ZILtoid1991

Liberalism has failed. While it tried to somewhat remedy today's problems, it clearly wasn't enough. Especially with how much our corporate overlords outgrew even the past robber barons. The corporate social media, that were often used by anti-establishment activists, are often became extremely hostile to those, and instead boosted those that does take down the more liberal parts of the status quo. Liberals became more and more incompetent about trying to speak to the common people who do not understand economics to the same degree as they think.

Even we had our own issues. The former big names of "breadtube" often have had disappeared to Nebula and other platforms, where their videos are paywalled, thus reach a much smaller audience. While others do exist, they have been buried under the algorithm so far, and the far-right likes to antagonize politics in entertainment media, but only if that entrails leftist politics, thus some of us are holding back on it.

First if you haven't ditched Twitter yet, then what are you waiting for? Go get a Mastodon account, go to Bluesky (even if they're still corporate) instead, even if your VTuber oshi or favorite singer still haven't go any of there or got bored of them after a few days due to being way less addictive.

Secondly, unless you really live in a very isolated place, go outside, talk to people! Make real-life friends! You have been living in long time isolation that you have issues with opening up yet again? Seek help, either professionally or some other way if it's not available to you.

Third, take care of your body, don't let it go to waste. You might need it, if things go to south.

And lastly, we must stop taking the "moral high ground" every time. The right does not care. The right just uses it to gaslight us to hold certain positions, often to make us look worse, or to compromise our positions. Do not "cancel" your fellow comrades just to show "yeah, we are holding people accountable for their actions", just for that to be something said years ago or something similarly small stuff; this is both being used to hurt our movement by inciting infights, but to also show those wanting to leave the alt-right "why would you, they'll eventually backstab you", maybe instead we want to rehabilitate people as we always dreamed what justice should be. But also do not concede your positions on minorities: the "ineffective" liberal party that preceded Fidesz tried to slowly concede on Roma issues due to the damage the far-right did between 2006 and 2010 to anti-racism, then Ferenc Gyurcsány's (Hungarian prime minister between 2004 and 2008) current party doubled down on slowly abandoning some LGBTQ+ issues, while being barely more than a shitty social democrat party. Meanwhile Szikra, an unashamedly populist and libertarian-leftist party, is unstoppable.

Take your time to rest. Whether you expected or not, a punch still hurts. But we can't rest forever.

I know stuff like SDL and RayLib exists, but I already have my own X11 and Windows API stuff working, and otherwise those libraries like to obscure things from the user in the name of "ease of use", sometimes even missing features (force feedback and proper XInput are the ones that are often skimped out on for whatever reasons, and only SDL has them to my knowledge). While I'll implement libevdev eventually, it has the issue of needing access to the devices.

While I found some reference to game inputs in X11's input extensions, I cannot find any user guide on them, since they're instead pointing me to SDL and co.