Who is the Western supremacist in this scenario and what relationship do they have to morality? Kinda makes or breaks your whole argument

No worries I’m glad we could discuss it in a way that was helpful!

I don’t have a lot that I would add, but I would just assert that the “user might donate if they’re unaware” is a big enough reason on its own. Even if you promote it alongside a caveat mentioning the moral shortcomings, the people who start using it because of your promotion might also promote it, but there’s no guarantee they’ll keep the caveat (in fact I’d consider it likely that people who will use the product despite the caveat are exceptionally likely to neglect to mention anything in their promotion).

And to your second point I’d say that its pretty indisputable that they are being given a platform, as evidenced by the platform they have. It is a platform that is, as you mention, not subscribed to by a lot of people with a moral backbone, but it is significant.

If I had to give a one-liner for why it is bad to promote the things a shitty person makes, I’d say “its a bit of a Nazi bar thing”.

How much wrong does a person have to do for you to consider it morally wrong to promote the things they make?

Fuck hyprland All my homies hate hyprland

Because promoting hyprland is morally wrong? Its pretty simple

And itch, and when devs distribute their own games

I think that its quite clear they don’t have an issue with the steam deck - they’re just voicing that it brought to light how they don’t own their games and it turned them off from buying more licenses on Steam

I love an open world game that is done well - Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. But so often it is just done because thats what they think is the hot thing, and it does not work

Celeste, Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest

Most will listen to songs a great many times, and movies get rewatched too, books reread. I get where you’re coming from though.

I would agree, yeah. Thankfully you have folks like GOG doing work to preserve older titles

Hard to argue with that. Garçon, I am ready for my next short form video!

I don’t entirely disagree with you but, does every medium not have to compete with a growing backlog of classics?

Yeah, so you end up with a fraction of a fraction of the work time going to actually doing the block chain transaction, and the vast majority going into the artificial difficulty

I always thought it would be ideal to do this to create a powerful distributed computing network that can both serve to process the transactions made with the coin and also to do something useful, like folding@home or seti@home or whatever. But apparently nope, GPU crossword puzzles that do nothing but use electricity to make heat (and, as a fraction of a fraction of the work, process a blockchain transaction) are the best they could think of.

There is not useful work being done. They may as well be crossword puzzles. Some coins do use the work to do useful things, but bitcoin does it as a way of “proving your work” to earn coin.

You dropped this \

And like, I understand the use of emojis in general, I’m no boomer, just using them in this way is so weird. Like this usage of emojis feels boomery.

Its like the difference between

My iphone died mid conversation 🫠

And

My iphone 🍎📱 died mid conversation

The latter fills me with rage, the former feels reasonable

Am I the only one who is physically repulsed by this use of emojis?

Oh yeah no I get the idea, it just distinctly reminded me of Scratch