They’re both “linters”. They analyze your code without executing it, known as “static analysis”, and highlight logical and stylistic errors.

Pylint will give you warnings if you try to feed a variable that holds an integer into a function that works on strings or if you deviate from python’s suggested style guide. Python doesn’t check data types until you actually run your code, so errors with data types won’t be caught until your program crashes. Using pylint allows you to get warnings before actually executing your code. Note that Python allows for type hinting which allows you to tell linters what data types variables and functions are allowed to be. Python itself ignores type hints when executing code.

Black automatically formats your code to adhere to Python’s suggested style guide. Unlike something like Pylint, it cannot be configured to ignore certain style rules. All projects using Black will have the same style. Python gives a lot of leeway in how you can format valid code, but it’s difficult for programmers to read code in dozens of different styles. Most languages have come up with their own style guide. For example, your first line does not match the suggested style. All imports should be on their own line. If you don’t want to remeber all the rules yourself, you can use Black to format your code in a way everyone is agreeable with.

The allegation is that the Minister of Police has ties to organized crime groups since the BBC is now writing clickbait headlines.

Which petitions were those actions caused by?

The idea that choosing a safe seat means not winning by a landslide could be considered a failure is an interesting one. Though I really can’t see the party kicking him out as leader unless he just barely wins.

That’s also why some people believe in snake oil. People get desperate to try something after a few days of illness and then suddenly feel better after doing the thing. They would have gotten better without it, but the timing makes it seem like the thing cured them. It’s why we use double blind studies instead of anecdotes like this.

Please DO NOT announce to the server when you are going to masturbate. This has been a reoccurring issue, and I’m not sure why some people have such under developed social skills that they think that a server full of mostly male strangers would need to know that. No one is going to be impressed and give you a high five (especially considering where that hand has been). I don’t want to add this to the rules, since it would be embarrassing for new users to see that we have a problem with this, but it is going to be enforced as a rule from now on.

If it occurs, you will be warned, then additional occurrences will be dealt with at the discretion of modstaff. Thanks.

Don’t misunderestimate Dubya. Irregardless of his policies, he coined words and phrases like Shakespeare. How many of use of dreamed of human beings and fish coexisting peacefully? How many of us strive to put food on our families and buy most of our imports from overseas? Don’t we all want to know “is our children learning?” And who can forget that famous Texas proverb “fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.”

But it’s a concern i can’t easily shake as a hobbyist who eventually wants to release something.

There’s good reason to be concerned. Games made by solo devs and small teams are incredibly popular nowadays. It’s easier than ever to release a game. Government rules could easily change that.

There’s the concept of barriers to entry which looks at how difficult it is for someone to create a new business in a particular industry. Governments can increase the barrier to entry in an industry, effectively lowering competition, by creating regulations. Indie devs could find meeting legal requirements difficult while major corporations would have no issues since they already have large legal teams.

There’s also the idea of regulatory capture where the government body overseeing regulations of an industry becomes filled with industry loyalist who serve industry interests instead of the interests of the general public. An example is the FTC in the US currently bullying any media company critical of Trump while ignoring those that aren’t. Regulators could end up bullying small studios while ignoring big players.

I don’t mind governments regulating what goes into food, but governments regulating what goes into video games is definitely concerning. If there were no regulations on food, people could die if they bought from the wrong company. If there are no regulations on video games, people could lose the ability to play them years after purchase if they brought from the wrong company. The issues with barriers to entry and regulatory capture are less concerning when the lack of regulations could mean death. When the worst outcome of no regulations is effectively the loss of $80, I’m not sure regulations are worth the risk.

Personally, I think you can’t lose a game you never bought. If a game has anti-consumer features in it, then not buying it means you can never lose it. Being selective in which games you buy, and where you buy them, is the best way to keeping your library in tact.

Monologue? He interviewed Elmo!

Even this comment is filled with hatred. Why are you so angry?

YanDev is a literal pedophile. It’s honestly mind boggling people care more about a guy who won’t sign a petition on preserving video games than pedophiles and bigots. I don’t get the hate.

OwO what’s this? *notices your copy of Mein Kampf*

I get it. I also get that the reason this is an issue is because he lost a seat he held for 20 years and needs help from others to keep his job and house. He talks about personal responsibility and then asks for handouts when he loses. He talks about government elites and then uses his political status to get special treatment. It is an example of his hypocrisy.

Guy living in the government funded house for the leader of the official opposition, even though he is not the leader of the official opposition, suggests the PM isn’t being ethical.

because 99% of gamers do not give a fuck.

Then why would any government care?

This gives me AI vibes.

atro_city said it well:

If the SKG movement doesn’t organise, that’s all we’ll get: a communiqué to shut the hell up.

Over a million Europeans have signed a petition in less than a month. Why only Europeans? Big ecelebs like PewDiePie and Critikal have made videos on this. It’s got a lot of people interested. Why not get everyone in on something more direct? Something international? Why does the world need to sit and wait and hope the EU parliament fixes everything? It seems like a waste of momentum. It needs to be more than just a European petition. A call to boycott the worst companies until they change their EULA and TOS would be a great start.

My point is that the movement should be doing more than just signing an online petition. What happens if the EU parliament declines to make any changes? Nothing? Oh well we tried? What will you do?

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How? I genuinely believe something along the lines of an organized boycott would be far more impactful than a hail mary petition. The reason I think it wouldn’t work is because most people couldn’t commit. That’s why I said this isn’t activism.

It’s not activism if you’re not putting in any effort. I don’t care if people downvote me, but at least post an actual opinion. Have an actual stance. I’m glad others have posted some, although all of them seem to be along the lines of “this petition will definitely fix everything so we don’t need to try anything else”.