Crankenstein
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- Comment on Well would you look at that... 2 days ago:
Yes, because of other evolutionary pressures. That doesn’t mean humans wiped them out.
- Comment on Well would you look at that... 2 days ago:
Except this absolutely isn’t even close to true. We interbred with other species prolifically to the point every person on Earth has Neanderthal DNA and Denisovian DNA, among other genetic material we don’t know the specific origins.
That kind of misanthropic view that homo spaiens just “killed all the other types of monkeys” is toxic.
- Comment on No Man's Sky for new slow player 1 week ago:
It is a number go up, sandbox of a game. Bunch of stuff to do but very little reason to do it. It’s a fun game, but takes a special kind of person who knows how to make their own fun to enjoy it and doesn’t mind the grind.
There are quests and a story but they serve more as tutorialization rather than an actual “main quest line” (there is a story and lore but it’s all very background stuff that is completely irrelevant to the actual gameplay). Lot of down time and just exploration between objectives once you reach the middle, and the ending is pretty much “now you know the ‘Big Secret’, what do you do now?”
From what you described, it’s probably not your bag. It doesn’t really reward in depth exploration as planets are all randomly generated. You go, explore around a bit, then bounce on to the next planet unless you like the aesthetic enough to make a base in. Combat is the worst aspect of the game even the dogfighting, which is better than the gunplay but still meh.
It will, as you put, “crush [you] with never ending space, billions quests, and tedious base building”
- Comment on Sit back down and let's play 1 week ago:
That Duke and the stack of Xbox discs says at least 2000s.
- Comment on 0/10 game 1 week ago:
Used to have a friend, complete FromSoft fanboy, who argued incessantly that this wasn’t the case.
Dude just would not admit that Miyazaki, known to be a gigantic troll IRL, designs parts of his games to troll people.
- Comment on 'None of these people have ever made a game,' BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: 'They just don't know how it works' 1 week ago:
Yup. Ain’t no war but class war, babay.
- Comment on Super late to the party but Control is really good… 2 weeks ago:
Fire extinguishers are your friend.
- Comment on Super late to the party but Control is really good… 2 weeks ago:
I miss the Service Weapon honestly but I am still very much enjoying the more melee focused gameplay.
- Comment on Super late to the party but Control is really good… 2 weeks ago:
Loved Control. Currently playing through the sequel.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 2 months ago:
This.
Intention be damned if they don’t provide the necessary infrastructure so people can access this at a minimum standard of quality.
I, unfortunately, live out in the boonies and streaming a game with this country bumpkin Internet is impossible.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 3 months ago:
It is not nitpicking. It’s actually a good point. You think that because you have the perspective of the present conditions. You’re thinking of what you would do with those resources to solve the issues you see with that perspective. Yet, the owning-class don’t; they only have their perspective of what is immediately important in their lives and maintaining it. It fulfills those needs now and that’s what they care about, the rest of their issues they still believe they can solve by throwing at it money and the labor of others while they go stroke their egos; gorging themselves on luxury and decadence assuming they are to powerful to be touched by the problems the masses struggle with.
That is the insidious problem with systemic issues. The princess didn’t tell them to eat brioche out of spite but because she was blinded by her position being so far separated an experience from that of the common masses. They, the owning-class, too are only human and can only see what they see from their individual, limited perspective. The system is working just fine for them and they want to ensure that continues to be. That inherently jades the logic of their internal reasoning. It’s why they don’t think like me and you.
That egalitarian society might seem distant, and it is, that doesn’t mean it is impossible. We know it potentially can happen as anthropologist David Graeber said, “The ultimate goal of our oppressors is to limit our imagination about what is possible without them, so that we might never imagine more for ourselves and the world we live in. We can only imagine what is in front of us because the power structure decrees that there are no alternatives other than what currently exists. We humans have lived the alternative for tens of thousands of years. We are capable of building a free society, a brighter future, because we already have ideas about what that might look like. We know what societies without bureaucracies are capable of.”
