I apologize, I think we're getting tripped up on terminology.

Where ever you live, you are correct in believing you should strive to make that a home. Make a community, make a place of comfort and security and artistic energy etc. But that's not what I mean.

Owning your place allows you the freedom to make your home better in a way that renting it doesn't. How many people with they could add AC to their flat but can't because the landlord doesn't want them to? How many people wish they could add solar panels to their roof but can't because the landlord doesn't pay the electricity bill and therefore doesn't care if it's inefficient? How many people want to renovate a bathroom, tear down a wall, install permanent fixtures or shelves, etc etc but can't because they don't have permission or the rights to the place they live in?

The relationship between landlord and renter is one whose major purpose is to drain money from the poor to the wealthy. I don't really wanna turn this into a rant against landlords, but they should be outlawed or taxed out of existence. Landlords are deincentivized to improve their properties, they are deincentivized to help you make your house a home, they are deincentivized to charge you the cost of that housing. The system should be abolished.

Going back to your ancedote, relativity is not a good measurement of objective truth. The fact that most people didn't own their homes where you grew up doesn't change the fact that that meant they were losing money every year, that they weren't building wealth every year. Things should be improved based on and towards objective truths/metrics - not comparatively to bad examples. The US has worse public transit - does that means we shouldn't strive for better train networks and services? It's illegal to be a homosexual in Singapore - does that mean we should allowed gay rights to worsen simply because they'll still have it better than other countries?

I make this point because this argument of relativity often hinders progress. Humans are creatures of relativity and if we allow our systems to be judged relative to others we will make progress slower than is possible (and arguably necessary).

You should be able to own a home. You should be able to own a home within the first 5 years of working at least and it shouldn't cost you a loan that'll last a lifetime. Housing shouldn't be an ever growing cost. We can make this the reality if we vote correctly and hold our politicians accountable (and our neighbors).

If the CDU/SPD/AFD remain in power there will be plenty of countries that are at a similar quality of life and that are improving or worsening at a slower rate. Some country will eventually crack the code of taxing the wealthy and banning landlords and focusing on the working class (the 99%). It's only a matter of time. The goal is just to avoid needing a WW to get us there.

I think the Germany benefits are amazing but I suspect people undersell how important baseline pay is for deciding on if you want to have kids. I'm a software engineer in Germany, I get paid a decent thriving wage, but I'll never own a home as long as real estate is an investment option for large businesses and conservative governments continue to get elected.

Who would raise a child without a home to call their own? That's what goes through my head. Even if all the costs for raising a kid were offset, I'd still be behind what I need to be in my opinion. I think some people answer that question and say "I would" and I think a greater percentage agree with that sentiment.

Couple that with the predictability of the political climate and you get an even more clear picture. Who would raise a kid in a world that's getting worse? I might need to leave Germany if the CDU and AFD stay in power for too long. I may need to leave to a country that is making progress against inequality instead of expanding it. At the current pace of the world we are approaching another major Multi-national war in the next two decades, why would I have a kid in such an unstable time.

Having spoken to a couple women now in Germany about this subject - some of them broach the subject from a place of never wanting to but the few I'm spoken to also claim the factors above as major reasons against it.

I think countries need to start considering that extra pay and benefits for parents is not as effective as fixing the economy and political system for everyone is if their goal is to have kids.

Totally valid take. I just think the text to voice system is hilarious, the animations/models are more enjoyable, the actual item gameplay loop has more fun and interactive components in repo, I like the items in repo more although shout-out to the boom box in LC, and the monsters in repo are way more interactive imo - I miss the coil head and the turrets and the teleporting randomly into base but otherwise the monsters are really fun in repo. I agree that Repo's difficulty doesn't scale too well currently but I expect them to balance things as it goes on.

I think LC is a great game and I hope everyone tries it out as well. Repo just feels like a more polished iteration on the concept and I'm happy to see the genre expand.

Sorry about the motion sickness, that's rough.

Thanks for this, I found it very helpful! I'm gonna go look into flatpak and see if I have some applications that would be better served by that system.

R.E.P.O is a better Lethal Company in almost every way. I would highly recommend it.

Lethal Company is also great and they're both worth anyone's time but I would recommend playing them LC -> Repo because I struggle to imagine going back to LC after Repo.

I'd probably agree in general but I'm a software engineer and my friends that would be moving over are software engineers and so I'm less worried. I wanted to take this opportunity to learn more about OS'es and get more familiarized with each part of the process and Arch has made that super easy as it obfuscated so little. I still used some cheat scripts to get up and running like arch_install I think but it's been generally nice.

