At a minimum it should be popular enough to be a good reference machine for indie and AA developers to ensure good performance.

There’s plenty of games that you could say the same about that didn’t get the traction. It’s still a hit based industry. It’s not a knock against the game, it’s a reality of the industry.

Nothing much. Republicans have been distancing from trump since solid red elections went blue. This is just more of that.

I think the big studios lost reality with what the gaming market is. It’s a hit based business, you need a level of volume that they’ve been backing off on. It’s not that the expedition 33 devs were so much better, they just happened to be the lucky ones that put out a solid game that got traction.

EA is great for small and medium sized studios to get games out that might be a bit more ambitious than they could manage with traditional models. The point of AAA is that they have the money to do big impressive things. They can already do focus groups and closed betas to get community feedback. The thing that might attract AAA attention is you could make a good amount without actually releasing anything.

It’s not just polls, there have been elections, they went badly for Republican candidates.

Early access is more about getting revenue during development and some limited QA potential. There shouldn’t be any surprises in the feedback, that would be a sign of major problems. EA also generally comes with a discount for the player which is anathema to the AAA crowd.

The parties and media companies have extended the campaign window for presidency to absurd lengths. It’s essentially a two year campaign window with 6-12 months of preparation and testing the waters. Now is when candidates are conducting research to see what their odds would be.

It’s going to be a common trend the closer we get to election day, the more Republicans will want trump to shut up for 5 minutes.

It wasn’t nullification. It was good to lawyering to have the instructions be specific about requiring the act to be forceable which requires a risk of harm. The argument was entirely a wrapped sandwich isn’t a threat to an armored officer.

It’s becoming nearly impossible to write code in a corporate environment without AI. Everyone has AI auto complete at the minimum, and AI code generation is at a point where it’s at least even with an entry level dev.

You need a way to ensure the presidental candidate is popular across many states, because that’s part of the election. Straight popular vote can easily skew to a candidate that wins a few states by a large margin, but ultimately loses the election.

Straight popular vote for a candidate is a great way to almost guarantee losses for the electoral college.

So they plan to kill super delegates?

Crazy idea. What if the Democratic primary was actually a democracy? Let the candidate who wins the most states with an electoral weight be the candidate.

This is a boring narrative. The system isn’t stacked in favor of the GOP, it’s stacked in favor of parties that play by the actual rules. If a party can’t make a compelling message to multiple different states, it’s on them.

This is actually an area where some tenant rights laws should be added or may already exist and just need to be enforced. Once private equity is forced to realize that rent comes with risk, the problem will likely go away as they divest from direct ownership.

Compromise doesn’t have to mean meeting in the middle. You could agree to allow abortions and require hospitals to provide guns for newborns.

That happens when groups get into purity spirals. When you push people who mostly agree with you away, they might find people that you really don’t agree with.

I shouldn’t be surprised Lemmy thinks this is a good thing. It’s really a problem for Democrats, and it’s a big reason trump won in the first place. You need people that disagree with you on occasion.