You guys are delusional. Try serving even a small family with this, it's a nightmare. I can clearly see people romanticizing dull hard labour.

> we can all agree that rape and incest games are disgusting and have no place in an entertainment web site visited by kids

We can then also agree that a game where you beat someone into a bloody pulp with a bat is equally disgusting. Why do we treat rape and murder differently?

So you disagree that these games are disgusting?

Well, you can buy Steam gift cards for cash in underdeveloped markets like Germany. Can’t imagine how else would it work.

You can't buy gift cards in other underdeveloped markets like Japan, Camboja, the US, Mexico, etc?

So does Russia, Denmark, Belgium/Netherlands, Iran, China. I’m sure there’re others. I know someone working on unified payment platform for games in Africa. They have dozens of different payment systems instead of the two.

Well, we probably have resources for both (as The Humanity).

> we probably have resources for both

In the long run, yes. Possibly even in the medium term. In the short term, no--we're limited by our technological capability.

Jesus f, are you going to mention Russia in response to every meaningless comment?

Like, you read about McCartyism and think: «wow, people were stupid!” And then you go to internet…

Is this another bot? I almost never talk about Russia. Besides this comment, not a single mention on my first 3 pages of comments anyways.

I don’t know why people get so frustrated here. Studying with chatgpt changed my life. I can compare doing it in early 2010s and now. Cheating? Well yeah, everyone was doing it long before LLMs.

> With all possible social changes like the article suggests this focus could change too.

I have an anecdote from Denmark. It’s a rich country with one of the best work-life balance in the world. Socialized healthcare and social safety net.

I noticed that during the election, they put the ads with just the candidate’s face and party name. It’s like they didn’t even have a message. I asked why. The locals told me nobody cares because “they’re all the same anyway”.

Two things could be happening: either all the candidates are really the same. Or people choose to focus on doing the things they like with their free time and resources. My feeling tells me it’s the second.

Like, where? I lived in four EU countries and travelled to most of member states. I only heard of Austrian sleeper and some luxury Swiss expertise. Never heard anyone taking a sleeper in the modern times. Moscow-Paris train used to be a thing, but that’s in the past.

The fact that _you_ have not heard of it does not mean that it does not exist. The Austrian ÖBB has created a massive network over the last few years, including some innovative new rolling stock with sleeping cap capsules. Many classic routes within larger countries still exist, like the multiple routes in the UK, France and Sweden. There are new private startups like European Sleeper that operate an Antwerp - Prague sleeper

There's the London to Edinburgh Caledonian Express which I took and I took a sleeper from Brussels to Koln to Vienna? Koln was a stopover. Forget where the sleeper segment was. But I'll admit it was situations where neither time nor money were critical and were intermixed with business trips.

Im in Europe and taking a train is the last thing I’d do. It’s expensive and extremely unreliable for long-distance.