The great man theory shit is especially insane here because Putin was literally allowed into power by Russian and western oligarchs as a compromise to the Russian people to prevent communism from coming back. Its actually hard to even imagine a more clear example of important people being a result of their societies and conditions rather than the other way around.

imma be real with u i can not comprehend how u can hold that view unless u only play “aaa” slop or very few games at all. because this just doesnt hold with reality, i dont think i even know of a single successful indie game where the love for the medium itself doesnt come across perfectly clear, there are indie games out there that were clearly just made for money but guess what those dont go anywhere because people can tell its soulless, its also true for most AA/small studios. And while someone just fucking around with a medium in their free time could maybe express themselves more (tho that is debatable too) i dont think it shows that they love games more than someone who made it their fucking life. Also being able to express themselves more because they arent limited by capital is a far cry from loving or caring about the medium more.

Also this doesnt even make sense, most of the biggest open source games out there are extremely derivative, basically copies of popular games and if anything display more of appreciation for the concept of open source software than video games.

Also also genuinely curious how does this view extend into other mediums do u regard all professional authors are hacks because they make money from what they write, what about musicians and other kinds of artists. Or is it only video games cuz u like open source stuff.

Its a mystery why this could possibly be

i mean theres also no disadvantage to keeping it whatever country u move to will almost certainly have a higher tax rate than the federal tax rate so its not like u loose anything. Renouncing ur citizenship is mostly a symbolic thing anyways, some countries dont even let u do it.

Bruh just because people gotta eat doesnt mean game devs dont love the art form. Actually game dev is like THE worst job a software developer could have people only do it BECAUSE they love video games, the corpos is charge dont give a fuck obiusly but indie game devs do and the actual devs in game studios do too again its not a good job to make money.

If we were talking about a world were people didnt need to money to eat then this would be a different conversation but here and now what u said is just ridiculous.

what do u mean wtf, did u think that just because their goals of stopping the american empire aligned with ours they were “good guys”, the Russian government has always had a very close relationship with israel, and has always been very supportive of it.

What is an ultra if not a lib.

I mean they are literally fighting a war, thats sorta to be expected.

They dont need to say anything, after all; we all already know that it was strategically unimportant, and besides the Russians took a gorrilion casualties taking it, and that Ukraine is winning.

Saying that the bootlicking will be bittersweet would mean he enjoys it, i always thought of boot licking as a realpolitik sorta thing but honestly now that u mention it a lot of leaders in amerikkkan vassals do seem to love the boot.