MJBrune

Pretty silly to think "Oh that's the human's true motive, self-preservation! I got you now, you sly humans!"

Boats put out more CO2 than cars. Water is more dense than air and friction of tires and rolling and etc. Boats are overall worse for the environment both on climate change and environmental damage.

What are video games? And what about books?

Yup just pointing that out because some folks aren't seeing that. Not everything is an argument.

We are pretty dumb though. On the whole. We've had a lot of our higher education people emigrate.

A good analogy to this is the emperor of America. He was just some homeless crazy dude in San Francisco in the 1860s. He attempted to price gouge the Chinese during their rice famine but shortly found himself under water on his rice contracts. This left him homeless and bitter so he named himself emperor of the United States. He somehow started printing his own money and some places feeling bad for him took it.

That's how the world sees America. Oh, the crazy folk are just down on their luck. They'll likely either die or end the world in a few years but at least they're making record profits.

Equally can be said about Reddit, Twitter, lemmy, the rest of the fediverse, in fact anytime humans seem to have a large communication network they end up full of lies.

Sure but it doesn't really reflect the studios switching to Godot. I think they are likely switching to unreal.

I've never lived in a city proper. Only suburbs and never been more than 15 minutes away from a store walking. Closer if you count the many corner stores attached to every gas station. Maybe this is coast living vs inner America though.

“most Americans” don’t live in a city that dense and certainly drive to the store for groceries.

Nah, they certainly do.

this is half America's population and each of those places is centered around major cities in the area.

when I say “to the store” it’s not the same as what Europeans think. It’s not a little corner store where you get your groceries for the day. It’s a giant Walmart/Kroger where you load up for the whole week so you don’t have to go as often.

Sure, that's what the bulk of Americans do because it's easier but it's certainly possible for them to walk to the store. Everyone drives because they are lazy. I'm American, you can't tell me we are lazy and fat and thus only want to go to the store once a week or less. Also compared to European stores, our stores are huge and purposely confusing. So they can get you to walk around the store more. So your fat lazy ass will get hungry and impulse buy a bunch of stuff. Also, the things at eye level have the most markup which tend to be the most processed foods.

Eh, I feel like the sampling is clearly biased toward those who would install a game engine through a service that auto-updates it. (Novices and hobbyists.)