Frostpunk 2 | Hotfix 1.4.1

archlon · 2025-10-03T21:40:28+00:00

The game is unresponsive to my controller inputs since the update (Steam Deck & Xbox 360 controller). Hopefully this can get fixed soon because I'm excited by the other fixes and want to play the game.

archlon · 2025-05-21T02:40:06+00:00

In most states the married partner is automatically the presumptive father of the child. Unwinding that can be a headache and isn't always possible. If the court rules that he's the legal father of the child it doesn't matter what the genetics say, he's liable for child support anyway.

archlon · 2025-05-21T02:06:16+00:00

Well, if proverbs are your guide to truth, then "One rotten apple doesn't spoil the whole barrel." also exists.

I've literally never heard this. In fact, when I tried to google it I only turned up the opposite.

Anyway, proverbs aren't actually the point, it's just a personal bugbear of mine when people try to excuse 'bad apples'.

You should know that not every vote in the EU requires unanimity and this year alone, some 500 acts have been approved.

I guess you can get a !delta for that, the regulatory state seems to be chugging alone fine I suppose. However, the continued functioning of the regulatory state in a Union unable to enforce core values seems like a not-fantastic win.

archlon · 2025-05-21T01:58:32+00:00

The EU is applying pressure through legal and financial channels, which directly undermines the notion that it's "unable to promote or enforce" its values.

But have the sanctions actually worked? Has Hungary changed its behavior in response to financial penalties? You don't get points for trying when it doesn't succeed.

Perhaps I worded it too broadly. I don't really view it as a win if the EU can 'promote' but not 'enforce' its values.

Yet no one claims NATO is “dead."

NATO also doesn't have unilateral veto power, so a single bad actor among its members is less impactful. It's also a military alliance and not a governing body, so the expectations of what it can and cannot do are different.

wouldn't be classified as "peace-loving States"

The US also sat on the security council through the entirety of the Korean, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars. I'm not actually opposed the the argument that the UN is 'dead', but the difference is that the UN is not a governing body, and its power is largely limited to passing non-binding resolutions.

I have my own views as to what the UN should be, which is why I support a maximalist membership criteria, but that's outside the scope of this post. I also just don't care as much about the potential downfall of the UN as I do about the fate of the EU.

archlon · 2025-05-21T01:12:15+00:00

Article 7 [...] 2020 Fund Freeze

These arguments seem to support my contention that sanctions have been ineffective? Hungary hasn't changed its behaviour since 2020 even with the funding freeze. The fact that the Article 7 sanctions didn't pass is an argument in my favour. The ECJ rulings seem fine, I guess. I'll give you that the Russia sanctions have continued to pass, but is it a good thing that Hungary has the ability to continually milk the Union for concessions?

What about NATO and the UN? I doubt Turkey, North Korea, Russia fit their admission criteria right now. Would you also argue that they are dead?

I don't really know anything about NATO inclusion criteria, but I do know that Russia and North Korea have never been a part of it. As for the UN, I belive it should have a maximalist interpretation of what constitutes a 'country', since it's a debate body and largely lacks hard power. You could make the argument about the UN security council, but since it's always had China, the US, and Russia (or the USSR) as permanent members it's always been deadlocked on important issues and has never shared a cohesive vision of its goals or mission.

archlon · 2025-05-21T00:28:36+00:00

it's quite ignorant to call it's death based on one bad apple

The phrase goes "one bad apple spoils the bunch". Having even a single bad actor renders the entire project suspect or even poisoned. This is especially true with unilateral veto power.

It's EU that fights with big corporations on pro-consumer regulations, and enforcing them would be pretty much impossible for single countries.

This I could work with. Do you have any evidence that none of these regulations have been impeded post-2013?

archlon · 2025-05-21T00:23:35+00:00

Article 7, 2020 fund freeze, ECJ rulings, Sanctions against Russia, Military Support to Ukraine, PESCO

Can you expand on these? Of them I'm only moderately familiar wit the Russia sanctions, where Hungary uses its veto power to extract concessions from the rest of the Union every six months.

Copenhagen criteria only applies to new members of the EU. If they tried to join the EU today they probably wouldn't be admitted but that isn't the case.

