This is quite literally the crux of the post: Who is actually making these decisions? Because there is, in fact, a zero percent chance that any number of Australian wokescolds would have leverage to force MASTERCARD AND VISA, the two global monopoly payment processors to change their practices just because the australians dont agree with the content of games.

This is a top down decision coming from the owners of visa. Any attempt to backpedal this into the hands of some activist group is the most disrespectful patronizing I’ve seen in my entire life. I’m glad you and others are calling this shit out for the farce that it is.

You mean to tell me the most successful activist movement in the last 50 years has been a single week protest lobbied at the most powerful capitalist institutions in the world, and the payment processors were bent over backwards for it? As if thats definitely not a giant, flaming red flag in itself?? It feels like the most obvious scapegoating of all time: a faceless Australian group nobody ever heard of before suddenly wrenched the arm of an economic lynchpin? No.

Visa and Mastercard are doing this because this is what they want to do. No amount of protest would achieve this outcome save the literal socialist revolution at their doorstep. I dont care what any report says, this is top down. Visa is not exposed to any risk by any protest, it is laughable to suggest otherwise.

With that out of the way, we can discuss the real matters of import: why are payment processors taking on the role of decency enforcement in global markets? What are their goals, who is making these decisions, and why is any government allowing these processors to dictate commerce within their borders unilaterally? Really and truly I dont even care about the games. I want names and faces of the people in charge of visa and Mastercard who are making these decisions, and I want them brought into a court room to clearly explain to everyone in the world what their exact reasoning is for caving to a historically insignificant protest. Stop killing games has been going simultaneously to this and, with millions of signatures, the response has been slander from the companies targeted. This collective shout bs is an absolute sham.

41,400 millionaires supposedly left since 2017 when summing up all the migration estimates New World Wealth has reported for the UK since 2017. But there are 435,000 more millionaires in the UK today according to the UBS Global Wealth 2025 report. The total number of millionaires that New World Wealth claims left the UK since 2017 sum up to just 2% of the UK’s millionaire population in 2017 (2.2 million). But the UK’s millionaire population today is 20% bigger than it was it 2017 according to UBS.

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Fr this is such a weird thing to even care about when there’s like 15,000 people using this site. There’s not any niche communities bc theres no user base for them but op wants to make sure nobody cross pollinates the fediverse, get over yourself. Make your comm private if you care so much about people interacting with your posts on the internet

Another thing I’d like to add, not that your comment wasnt very well argued but just to expand, the rationality of a decision to each individual is still coherent even when talking about sadistic and selfish decisions like those made by the oligarchs and corporate executives. Those actors are not irrational, they are rationally motivated by a completely different structure of stimuli, like you explained.

Capitalism is rational, the issue arises from the fact that a rational decision for someone with billions of dollars is universally irrational to anyone else. You cant expect a system of individualized economic success to allow rationality to be egalitarian.

That’s how we end up in these situations where millions must suffer the failures of a system they never benefitted from while the beneficiaries actively pursue the further dismantling of the system to increase their personal benefits from it.

You cant map the needs of millions and the needs of billionaires onto the same resource pool. The rational actions required to be taken in that environment is what leads to the inconceivable outcomes that make us question actors as irrational. They are personally acting in a rational, self preserving way, which just happens to be the most oppressive and dangerous to the masses.

I think you covered the mindstate of the masses pretty well in your comment, so I wanted to give some exposition towards the other side of the coin. In equal proportion, “Any individual action rationally follows from the prior experiences” applies both to those exploited by the system and those benefitting from it.

Ah thats interesting, yeah the study i saw was specifically looking at usd to pesos. Good to know!

I believe I’ve seen recent cost analysis of using crypto exchanges to transfer money across international borders instead of doing direct conversion through whatever “classical” money transfer service and it showed that due to exchange rates, price fluctuations between crypto exchanges, gas fees, and fiat exchange rates into and out of crypto from usd to whatever currency of the recipient its actually tangibly cheaper to just use a direct wire transfer and currency exchange.

I’ll have to see if I saved the post with the price breakdowns to send you but I just wanted to share that in case you hadn’t heard about it yet. If you had seen that and did find it cheaper somewhere else I’d also be interested to hear where it is actually cheaper. That’s just the most recent analysis I had seen of the costs to exchange from fiat to crypto, send internationally, and then withdraw it in the native currency.