It’s just gonna take a LOT of work and we are on the back foot in the present moment. Yet, as Ursula K LeGuin said, “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”
Thanks for this delightful back and forth. Keep the hope alive. It’s all we have currently.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 3 months ago:
This is just how the system of capitalism naturally degrades into fascism. Eventually they can’t squeeze enough out of the established methods and must tighten their grip. Positive reinforcement only gets you so far, and the owning-class wishes to go further.
And what makes a “good/bad” manager depends on the incentive structure. To us, the way they manage things is considered bad by our interests but, to them, they see it as good management because it is still fulfilling their interests.
But in the sense that they are holding the “wrong beliefs”, I guess you could call them delusional, with their delusion being of the owning class. It is just very unfortunate our societal is built to reinforce that delusion.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 3 months ago:
But why do that when you can wantonly exploit your workforce for obscene profits? /s
See, they don’t need the best workers, isn’t like they are going to be partaking of the services or products they are shoveling, they just need obedient workers who will meet a minimum threshold of quality; anyone who falls below the threshold can be used as an example to ensure the rest keep working.
They aren’t delusional, they are owning class capitalists and their incentives are fundamentally different from ours as working class people.
- Comment on Trump’s tariffs resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from working people into the hands of millionaires and billionaire 3 months ago:
Ding ding. We have a winner.
- Comment on "I pray they are cursed to never play the game again" Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya goes off on Resident Evil Requiem leakers 8 months ago:
Holy lack of media literacy, Batman!
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 8 months ago:
That’s a problem with the industry and economics that don’t allow for a variety of creative expression, not with the game genre.
- Comment on bad bitch 10 months ago:
It do give off major side-eye vibes.
- Comment on The Purge 1 year ago:
More a biology lesson. It’s the scientific word for the appendage. Human’s — I believe all mammals as well — have them lining our lower intestines. They help us absorb nutrients by increasing surface area.
The word itself, papillae, just means “a small, rounded part which protrudes from an organ/ nipple” from Latin.
- Comment on The Purge 1 year ago:
Those “spines” are called papillae, for anyone wanting specifics.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 1 year ago:
“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.” — Immortan Joe
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 1 year ago:
Happening all over the globe. The capitalist hegemony is getting scared because their system is collapsing in on itself and, through the imperial boomerang, are beginning to employ practices only performed abroad on the interior in order to maintain their power.
Now is most certainly the time for people to unionize and start relearning why unions formed in the first place: so workers can band together to exert their political will and take ownership over their workplace from a parasitic class that has only ever existed to exploit our labor.
- Comment on 72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires 1 year ago:
Now with another one of these big bogus showdowns looming down on us, I can already pick up the stench of another bummer. I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing this year is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.
—Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973).
How many more decades of “Just vote harder” does this country need to go through before we realize we aren’t gonna be able to vote our way out of this?
">“You see,” my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
-They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 1 year ago:
Gotta love the Streisand effect.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 1 year ago:
Capitalism at its finest.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 year ago:
Literally is, sorry you are so confused about the subject.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 year ago:
If they start any nefarious monetization practices, absolutely pull mods. Until then though, I agree. No reason to pull ones that are already there, but definitely be prudent and start casting a wider net.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 year ago:
You don’t need full communism, just make sure companies are owned by the workers
“Companies owned by the workers” is communism. That’s literally what is meant by “shared ownership of the means of production”.
The “means of production” is all the shit that companies own, such as the land, machines, buildings, raw materials, etc…
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 year ago:
Let me introduce you to torrenting and community distribution of data.
It could be implemented this way so that no one individual would need to fully shoulder the burden of hosting everything.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 year ago:
Paid mods I think are unlikely, why bother to make a change so unpopular? Milk this shit for a decade and press this button only when shit hits the fan.
Unfortunately, I think this will be likely because Nexus has almost entirely cornered the market on mods. It is the place people get their mods from if not the Steam Workshop.
People would have to actually abandon the convenience and go back to scrolling a bunch of games specific forums for their mods. I don’t see that happening unfortunately.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 year ago:
There are plenty, they just aren’t as big or as well designed because they are just small forums, and most are usually game specific.
Nexus was unique in that it was a hub for the modding community. It was a nice convenience while it lasted.