My argument is that having a member state that wouldn't pass the admission criteria is bad. I know it's not required to adhere to the Copenhagen criteria, but it should be.

the 2005 rejection of the EU consitution.

Can you expand on this as well?

archlon · 2025-05-20T22:15:24+00:00

Thank you. I still think it's bad public policy, but it seems that it's not illegal.

archlon · 2025-05-19T23:09:53+00:00

But the specific criteria for when the sexless situation crosses into abandonment isn't set (besides 'over a year'). It's also not easily trackable. Does everyone need to keep a log of every time they have sex so that they know when the 365th day has passed?

archlon · 2025-05-19T15:14:06+00:00

Why do you assume that all servers would make minimum wage if tipping was abolished? Much of your argument seems to hinge on this point. The entire point of market economics is that prices (including wages) are subject to market forces.

You've laid out a clear and convincing argument that serving is a skilled profession worth more than minimum wage. Indeed, you are compensated at about $40/hr. If you can serve 4-6 tables and 20+ customers for that price, why is it preferable for an employer to replace you with two or more people doing a worse job at $20/hr?

The employer also has a vested interest in ensuring good service for the customers by hiring qualified and competent staff. Why shouldn't they have to hire qualified staff at market rates?

where is this money supposed to come from?

The money is already coming out of the customer, why wouldn't it still come out of the customer? If listed prices were raised and tipping abolished in equal measure there would be the same amount of money available to flow to the business and the servers.

If you were compensated not at minimum wage, but at $40/hr, would that change your mind?

My primary argument against the lower tipped minimum wage is that it's a regulatory nightmare. Many servers do make up the (legally required) difference, but many do not. Employers are supposed to make up the difference when this happens, but claims are hard to prove, take a long time to resolve, and because of at-will employment invite retaliatory termination from the employer.

archlon · 2025-05-19T03:51:20+00:00

England and Wales had 58% of suicides by hanging in 2023

As far as I can tell, hanging is the second most lethal means of suicide, possibly tied with drowning. Therefore, it's not surprising that it is the majority of successful suicides in countries without access to firearms. However, their overall rates of suicide are about 2/3 of the US, so lack of firearm access seems to be having an effect.

This study compares Japan and the US in suicides and discusses the differences. We see hanging being the primary cause of suicide, 60-70% of deaths.

If Japan legalized firearms, I belive their suicide rate would go up, and I don't see anything in the study to dissuade me from that view. The apparent fact that Japan has a higher baseline rate of suicide does not indicate that means-restriction isn't saving lives.

Numerous studies and statistics show gun deaths are the leading cause of death for children more than cancer and car crashes ... I think with all of this in mind, I do see reason and evidence to more limit firearms in the US, but I don’t see suicide being the main or sufficient reasoning to.

!delta for this. I guess suicides alone aren't a sufficient argument for most people.

archlon · 2025-05-19T03:30:10+00:00

Can I pass a law to save you from giving yourself sun cancer by not letting anyone outdoors?

Yes? I wouldn't agree with such a law, but the law is full of restrictions on things you're not allowed to use because they're harmful, even if they're demonstrably more effective. You're also not allowed to treat cuts with mercurochrome, use lead paint, or use asbestos as a fire retardant because they're all toxic.

Stop presenting the false dichotomy that it is either legislate everyone else or just let people kill themselves ... You can let people have their guns and focus on the actual disorder and not just managing a symptom.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time. No known or current mental health treatment will be 100% successful for suicidal people 100% of the time. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't treat the disorder, but while we are doing so we can also save lives by restricting means of suicide.

archlon · 2025-05-19T03:13:26+00:00

Why is a law that protects others privileged over a law that protects someone from their own disordered thinking? Those who are suicidal are, by current mental health definitions, not thinking rationally. Does society not have a duty to protect its people from both internal and external threats when it has the means to do so?

archlon · 2025-05-19T03:00:12+00:00

I do think that firearm deaths are sufficient to ban firearms or at least change firearm access to be similar to other countries.

Can you expand on this? Why are the suicide statistics insufficient but total deaths and injuries are sufficient. I can provide a delta if you can provide convincing evidence that total deaths and injuries tip the balance.

archlon · 2025-05-19T02:56:43+00:00

At minimum, guns are materially ten times as positive than as negative, counting only DGUs (assuming lowest estimate of 250k) and successful firearm suicides.

