In my experience, cops are extremely fast tho - at least in larger cities. If you live somewhere rural or even in the middle of nowhere, well, they’re going to need some time to be there. It’s not like they can just materialize at a crime scene.
I’d also argue they’re not much more deterring than knowing someone with a gun, some friends, and the ability to use said gun is around
Are you saying you want people to own guns?
In civilized countries, yes.
Granted, these people are dooming their chances of working in the game industry again
Difficult to proof that tho. Those things are usually sold on anonymous platforms like the darkweb. Unless you got another case of a darkweb marketplace or forums being run by the feds, it’s nearly impossible to proof that it was you - you could probably always say “my keys were stolen by someone in IT or maybe someone hacked it, idk” and well, innocent until proven guilty helps you here.
Unlikely.
Something that’s more likely is because of recent layoffs, the laid off employees sell their security keys/cookies etc online and the company apparently fails to revoke those. That’s how Rockstar got hacked a while ago and had GTA6 clips leaked.
Many people on windows don’t know about it tho. PrismLauncher is vastly superior to the dogshit launcher mojang provides. I’m pretty sure there would be more windows users if it was more known.
I’m currently raising children in life pods to put them into the ripcore scanner to convert their brains into subcores to advance my mech army.
puts the burden on individuals to do invest an inordinate amount of time and research for typically minimal returns
I really don’t like that statement at all. Individuals SHOULD think about what and from whom they buy. And let’s please not pretend this is something you have to invest hours of your day into - nestle products are very clearly branded, windows is very clearly branded etc. I’m not mad at people for not being able to identify every single sub-company of nestle, coca-cola etc.
Voting with your wallet also shames those who don’t have the financial resources to feasibly pay for “more ethical” things, which are typically also more expensive.
In some cases, absolutely. But let’s not pretend like nestle branded products are always cheaper than the store-brand alternative. And if we’re talking about iPhones, well, I don’t think we have to talk a lot about those.
or example, boycotting, meaning organized movements with specific demands, does move the needle
That IS voting with your wallet, but on a larger, more organized scale. However, if people were more conscious about their purchases, individual boycotts would be similarly effective.
That would be crazy and - probably - not legally enforceable, even in current state america.
Dying Light 1 is the best one anyways - DL2 was a big step down and DL:TB was fine, but wasn’t able to really “connect” to DL1 either. DL1 just had everything - great combat, great parcour, creepy nights with an actual INCENTIVE to go out (to kill bolters) - I honestly don’t know why they are unable to replicate that success.
To answer the question - Rimworld and Project Zomboid. As always.
15% loss in profit affects any business, no matter what they sell.
Companies care about making money, if you and many many many more people stop giving them money, they will be negatively affected. What kind of example do you need?
I’ll disagree. We had a lot of success stories regarding that. The most prominent is the recent bud light boycott (even tho for the, in my opinion, wrong reason), but before, we had:
So no, boycotts do work. It has worked earlier and can work now.
The problem is that most people are complacent and straightup don’t want to bear the responsibility of doing something against those corporations.
I somehow doubt the goverment can disallow you from not buying certain products.
If law enforcement has to get invovled via anti-trust laws, society has already failed. If society would be more responsible with their purchases, we didn’t need law enforcement clean up our messes.
There is literally no product you can buy in a capitalist system that did not feature suffering somewhere along the manufacturing pipeline.
That’s a common excuse for not doing anything at all. You don’t have to make the world 100% better. Sometimes, 20% is already plenty.
The thing is, there are other smartphones out there. You don’t have to go with the big heartless corporation. There are phones like fairphones (https://shop.fairphone.com/) or Shiftphones (https://www.shift.eco/en/). So let’s please not pretend you can only choose between the immoral behemoths when it comes to smartphones - or most other sectors, to be honest.
And I should probably add - you CAN still buy a refurbished google phone, for example - infact, I would consider a refurbed google pixel with graphene OS on it the best option for people that want privacy and want to act morally correct.
but short-term fluctuations
If ~15% of all people stop buying a companies products, this is not a short-term fluctuation. It’s a long-term impact on the companies bottom line.
Just because you were gifted it doesn’t mean you have to use it. You can sell it on the second hand market and buy something else. My parents used to gift me kitkats for years until they realized those are nestle and I always gave them to coworkers or friends.
The first panel is pretty accurate tho.
The best way to show a company you do not want to support them or their practices is to stop giving them money. Voting with your wallet is the thing that’ll be the the most notably change in an earnings call. I feel many people forgot that.
It’s not always convenient, but you can’t just take all the benefits of a capitalist system without having any of the responsibilities.
It’s almost funny how sometimes, this works, but for the completely wrong reasons. Bud light tanked HARD - because of a trans ad. Coca-Cola had an (somewhat unsuccessful) boycott - because of alleged connections to Israel. On the other hand, nestle has been killing people in Africa for at least 2 decades by buying up the entire water supply and nobody seems to really care.
I’d really like to see people take some responsibility and think about which company they are giving their money.
Well yes, they can’t materialize at a crime scene - that’s kinda obvious.