Rip to the millions you smoked away btw lol I would’ve done the exact same honestly

I always pay my respects to a fellow knower

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To you and yours

Are they going to do something about gukmir and whoever else being permanently bound to me with no interactions beyond asking about rumors? I sped through the interaction after finishing knights of the nine and now I can’t do any missions with stealth because they go running in ahead of me. Oh and did I mention they’re invincible so I cant get rid of them?

I feel like the gameplay itself fundamentally refuses to accept spiteful/selfish players and they filter themselves out within a few hours of playtime

You have to play the team game, even if you’re the one. You cant outplay 4 people focusing you lol as long as youre clearly trying and not spamming everyone usually gives each other grace

Its definitely hard to pick up and get good at controlling the ball and having spacial awareness. My issue is that regardless of having just picked up the game they try to learn the mechanics while 2v1 at midfield.

When I started I played back and let the game unfold until I had a plan of attack. Passing the ball around, jumping in to goalkeep, covering the open man, basic stuff. Im level 30 now and every time I’ve got level 1 teammates they basically throw the game trying to do rainbow flicks and juke out the entire defense while I’m standing in goal wide open. YOU ARE NOT HIM!

Having even the most basic understanding of actual soccer makes you a god in this game just about. I have been loving it so far. I just hope people trying it out get good teammates to show them how great the game can be.

I thought this was a picture of a menu in a restaurant

Took me way to long to figure it out

If literally anybody else did this we’d be talking about a lifetime ban lmao imagine Esteban ocon driving into someone he was told to let by out of frustration, he’d be done. Theres no room for this in the sport. idc if its the best driver in the world or not, its unacceptable and should receive an extraordinary punishment to ensure this behavior ends immediately. 3 race ban is significant, 3 penalty points is a calculated risk for max, clearly.

He shouldnt even be driving in Canada imo this is like the third time he’s used his formula one car as a weapon. The dude should be facing multiple race bans if not actual legal repercussions.

What is it gonna take to treat him like what he is? Will the fia let max kill another driver intentionally before punishing him?

If this happened at 150mph we wouldn’t be joking around about max being unhinged we’d rightly be calling it attempted murder, is that the standard the FIA wants to set?

Snow is god scratching his dandruff onto us and rain is him pissing 😌🙏 hope this helps

And considering that people with more money get more votes it kinda doesn’t matter if you support it or not. Somebody will, and somebody with more disposable income than your entire income could decide on a whim to defeat the collective action all by themselves. Same thing as candy crush type stuff, they only need one whale to make all the free players worth it.

I agree that piracy should become more widespread. It’s the only way for companies to feel the pain of losing customers. Otherwise its an opportunity cost calculation for the corporation: how many players can they afford to lose in order to increase returns from the players they dont lose.

Make that calculation unbearable and suddenly the math changes – customers are prioritized above further optimizing of profits. That only happens if the cost of not doing right by customers is an outright loss of money. Not lower profits, monetary losses.

Until these choices stop being profitable it’s literally irrational for them to not abuse their customers.

Fair enough, I cant even pretend to understand how this stuff works lol I figured we would be at least a decade out from “emulating” a steam deck if it even were possible anyway

Is there any chance some psycho is gonna make a steam deck Linux package to “emulate” on desktop? I feel like that’s probably gonna happen before game devs make their games universally compatible

Yeah its like the mages guild house! I wasn’t sure if the enchanting tables there were different from the rest of the game, I’m too poor to afford the candles lol that kinda sucks it costs money even at the player house. I’m broke as hell in oblivion. I keep finding new player houses right after spending my money on upgrading the last one! Frostcrag is by far the cheapest to upgrade though, I really regret not going there first :(

Ugh the bruma mages guild recommendation took me, I kid you not, an entire week. I never got any prompt options after finding the guy hiding and assumed I had to get up enough mysticism to cast dispel on him lmao

After a week of making no progress leveling mysticism I went back and they were like yeah just go get a book or something and I’ll stop hiding

The staff you get is well worth it though, I wasn’t sure what I would use a staff for so I just went with shock and holy shit that staff is the most overpowered thing in my kit. 80 points of shock damage per hit with some 120 charges when full. I only ever take it out when I’m fighting hoardes or doing a boss-like mission because it clears rooms so fast lol

On your last point: If you haven’t heard any rumors about frostcrag spire yet I highly recommend seeking it out. Not trying to spoil anything but there might be more freedom in enchanting than is revealed in the mages guild quests. I could be wrong but its worth checking out either way.