Here in Brazil it’s much simpler because when you rent a place, basic services like electricity and water are transferred to you. So you get the bills, not your landlord.

And services like internet, you hire your own instead of using the ISP hired by your landlord.

SAAL?

I’ve never heard of Pokémon Leggenos.

It has nine political parties, not one. But also, political parties work differently in a socialist country. You can’t expect other systems to be a 1-to-1 mapping of what you have in your country.

Even in a socialist country with a single party (which is not the case of China), there is competition for leadership.

The leader of China is elected. Really elected, without rigged elections like you see in countries like Russia. That effectively makes it not a dictatorship.

All this talk of China being a dictatorship comes from US propaganda.

So let me try and break a few of the misconceptions created by the US propaganda machine: the leader is elected. People can complain about the government, and they do. Not only that, but the government is regularly reading criticism and using that to make things better. There is no social credit score.

Edit: Actually, the US propaganda is weird. China has been getting flak for its social credit system for years, but they don't have a social credit system. On the other hand, Italy DOES HAVE a social credit system, but since it's a western country nobody talks about it.

It’s as good a take as some news in the US saying everyone in Scandinavian countries are unemployed and lazy, collecting welfare money while doing nothing other than selling cupcakes.

That was an actual (fake) news published in the US. And cupcakes aren’t even a thing in these countries. The person creating the fake news didn’t even research local sweets. They just used whatever they know from the US, because they don’t care to make it look real, just want to spread lies.

The same is true for most things you read about China/Cuba/Korea/etc in the US and similar countries.

Everything. Its fully loaded with fake news from the biggest propaganda machine in the world: the US.

There’s no dictatorship in China. But the US spends A LOT of money to make every socialist country look bad, because if people knew there was an alternative to capitalism, most of the ruling class in the US would fall. They can’t let that happen.

There are multiple parties in China.

But political parties play a different role in socialist/communist countries. It’s not similar to how it works in most western countries.

What a weird take.

As someone not from the US, the idea of non-walkable cities is so alien to me.

Before learning to speak English and reading about the US, I wouldn’t even imagine it’s a thing.

Let’s go further. Let’s have worker-owned everything.

Worker-owned factories, stores, restaurants, etc. Worker-owned government!

Let’s cut out the people that do not work but take 90% of the revenue.

Just because CO announced, a few days early, that they were releasing an unoptimized mess, shouldn’t people complain about it being an unoptimized mess?

We should never think it’s okay for companies to release underdeveloped, unfinished games.

They’re the ones that make the games!

If it was me talking about Pikachu games, I could talk about chance. But them? They decide if there will be a new game or not.

Making games is always complicated. If you “release and forget” people complain. If you keep supporting a game for a decade people complain.

To be honest, I’d prefer for them to keep expanding a game I like. That’s what kept me playing SC1 for the past 65 years (or however long it has been since the game has been released).

My experience is the opposite. While there were bad DLCs, most of them were awesome.

But in this case it seems the money goes to Israel, so it’s the equivalent of a box collecting money to KILL children.*

*only children of the “wrong” skin color and religion, obviously.

If playing a game is fun I’ll have fun. If playing it is not fun, I’ll not have fun.

I don’t take grading systems in consideration. Just like the color of the protagonist’s shirt doesn’t affect my fun.

I’ve never seen any social commentary content from them. I haven’t watched everything they do, but can’t be that common if I haven’t seen it yet.

Great news!

You’re thinking of technically taking the decisions in the company. But shareholders can do much more. Like influencing the value of stocks by selling too many at once.