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by aabeshou 7y ago
you cant seriously be arguing its as easy or invisible to set up a brick throwing machine as it is to put a piece of tape on a speed limit sign?
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by aabeshou 7y ago
it's absolutely this, and also, to go along with the analogy, feeling like "is McDonalds really a positive thing for the world? and why does it seem so verboten to express doubt about the absolute positivity of our mission?"
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by aabeshou 7y ago
It's interesting to confirm that because anecdotally my best of the decade playlist sucked lol. It had songs that I really don't think I listened to that much or liked that much. It was weird.
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by aabeshou 7y ago
I was surprised by how much I hated it. It caused an existential crisis for me to have reached the "pinnacle" job and to feel so alienated and pointless.
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by aabeshou 7y ago
This is excessively pedantic bordering on bad faith
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by aabeshou 7y ago
I glean from your comment that you consider ethical principledness to be arbitrary "judgmentalness", and giving up any opportunity to make as much money as possible is "acting against your best interests"?
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by aabeshou 7y ago
is it just me or is the present tense in this article really distracting?
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by aabeshou 7y ago
is it just me or is there something on this website that makes scrolling the page unusable?
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by aabeshou 7y ago
Yes, but why would a union negotiate a deal that bankrupts their small studio? That's against their own self-interest.
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by aabeshou 7y ago
Fair enough. I wasn't aware of those possibilities.
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by aabeshou 7y ago
I see your point. But I think what you're taking for granted (tell me if I'm wrong) is that exploitation is somehow a necessary condition of making the game development industry work, and trying to improve it would destroy it. If
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by aabeshou 7y ago
Do unions decrease employment? I wasn't aware of that. As I said in a different comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21982787 ), I don't think it's 100% sure that games would become more expensive. Bu
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by aabeshou 7y ago
You have a point, but I think what actually happens isn't so sure, because there are still market forces putting downward pressure on barriers to entry. So either: (1) The profit from abuse/exploitation gave a pure surplus, and th
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by aabeshou 7y ago
> The bottom line is that the supply of game developers has historically outpaced the demand. There are simply a lot of people who really want to make games, and are willing to put up with those work conditions. If game developers don&#x
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by aabeshou 7y ago
well, if he's right then people might just reject the union. if his experience is biased and/or anecdotal, we'll find out the truth. either way, no point in trying to undermine or discredit grassroots unionization efforts.
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by aabeshou 7y ago
I've been listening a lot to Slavoj Zizek recently and he discusses this often. His argument is that to make good people do horrible things, you need an ideology that basically says that you are an agent of "what must be done&quot
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by aabeshou 7y ago
sure, and by the same logic, any health insurance company who rejects claims unfairly should be supplanted by a competitor who will not and who will scoop up all those patients. unfortunately the health care market and system do not meet th
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by aabeshou 7y ago
as if the reduced inefficiencies would actually go to reducing costs rather than further padding executives pockets
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by aabeshou 7y ago
> You seem to be trying to form a philosophical argument supporting the status quo, based simply on the fact it's the status quo. This is what the right and the center can always agree on.
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by aabeshou 7y ago
and what makes you think that the US will make him "face justice"? It will make him face the US justice system, but they are unfortunately not the same thing.
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by aabeshou 7y ago
> Even though I live in a giant urban area, I wouldn't want to feel pressured to due so due to lack of political stake if I move elsewhere. This makes no sense. You've just made an error in thinking. The pro-EC argument is peop
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by aabeshou 8y ago
Neither does lack of proof of existence prove implausibility of existence
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by aabeshou 8y ago
I don't know what to make of it. Has this always been here? Has it surged recently? I really don't know what to think.
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by aabeshou 8y ago
I had the same interpretation as you but after rereading and looking at their comment history I think they are actually quoting you to concur with you, i.e. the white nationalists are the slashdot crowd
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by aabeshou 8y ago
yes. It is incredibly upsetting and scary for me. I'm so glad there are other sane people out here. I hope we get through this.
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by aabeshou 8y ago
I just don't believe that you neutrally believe "there's a white race" without also believing in its superiority over other races - whatever reasons you euphemize it in, like culture, or IQ, or something. And this idea o
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by aabeshou 8y ago
What exactly makes you uncomfortable with calling genocidal racism "Wrong(TM)", and helping people leave it? Are you also uncomfortable with them banning child porn, or is that an example of punishing wrongthink too? EDIT: I invit
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by aabeshou 8y ago
those are inherent human values. maybe christianity rescued them for some people, maybe they just appropriated them. but christianity is not the source of compassion, nor love for children..
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by aabeshou 8y ago
That's the first time I've heard SPL isn't reputable. Anyway, it's not an opinion piece, it's just a list of violent events. If you find one that's not true, please say so. The article is a record of right-wing

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