Prunebutt
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- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 3 weeks ago:
One could argue that the dynamic shadows of the day and night cycle in Sea of Stars were actually kind of breaking new ground in pixel art.
- Comment on Gen Z is ‘task masking’ in the workplace. How harmful is it? 5 weeks ago:
Hey! I happen to be more productive afterwards when I spend 6 hours perfecting my neovim config at work, thank you very much!
- Comment on no ragrets 1 month ago:
- Comment on no ragrets 1 month ago:
I think it fits.
- Comment on no ragrets 1 month ago:
What about that bloke who started all this stuff about alpha and beta wolves.
- Comment on Discuss. 1 month ago:
Left of Hawking is Gauss
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 1 month ago:
I only read it somewhere since I only played the game on PC way back.
Supposedly, the PS2 version suffers from slowdown/FPS dips.
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 1 month ago:
The PS2 version of Grandia 2 is the worst one, if I remeber correctly. Better emulate Dreamcast for that one.
- Comment on Did I post this to the right comm 1 month ago:
No, propaganda is when Putin pays trolls to disagree with me online.
- Comment on Sinners!!! 2 months ago:
But why?
Just 'cos
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
While I don’t have a perfect plan on democratic governance (sorry, I’m just a small, little boi), these examples came to mind right away:
What I also want to adress is that the things you’re criticizing in your first comment are structural problems of a liberal democracy. That means that they don’t stem from bad actors inside the system, but rather from the way the system is set up. Members of parliament have a free mandate and are under no direct obligation to enact policies on which they ran in elections. Yes, they can not get elected the next term, but this can also be an incentive to “get away with it” by e.g. manipulating the media landscape, lying, covering your tracks, searching for excuses, etc.
Also: you canwt vote the system away. When you’re voting, the only available opitions are ones that stabilize the parliamentary system. That’s why I don’t (or at least not completely) agree with “it needs both”. A general strike could lead to a more democratic system, while electoralism will always try to strengthen the current system.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Discussing why not having voting invites other methods of deciding power struggles that are even less democratic, does not mean a false dichotomy
Yes it is. It presupposes that parliamentary democracy is the only way of democratic governance.
You are literally demonstrating the effect of the media landscape that you’re criticizing: you’re acting like there’s no other democratic alternative than a parliamentary democracy.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Voting is a good system. The alternative is “let’s just have a fight with guns, or with money, or connections to powerful people, every time there’s a disagreement.”
Show me how this is not a dichotomy. Why are these the only options?
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
That just opens you up to false balancing. See: the media landscape on climate change for the last 70 years.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
I think you’re opening up a false dichotomy here: it’s not about voting vs. the law of the fist. It’s about how the democratic systems are set up to keep the powerful in power.
The system is set up to promote those “absolutely craven, useless, and corrupt class of full-time political operatives who generally don’t give a shit about the people”. And “fixing” the media to not promote those things is like trying to teach a cat not to hunt mice.
There are more ways to have a democratic stucture of politics than “we decide onsour ruler every four years”.
- Comment on Do You Even Squid Game Bro? 2 months ago:
Also: I think it’s waay more plausible that they’ve seen the Mr Beast videos, rather than the original show. Cultural osmosis and all that.
- Comment on When you think you've got it bad 2 months ago:
Can we add a picture of all the european aristrocrats who felt so insecure about their dick-measuring contests among their inbred cousins that they needed to send millions of people to their deaths and all that shit mentioned in the upper panel?
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 2 months ago:
Why can’t Metroid crawl?
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 3 months ago:
The plant is also receiving blue/white light from the ad. Pretty sure it’s legit.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 3 months ago:
Joke’s on you! Projectors get this “smart” bullshit, too!
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 3 months ago:
That’s what I meant with “prior art”. Nintendo’s second patent basically explains how any old JRPG worked.
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 3 months ago:
Copyright is already cooked, no matter where it’s located. But the way japan acts as if Pokemon invented JRPG battles is simply ridiculous.
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 3 months ago:
the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole
Yes, definetly.
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 3 months ago:
“moving characters to a virtual field when an event is triggered” (entering a battle)
How is that a legit patent, when there are so many obvious instances of prior art?
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 3 months ago:
*allegedly
- Comment on What makes a video game triple A (AAA)? 3 months ago:
It’s determined by the publisher’s PR department.
- Comment on At least 1440p is good for heating my house 3 months ago:
Where aneurism?
- Comment on Mitochondria 4 months ago:
Anything that’s not heterodox. Neoclassicists, Chicago school, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Ygu must understand that for the democrats, being the lesser evil is the whole selling point. They need to act like the respectable option, but in essence, they rely on the republicans.
- Comment on Mitochondria 4 months ago:
Lol. Mainstream economics is nothing but ideologically charged excuses for the status quo, anyways. And you wouldn’t learn heterodox econ in high school anyways.
At least we *doy know how mitochondria works.