but resources are an issue with no solution on the horizon.

We’ve got tons of resources, and the means the produce more. The problem is that’s not going to make some people lots and lots of money, so they don’t do it.

Scarcity is not a problem of “can’t” right now, it’s a problem of “won’t”.

Personnel for what?

It’s always been an oligarchy, but mostly because people let it be an oligarchy. Voting works… when you do it. That’s what’s enabled people like Trump to grab power, people voted for them.

It’s not the only answer, but it’s the single simplest and easiest way for most people to effect change on the world around them. Which makes it surprising just how many people refuse to do it.

If you’re looking for a quick fix all you’ll find is snake oil. The damage has been cumulative over years, decades, if not centuries. There’s no quick and easy fix.

The most general answer is collective action, which this is part of. The next is finding ways to obstruct the bad changes from going through. After that is finding ways to push the better changes through. There’s no single distinct answer for all the problems for any of those steps, except that we work together. Which this helps with.

People are going to suffer, even more than they already are, the best we can do is mitigate it at this point. Mostly because we haven’t acted before now. But, as the cliche goes: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.

Is he back to making comics for buzzfeed?

Master Chief Collection came out in late 2014.

No one called you any names. They said your advice is ridiculous, but that’s not name calling. That’s critiquing.

They’re not using your dishwasher for your needs, they’re using their dishwasher for their needs. They likely don’t overlap. Different models have different feature sets. One can say that they should have done more research into the home networking requirements for super basic features (as heavily explained in the article that we’re all commenting on, and you seem to have completely ignored), but frankly that’s beside the point. The baseline should not be well below par. The baseline should not be “download our potential spyware that also doesn’t necessarily work very well with your system just so you can use basic features”.

I’m glad you like smart features. I think people should have that kind of flexibility and choice in their home environment. The problem here is that when using this particular appliance, they don’t have that choice. That is a problem. Even if, when you use your appliance, you don’t have that issue, they do. Because they are not you, and do not have the exact same use case that you do.

The spice must flow.

I guess we’re supposed to recognize the circuitry on that one person in the robe and just assume they’re a time traveler.

Now throw in average incomes on the low, medium, and high ends and see if that makes any difference in your criticism of people not wanting to spend so much on a game they might get a hundred or so hours out of.

Hell, throw in the average housing costs and costs of consumables while we’re at it.

What does homelessness have to do with anything? Gentrification isn’t specifically about homelessness, I don’t see anyone else mentioning it before now… where did you pull that from?

Gentrification seems to mean the rapid renovation of an area to appeal to a wealthier crowd, which this could easily cover.

It’s pessimism when you use it as an excuse to do nothing about it.

Your track record of not hating people for their opinions is muddy at best.

So… there was a possible way you could understand something in panel 4…

No cap

Speaking as a perpetual wallflower who has never been to a rave in my life, I found it understandable. Admittedly I’ve heard the term “molly” in reference to ecstasy, but you see as guy wide-eyed staring at someone who looks incredibly uncomfortable about it. Seems pretty obvious that’s the “molly bear” that uses “prolonged eye contact” to make “uh-ohs” so uncomfortable that they either leave or at least don’t come to another one.

Well, if it’s using the term in the same way as the first couple panels, it’s a big hairy gay man.

Being bought, or being sold? There’s a difference. If they’re not being bought at those numbers, they’ll still show up the most.

They also said “starting”, which implies that’s what it’s being sold at, not what you see the most listings for.

… hunter2?

Ideally, that artist would let you pay for just the non-NSFW content

They do. I don’t know if this person just decided to grab the highest tier without reading or something, but the lowest tiers don’t have anything explicit associated with them.