alex_lav (u/alex_lav)

alex_lav commented on UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

jraph · 9 months ago

Not at the cost of harming people, usually. Its role is also to protect individuals themselves.

Infinite individual freedom doesn't exist, it stops where others' individual freedom starts.

alex_lav · 9 months ago

> Not at the cost of harming people,

What defines harm? Or more specifically, who?

alex_lav commented on UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

phyzix5761 · 9 months ago

Its because I don't want the government, people who I've never met in person and honestly are not the most moral of individuals, making moral decisions for my children on my behalf.

Even if the majority of citizens agreed that forcing their morality on the minority is the right thing to do I still disagree because individual freedom is more important than majority opinion.

alex_lav · 9 months ago

Shame I had to scroll this far to get to this comment. I have absolutely no idea why, in 2024, people still think we should let the government decide what is good/what we can see/what others can say.

alex_lav commented on Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ blog.erodriguez.de/depend... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ebiester · 9 months ago

But here's the thing.

It doesn't matter!

If I'm building a personal project, I don't have the same time to curate a full ecosystem stack and nobody in the react system is maintaining those for applications that are put to the side for weeks or months at a time.

As for me, I just restarted a personal project on rails because of its batteries included mentality - it means I can limit the number of dependencies, and they have gotten very good at migration paths and deprecations.

alex_lav · 9 months ago

> I just restarted a personal project on rails because of its batteries included mentality - it means I can limit the number of dependencies

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/main/Gemfile.lock

Just a playful comment - not challenging your experience

alex_lav commented on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages gamingonlinux.com/2024/10... · Posted by u/jrepinc

emgeee · 10 months ago

I've always wondered about this too. It should be pretty easy to recognize statistical outliers. I'm sure cheaters would start to adapt but that adaptation might start to look more in-line with normal skill levels so at least the game wouldn't be utterly ruined

alex_lav · 10 months ago

This post is so interesting because it highlights the people that don't know anything about the requirements or state of cheats/anticheat. What you're describing is 10 years out of date. Every modern cheat has a toggle, and (almost) every modern cheater masks augmented behavior with misses/native behavior.

alex_lav commented on Rider is now free for non-commercial use jetbrains.com/rider/... · Posted by u/kretaceous

jdthedisciple · 10 months ago

Well, I'd wager most C# devs are ... running Windows, so...

alex_lav · 10 months ago

Unsure how true that is, but I certainly never did.

Rider is better either way, but definitely better than alternatives on MacOS.

alex_lav commented on Rider is now free for non-commercial use jetbrains.com/rider/... · Posted by u/kretaceous

alex_lav · 10 months ago

Rider is by far the best C# IDE. Especially if you're not running Windows. It was a real lifesaver while working with Unity.

alex_lav commented on Most gamers prefer single-player games midiaresearch.com/blog/mo... · Posted by u/omnibrain

giantg2 · a year ago

"Again, can you provide an example?"

I can but I won't, because I'm done with this conversation based on the inauthentic responses.

alex_lav · a year ago

So 0 real examples have been provided, either by a commenter or via the link.

Exactly as expected.

alex_lav commented on Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan entrepreneur.com/business... · Posted by u/christhecaribou

alex_lav · a year ago

_yet_

alex_lav commented on Most gamers prefer single-player games midiaresearch.com/blog/mo... · Posted by u/omnibrain

giantg2 · a year ago

That's only 1/3rd of that list. Any multiplayer game is competitive to some degree. If you see my previous comment, it specifies "pay for advantage". Some games you have to pay to unlock gear or xp boosters to make it really playable.

alex_lav · a year ago

> Some games you have to pay to unlock gear or xp boosters to make it really playable.

Again, can you provide an example? Also

> Any multiplayer game is competitive to some degree

Is just blatantly incorrect, unless you just mean "One player is further in the game than the other", in which case literally all games are "competitive", including single player.

alex_lav commented on Most gamers prefer single-player games midiaresearch.com/blog/mo... · Posted by u/omnibrain

giantg2 · a year ago

Plenty on here. Also it's not as egregious as straight pay to win, but often it's stuff like buying a season pass to level up or unlock items faster.

https://fictionhorizon.com/best-pay-to-win-games/

alex_lav · a year ago

1. noncompetitive game

2. mobile game

3. mobile game

4. not actually pay to win.

5. noncompetitive game

6. mobile game

You see where I'm going. You can't relate "has microtransactions" with "is pay to win". They're different.

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