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GalacticPirate
Posted on 04-28-17 04:17 PM, in New Nintendo 2DS xl Link | #82777
It's a New 3DS XL without 3D, with alternate (ie less comfortable) placements for slots, stylus, cameras etc.

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-02-17 06:04 PM, in Antivirus software is terrible... Link | #82823
macOS has even less viruses than Linux I think. But I laughed when Windblows Defender spammed me because of a Photoshop cracking tool :P

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-05-17 06:13 PM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #82858
I actually support Macron since the beginning. I wholly disagree with Staple's entire post, but let's not create drama (yes, I could draw my views on anticapitalism and communism and that wouldn't be beautiful :P) But Le Pen is so dangerous. If she was elected, I think my father and us would immediately move out to another country. Having our own "money" being devaluated as hell to end in Zimbabwe's situation, spending money we don't have, etc.

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-06-17 12:59 PM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #82866
OK, so actually what bothers me with communism and radical-left positions in general (from a French POV of course) is that similarly to how Le Pen, Trump & friends design strangers as the main threat, communists design rich people and money in general. It seems like every single rich man is corrupted, has stolen money, and that bosses want to trat their employees as slaves etc. How you described Macron's POV also shows that. Macron is nowhere as economically ultraliberal as our friend Fillon (#RendsLargent) who wants to fire 500,000 gvt employees while he pays his wife €9,000 to prepare coffee.


Regardless, Macron is actually much more social than you'd think (no, really, read his program). When people hear that he wants to add flexibility to work, they immediately think 'fire more easily', while us liberals think 'hire more easily'. I strongly believe that Roosevelt-like methods to make the economy restart after 1929 crisis are not possible today, especially in France, which is nowhere as 'rich' (notice the quotation marks) as Switzerland, Luxemburg or even Germany. What I mean is that we have a lot of debt, and that demand policy is too expensive. See when every single mayor complained that Hollande cut out budget to small cities etc. and increased taxes? There's a reason, which is basically that French State doesn't have money. And I perfectly understand the "more wages equals more consumption equals more profit for companies equals more jobs"philosophy defended by Mélenchon & co, but it isn't viable.
Macron's idea is basically offer policy. By removing stupid rules & taxes that throttles bosses of small companies and even greater ones, they'll be able to hire more easily, etc. Another key thing is social dialogue. By removing the forced equality which means construction workers obey the exact same rules as, say, game devs, Macron wants to allow negotiation between employees and bosses to decide of special rules within the company.

Finally, what bothers me in both far right and far left is the "Infinite money" meme. Communism and Anticapitalism could actually work well if all the world was based around it -- but a single country adopting that while others still are capitalist is like suicide IMO.

Basically what I'm saying is "let the economy restart, all the rest will mechanically follow". And that's true, see how the unemployment curve finally went down in Hollande's last 5 months? :P

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-06-17 02:39 PM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #82869
Yeah, I perfectly understand your point of view. That's a fact: any system or organization is flawed, and capitalist society has a lot of flaws. But instead of thinking we should do a Revolution, I first think of "what we can do to optimize and improved the current system". And I think you'd agree with me: a communist country inside a capitalist world isn't viable. That's what USSR and early China experienced: if you are communist but a majority of your neighbors are capitalists, you're basically fucked. That led USSR&friends to disappear, and D. Xiaoping to "capitalize" China.

Here comes another con of communism: motivation. My father always uses this example. If someone is "paid" to produce 10,000 potatoes, but knows that the amount of money he's paid doesn't vary. Why wouldn't he produce like 100 potatoes, use 99 for his family, and getting the same wage for 1 potato instead of 10k? Money gives motivation and organizes our world, and that's why the Human species progressively moved on to capitalism.

So communism, yes if the entire world switched to it, but this isn't likely to happen. For know I just think we should improve our current society (ie lower unemployment, lower the debt etc. )

And well, fun fact: the unemployment curve started to go down only after Hollande said he wouldn't run for President this time :P

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-07-17 03:15 PM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #82878
Posted by Marionumber1
Supply-side policy (cutting taxes and regulations) is a misguided (if not malicious) inversion of this. Cutting taxes and deregulating businesses is fundamentally just a handout, one that primarily targets the wealthy and corporations. It doesn't automatically incentivize job creation. If the lower and middle classes (the main consumer market) isn't any better off, there isn't going to be much (if any) motivation to produce more, hire more workers, and start businesses.


