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And so the UK’s Digital ID is official. Not legal, no laws have been passed, not even real in the sense it exists at all. But it is official, with the full backing of the Labour Government.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/so-the-digital-id-narrative-is-falling-apart-and-yet-there-are-still-doubts

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theguardian.com/politics/2025/

As Britons considered Starmer's plan for mandatory digital ID cards, they have mostly turned against it. Hooray! Now they only need to make sure he can't impose that law against public opposition.

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@amerika @Godsend @Humpleupagus @SirAnthony @truthbait @FourOh-LLC @cjd The opposite to Individualism is Collectivism. That's the literal antonym.

Individual freedoms are not inconsistent with social collectivism. Most right-wing libertarians (like Free Staters) understand you rely in a society, which is a natural collective.

The Free State Project even have a map where to find people with your own values if you decide to relocate.
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A bit of a long post about game development, would appreciate feedback if possible 

I want my horror game to be 3D, but I'm having the same thoughts I did back before I ever started trying to learn new engines to make that happen.

I already know RPG Maker forwards and backwards. I have faith that I could make pretty much whatever I want in it, provided it is still 2D. There is a 3D plugin for it, but developing maps with it is a massive pain in the ass.

I have so many things that I want to make. This horror game, the sequel to God's Disdain, a space drama (I've wanted to make this since like middle school), a God's Disdain 3, and another horror game after that. If I make all of these in RPG Maker that alone is already going to take the next ten years, at least.

Learning a new engine, let alone learning it to the same proficiency I have with RPG Maker, is a monumental task. If I had a pretty solid group of people helping me out I don't think it would be as bad... someone could be doing textures, someone could be modeling, I could be in charge of design/writing/soundtrack and probably a good chunk of coding, having another programmer would be nice, etc. As just one dude though, it seems like it is a little bit too much for me to do anything beyond a little demo. I not only have to learn a new engine, but I have to learn other stuff unless I want it to cost far more.

As of right now, I'm only a hobbyist. I'm DEFINITELY not making any money off of any of this. My game God's Disdain, I loved making that thing for the most part. It took 10 years. I spent way more money on it then I'll ever receive. In fact I haven't actually received anything yet because I haven't met thresholds for payouts. I made $5 off of a soundtrack sale back in like 2019 and that's it. Point is, if I want to keep doing this as a hobby, I think I might need to stick with RPG Maker for the time being. I have more things I want to create and learning all this new stuff is just kind of getting in the way of that, especially when I know I could already do it somewhere else and achieve a result that I still like, although it wouldn't necessarily be the original vision.

Then there is the fact that I actually would PREFER God's Disdain 2 to be a 2D game. I'm not really sure I want to learn an engine just for one game at the moment.

I do actually really wish there was something like RPG Maker 3 on PS2 but on PC with the ability to import your own models and use custom scripts if you so desired. That would make the transition so much easier.

I'm getting to the point where I'm going to have to make a decision on how to proceed before I lose too much time. God's Disdain came out in March. I would hope to have something really going in the works a year later.

The only thing really keeping me wanting to learn something new (in this case, RPG In A Box) is the ideal of making a 3D game. I think people would be more interested in it, I think it could be more immersive. I would love for the game to be kind of like the original Silent Hill and 3D is a big part of that. However, I can't help but think that if I fully want to realize everything else I want in the game, making it in 3D includes really learning the ins and outs of the engine and that's going to turn this project into another massive endeavor akin to God's Disdain, which took ten years. TEN YEARS. It's just too long, man. All of the original hype people had for it completely died down. All of the people who helped work on it completely moved on with their lives and most didn't even react to its release. I got majorly burned out because of how long it was taking. I just don't want another situation like that to occur.

Plus, maybe this is just cope for being a lazy piece of shit, but 2D games can still be immersive and can be interesting. I mean fuck, a lot of people's game of the year for 2025 is going to be a 2D game (Silksong). I don't think that my success as a game developer is going to come down to whether a game is 2D or 3D but how good the game is and how efficient I can be when developing it so that I don't run into the same pitfalls I did before.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm just looking for some advice here. I know 99% of you are not game devs but still, I don't know maybe someone says something that pushes me one way or another.

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New Hampshire has the most permissive gun laws in the country, and the lowest homicide rate in the country. Let's do that everywhere. 👍

I cannot comprehend the "gun deaths" argument; so murder and suicide are just totally cool as long as you don't use a gun to do it. :whaaaa:

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@DC5FAN @dudenamedben33 All of them, any big corporate is big because government regulations allowed that company it to grow and be the only one growing. We have not had real capitalism in this country since 1911
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What a fucking loser. Some leftists are just that insufferable I suppose, they don't even stop to think that others may have different opinions while they are the ones who use the "But how do you know if your religion is right if you could've been born in another continent and be X?" argument the most.

I think even a lot of right wingers (think of Yarvin's sense of the word: right wing is nothing but the absence of progressivism/communism/left) can see where the altruistic aspirations (even if on the left it ends up as self serving) come from and can sympathize with the idea of making the world better for everyone (although leftists are often seriously misguided on how to achieve this), but these days leftists have caricatured and misrepresented what the right is a lot more than the other way around.

Leftists usually are very dismissive towards anything old or traditional and generally more willing to accept anything new, in a sort of positivist way in which they presuppose only progress is possible, and this could be true in the very long (milennia) run but certainly on closer time scales things can get real shitty. Even though they are right to point out that old models suck and don't work in many ways, they often fail to see how new models may be fucking us up big time, way more than the old models could, and often dismiss the virtues that do exist in previous ways of organizing society as inherently bad bc they aren't willing to separate the good from the bad. It's way easier to equate old with bad and new with good, so in they end up thinking about a lot of things this way, forgetting that new can also mean worse, and even much much worse.

In this sense, lately I tend to agree with Yarvin's take that the left in so called political spectrum is in reality a bubble with communism/leftism on the inside and everything else on the outside. I have to forgive the lefty sentiment somewhat bc they do point out that something ought to be done so that different sorts of humans (sexes, ethnicities, cultures, religions, etc.) get along better while rightists are more self centered I think. But this mostly makes rightists more honest to their true motivations and leftists end up exoticizing other people rather than helping them, that and taking up a condescending "saviour" role and some pretty schizoid (in the worst sense) world visions, such as the whole transgenderism delusion.

TL;DR yeah leftists have been getting very schizoid (in the bad sense) lately

Anyway, thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

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What's with Nintendo thinking that they can make their games look modern by adding lyrics to them (Super Mario Odysee, Smash Ultimate, Kirby Air Riders)? There is nothing special about adding lyrics to your games. That's been a thing since the Sega CD or even before that with arcade games like Psycho Soldier.

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[2/2] principle, many Britons are so poor they could hardly afford one.

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