Difficult stuff, thanks for sharing. It’s hard, being so dependent on others for such a fundamental need. Hope things work out for you!

What do you most want?

My main point was that art is an introspective process where the product is often (but not always) a central purpose of the process.

On the other hand football is a game usually meant to be an entertaining and engaging process for the players, where the end result is considered pretty secondary (at amateur levels, I recognise that at professional levels the game itself is more the product than the result necessarily is).

In other words, football is a game. Creating art usually isn’t.

You have a good point, but to be fair, sport is often eminently available. Football for example is almost easier to play than to find a place to watch. And sports which stem from games are inherently based on participation being fun, while e.g. art is often a difficult process leading to a nice result.

On the contrary I feel like there was a purity to AC1. AC2 leaned too hard in the direction of busywork and history tourism, AC1 had an almost meditative focus on the assassinations.

I understand why the second game was more popular and has shaped the (imo poor) direction of the franchise. But the first game has always been my favourite.

Maybe you’ve mistaken criticisms of the MS claims for criticisms of quantum technology in general?

Oof, ouch, my bones!

In my experience most people understand that it’s not the fault of every individual citizen that their state behaves a certain way, but at the same time the citizens of a country have a vastly larger influence on their state than the citizens outside that country.

So no, don’t distance yourself from your country. Distance yourself from your government or state. And work in a safe way to leverage whatever influence you have over your fellow citizens, your local or national systems, to hinder the bad guys and help the good guys.

I mean

Dutch kids are consistently judged to be some of the happiest in the world.

They’re not just happy, they’re ranked as happiest in the world. That will always be unusually happy.

Anyone who grows up thinking that two - or more - consenting adults can’t live or love together is a(nother) victim of that (in the legal sense only) “crime”.

Ah, but then they’re a victim of the illegitimate criminalisation of LGBT relationships, not the victims of the LGBT relationship itself. Meaning the crime has no victims, the law has victims.

Where I currently live there is an old and much copied legal system but I’m not really qualified to think about nor answer your second question.

Sure you are, don’t put yourself down like that. All citizens living under a law should have their say in the justness of that law.

I’m all for kinks and all that, if it floats your boat

That’s nice - but certain kinks and LGBT relationships were illegal for a long time, and still are some places. Are they victimless crimes then?

If yes, do you think that your specific society crossed a threshold at some point going from a legal system with victimless crimes to a legal system without victimless crimes?

There most certainly are victimless crimes. Who’s the victim when a woman gets a dog to lick peanut butter off her vagina? It’s certainly a crime in most places.

The meter doesn’t work :(

Gotta find your way back to this vibe. There’s a lot of good out there, a lot to be grateful for. And on a long term timescale the world is in many ways better than ever before on important stuff like infant mortality.

Trying to be an asshole cop on my second run in Disco Elysium. So far no apologies, I’ve punched Cuno and chosen fascism. Trying to build up my Physical Instrument to knock out Measurehead.

I’m not sure I have the strength to be mean to Kim though.

The Mount and Blade games feel like such a janky mess, and I don’t know anyone else that likes or plays them. But I absolutely adore the combat gameplay, nowhere else do I feel that merge between tactical medieval warfare and intense personal combat.

All the strategy/diplomacy/trading/RPG stuff on top is fine, but only as a context for the combat gameplay.

Ironically, the “own nothing and be happy” line comes from an essay envisioning a future of co-ops.

Cool, what made you change your mind?

Sure, but you need a way to identify whether an object is a person. That’s a lot less simple.

The performance seems to be a bit weird. It’s a pretty game, but not insanely so, yet the Steam Deck reportedly can’t run it properly, and my own new pc works hard when the shadows are at the highest setting.