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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Jan 21, 2023

Imagine instead of the complete brutal removal from stores and shutdown that Epic Games are doing with Unreal Tournament, if Tim Sweeney fully open sourced the original. Imagine the fun people could have with such gaming history.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/epic-games-are-killing-off-a-bunch-of-classics-like-unreal-tournament/

Epic Games are killing off a bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament

Epic Games announced today they're killing off a bunch of classic games removing them from stores and turning off their online services for retro delights like Unreal Tournament.

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@gamingonlinux as usual, "capitalism is why we can't have nice things"

@VileLasagna @gamingonlinux yeah blame everything on capitalism would you. in a communist society you're likely only going to have a different problem to complain about. for instance the game might've never been developed because the state deemed it a stupid game and didn't want to finance the development of it, or a game like doom might've been seen as too violent. out of touch bureaucrats and government officials are making these decisions, and don't want to take the risks.

@halikular @gamingonlinux
Look, you can imagine whatever nonsense you want about communism, including the stuff you were just describing but it doesn't change the reality that:

If you look at a problem and it can be explained through the profit motive, then it is a problem caused by capitalism.

I don't even need to go into how your idea of communism is complete nonsense

@VileLasagna @gamingonlinux It's state control vs free market, you know that.

Vile Lasagna

@halikular @gamingonlinux Nah, that's a capitalist framing of things that no only imagines communism in a very strict and awkward way but also fails to recognise the structure of capitalism itself. There is no bloody "free market" it's always been a lie, and it continues to be so. Fucking US installs dictatorships everywhere to protect economic interests and prevent development on the periphery, what part of that is "freedom"?

@halikular @gamingonlinux "Huawei is oferring a better products and better prices than Verizon? Well, I guess it's illegal to buy from them now. The Invisible Hand has spoken, lmao"

@VileLasagna @gamingonlinux What you've said is true, but there is no black and white and one isn't necessarily better than the other. Communist or capitalist absolutism would be miserable but a good balance creates something good for everyone. USA is probably to most capitalist country today, but in Scandinavia and the Baltics we have democratic socialism fueled by capitalism. It ensures a relatively free market and autonomy, yet offers welfare and social programs, no matter rich or poor.

@VileLasagna @gamingonlinux Communism isn't a foreign concept at all for most (on a local level). Throughout the world most close families could be considered communist as we generally help each other out without requiring reimbursement. Parents give to their children who then give back when their parents become older.

@halikular @gamingonlinux Those countries merely operate their capitalism on a broader level. Their relative comfort and equality is built on exporting their underclass overseas. Everything they have is built on the misery of others that they enforce.

Social Safety Net is not communism, when you're talking economic systems, it's all about how society is divided. Capitalism means it's divided between owners and workers, with the latter paying for everything

@VileLasagna @gamingonlinux >Everything they have is built on the misery of others that they enforce.

Can you elaborate on that?

@halikular @gamingonlinux Through the globalisation process they export their exploitation to the periphery. For one example, a lot of them take a lot of their money from oil which they exploit in peripheral countries.

As part of the imperial core they enforce conditions on those countries to ensure their access to those resources. All of the profits then go to fuel the safety nets on the core, which are dismantled on the periphery to maintain the power imbalance

@VileLasagna @gamingonlinux You must be talking about continental Europe. The Scandinavians only ever colonized a few territories and couldn't hold on to them, so barely profited of off it like the UK, Belgium, France etc. Norway, Sweden, and Finland was very poor up until the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_colonialism

Scandinavian colonialism - Wikipedia