The top 20% of earners start at $80,000/year
Jeez...I knew it was bad. But I didn't realize it was that bad.
I'm not questioning or anything. Just interested in knowing where you got that number from.
You don't get to that level of "rich" by having the capacity to self-reflect.
I'm not even kidding when I say it's getting to be pretty close to the time that we need to break out the guillotines and remind these people what happens if they get too sure of themselves.
That was my first guess as well. People who are wealthy enough to both a) not be affected by it will generally be wealthy enough to not do their own shopping.
Yeah, not a high-end business.
You are incredibly naive.
Technomancer next please.
Spider is, despite the janky play, really really good at making original narratives.
Say what you want about the movement and combat smoothness, but I've never seen a Mars set game quite like Technomancer. And I've never seen a high fantasy RPG that leans quite as bluntly into saying something important about the role of colinizers in our own 18th century.
Big ideas and good games with juuuuust barely too little budget to be amazing.
For the most part, the same ethos that powers the Fediverse is the same ethos that powers all open-source. So naturally the people that would be more keen to adopt it are the people who believe in the Open Source model in general.
I can't think of anything less right-wing than open source; it's essentially software communism ("from each according to their ability to each according to their need") Sharing isn't a right-wing value.
Actually neither one of those statements is true.
The issue with spin-gravity is angular momentum. The smaller you want something to be, the faster it has to spin. The faster it spins, the harder it is for the people inside to adjust.
So to get 1g of gravity, they found that a good in between would be about 4g of angular momentum. Astronauts could get used to that relatively easily in a few days. And that could be achieved in a spinning structure with the diameter equal to roughly the length of a football field. If they find that human health could be unaffected by living in lower gravity, say .5g, than you can decrease that size by 50%.
It's large. But not unreasonably so by any stretch. It's about the size of the ISS. Especially when you consider that it doesn't have to be a complete circle. If you can imagine a truss extending out from a central point like an aircraft propeller with a habitat on one end and a counterweight on the other. As someone else already mentioned, it's no different than building a suspension bridge.
Short answer. Yes.
Long answer: I'm 48. And while some of what we are feeling is certainly a sense of "back in my day" nostalgia, its certainly not the only cause.
We are from a strange generation who were old enough to remember a world before all of this, and young enough to adapt to all of it with relative ease. ( "this" being a transition to an online existence)
Even one generation before us just simply struggles with it. And just one generation after us, while still "born" before this all became a thing, were to young to truly experience it.
So we have a very unique and valuable perspective to offer; one that says "yes, things seemed better back then, and that is likely most certainly true for many things. But some things were likely just as fucked up back then and we simply didn't have the internet screaming it at us 24-7. And perhaps right and left were not quite as polarized as they are today because of it.
Just my Gen-x take on it.
The rich are flexing every muscle they have to try to make the general population dislike this change.
And in some parts of the country (like where I live unfortunately) it's working. Simply because the cult of "hating Trudeau" is just as strong and stupid as the cult of trump to our south. Here in the land of "fuck trudeau" stickers and truck nuts, They'll quite literally hate something that is clearly good for them just because Pierre Poppinfresh tells them that JT is for it.
"Jobs killer"
Oh no...you mean that money that was NEVER going to trickle down anyway will now NOT trickle down even harder? Whatever are we going to do!
Because the longer they call it an "alpha" the longer they can try to rake in more kickstarter money and the longer they can use "it's an alpha" to excuse game breaking bugs.
The moment they hit 1.0, they become officially answerable to their customers for having a playable game.
Why do that when you/re perpetually raking in the money anyway.
Seriously...whether it ever actually hits 1.0 or not, making the microtransactions/real money purchases live in a product that they "insist" isn't a game yet, is just shady as fuck.