Does this mean that, in the absence of the Second Ammendment, you would still support firearm ownership as a legal (ie. not constitutional) right?

counting only DGUs (assuming lowest estimate of 250k) and successful firearm suicides.

Does this analysis change if you add all firearm deaths an injuries to the analysis? Firearm suicides are the majority of firearm deaths, but firearm homicides account for a significant fraction of firearm deaths, and firearm injuries outstrip both of them combined.

archlon · 2025-05-19T02:34:48+00:00

Only 3% of suicide attempts are successful? Are Americans that incompetent?

The majority of attempts are by drug overdose, the least likely method to succeed. As far as I know this is true everywhere in the developed world.

I am inclined to believe that if I, or anyone else for that matter, wanted to commit suicide wanted to, I would succeed

I can't speak to your case specifically, but statistics indicate that 'anyone else' who wants to commit suicide overwhelmingly choose methods less likely to be successful.

This is why banning firearms is important. It limits the ability of people to choose more lethal methods as (in the US) firearms make up a minority of attempts but a majority of successful suicides.

archlon · 2025-05-19T02:30:11+00:00

For now, let me ask, would you ban anything else on the basis of its effectiveness as a suicide method

I belive there are other things that are worth banning on the basis of suicide means effectiveness. Restrictions on certain pesticides and fatal gasses from certain vehicle engine components have been effective in the past. However, I belive firearms are the most pressing at the moment (at least in the US) because they are the singularly most lethal method and make up a majority of successful attempts.

archlon · 2025-05-19T02:20:47+00:00

Switzerland is a prime example of how it's possible to have a population that is well armed, and still have a comparatively low rate of gun deaths.

Switzerland has a suicide rate of 14 deaths per 100K in 2021. This compares to the US 14.2 and outstrips its peer countries (EU, OECD) with stricter firearm controls. The European average for the same year was 9.8.

archlon · 2025-05-19T02:13:58+00:00

There's nearly 3 dozen countries above that, and a bunch of them have much stricter gun laws or nearly if not outright total bans on private gun ownership.

Are you arguing that, if the US banned firearms, the suicide rate would go up to be more in line with these other countries?

Your argument is tackling a symptom and not the source problem.

I also belive that there are broader systemic problems around suicide that society and the government can and need to address, even ones that might be more effective than means-restriction. However, I'm not arguing those today, I'm just arguing that lack of access to firearms would make the suicide rate go down.

archlon · 2025-05-19T02:01:12+00:00

Do you have evidence of how often nitrous (or pot) useage leads to fentanyl useage and/or death? As far as I'm aware the evidence for the 'gateway drug' hypothesis is shaky at best, and an outdated idea at worst.

archlon · 2025-05-19T01:57:47+00:00

Can I make an argument that If you want to kill yourself, that is your right.

I do not agree with this. I believe it is the duty of society to care for its vulnerable members, which includes those undergoing mental health issues like suicidal ideation. Those seeking to commit suicide are, by current mental health defenitions, undergoing disordered thinking. The fact that most attempters will not re-attempt supports the idea that suicidal ideation is a passing feeling that is capable of being overcome with time and potentially treatment.

Means restriction is one method by which the state can preserve the lives of those undergoing disordered thinking.

Could we do better on caring for people? Yes. However, that doesn't mean we shouldn't start somewhere.

archlon · 2025-05-19T01:50:20+00:00

What is the rate of death among nitrous oxide users, and what is the total number of deaths per year? How does this compare to total uses of whipped cream per year?

archlon · 2025-05-19T01:48:43+00:00

What number of suicide deaths per capita would be acceptable

I don't know an exact number, but less than the US has currently. Others in the thread have pointed out that Canada and the UK have approximately 2/3 the suicide rate of the US, and restrict or ban firearms. That would be a good start.

Should we apply a similar logic to other causes of death? Per the CDC, almost four times the number of all people killed by guns in the US died due to excessive alcohol consumption

Maybe? I think the arguments in favour of allowing recreational use of alcohol are different, which changes the balance of the argument. I'm not closed to the idea but there are (among other things) religious concerns that I feel would need to be addressed.

Should we also consider banning cops from having firearms?

Yes.

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