We are not plateau-ing. At all.
It is also dead due to how repulsive the place was. Literally.
Contrary to the memes and the "elite pvp" reputation of eve online, the people in the communities are very welcoming and you can make some long term friends there.
You still need to sort of enjoy the game itself I suppose. That is relatively easy with friends though.
Ist aber bei dem Argument Schwachsinn.
Der Staat sorgt ja erst dafür das das Kindergeld so niedrig ist das es ein erheblicher finanzieller Nachteil ist, Kinder zu haben. Kindergeld kommt auch aus Steuern. Dann sollten die eher die Steuern erhöhen und das Kindergeld.
Das hilft aber der Pflegekasse nicht und darum gehts bei Frau Warken. Das hat nichts mit Kindern zu tun und es ehrlich gesagt schon ein bisschen eklig das sie das einerseits macht und du andererseits drauf einsteigst.
Depends.
If they are the "Ratatouille" kind of critic, knowing what they like, or what is good and serving as a "bar", that can be a good reference if you are informed about their tastes.
But there is also a bunch of "high art film" that's just boring, so if they insist that that is art or film or cinema and something more mundane but fun isn't, because it doesn't fulfill some arbitrary condition, that's bad.
A horror movie critic after watching thousands of horror movies saying "The overall movie was meh, but that one thing about the monster or the way they did their camera work was cool and that's why the movie was worth watching and if you are just watching for entertainment, not so much". And the same person can judge a different horror movie to be "completely unoriginal and derivative".
But if it's a movie about someone watching paint dry and it's "super interesting because it reveals something deep about our human nature and our relationship with the passage of time" then that's... that's not my thing.
Also I pay zero attention to movie critics. I don't care about movies. That's just what I think about them.
Ich mag die Republica nicht, weil es z.b. bei dieser Diskussion bleibt.
Alles was da gesagt wird, geht ins eine Ohr rein, und aus dem anderen wieder raus.
Ja.
Und wer hat das zugelassen und einfach weiter gemacht?
Vollidioten.
Arguing against violence and war when that is possible is fine.
Arguing fanatically to lay down weapons when one side is very clearly not going to do that, is very stupid.
In the sense that there will always be people who are going to be tricked into a fascist, violent, superiority cult, because there are just that many people, and in the sense that sometimes and regularly moderate or intense violence will be necessary to stop them, because some people are closed off to arguments and peaceful discussion, opposing that violence is taking their side, yes.
And it's fine if you disagree, I simply think you have really finished thinking about it. The reply is always going to be a "... but what if they just stopped being fanatic fascists" and I think that is not how that works.
So ultimately I agree with Orwell.
If you haven't played it, try hollow knight. It also doesn't do those things. It's relatively clear about the story that you need to know and why you're doing things.
Basically, the good parts of free speech arguments.
I do think there are things that can just be banned from existence, and be made illegal, but it's significantly more tolerant than the current vibe.
Reality doesn't give a shit about our systems of morals. There is a certain "mainstream, harmony and political correctness" creep that sometimes happens. And what's bad about that, is that bubbles brain wash themselves into believing that the way they think the world works is really how the world works. And what they hold isn't just a perspective and an opinion, but a fundamental truth about the world and deviation needs to be purged. And that eventually collides with reality. This is both true for racists and for people who think racism can be "cured" or "educated away" or "people can just consider the facts and change their mind".
The fediverse allows a more gradual interaction than centralized social media sites. Because centralized social media must decide how to deal with... depiction of politics, religious subjects, NSFW topics, which btw, covers everything from violence over nudity to medical conditions.
If there was a medical community sharing discussions about medical topics, I can block that and be unburdened by it, but there is no central fediverse authority that needs to decide if that medical picture is not allowed because there is a boob in it.
In short, banning a social group on social media, like racists, doesn't convince anyone or remove that group of people from factually existing and factually organizing.
Open Source Software works the same way, you can't be sure that math library isn't being used to control a remove controlled ballistic missile, but pretending that you can "ban math" depending on the purpose is stupid, so there is no point in worrying about it.
You can just form a regular institutionalized user group / hobby association and run that this way if you want.
That's the end point I see for the fediverse too, localized specialized interest groups that run themselves, know each other IRL and both finance the space because they see the value it brings them and democratically decide how to run it.
... but it doesn't work perfectly with sign ups being unlimited, anonymized and open to the general internet.
Someone else posted the graph, it already shows the projection and estimation is not stable. Plateau implies it's stable and it stays at that level.