Actually, Hollande's policy since 2014, which is basically that offer-policy, kinda works. Things like the "CICE", aimed mostly towards small companies (ie 0 to 50 employees) effectively created jobs. And while I agree that it can be used by bad people to use the money earned to something else, I believe this phenomenon can be regulated (ie take sanctions against companies who mis-use the additionnal money created by taxes cuts). And even if demand policy can work on the long term, think about the fact that we don't have such time. For example, in France the Pres. is elected for 5 years, and if there aren't positive effects within his mandate, people are gonna vote for someone else (ie fascists in France's case) and multiply the former gvt.'s work by zero.

In reality, the idea of helping the "job creators" so that they'll help everyone else is used by policymakers as an excuse to funnel money into the pockets of the economic elite. They want tax and regulatory breaks, and don't want to give back to the rest of society. Here in America, we've had this kind of supply-side policy for decades. Wages have stagnated, labor rights are destroyed, and bank failures are common thanks to deregulation allowing the financial industry to consolidate and engage in risky speculation.


France is different. Companies (especially little ones) are litterally agonizing from taxes and regulations, and a lot of them fall in bankruptcy. And Thos little companies are the economy's engine. Here, big companies already restarted 'going well', but smaller ones need to follow. It works, it has been tested a little bit by Hollande, but it needs to be pursued.

Finally, labor rights in France are certainly the most protective in the entire world.

As for concerns about paying for these programs, keep in mind that FDR's financial policies were enacted in the midst of the Great Depression, the lowest point in the US's economy. They did initially lead to deficits, but they ultimately got the economy revitalized. In fact, when FDR briefly switched to austerity policy in 1937-1938 at the behest of his cabinet, some of the earlier economic gains were lost and the economy went back into recession. Demand-side policy is good for the economy.


Yeah, but the GD came after a period of prosperity for the US where the debt was reduced a lot. So it was easier afterwards to spend money. France, on the other hand, suffers from debt. The debt is currently of 97.6 % of the GDP, in slight decrease. The goal is to avoid falling into a Spain/Greece-like situation. If Hollande didn't make a lot of budget cuts, France would be doomed at more than 100% of GDP. 100% is the limit where you fall in a vicious circle, with international banks not trusting you anymore, resulting into an increase in interest rates and therefore the debt going up. Trust me, if we had the possibility to do such a demand policy, we would've done that since 2008 under Sarkozy. Plus, Germany, who indeed did austerity after crisis, actually is in a better shape compared to France.

I see where you're going. Aiming at reforming the existing system is a legit idea. The main issue, though, is corruption. As long as we're represented and governed by small groups of individuals, they can easily be corrupted by third parties (corporations for example), and there's no miracle solution for avoiding that. A solution could be giving more immediate power to the people so they could take action against corrupted leaders, but... 'the people' isn't a united group either, various differences exist.


People like Fillon and Sarkoezy contributed to this image in France, where corruption isn't really a threat. People at Les Républicains suffer from a embezzlers reputation, and that's kinda true. But now, nobody trusts politicians anymore. That's also why Macron wants to renew the politics scene by bringing new and young people :P

I don't believe the president should be getting all the blame for the bad situation though. In the world we live in, governments are far from being the most powerful entities.


I think any normal human would've suicided if they were in Hollande's situation. The guy has been bashed and insulted for every possible reason for 5 years. And I mostly agree. Sarkozy left the country in a bad condition, and Hollande did what he could. With the "Frondeurs" wanting to fuck his lmandate up, and "Les Républicains" voting against any single law and then complaining there isn't any law, he hasn't had a simple task. And while the figures aren't exactly better than in 2012 (still, Hollande managed to annihilate the "Sécu" hole, which is pretty awesome), he left the country in a situation which is favorable for the nect President.

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-11-17 07:57 PM, in Kuribo64 Town Square Link | #82964
What the heck? What happened? Is it really dead? :(

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-11-17 08:06 PM, in Kuribo64 Town Square Link | #82966
And... Could anyone give me a link to some random web page explaining the situation? :P Because I don't remember a wild blargSNES devlopper screwed up the entire board for fun :P (No offence StapleButts :P)

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-17-17 03:36 PM, in Kuribo64 Town Square Link | #83144
So I got supspended from GBATemp for 5 whole days for having overreacted and said to someone to kill himself (although I immediately apologized). I know that's horrible to say that, but it didn't feel bad when I typed it. Perhaps because of the fact that English isn't my native language, so it didn't strike me. It was on a thread about genders and I was replying to a shitbag saying gays/transgenders were mentally ill. His post didn't even get deleted after the thread was locked.

