Do you have a link where someone said 'porn make me unproductive and unhappy and I cut it from my life' or similar and another responded to him any of the word you say? Any link to that thread post?
People are just plain weird if you're saying the truth. They should just read more and write less.
I'm pretty sure as long as they are on my HDD, i can play them with an unconnected steam account. That's how we shared games 15 years ago, instead of trying to find keys or cracks, the person owning the game installed it on an external HDD, and with a few weird manipulations that was enough to play it with a disconnected steam account. Maybe that changed?
Anything that uses the steamworks SDK is going to require an active account to initialize properly. That may or may not be a fatal error, it's up to the devs to decide.
It varies wildly from game to game. It's very possible to use steam as simply a means to copy the game files onto your PC, or integrate with it so tightly it's 100% required to have an account in good standing (as well as one with the game publisher, or whatever), or anywhere in between (a lot of games make the integrations optional, which is the best solution IMO).
> It's wild that games have done so so so little to expose the game to the world, to offer APIs
Are you talking about steamworks SDK that help games be more "streamlined" (like those using steam Gameserver) should have been done by the industry without external (steam) push, or are you talking about allowing games to be contacted via API calls?
Just limit parking place inside cities. That worked well in the city i live in, they divided the available street parking spot by 3 and added external parkings in the outskirts. Honestly it worked great, the number of restaurants and small convenience store downtown exploded. Only downside, it made commercial leases more expensive and that pushed my music store outside of the city center.
The sad thing is calling anything in the Democrat party 'left'. Historically, right means pro-power, pro status quo, and left pro reform and pro-distribution of power. At first it was political, then it was more generalized (far right is getting back to full monarchy/empire/whatever, basically going back in time).
Real sexism is way more present among middle-class/white-collar workers (whatever their gender is) than between blue collar workers. You will have poorly worded jokes from your coworkers, but the ass-grab or demeaning remarks will always be from managers (the kind of manager who don't know the trade or inherited the job) or customers.
That’s an optimistic take, for instance there’s a lot of physical sexual harassment and even rape reported as occurring between members of the military, and infantry at least seems to code as blue collar.
See, I kind of agree that there are certain types of sexism like assumptions that women won't get their hands dirty or patronising artificial politeness that are purely middle class constructs.
But the idea that only white collar workers are capable of ass-grabs or genuinely derogatory remarks is wild...
It is only when someone think they have power over someone else that they allow themselves to be inappropriate on the workplace. My mom was a nurse before forming nurses, and lived through that (from doctors especially). Her best friend was a security guard at diverse places, but she started at a mall (where she has "wild" stories as you put it. Confirmed 100% always her manager or customers, once the day manager was put on ice for harassment, his replacement ended the night by touching her butt the day he arrived. Crazy that people do that).
But even closer to me, and more recently: i know a woman who work in a call center, and she explained to me the reason why it's always managers on the workplace: the other don't have the time to play powergames with each other, they have too much work (for her it was a female manager who learned of her homosexuality who started to get touchy).
I stand by that. Obviously it is different in non-work settings, but at work?
My guess would be that it's less about "position of power" and more about "less likely to face consequences". You see the same type of behavior in a variety of cases
- Construction workers hooting and whistling at women
What is power, if not the ability to do what you want without facing consequences? If other people already support you or are indifferent, no power is needed to do what you want.
I guess it's a matter of how you look at it. To me, power is one way to avoid consequences, and anonymity is another. From the way you're phrasing things, anonymity is a kind of power, because it lets you avoid consequences. Both views are reasonable.
> It is only when someone think they have power over someone
Isn’t that kind of the point though? That the racist and the sexist and the queerbasher think they have power over the group they’re bigoted against - and that’s what lends them the confidence to act mean?
No. If you publish it, you have to give an estimation of the salary, but that's the only limitation, at least in my country. Companies have internal guidelines, like in mine, you can't hire a relative to your own department, but the job i got wasn't on a public listing, it's my agent who gave my CV to my current team leader, he was interested, organized an itw, then 3 month later i hoped to my current job (and i am way better for it).
It is law, just not in every European country, but it's definitely not unusual.
And yes, companies often go with the lowest common denominator across Europe to avoid any doubt when dealing with multinational people. In my personal case it could be reasonably claimed that laws of 5 different countries apply to me based on citizenship, registered residence, actual places of work... Of course my employer wants to be covered.
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