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- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 5 months ago:
Holy lack of media literacy, Batman!
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 5 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 7 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.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 year ago:
Welp, abandon ship.
- Comment on Prince of Persia remake apparently still on track for 2026, per Ubisoft 1 year 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... 1 year ago:
“Aaron earned an iron urn.”
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 1 year 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 1 year ago:
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.