Boop.

I learned (neo)vim this last year. It really wasn't that bad. You need to learn like maybe a dozen hotkeys to get going, but after that you can do :h <topic> for everything else. And it's not even like you lose full functionality of your mouse, at least neovim supports a lot of mouse movements

Obviously the loss of human life is terrible, but I want to add an economic reason also.

War is just absolutely terrible for the global economy. Munitions are single use. They explode and are gone. Not to mention the destruction of manufacturing, human lives, and general instability of wartorn regions.

Investing in infrastructure improves commerce. Investing in education, healthcare, and other social services increases worker productivity and number of workers. It's a no-brainer from an economic perspective to invest in all of those things.

A rising tide lifts all ships.

My 3 year old is obsessed with it. He'll randomly come up to me, say siiiix seeveeen and then run away giggling to himself.

I agree, but man, the Adam McKay movies make me depressed for like a week after I watch them.

I've moved to Matrix from Discord for two small friend groups (<6 people each). Matrix is a fine replacement for the small friend Discord. But it has awhile to go before it can replace 1000+ people servers

I read his take more like: "the game is edgy, offensive, and gross anyway. If you are offended by someone we had do 3 minutes of meows who turned out to be a terrible person, you probably can't handle other content in the game." And "it'd be cool if we get a bunch of people that had a big influence on internet culture in the last 20 years do a cameo"

It felt more like an apolitical take than a centrist take. For me, that's fine. I understand your perspective also and generally I agree.

"yeah this is kind of fucked up after everything that's happened, let's cut these out before release"

I mostly agree. I think there's a couple reasons why it didn't happen though. First one is he just didn't know. He was probably more focused on other things than if some of the cameos in are from problematic people. The other reason is that if he did remove them he would anticipate a headline like "McMillen removes cameo from Conservative Internet personality in new game" and he wanted to game to stay apolitical.

I'm really enjoying the game. And think McMillen could have done better. But if I stopped playing/reading/watching/using every piece of media from someone I disagree with a little then I wouldn't be able to do anything ever.

I've played a bit now. My first broken build was probably around 30 hours in. Which, yeah, is a bit.

I enjoyed the game before I started seeing broken builds. It's still a solid tactics game. But it's a genre I like.

Interesting take. You bring up a good point, but the game has been in development for 10 years and it's a really small cameo. I'm assuming most did the voice work for free or a small flat rate. It's not like you're supporting them with royalties every time the cat meows.

If you asked Ben Stiller to remove the Donald Trump cameo from Zoolander he'd probably give a similar answer despite Donald Trump being a far worse person and Ben Stiller publicly being a Democrat. I don't think it's a "centrist bullshit" position to work with people with wildly different views.

For me, it's just such a small issue to focus on and ruin something else you find enjoyable. It's one thing if McMillen was a vocal supporter of Israel or vocal MAGA. Like, I haven't watched a Tom Cruise movie in almost 2 decades because of his role in Scientology, but I watch Zoolander like once a year.

Yeah, I'm not claiming that's actually the reason, just an example of these correlations aren't always straightforward.