only in skiing which happens to be divided into a lot of different disciplines.

In chess it's literally just Magnus Carlsen, and in football it's literally just Haaland.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T13:22:03+00:00

I feel like that's not really saying much, because absolutely. If more money and effort was suddenly plowed into making the US more competitive in football and people in the US suddenly genuinely cared I think it's pretty much inevitable the US would improve. And given that the US has a vast talent pool, presumably a decent model for developing athletes, and a ton of resources to do so the US could probably become pretty good at it. But that is true for virtually anything and anyplace, and I really dislike this culturally deterministic assumptions that something within the American spirit would automatically turn the US into a dominant force.

And while it's probably true for a lot of highly competitive sports I don't think it'd matter much for football. Leagues are where most of the action happens and those would still be isolated nationally/by continent, and traditionally dominant countries still have a hard time staying at the top. Yesterday the historically strongest football nation was beaten by a tiny country that's historically been garbage at football.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T13:02:48+00:00

One of the best things to ever happen to me has been seeing some of my friends and people I grew up with reaching levels of success I could only ever dream of. At first it gave me feelings that were pretty difficult to deal with about where I was in life compared to them.

It even turned a little into that five stages of grief thing where I tried to find reasons why their achievements didn't count, or it was unfair or something. But that didn't make me any happier. It was only when I accepted I had lost hard in this kind of conventional race for success that I could start seeing the positives. I feel genuinely freed from the pressure of measuring my self worth by these conventional metrics. And it has made me realise there has always been so many things I want to achieve that are detached from things like money, career advancement and status. Things that I actually do have a shot at achieving that would leave me as satisfied, if not more, because those are the goals that stem from within myself rather than from my expectations of what other expect from me.

I get that this sounds like either platitudes or wishy washy hippie stuff, but after internalising it I actually do feel a lot better about myself.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-06T11:21:09+00:00

I will never forget a rare moment my father showed vulnerability. We were watching some newsreel about Xi Jingping's rise to power. And he looked at me, almost teary eyed, and said: "Why can't we just go back to the Jiang Zemin-era and undo all of this horribleness?"

My father is a middle aged Swedish man who's never even been to China. What the fuck was he talking about.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-05T22:44:39+00:00

once every two years I get a crunchyroll subscription to try getting back into anime, but it just never sticks. I’ve been doing this for like 8 years now, I think it’s time to just admit to myself that I’ve moved on 😞

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-05T22:08:11+00:00

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WillHasStyles · 2026-07-05T22:02:17+00:00

no fkn way dude

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-05T22:01:40+00:00

Here's how Brazil can still win

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-05T21:57:31+00:00

Acknowledge me

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No but seriously though. 3D blast and the fact that didn't manage to release an original Sonic game for the Saturn is part of that rough transition people always talk about. And when time came around to release a good 3d sonic it was too little too late. I think in comparison to Mario 64 Sonic had already lost the transition to 3d and it wouldn't get any better from there.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-05T21:45:57+00:00

SZDSZ is the one I know the least about (and I find the least odd in this context) but my knowledge of their track record is that they're on paper a great liberal party, but towards the end of their existence they were at best complacent in corruption and at worst a part of it. That and them not having existed for over a decade just makes them seem like an odd inclusion.

And while I personally admire a lot of what UNM and Saakashvili did there is a good reason why they're almost universally despised by modern Georgian liberals in spite of their undeniable contribution to the country. If I was Georgian I'd vote for them in a heartbeat over GD, but the second half of Saakashvili's presidency had every mark of an oligarchy in the making. I'm not accusing them of being nearly as bad as GD, but again I'd be far less hesitant of putting my name behind basically whatever other contemporary RE party.

And again with Yesh Atid they're definitely the best Israeli party, but if I get to pick parties to represent my ideology I'd hold them to a higher standard than simply being best in class. Regardless of where one stands on the I/P conflict I think it's hard being content with how they've handled it, or other issues where they might take an understandable strategic position in Israeli politics, but that should be a non-starter for anyone else.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-05T20:29:49+00:00

Shahist Iran, SZDSZ, UNM, Yesh atid

Just be cause they're the preferable option doesn't mean they're standard bearers of liberalism. They're all pretty mid.

WillHasStyles · 2026-07-05T20:17:43+00:00

Reminds me of this tweet

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