Plebcouncilman
@Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 17 hours ago:
That doesn’t really change my position since I’ve seen many unironically and seriously advocate for being the aggressors. And like I said elsewhere, current progressive agenda doesn’t make a lot of sense because its whole identity is being the opposite of MAGA with a whiff of the ideals that once were core to it.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 17 hours ago:
It doesn’t matter what MAGA does or what MAGA is, progressives need to define themselves independently of that. But a popular workers movement it is not. That crown for right or wrong belongs to MAGA.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 18 hours ago:
This is proof that the current progressive agenda causes the same kind of brain rot MAGA does.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 18 hours ago:
The first thing is that progressives need to stop being intellectually dishonest. The movement needs to admit that the world view is a technocratic one in which the best course of action given the evidence available is the one that will guide the decisions of the movement, not popular sentiment.
As of right now the progressive agenda looks like a mass of contradictions whose only identity is opposition to MAGA and the right with such intensity that the right has in fact co-opted many of the stances that traditionally belonged on the left, losing the support of the working class.
Seen through a Marxist lens, it is not surprising, the progressive movement in the US is not a worker’s movement but rather a managerial class movement.
- Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console 4 days ago:
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consoles have mods these days, though they do need developer support
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not everyone cares about mods, I’d go out on a limb and say most pc players don’t use mods
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this new Xbox is not an OS, it’s an app. The device still has full windows in there and it is accessible. But when you’re using the Xbox app windows suspends many of its functions.
The next Xbox will simply be a prebuilt PC and it won’t be subsidized (or it will be subsidized less) so expect a $700-$900 price tag for the Series X, and a $500 for the Series S. It wouldn’t make sense any other way. Steam et all will be usable, as it is usable in the Xbox Ally as well.
Now tell me what would you rather buy? The PS5, which is absurdly locked down? Deal with the gpu market shenanigans? Or buy the prebuilt Xbox PC that lets you play all your Steam games as well?
It’s fucking genius.
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- Comment on Day 331 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 5 days ago:
I mean my problem is that they didn’t learn from Fallout 4 and furthermore they went and doubled down on it in the worst ways possible. Radiant quests on FO4 were kinda lame, but at least I can say that they sent you into unique dungeons. In Starfield no only are the quests repeated but also the locations. It’s a huge step back.
On the positive end though I do have to say that the Faction quest for the Federation (I don’t remember the name) is one of the best quests lines Bethesda has written hands down. It felt like it could have been the main quest all by itself.
- Comment on Day 331 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 5 days ago:
Wait until you realize that there’s like 5 dungeons and they are literally copy pasted all over the galaxy. Not like Oblivion were the rooms were copy pasted but had different mobs in it etc. These are literally the same dungeons, some of them even have a little narrative told through terminals, and not even that changes.
I used to be a Bethesda fan and a huge Todd apologist, but he’s literally out of touch with what made his games good for the core audience and instead panders to the audience who buys games based on the laundry list of features they never get to see because they don’t finish or play games after the hype is dead one week later.
It’s a shame because they actually got a lot of things right like going back to the TES conversation style, and having actual builds and the ship building which is pretty cool.
My last hope is that they actually learn the lesson with this game and stop this bullshit they’ve been trying to pull of since Arena of having endless content.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 days ago:
I gave the only instance in which piracy is permissible in the comment you replied to. When there are arbitrary restrictions on how and where you can consume the content that you purchased. But a purchased must have had happened, because that’s what entitles you to access to the content. That’s literally the only instance in which piracy is valid. I’ve seen all the other arguments and they really don’t hold up to any kind of scrutiny because games, movies and books are not necessities and you are not entitled to access to anyone’s work while everyone is entitled to price their work however they like. If you want access to the content you pay what the gatekeeper is asking for, and if the content is not good enough for you to pay for it then surely it isn’t good enough for you to spend the most valuable resource that you have on it which is time.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 6 days ago:
You do you, but to me 99% of pirates are just entitled parasites who’ve never created anything in their lives and as such do not understand why content has a price. For me piracy is only justifiable when you have paid for the content but are being barred from accessing it via bullshit like Adobe DRM.
But pirating shit just because you disagree with the pricing is entitled behavior and I cannot condone it, as someone who thinks I have the right to price my property at whatever price I want. It’s not essential to your survival so you can just not consume it and move on.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 6 days ago:
My critique is not of the content of the writing but rather its presentation and its over reliance on what I can only call “millennial humor”.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 6 days ago:
I don’t think it was the lack of open world that put me off from it, as I’ve always preferred hub based games ever since Dragon Age Origins. I think it was just the writing honestly. I don’t like the whole “le soooo epic zany & ttlly rndm” writing that it shares with Borderlands. I don’t find it funny, endearing nor entertaining. It’s just annoying to me and it was overdone in the specific period of time it release because millennial culture was at its height.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 6 days ago:
I tried giving it a chance but it just felt like a bad Fallout 3 with Borderlands writing. Got to like the third planet I think and I dropped it.
