ToyDork

At least they didn't elect their evil overlords, but I guess this isn't the place for complaints about politics. At the very least, I'm not anti-democracy, just very scared that America has re-elected the worst decision they ever made.

Capitalism, on the other hand, has clearly proven a terrible choice of economy for long-term health of humanity, regardless of whether the government lived under is authoritarian or democratic. Some of my favorite things in life have been capitalist in origin, but they were not worth the direction we're heading.

Self preservation isn't selfish. Nobody sane wants to see somebody else die for no reason, and almost everyone has a family or a group of friends they care about, however limited or fake. Collapse helps nobody, look at what happened to Russia, and if society would collapse not even capitalism would survive. Too many executives can't afford the price of assuring their own safety for them to just carry on into a cyberpunk or industrial-feudalist society.

I know, I don't get why people are scared of them. Yes, a wild rat can be infested with all sorts of nasty parasites and diseases, but you wouldn't try to pet a rabbid racoon either, that's a wild animal.

Tame rats are adorable, don't believe the stereotype. ^ _ ^

Thank you, this is legitimately useful to me and I am grateful!

I know it's not my specialty, but isn't an amp and a watt related? I've seen cables that conduct anywhere from 40w (Steam Deck) up to 240w (cables on Alibaba, but don't expect a low price for them, and above 140w they're much thicker than usual by design or you're being scammed with false advertising).

I don't need to be paid, I just don't want corpos profiting off of my data for any reason, so robots.txt works fine for me. The reason that's enough in my eyes is, I don't hate capitalism nor am I an anarchist or tankie, this is about halting enshittification and for one other reason:

"AI is fundamentally about giving the wealthy access to skill while depriving the skilled of the means to access wealth."

In short, eat the rich because they've ruined everything. They want capitalism? Then no more "laissez-faire" bullshit, you pay your fucking 90% tax on every dollar above 1 mil and shut it. Nobody needs 15 different colors of common Lamborghini and 1 Lambo out of less than 500. Nobody needs 5000 days of going to the mall to buy a dress every day. Nobody needs a personally-owned A380 private jet. Nobody needs 25%, 25 fucking percent, return on investment.

That also applies to the internet and tech companies as much as reality and banks. When I used Reddit, I never told them they could block access behind a paywall and they know it, and they also knew I can't afford an international court case against an American tech giant. Now 90% of google is locked behind reddit, a company which shadow banned me well before the API issues.

As long as Reddit, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, etc. can't legally make free money off of this, I'm happy.

Squadron 42, to my knowledge, is much closer to it's release than Star Citizen as an MMO. I suspect we'll be waiting until 2028 at earliest for either, but Squadron has a chance at releasing by then, late as ever but at least passable (and hopefully not a fixer-upper like NMS or Cyberpunk were) and possibly benefiting from it's age, but don't expect groundbreaking graphics as the games that have aimed for such since the release cycle of games in general hit the 10 year mark.

Star Citizen will always be a living project as long as it exists, but Squadron 42 will be more in line with people's expectations. Remember, GTA V started development before GTA IV was released, GTA VI has likely been in development just as long as CIG as a company has existed.