That’s exactly what happens in China. If you have a leasehold to the land, and the government eminent domains you, you get compensation. You can’t fight the eminent domain, but the compensation is usually generous.

What would you consider actual histories? I’m always happy to add more things on my own reading list.

What would you consider “actual histories”?

I can tell you, as a complete matter of fact from first hand witnesses within my own family, that the Chinese people were definitely starving during the Mao era.

Of course, they don’t understand that Mao was the reason for it, they have portraits of him on their walls. But they were definitely starving.

I’m reading through Frank Dikotter’s People’s Trilogy - that’ll give you an idea of what happened after the revolution. Before that, there’s a very good early biography of Mao written by an American journalist Edgar Snow called Red Star Over China.

Red Star will answer questions on why the Chinese would choose the Communists over the Nationalists.

Read Red Star first, so that you can be in the mindset of a hopeful optimist excited to see the old Fascist guard of the Nationalists be overthrown… what came after that was an enormous human tragedy.

Imagine people starving in California - you have a cornucopia of perfect land and the country still manages to accidentally or deliberately murder 100 million of its own people. Dikotter explains really well how that came to be.

No, it’s seen as cloudy and rainy.

I’ve done all three: worked in corps, am a dev, and have done some games dev early career.

When you dev something, it’s a miracle anything works. All modern software is a giant Jenga pile. When a large project rolls out the door, the feeling is never “oh wow let’s flex on these peasants”, it’s more like “my shit sucks oh god when will it break but try it out and see what you think”.

If I was on the Bethesda team, I would actually be very interested in trying to get feedback from the only other group of devs that remotely know what it’s like to do something similar. What approaches did they take? What’s similar? What’s different? Did the choices that other team make lead to a better product? How much more elegant is their code?

The only people who ruin goodwill like that are overzealous IP lawyers.

I mean: 1.) It’s Bethesda’s IP 2) The “remaster” was not just a paint job. That took a whole damn team, a very hard working team, to rebuild the game in UE5. 3) Skyblivion will probably continue development despite it.

Thank you for fighting, unfortunately there are millions of morons who think Trump is amazing and I don’t feel having my family get caught up in dying for this bullshit.

I doubt it, Trudeau really has pissed off most Canadians and their Conservative Party is also corrupt as hell. It’ll be better than here for a bit but Canadians in general feel politically stuck and that might not end well. Similar issue in Germany.

Last time there were a lot more guardrails, though. It also wasn’t entirely clear if he was going to be a fascist either.

Honestly a reasonable person in 2016 could consider Trump to even be a moderate Republican (yes, really). Corrupt and lazy, sure, but I was expecting the American equivalent of someone like Rob Ford, not some insane idiot who is begging people in his party to literally rig the vote in his favor.