I really liked Avowed though, which elicited similar reactions.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 6 days ago:
It’s gonna be on gamepass, thats the cheap option.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
We like to call it a feminine penis these days
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
3% body fat is the amount of essential body fat needed to survive. Keyword survive, meaning you are breathing and your organs are still working but you are probably not capable of walking very far or doing anything for very long without collapsing. You’ve seen images of the 1943 famines in india? Those people were 3% body fat. So what I guess I’m saying is that I’d be willing to bet that you are at a higher body fat % than that, possibly around 6%-10% if you are capable of functioning in a day to day basis.
I don’t know about your medical issues, but if your problem is getting food in maybe try drinking them instead of eating them. Lots of people who have trouble gaining weight eat a lot less than what they think they need to in order to gain because they feel full with very little food. A mass gainer can help a lot with that because it’s like 800-1k kcal without being as filling as a fast food combo. So between that and breakfast +!another meal you should be close to 2200 kcal which should make you gain weight depending on your height. But again this is just general advice, I don’t know any about the conditions you mention so this might not work for you.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
Cmon that photo you linked makes my point exactly. The tribesmen clearly have better muscle mass.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
Oh the 3% was not an expression… Al I can say is that I seriously doubt you really are 3% bf. If you are I hope you have all your affairs in order because you’re probably not long for the world.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
It’s not one or the other. You can lift heavy things, not do steroids and not have skinny arms. You can also have skinny arms if you don’t want to lift heavy things and are perfectly content with them. But let’s not frame this as a binary choice because it isn’t.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
Oh well I never made any objection to the beauty standards so I agree I guess? I only said I don’t want to look like that, I’m a little old school, I want to look like all those Greek statues.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
Hardest thing is getting there. Once you are in you kinda forget you didn’t want to go. Except when you don’t and you half ass it. But doing a little bit is better than doing nothing is what I say.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
It’s not at all about that. I guarantee you that if these guys maintained whatever diet they had at the time and added three hours a week of doing something with their muscles, they would look very different.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
Sure. But also we know what an active body looks like and it’s not like this. They look like normal guys who don’t get much excercise. Look at people living in pre industrial tribes, Greco Roman beauty standards etc. not saying it’s wrong to look like that, but I personally do not want to look like that. I think we look best with a little bit of muscle on.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
I would describe it as skinny fat but these guys are not fat, so I think the problem is that they have very little muscle all around.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
I spend copious hours in the gym because I never ever want to look like this. I was thinking about skipping today because it’s raining, so thanks for the motivation.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Hacked in 48 Hours — But Here’s Why It’s Just the Beginning 1 week ago:
By end of year I will be playing Switch 2 games on my ROG Ally. Feels good man.
- Comment on Xbox and Asus introduce the new ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handhelds 1 week ago:
I think tech is far along now that there’s a space for something that is “best of both worlds”. Something that Valve has been trying for a while yet was only successful with the Steam Deck because tech just wasn’t there yet.
Think about it like this: instead of making a whole Xbox based build, devs simply make the PC version of their game and within that PC version they make a series of graphical presets that are the Xbox version, and another one that is the handheld version. This would lower costs for them while Microsoft focuses on building a windows OS that is gaming focused and suspends all the crap that hogs performance.
Microsoft’s track record is not great at this type of “fork” but I think for them as a company this path makes more sense than chasing hardware which has never been a strong suit of them and loses money anyways even for their competitor.
- Comment on Xbox and Asus introduce the new ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handhelds 1 week ago:
You’re clearly not understanding Microsoft’s strategy. They are no longer interested in the hardware market that had been losing them money since forever. Xbox is now a software platform, and the next Xbox in all likelihood will simply be a prebuilt PC running the Xbox app.
There’s not many Xbox (console) only games either. And none come to mind that are from this generation. All of them are also on PC.
I think this will play out well for them. What would you prefer, the locked down platform that also sells their games on PC (PlayStation) or the more open platform that lets you play anything anywhere?
- Comment on Xbox and Asus introduce the new ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handhelds 1 week ago:
Well yes, that’s typically how new markets work. This is not a bad thing.
- Comment on The new Helldivers 2 "Force of Law" war bond is dropping on June 12th. 1 week ago:
How is this running on ROG Ally these days? I wanna play it.
- Comment on Please Don't Preorder This... 1 week ago:
Don’t buy games in the first year they are released