I am on the Konsole Debugging random issues far more than I'd like but right now it's a hobby I'm partially choosing to spend time on - I think things would function just fine if I ignored them for a bit. Still, all things to consider and improve on - which is why I'm asking about package managers.

Hey everyone, I would love some guidance here.

I'm new to Linux, I'm using Arch Linux and pacman currently. Would it be better to get more acquainted with flatpacks? If I wanted to swap to flatpacks would I just start using it? Would I need to transfer currently installed applications from pacman to flatpack?

Would it be wiser to move to Nix? I love the concept of atomic updates, that's the main functionality I'm interested in getting - I like my system cutting edge but stable. But I'm fully uneducated on how applications get used by the common man. Like in Windows if I find a small application like Hex Kit I find its .exe and install it. In Linux I download their version online and I get .bin's and .pak's and .so and .dat and I have no idea how to get the bastard working. Same with like a Godot export to Linux, I get a .so or a .pck.

Any advise or educational sources are much appreciated. I'm learning as fast as I can but I'm drinking from a firehouse right now lol. I'm also building a doc to help my friends jump over so if I'd be better served using something other than pacman I want to know so I can update the doc before handing it to them.

I can't speak to that specific situation but I believe power should be held the shortest distance from the people it effects - balanced only by having more power for more people. I imagine health insurance owned and controlled by unions is less powerful than owned and controlled by the government but the distance is shorter. So ideally it would be held by a government to maximize the negotiating power essentially, but if the government is run by incompetent or immoral people (like I'd assert the CDU is) I could see union control being better.

Assuming you're in Germany, where do you read/watch/ get your media from? I'm very interested in becoming more politically helpful in this country and creating simple messages explaining why some parties deserve your support and some absolutely don't and I don't know where Germans get there material.

I'm contacting some local parties to see how I can help and volunteer, but I'd also like to be putting out material on a YouTube or blog or discord if that was beneficial and discoverable by my neighbors and friends of friends etc.

I believe a core tactic of a conservative government is to lower the revenue base of the government so less services are effective and efficient. This leads to the ability to privatize those services. Remember conservatives fundamentally lack policies that would benefit the majority of the countries they lead, they are grifters. Instead of fixing problems or raising revenue through taxing the rich (their friends and donors) they cut services to fund tax cuts. When that becomes too unpopular they focus on deregulation until they can again cut services and lower taxes on the rich again.

Please, help educate everyone on the actions of this conservative government and the last - whatever - three decades of conservative government. They hurt people so they can give more money to the rich, don't ever vote a centralist or right wing party ever again. Only political parties that work for workers, that's who deserve your vote and support.

This sounds like workers working towards owning the fruit of their labor. I think this is a universal good thing. You should own your house and your work and your future.

To elaborate a bit on what Harrk said. It's a linear dark souls-like with a heavier emphasis on rhythm gameplay (parrying) and only melee combat (no like magic or full ranged). It's got a decent story that has most of its payoff in the final moments imo.

I'd recommend it for anyone interested in the dark souls experience with a the sharp edges rounded off and a more linear story using familiar characters.

The only way to address the AfD is to tax the rich, deal with wealth inequality, improve the lives of the working German, and root out corruption and oligarchy at every level.

The CDU and the SPD allow the AfD to thrive because one of them encourages and cultivates the climate that leads to the AfD and the other refuses to make significant enough changes to reverse the damage conservatives do to a country.

I find that relativity is one of the greatest frictions against doing better - and it's frustrating for this reason. 5 years is better than most other countries. That's true. Is that a good number though, or is it just better? That's the actual conversation I want to have, and I think relativity ruins meaningful progress and improvement.

Eating bland, unseasoned chicken is better than eating raw chicken - but that doesn't mean we should settle for it.

Just because other nations have antiquated and arguably bad citizenship requirements doesn't mean we shouldn't improve ours. And reversing progress is worse than being stagnant, and defending that is encouraging it imo.

This is fucking depressing to read. As someone who moved to Germany two years ago, gaining citizenship is important to us. When we moved here they were just announcing the expedited opportunity and we were stoked to know we were welcome in this country. It reinforced our decision. Now they look to take it away and although the 5 year plan will still exist, it signals clearly that the CDU don't want highly educated immigration - they will blame immigrants while they raid the coffers of their country - and the SPD will gladly move further to the right if it means they get to stay in power.

This is incredibly disappointing. It's not enough to change our plans, like if the AFD won, but I consider the grand coalition to be a "continued decline" coalition. If another country offered me and my family a guaranteed path to citizenship, with similar worker rights and benefits as Germany, we'd now have to consider it seriously. As aerospace engineers we're not exactly struggling to find technical work.

