BlameTheAntifa
@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
- Comment on Enlightenment 1 week ago:
It makes perfect sense. Centrists are the only people who don’t realize that centrists are enablers of authoritarianism. The Golden Mean Fallacy is a logical fallacy for a reason.
- Comment on Great Advertise 2 weeks ago:
There is a mathematic perfection that our brains easily recognize even if we can’t articulate it. The human brain is unmatched at the task of visual pattern recognition.
- Comment on heaven 2 weeks ago:
The torture for the true sinners probably happens, but at the hands of the normal people who didnt make it to heaven.
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that COBRA is often unimaginably expensive, and since it’s something you’re faced with while out of work, it’s an impossible option for regular people. The better choice is to get private insurance as soon as you can, but coverage is usually tied to the start of calendar months, meaning you could be uncovered for a time if you don’t take COBRA. To make it even more wonderful, you often lose access to your health care immediately when you lose your job, so COBRA is only helpful retroactively after the fact in the event of a major emergency.
Health care in the US is barbaric.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 weeks ago:
So Valve says the processors - such as Stripe and PayPal - pressed the issue based on pressure from MasterCard (and possibly Visa). MasterCard says they had nothing to do with it. Itch says that Stripe was directly responsible in their case with a blanket ban on anything generally sexy, but that Stripe blamed their banking partners.
So Stripe, at least, is directly responsible but insists they are under pressure from banking partners. This means the pressure is coming from one or more actual banks. Since we don’t have names, we have to do some research to find out who Stripe works with. The possibilities I was able to dig up on a quick search include:
- Citigroup
- Wells Fargo
- Barclays
- Goldman Sachs
- Evolve Bank & Trust
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 3 weeks ago:
It wasn’t Itch.io’s fault, but the fact that payment processing has been globally monopolized and can force it’s own arbitrary will on anyone without recourse.
Blame Visa and MasterCard and the christofascist scum from Collective Shout.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 weeks ago:
Steam has no power. They are beholden to a very particular monopoly that can get away with anything it wants and is currently being manipulated by unethical evangelical fascists.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 weeks ago:
Moral judgement or suppression of fiction/artistic expression is deeply and profoundly unethical. How you or I or anyone else feels about something that isn’t “real” is inconsequential. If you allow any line to be crossed in this, then every line can and will be crossed.
- Comment on For anyone else who has shed a tear today after hearing about Ozzy's passing... 3 weeks ago:
Julian LeFay, creator of The Elder Scrolls, died of cancer yesterday. He also deserves to be remembered.
- Comment on Everything is just an ESP32 away 3 weeks ago:
I’ve lived through that entire journey. I still don’t trust the printer, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s been evolving quite a bit, though it has stalled out the last few months. The developer recently wrote a blog that the next update will be enormous as it reworks almost everything in the game, hence the lack of incremental updates lately.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There are alternatives like Manor Lords that can scratch that itch. Ones that aren’t by a predatory, anti-consumer company and aren’t infected with Denuvo malware.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 4 weeks ago:
Waning interest in Ubisoft. Everything they touch is painfully generic and uninteresting. But sure, blame the consumers for your lack of vision, passion, and technical acumen. See how that pays off, Yves.
- Comment on If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store 4 weeks ago:
Civ 7 shipped with Denuvo malware. No matter what they may eventually do with it, it’s not worth touching. They’ve shown how much contempt they have for customers and that’s all that matters.
- Comment on The night water 4 weeks ago:
That’s too close to accurate for an RFK hot take.
It’s because water absorbs gas from the air, especially at warmer temperatures. Since the uncovered cup of water shares space with people, who exhale carbon dioxide, it’s the carbon dioxide, increased acidity, and other absorbed gasses you taste. Exhaled carbon dioxide is breath leaving the body. So, ghosts.
- Comment on The good old days 4 weeks ago:
Can confirm, username is satirical.
- Comment on The good old days 4 weeks ago:
Lies. Millennials don’t have mortgages because they can’t afford homes.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 4 weeks ago:
It’s still infected with Denuvo malware, so even if the gameplay weren’t a disaster the answer would still be “no.”
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 5 weeks ago:
You appear to be conflating Capitalism with the concept of free markets. They are wholly different and distinct concepts, regardless of what Capitalism’s propagandists would like everyone to believe.
Capitalism, being an economic dogma that worships private ownership and relentless pursuit and hoarding of wealth, actively incentivizes behavior that destroys free markets: trusts, monopolies, oligopolies, regulatory capture, sabotage, patents, union busting, mergers and acquisitions, financialization, and more, gradually eroding any free market until it no longer meaningfully exists.
- Comment on Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content 5 weeks ago:
The only thing this does is punish everyone and implement more surveillance.
Tories: Precisely.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 5 weeks ago:
One of the tenants of capitalism is that you, the consumer, should demand more-for-less
Oh dear, that was never a tenet of capitalism. Capitalism has only one tenet: amass as much capital as possible at all costs. Literally anything goes, including and especially capturing and controlling markets by stifling competition.
- Comment on People don't know what they are voting for 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 5 weeks ago:
This is a good policy. They destroy everything they touch, anyway, including their acquired studios.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 1 month ago:
The only Fallout games worth playing.
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 1 month ago:
Toys R Us. No contest.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
Another part of it is that if they discontinue support, they can’t stop the community from creating their own server software.
There are so many ways to approach this. The point is ensuring consumers retain the right to keep using what they purchased, even if they have to support it themselves.
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 month ago:
mainstream media
mainstream liberals
I believe you have proved my point.
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 month ago:
It has a negative connotation only for nazis and racists. For everyone else it has a clear, well defined meaning. Anyone who uses it as pejorative is a racist, nazi propagandist.
- Comment on Why, just why? 1 month ago:
If you look at their comment history, this person is an American MAGA nazi. It’s best to block them and move on.
- Comment on Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation 1 month ago:
“It’s okay for corporations to steal a little bit. As a treat.”
