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Hello. I am personally not decided on how I think a government should handle a recession. I was wondering what you people think, preferably with historical presedence or other sources (if I wanted to know who screams the loudest I would just have asked Facebook :)

For this discussion, let's take Finland. The Finnish economy is not doing too good, and haven't really recovered since covid. The states income are about 80B€ while expenses are closer to 90B€ (rough numbers). The primary reason for this is because Finns are being fiscally conservative, with low confidence in the economy. There are two opinions on how to handle this:

• Wait out the recession. Europe is recovering as well, and Finland is bound to catch up, even if they're falling behind. Cuts to the budget will just worsen the purchasing force of the workers and lower faith in the economy
• Make cuts in the budget, trim fat where possible to avoid a debt spiral. It's important to make the budget break even, to not continue downwards. Paying of the debt will allow us to recover quicker.

What are you guys' opinions? Are you able to back them up more than "The violent revolution will solve this"?

When I was a youngling, graphics improved quickly and that made older games look worse by every year. What initially looked amazing and "life-like" turned dated in just a couple of years, however it seems graphics has plateaued in the last ten-ish years.

I would say that we reached the point of diminishing returns around next-gen GTA V / MGS V. Not that you can't see the difference between those and modern games, but it's nowhere the leap from San Andreas to GTA IV.

I recently started playing MGS V again and I'm shocked at how good it still looks, compare it to RDD 2 and you would probably need a side by side comparison to see the extra detail.

We have finally reached a point where old games dont get less immersive because our baseline in visual fidelity keeps increasing, or if it does it's atleast a lot slower.

Has started to grind my gears, since there is no way to quickly explain that I'm happy with the current situation (I live in the nordics, not the US). Historically I would be considered a conservative, since I don't see a need to progress (atleast at an accelerated rate). However that term is now used to define reactionaries, which are people who reacting to the changing society wants to regress to a earlier time.

Why must we change the meanings of such obvious words?

How come there is no real "wacky experimentation" side of the coffee community? The only one I can identify is the "snobby" coffee community (you know the one), and the rest being mostly just a refrained version of that.

Compare that to the homebrewing community, you have the snobbs (the mead community is infamous), but then there are the "prison hoochers", turning anything containing sugar into alcohol.

Where are the mavericks who perform the important societal task of discerning if "is coffee and cheeto-spice a good combo?" and "what happens if you brew coffee with red bull?"

On a more serious note it would be great so more people try different ways to spice coffee, instead of just trying to brew the flatest, "perfect" brew. I've found adding some fruity black tea to my coffee in a French press to work really well.

How come there are so few racing games coming out lately? Feels like it's just codemasters doing their thing, some struggling indie games and a truckload of shovelware. I'm not saying it's dead but wasn't racing games one of the primary genres?

Another thing that bugs me with the few games that come out is the lack of progression and immersion. NFS Unbound impressed me slightly with actually starting you out with a low spec car and having slow (by modern standards) progression. However halfway through when you have fast and "cool" cars you really felt the games mediocrity.

Dirt rally 1 and 2 has economy systems, but after a single championship you can basically buy whatever car you want. The rallies are immersive but everything between is just boring menues.

Why do you think the state of racing games is so poor? The industry being shit? Audiences not playing them anymore?

Incase anyone tells you that lemmy.ml is not a tankie instance.

It feels like new games are just more of the same, with no real meaning. However I recently started playing "Return of the Obra Dihn" and love open ended deduction in it. It feels like I'm actually figuring things out by myself without being handheld through it. Are there any other games that don't coddle the player that you guys recommend?