Crankenstein
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- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 1 day 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 day 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 2 days 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’ 2 days 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” 3 days ago:
Capitalism at its finest.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 6 days ago:
Literally is, sorry you are so confused about the subject.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 6 days ago:
Welp, abandon ship.
- Comment on Prince of Persia remake apparently still on track for 2026, per Ubisoft 6 days ago:
I’m just sad they won’t be continuing with games similar to The Lost Crown. 2D PoP games are peak.
- Comment on Nestin, nexin, nesprin, nectin, nephrin, netrin... 6 days ago:
“Aaron earned an iron urn.”
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 6 days ago:
I have, but only fighting games because that first month of online play is heaven when there is no meta established and no one has muscle memory yet.
But yea, fuck Gearbox, I uninstalled every Borderlands Game after the new changes to EULA. Fuck them having kernal access.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 6 days ago:
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 6 days ago:
Internally, yea, but I was speaking more towards the decline of their products, not the treatment of staff, that was being discussed in the top comment.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 6 days ago:
#PatientGamers
It don’t matter what the release price is. Everything goes on sale eventually.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 6 days ago:
Good,
WotCHASBRO is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.FIFY
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 6 days ago:
I would put money on the downfall of WotC being exclusively due to being owned by Hasbro and their executives forcing their greedy practices onto the team.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 6 days ago:
Those practical methods would never have existed if not for Hertz’ experiments. Those were 25 years of other scientists, having seen that this new concept exists, refining his contraption into what eventually would become the machine that we know as a radio.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 6 days ago:
I absolutely detest the equivocation of “benefits society” and “marked for profit”.
Plenty of things have been discovered to have practical applications which can benefit society yet are shelved or have its implementation frustrated because it cannot be exploited for profit or threatens the profits of a preexisting application which it would replace.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
It has literally been about 20 years since I played. I can’t say I really remember which part you’re talking about. I just remember about halfway/three-quarter into the game things get fucking weird.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Indigo Prophecy
Played it when it originally released in the US and I loved it as a pre-teen who had no fucking idea what was happening in the story.
- Comment on Devil May Cry isn't that great of a series 1 week ago:
Good News Everyone!
A new Onimusha game is coming.
- Comment on PS5’s Wolverine game finally just made an appearance after several years of silence, and it’s not dead after all 1 week ago:
Wait, excuse me, what? The writer of Spec Ops is doing the Wolverine game?
Okay I might actually start being interested in its development.
- Comment on Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio 1 week ago:
Only slightly disagree.
Inquisition and Veilguard aren’t bad games. They are each fun in their own ways and cater to certain audiences.
That audience just so happens to not be in any way related to the Dragon Age fandom.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 week ago:
I expected a lot of travel for the career, I just was naive in expecting that travel to be reimbursed as it’s a condition of the job. Nope, gotta foot the bill yourself.
I have passion for this career in conservation but, unfortunately, I also have to be able to afford the cost of living.
- Comment on Eating shit is for alphas, am I rite guise 1 week ago:
Having met a few nut jobs who are all about pseudoscience like homeopathy, crystal healing, and other forms of ‘natural alternative medicines’, this is exactly the type of shit I would expect them to say with a straight face.
Satire needs to be exaggerated to the point it is clear no one would actually say something so outlandish and the point of it is to be making a mockery of a specific set of beliefs. This misses those marks.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
