Yes I've used lua for modding old games like Natural Selection 2.
The docs and community in roblox and factorio fill in for the deficiencies of the language. Try using lua without support frameworks. Modding ns2 is a nightmare with zero docs and trying to reverse engineer in a terrible debug environment. Lua just doesn't stand up by itself.
You are only discussing the successes. Even built for purpose, game building applications like Core fail miserably to make development easy enough off the back of lua. Far cry 1 had lua scripts that went nowhere.
What love2d games?? The tech demos and hobby projects listed on the website??
For the three or four big successes there are a lot of obscure failures.
The big successes of creative modding projects came out of Half Life, Half Life 2 and Warcraft 3 which spawned Dota, team fortress, counter-strike, left for dead, garry's mod and many other successes.
War3's editor and XNA are the best modding environment's I've seen for individual acheivement.
Kids dont know better, they just put up with the jank and learn from their friends.
It's wrong because we own our own bodies. The confict of expanding humanity does not go away when you manage the population, people will want to expand.
Giving the state arbitrary powers to limit population growth is a form of violence. Having a state sactioned sterilization on excess children is just as horrific as a war, without any of the spoils of war.
The problem lies in the fact that the gov is the last body left to resolve our deepest conflicts as we are no longer free to commit acts of violence on our own behalf. Making it through life used to be materially difficult and death was far more common. Living in our current heaven-like atmosphere has far darker implications for the age-old conflicts.
Unions depend on making a black and white argument. The whole idea can't work with a nuanced argument. Either the company bows to the union or strikes start up. Either the employee joins the union or he/she gets kicked out of the company.
It's socialism for the majority. If you want a nuanced argument, meet your union leader at the church he goes to on sunday and see how fervently committed he is to his goals. You're more likely to get a nuanced argument in the face of God, rather than these big dick, black and white union arguments people endlessly wave in our collective face.
The union structure is not free from religious, political and justice problems. Some of the largest unions in the US spend union funds on politically charged topics that easily divide it's own membership.
You won't get a satisfying answer because it has little to do with rational answers and more to do with sexual security. Union members secure and promote their progeny.
If I search "Kleenex" on Google, I'm asking Google to find me Kleenex, not some ads. If Google is going to start listing things in highest-to-lowest bid, then it stops being a search engine and starts becoming an auction house of links.
WASP privilege is fading. It's either melt into humanity or lift the future cultural leaders into heaven. They are doing the latter.
The problem with lifting future leaders is they are not ready yet. They need humanity to grow to a point where the next cultural force has something to say.
I don't want to tell tales out of school or anything. I've met an ex-marine who suffered damage in training and stories from internet videos all corroborate the general story. The marines are the offensive branch, and the individuals get treated poorly. You get a lot of respect for your title, but other branches have a better quality of life and better jobs available.
https://youtu.be/UMoLKLM8SMg Fun story time by an ex-air force guy who was going to join up to the marines (4:30).
The culture changed, reddit just follows. I still miss the thoughtful discussion of difficult ontological questions in the popular culture around 2017-2018. Soon we will be discussing rhe expectional mechanical keyboards, and then some time after that the tasteful keyboards, and then some time after that the sexy keyboards. It goes on, consistency is not rewarded as the wave of cultural interest moves on.
There are laws the media must follow. There is a truth they must tell, legally and also the stuff that gets clicks and views is true for it's audience in a salient way.
Authority has the power to control, it's part of the job description and politics resolves the truth of that domain.
Why do you want something 'more powerful' than truth? You just excised yourself from philosophy, religion, god, law, ect in dismissing truth.
We all want 'true' love anyway so the distinction is poor.
This is the exact problem I have with survelliance capitalism. What stops Microsoft, Google, ect from cornering every market? The last time I posted the question I was told those companies are looking for billion dollar investment opportunities and anything less isn't worth their time... and here we have Amazon cutting the nerdy kid's lunch money like a high school bully.
Hatred came out in 2015, and was effectively banned in some regions. A true test on this topic will never happen in the public, Adults Only rated-games only get so far.
"Mike Splechta of GameZone questioned the game's timing and how it could become the "next scapegoat" in a climate that already held video games responsible for school shootings and other violence."