you didn't watch the video, did you?
How are global pandemics way down? hou often did global pandemics occur in the past?
Ok, you got me. WWII was afwul. I would also consider it a historical outlier.
And you're gonna ignore climate change completely, huh?
The Vanilla ps4 was never left behind.
Since the Pro was released, no 1st party PS4 title ran at 60fps.
Further, it seems you lack an understanding of how systems even utilize things like this. If you were a computer gamer you'd easily know.
Bwahahahaha! Wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder! 🤣🤣🤣 I've built my first own PC about 20 years ago and played PC about 10 years l.nger.
It's not really any extra programming. It's just resolution, frame rate, and other shader setting and stuff simply being adjusted
Ok, you clearly don't have any idea about game development. Different hardware on PC is an incredible bitch to develop for. That's where console development is way easier: you develop for one hardware configuration and can therefore optimize more effectively. That's why console games can look significantly better than PC games on equivalent hardware.
Making games run at 60fps is low priority compared to shooting a trailer with impressive graphics, which is which performance optimization has a relatively low priority on lower-end hardware.
It's not as easy as the customizable graphics settings for PC games.
EULAs on every game are afaik a produch of everything going online. i don't think those old games have eulas.
Wow... but did e.g. Gameboy games have those?
The Country is not the Continent.
I still don't want to give the country the satisfaction.
Sure, the singular cultural/political/religious "those people".
AFAIK, the name is quite consentually agreed upon by the first nations from the continent.
The people of the continent called it "turtle island". European occupiers called it the "US".
I knowof Steven Pinker and don't agree with his conclusions. I even got a video debunking him you're probably not gonna watch either
but when actually pressed for specific ways it has gotten worse, they are almost always arguing from a complete ignorance of history.
You've ignored my point about climate change. I'm quite sure that concerning history, I got a bit more nuanced takes than you do.
Lifespan is much longer, healthspan is much longer
Medical advances have been made, yes. Inpart due to, technological advancements. These are fundamentally good and not what I'm arguing against.
rapes are way down
How is that a result of technological advances and not social movements fighting for a brighter future?
murders are way down, torture is way down,
I doubt that, if you look at it globally. Israel is currently performing a genocide. I consider that murder.
dying in childbirth is way down
Again, healthcare advances.
incest is way fown, pedophilia is way down, starvation is way down
Not touching those points.
dying from wild animals is way down
Ecodiversity is way down and global pandemics are way up.
wars are way down
Are you kidding me? Did you live under a rock for the last 50 years?
Problems now for lots of the world are things like people bickering over who gets to be next to who when they pee and who called a "he" a "she".
No, problems now for "lots of the world" is climate change, job insecurity, housing crisis, dangers of a global war escalation, ...
This idea that the world is way worse than it used to be
Not what I said.
selfish brats completely oblivious of where we came from
Says the person who choses to ignore how much progress has been done through sometimes violent, social movements.
Since when did cartridge games have EULAs?
Also: in sane countries (i.e: not the so-called US), EULAs don't overwrite civil laws.
The only dangersis when DRM is circumvented.
So you admit to moving the goal posts?
Technological "progress" historically mostly served to siphon power to the wealthy.
Also, as a species, we're currently in the process of conucting a mass extinction, as well as destroying our biosphere.
I recommend you to read the book "Blood in the Machine" as an account how industrialization worsened the life of 19th century textile workers and how the Luddites fought against the disenfrachisement of the people.
You accuse me of knowing "alarmingly little" about history and hit me with that bullshit statistic of "dying under 30"? Get outta here. Also: I already explained that I completely condone the medical advancements.
I get a feeling that you're constantly strawmanning me, by acting as if I'm like "everything used to be better all the time". I'm not saying that some parts of life have gotten better. But I'm harshly objecting to the notion that technological progress has been a positive good to all of humanity. What I said was that technology usually helps the powerful to become even more powerful. I'm guessrng that you live in the imperial core (look it up) and therefore partly benefited from this concentration of power. This won't stay that way, if you're not rich. And a look at the state of common people in 19th century Europe (during the industrial revolution) backs me up on that one.
It's simply naive to claim that "everything has gotten better", while ignoring everything that has gotten worse.
Global pandemics weren't a thing in the past. And the one we encountered could have been avoided, if it wouldn't have been for the profit motive.
Don't you think that some cooky infographic from 2020 might be a **teeny bity* out of date?
You're talking about your strawman. I prefer a more nuanced take.
Measure your tone. You come off as a dick. You've yet to supply data that's not ridiculous. Watch the video.
Well, if you allow me some wild accusation: if I'm a teenager, then you're like a child arguing that Santa must exist on account of all the presents appearing on Christmas. And all the Stories of sweatshops for your christmas sneakers are lies, because obviously, the elves were making these.
Says the person who refuse to educate themselves to, learn things that question their held believs a tiny bit. I've literally proposed you history books to read.