Furthermore the fact that both parties considered revoking citizenship for any reason from anyone is unbelievably terrifying. If anyone's citizenship can be removed, everyone's citizenship can be removed and that's something I completely disagree with. It's dangerous territory and completely disgusting to read that the SPD considered it.

That's totally cool by me, it's a fun game. PoE2 is probably the best ARPG on the market, it's just falling short of what they sold me (and the community at large) on. But for now, it's definitely an idle game during mapping with the right build (and the wrong build will see you roadblocked progression-wise).

This is fucking depressing to read. As someone who moved to Germany two years ago, gaining citizenship is important to us. When we moved here they were just announcing the expedited opportunity and we were stoked to know we were welcome in this country. It reinforced our decision. Now they look to take it away and although the 5 year plan will still exist, it signals clearly that the CDU don't want highly educated immigration - they will blame immigrants while they raid the coffers of their country - and the SPD will gladly move further to the right if it means they get to stay in power.

This is incredibly disappointing. It's not enough to change our plans, like if the AFD won, but I consider the grand coalition to be a "continued decline" coalition. If another country offered me and my family a guaranteed path to citizenship, with similar worker rights and benefits as Germany, we'd now have to consider it seriously. As aerospace engineers we're not exactly struggling to find technical work.

Furthermore the fact that both parties considered revoking citizenship for any reason from anyone is unbelievably terrifying. If anyone's citizenship can be removed, everyone's citizenship can be removed and that's something I completely disagree with. It's dangerous territory and completely disgusting to read that the SPD considered it.

As someone who moved to Germany in the last two years, gaining a permanent right to stay in this country was a part of our thought process. Gaining citizenship, which gives us voting rights and makes us "German" was just as important because we were picking our new home country. Who doesn't want to feel "at home" in their country, instead of a guest? And earning EU citizenship which further protects us from shitty singular governments like the current grand coalition is even furthermore important.

So yes, this decision sucks ass and it has further cemented my understanding that the grand coalition are centralist or right leaning parties who will continue to allow the decline of society even if it's more gradual than what the AFD would achieve. Our version of Democrats and Republicans-lite.

I mean to say "idol" as in... Oh fuck. Omg I've been misspelling idle in literally weeks worth of comments. Woooooow. Okay. Feeling a bit dumb.

I meant idle mechanics. Hopefully that makes a bit more sense but just in case - I'm making the argument that most modern ARPGs since Diablo 2 have not innovated on the gameplay directly but have innovated on the systems of the genre. This behavior has led to what I consider to be a stale endgame game to game that often or exclusively boils down to trivializing the content such that it's comparable to a slot machine, an idle game like Eggs Inc., or a "phone" game.

I think PoE2 is working hard to evolve the genre to what id consider to be a "next gen" ARPG, where most or all previous games fall into a large "Diablo 2 inspired" bucket. I think No Rest for the Wicked is similarly attempting to evolve the genre. A counter example for the genre is Titans Quest 2 which seems to be falling squarely in the "Diablo 2 inspired" bucket.

I'd like to see more "No Rest for the Wicked" level of swings regardless of if you consider that EA game a hit or miss in its current state.

The measure of a man (which is to say the measure of a person anyone should strive to be regardless of gender) is, by my account, how much they strive to improve the world in ways they may never have had or which may not directly benefit them. You take the pain, the injustice, the hardships, the inconveniences that you or other people face and you convert them through willpower, through privilege, through money, through luck into improvements for all of society. This is far easier said than done, especially every day, but easy shouldn't be the primary concern for the kind of person we wish to be.

In creating this sub, in seeking help or community or an opportunity to provide you demonstrate the actions of a man. For this I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of yourself today.

Do not confuse this with love, which from a parent (at least) should be unconditional. Regardless of if your parents are proud of you, they should love you. Regardless of your quality or your work or your current position or state you are deserving of love. You are not beyond love, you are not unlovable, you deserve love. Full stop. I can't offer that to you stranger, but I hope you experience it in your lifetime - more than once ideally. And even more so I hope you get yourself to a mental, emotional, and fiscal place where you can reciprocate that love (or better yet originate that love for someone else).

All I can offer is this act of love in the hopes you feel it, you appreciate it, and it heals (even partially) whatever you're feeling.

Strive to be a helper of your community and communities you don't know, to be a builder of bridges, and a giver of gifts and I promise you regardless of if your biological parents did their duty or not - you will find internal peace. You will inspire. You will love and be loved. I wish you had been given what your parents owe you, but if that fails I hope you can continue to turn that pain into improvement internally and externally.

Good luck and hard work.