I hate what Aericans call their "freedom of speech". I've always been used to French FoS, which sticks to the principle "someone's freedom stops where someone else's freedom starts". Here racism and hate speech are absolutely prohibited by law. If you insult someone because he's gay, you can technically get a €37.5k fee. So that's why when I see Murican shitbags on GBATemp spreading their hate, I get triggered. Someone there said that Islam was cancer and that I and "my friends" should be deported to Middle East. (For info, I was born in France, my parents are born in Morocco, even though wee all have French nationality. And I never, ever went to Middle East :P)

I really should stop going on GBATrash, but unfortunately all the devs and informations are there...

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-18-17 04:56 PM, in Kuribo64 Town Square (rev. 2 of 05-18-17 04:57 PM) Link | #83176
Actually the police in France isn't that bad. Of course, especially in the South, there can be some bullshit, but still. Here in Paris, far-left/anarchists often come at syndicalists' demonstrations to make things fuck up, and the worst is that it makes police officers be more severe with syndicates demos in general, because of shitbags always going there. One of these anarchists shitbags tried to burn a cop. Litterally. And some idiots on Twitter then joked avbout "fried chicken".

@StapleButter Well, there's a difference. In 2013, Hollande govt. was trying to make the same-sex marriage law pass at the Parliament. If the police had been "not kind" with LMPT, the letter would've used this argument and claimed censordhip. About COP21, this happened after the Emergency State was declared. So the cops had more right. And honestly, I think that having ecological extremists shouting around wouldn't have helped China and the US to sign Paris treaty :P And there were still a lot of arrests during LMPT. During the demos against the Labour law, where a lot of far-lefties and anarchists and even syndicalists injured police officers and broke into shops, alt-right said "you let them do that, and you didn't let LMPT do anything".


On another topic, Nintendo remove an Inkling Girl's gesture in update 1.1 of Mario Kart 8. It was this gesture:
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Which, in Europe and in a vast majority of countries in the world, is the exact equivalent of a middle finger. And yet fascist douchebags and "freedom of speech defenders" (LMAO) like Saiyan Lusitano complain and claim this is censorship. Like, what? MK8D IS A FREAKING ERSB E/PEGI 3 GAME. If they didn't remove that, they could've been sued by angry parents or something. These shitbags don't even want to understand that it plainly means "fuck you".

Actually, I understand at least people complaining about abusive NOA censorship in Japanese PEGI 16 games, like Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE or Xenoblade with those loli/breast sliders cases, or NOE abusively replacing words in Super Paper Mario, but this is going too far. They litteraly just moved one arm:
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So fuck you, GBATemp fascists.

Other than that, I'm actually heyped about ARMS and Splatoon 2, two games that I wasn't even interested in before :P

And EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE3333333333333333333 HHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYPPPPPPPEEEE

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-21-17 05:11 PM, in Kuribo64 Town Square Link | #83249
Happy Birthday late :P

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-21-17 05:12 PM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #83250
Sucks. I really hope the shitbag called Trump gets fired.



GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-22-17 07:46 AM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #83281
Actually our Russian friends tried to influence French campaign by pirating Macron's campaign emails and joining blatant fakes to the mix. Well, it didn't work but still.

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-23-17 12:40 PM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #83305
I call bullshit. Macron was elected because the two mainstream parties manage to elect respectively an embezzler and an under-shit, which are in their respective parties the most extremists. Basically he had luck. And for now, he's doing a good job. He's fuckibg up the Socialist and Republican parties :P

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-23-17 07:53 PM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #83312
Well, he won't use the 49.3, he'll use 'ordonnances', which basically means Part 1, the Parliament allows him to do that, Part 2, hos majority votes every single law he proposes directly. But honestly I'm sick of a particular syndicate (the CGT) who always do strikes and everything without wanting to discuss.

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-24-17 05:38 AM, in Shit's going down in USA (and everywhere else too) Link | #83320
Actually, I hope Macron's gvt manages to pass all their laws, so people can see the effects of it before complaining.

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-26-17 08:41 AM, in Kuribo64 Town Square Link | #83344
Looks like Nintendo finally decided to drop a banhammer rain on CFW users heads. And that hurts. Nobody knows the exact cause of the online multiplayer bans tho. Some aren't even banned.

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-26-17 10:58 AM, in Antivirus software is terrible... Link | #83347
Lol, how on earth is macOS the most vulnerable? You need to give an admin authorization even to switch off the Wi-Fi. macOS is over-secure, and furthermore no hacker wants to spend time making a virus for an OS 1% of users in the world use. even Avast free is overkill on macOS.
Anyways, I use Windows Defender on my Windows 10, usually works flawlessly.

GalacticPirate
Posted on 05-31-17 11:56 AM, in Kuribo64 Town Square Link | #83397
Happy birthday to Fiachra!

GalacticPirate
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