While I don’t disagree, I do feel like people are over-quick to label any hard questions that don’t align with thier viewpoint as sealioning.

I’ve more than once asked questions about the practicality or edge cases of a particular stance and been called a sealion for it.

But the thing is, I want to know how that thing handles the practicality or edge case issues, and am trying to have someone who is deeper into the weeds on the issue than I am explain it to me, but just get called a sealion for it.

To be fair, this has only happened to me 2-3 times, but it’s super annoying, because I’m actually trying to understand, and might even be on your side if you’d address my concerns.

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Probably cause it’s even a little anti-Russia on lemmy.ml

I mean, seems fair? It’s not like we haven’t seen large scale cyber operations carried out in the past, and not a single one has ever been deemed to rise to being an act of war.

Unless you’re killing power to hospitals or something, cyber effects seem to be fair play in the modern world stage.

You think Russias gonna declare war on NATO because they have some IT systems destroyed, or a bunch of records stolen or deleted or whatever? I really completely fail to imagine anything short of the “killing power to a hospital” example that would cause an escalation, and honestly, I’m not even sure that would.

Russia is happy to do it to other countries. Turnabout seems fair play to me. Especially since they’re doing it while actively committing genocide on a neighboring country.

The IP address of the machine you’re connecting to has probably changed. If the previous had a DHCP lease, that wouldn’t migrate with the new router.

Go on your Windows machine and open up a command prompt. Type in “ipconfig” (no quotes) and validate the machines IP address. It should start with 192 or 10 most likely. Maybe 172.

If it’s the same as it used to be, that’s not the issue. But my bet is that it’s changed.

I think the controversial bit, is that it’s thanking a rival nation for invading and committing atrocities.

It’d be like if Zelensky came out and thanked Putin for invading Ukraine, as it let him be president over a more united country.

Sure, maybe technically correct, but people probably would be (rightfully) pretty pissed if he said it.

Sure, many games are tied to various Steam services, but that’s by the choice of the games developer. Steam offers various built in services that game devs can choose to use if they want. It’s not like it’s some kind of requirement.

You might as well complain that game devs use Windows binaries, locking their games to only run on Windows. Sure, I prefer it when they target other platforms, but that’s 1000% not Microsoft’s fault that the dev chose to dev for their platform. I’m not mad at Microsoft for so many games being Windows only. I’m mad at the devs.

And games that build themselves around Steam services are of course going to be tied to Steam. That’s a choice the devs made. If they wanted their game to run without needing the Steam client, they trivially could have built it that way. They just would have had to either reimplement all those Steam features themselves, or done without.

And if people want those Steam features, every store client who wants to run those games would have to implement those features in an interoperable way. It’s easy to say “have interoperability between clients,” but that’s glossing over the potentially thousands of dev hours required to implement all of the features needed. And that’s assuming they could all agree on a spec.

And to your final point about being open source. First, it gives very “any musician who gets paid is a sellout” energy. But more than that, it doesn’t actually solve the problem you have. Even if Steam open sourced their tooling, that doesn’t mean other players in the space could integrate it. Steam has grown organically for the past 30yrs, and trying to extricate the deep inner bits and then graft them on to your own solution isn’t as easy as it sounds.

But they aren’t tied to a store? When you download a game from Steam, it’s just an executable on your box. You could put it on a hard drive and move it wherever you wanted. You don’t have to launch games you bought with Steam through Steam. They aren’t streamed. They are saved locally to your computer.

You can only download it from that store, sure, but that’s not apples to apples. If I buy a game from GameStop, they won’t give me another copy for free, just cause I threw away the copy they gave me. Once you download the game, that’s what they sold you, and it’s notionally your responsibility to keep track of it. Them allowing you to keep downloading new copies forever isn’t strictly necessary, and costs them money every time you do it.

And if you can run the games you downloaded without Steam, all you’re saying is “there should be other places to buy your games.” But there are. Those exist. Less people use them, sure, but what do you propose? Kill Steam because too many people use it to buy their games? Legislate that people are required to shop at other stores?

But this game is getting distribution through GoG and about a half dozen other platforms listed in the article.

Do most people game through steam? Yes. But centralization of the marketplace isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There’s a reason why people complain when they have to use other game stores an launchers. It’s the “I have 50 different streaming services” problem.

If Steam starts abusing that market position, then yes, we should care about that and they should suffer backlash. Which makes the question of “did they do the right thing here,” very much relevant.

There is no group activity that you think you would find enjoyment in?

If so, why do you want friends? If you had friends, what would you want to do with them if you hate all group activities?

God I wish, lol. Pretty sure he’s long since retired.

This headline just inspired me to channel his spirit, lol.

Yeah, I’m not surprised. I’d imagine an experience like being kidnapped would really change someone. Glad the little fella’s made it back to his family.

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I’m unconvinced that Israel would completely collapse without support.

And to be clear, the scenario I’m talking about is one where the world steps in and forces Israel to respect Palestinian sovereignty first.

If Russia were to back out of Ukraine and relinquish all captured land to them, and the world was actively keeping them in check, but Ukraine started firing missiles at Moscow anyway, yes, I would say they are wrong to do so.

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Seems they rejected it outright. As suspected.

The catch is that this was always a non-starter. I said it yesterday in a thread about this.

Gorsuch literally wrote the majority opinion on Bostock. As far right as he is on everything else, he’s actually pretty good on LGBT stuff. Between him, Kagan, Roberts, KBJ, and Sotomayor, there wasn’t even going to be a debate.

This was simply conservative groups taking pot shots with cases. This never had a chance to go anywhere.

This is such a nonstarter, as Gorsuch was the one who wrote the opinion on Bostock. He’s strong on LGBT rights. So there’s a solid 5 with him, Kagan, Sotomayor, KBJ, and Roberts.

It was a mandated provision by law passed in 2019: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/24

The people working are guaranteed pay by labor law. No one is debating not paying the people actually working.

Any talk of not paying people is about those government employees who are currently furloughed.

Sure, but if I was a betting man, I’d say there’s a good 95% chance they get paid. It’s bad politics to do otherwise.

I’m not saying they’ll do it because the law says so. Just that there’s a lot of reasons not doing it only hurts them with no real benefits.