We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning and we’re never learning
We didn’t start the fire
And we kinda like it so don’t try to fight it

So you’re critical of European (Neo-)colonialism, as am I. That’s relieving. Returning to my original point, I really do think that wasn’t very pertinent to the ongoing discussion. Maybe we can close this particular thread here. If you feel like going further into it, maybe opening a separate thread does make more sense.

You can shove your dogwhistles right out of here. What kind of socialist are you anyway? National?

Yeesh, that smells even worse than what I originally thought. 😬

African folks love the kindness of Europeans.

… is a statement which, even if correct, contributes absolutely nothing to the current debate. Feel free to open your own thread about it.

Yep, that’s another great question. Personally, I like the idea that art is any form of human expression that exists for its own sake. Not in order to be instructive or useful or to make money but simply because the person creating it felt like it (obviously this is an ideal and real life motivations vary).

More pragmatically, one might ask what art is good for, but since you didn’t, I’m not going to ramble here.

That said, there is the question I raised in my comment whether the work needs an audience, someone to behold it, in order to fully become art. I believe it does. If you paint a picture in the dark and hide it so nobody ever sees it, I struggle to accept it as art.

What’s your take on these questions?

In a good game they do, but those effects can be abstracted rather than simulated to save processing power.

This is the correct answer. It seems like matter and energy exist regardless of our attentions but the rest comes down to ontology. What is a thing? How does it come into being? How does it cease to be?

Next, ask yourself “do things need to be made of matter and/or energy to exist?” What about Mickey Mouse?

Then you move on to questions like “does a piece of art exist if nobody has ever witnessed it?”

And finally, the psychiatric ward. 😜

Little Boxes

Thank you for the explanation. For some reason, your edit didn’t show up for me at first but now I can see it.

In my opinion there are still way too many people on X, Germans as well as others.

And that relates to Germans on Lemmy how exactly?

I prefer a splodge of mustard in my potato salad. And I second the suggestion of adding garlic to most everything, including veggie soup.

Care to elaborate?

And the people who ask “is this game dead?” if there haven’t been any updates recently. No, it’s not dead. It’s just finished. Final. Not in need of further development.

Nope. Had the left button fail on two Sharkoon Light 2 mice in a row, though. Sad because I really liked that model otherwise.

Beats the shit outta walkin’.

My former boss is from Suriname. Had never heard of it before working for him, or since then.

I was just going to post this, as more people need to learn about this excellent game. Best giveaway on Epic ever.

If you want to save money regardless, I can highly recommend checking GG.deals. The lowest price at an official store is currently discounted by 71%.

It’s not bad at all though a bit tedious in the end game, IMO. Be sure to check out the available mods e.g. on nexusmods.