Honestly I feel like you COULD make some graphs - after all, much of the data is public, like how many posts, how many comments, which communites you’ve been part of, probably even with who’m you interacted most etc.
But then again, that’s a lot of effort for a community-ran project. But I honestly think it could be fun for next year. Maybe I’ll whip something up.
I don’t think nonna craves a heart attack
Many people on windows don’t know about it tho. PrismLauncher is vastly superior to the dogshit launcher mojang provides. I’m pretty sure there would be more windows users if it was more known.
I’m currently raising children in life pods to put them into the ripcore scanner to convert their brains into subcores to advance my mech army.
puts the burden on individuals to do invest an inordinate amount of time and research for typically minimal returns
I really don’t like that statement at all. Individuals SHOULD think about what and from whom they buy. And let’s please not pretend this is something you have to invest hours of your day into - nestle products are very clearly branded, windows is very clearly branded etc. I’m not mad at people for not being able to identify every single sub-company of nestle, coca-cola etc.
Voting with your wallet also shames those who don’t have the financial resources to feasibly pay for “more ethical” things, which are typically also more expensive.
In some cases, absolutely. But let’s not pretend like nestle branded products are always cheaper than the store-brand alternative. And if we’re talking about iPhones, well, I don’t think we have to talk a lot about those.
or example, boycotting, meaning organized movements with specific demands, does move the needle
That IS voting with your wallet, but on a larger, more organized scale. However, if people were more conscious about their purchases, individual boycotts would be similarly effective.
That would be crazy and - probably - not legally enforceable, even in current state america.
I think you just realized you were wrong and don’t want to admit it tbh.
Dying Light 1 is the best one anyways - DL2 was a big step down and DL:TB was fine, but wasn’t able to really “connect” to DL1 either. DL1 just had everything - great combat, great parcour, creepy nights with an actual INCENTIVE to go out (to kill bolters) - I honestly don’t know why they are unable to replicate that success.
To answer the question - Rimworld and Project Zomboid. As always.
15% loss in profit affects any business, no matter what they sell.
Companies care about making money, if you and many many many more people stop giving them money, they will be negatively affected. What kind of example do you need?
I’ll disagree. We had a lot of success stories regarding that. The most prominent is the recent bud light boycott (even tho for the, in my opinion, wrong reason), but before, we had:
So no, boycotts do work. It has worked earlier and can work now.
The problem is that most people are complacent and straightup don’t want to bear the responsibility of doing something against those corporations.
I don’t think something like that will ever exist. There is stuff like the R36S (https://r36sgameconsole.com/) that is great for older games up to the PS1. That thing also runs emulationstation and arkOS.
But PS3 emulation (and PS2 to some extent) is fairly taxing - so a 150 bucks device will most likely never be able to provide a good experience. I’m pretty sure that RPCS3 is expecting a RX5000 or a GTX 2000 series card which by itself costs more than 150 bucks, even now lol.
Idk where this rumor came from, but the original makers have never said that lol.
I somehow doubt the goverment can disallow you from not buying certain products.
If law enforcement has to get invovled via anti-trust laws, society has already failed. If society would be more responsible with their purchases, we didn’t need law enforcement clean up our messes.
There is literally no product you can buy in a capitalist system that did not feature suffering somewhere along the manufacturing pipeline.
That’s a common excuse for not doing anything at all. You don’t have to make the world 100% better. Sometimes, 20% is already plenty.
The thing is, there are other smartphones out there. You don’t have to go with the big heartless corporation. There are phones like fairphones (https://shop.fairphone.com/) or Shiftphones (https://www.shift.eco/en/). So let’s please not pretend you can only choose between the immoral behemoths when it comes to smartphones - or most other sectors, to be honest.
And I should probably add - you CAN still buy a refurbished google phone, for example - infact, I would consider a refurbed google pixel with graphene OS on it the best option for people that want privacy and want to act morally correct.
but short-term fluctuations
If ~15% of all people stop buying a companies products, this is not a short-term fluctuation. It’s a long-term impact on the companies bottom line.
Most people these days don’t. Rightoids were celebrating the capitol getting stormed, meanwhile Leftoids were fucking celebrating someone getting S H O T. In my tiny, peaceful world view, both of these events should NOT be celebrated. And if, idk, AOC get’s shot, Rightoids would probably celebrate it. It’s just a “bad things are actually good if they happen to the ‘right’ people”.
The political discourse is completely off the rails, people are unhinged beyond imagination. The insane shit I said 15 years ago on /pol/ to troll around with other degenerates, stuff that was considered edgy and therefore funny, has now turned into a legitimate opinion for some people that is said without any irony. Recently I read someone on here unironically saying: “Hitler was kinda right”.
It’s pretty sad. The political fronts are getting harder and harder until people from the right can’t reach the left anymore and people from the left can’t reach the right - and at that point, you’re probably not very far away from a straightup war.
I just hope you keep that shit in america, but I can feel the impact in europe aswell, albeit not as bad as you have it over there.