Comrade_Spood

@Comrade_Spood@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon misses the classic design⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason is logistics (as usually the reason for most things military related). You can fit a hell of a lot more conventionally shaped grenades in a crate than you can with stick grenades. Even on a person, conventional grenades weigh less, are less cumbersome, and you can carry more compared to stick grenades. Stick grenades really only have their ease of throwing over a conventional grenade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon discovers cigarettes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, I’m just saying I think thats what anon was questioning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon discovers cigarettes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its about not understanding why people get into it in the first place, not why they don’t quit after. You can’t have an addiction if you never try it in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I understand this will be controversial amoungst scrubs who never got gud⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the game. The more competitive, the more toxic it tends to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then yeah I get that. Your initial argument without the context you just added was just reminiscent of bigoted arguments. It was wrong of me to assume

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you are also complaining about it when white male characters are also surface-level, 2-D, copy-and-paste characters then all you are saying is “Only white male characters are allowed to be simple or a stereotype/trope.” Lets be honest, not every game needs a complex and well written character, and that is fine. If they choose to go that route it doesn’t matter what race, religion, or gender the character is in the first place. So it doesn’t matter if they are a white male.

  Now I’m also not gonna shut down your solution without being constructive and providing my own solution, cause I don’t think quotas are the answer either. Instead we should be uplifting and empowering marginalized creators and game designers so that they can make more characters that they want to make. Which is generally characters they can relate to. If people want more characters that are women, then the game industry needs to become a safe space for women and empower them so they can provide more representation for characters. Same thing for any other demographic. That will make sure that these characters are being made in an aethentic and organic way, and not just being pumped out to meet a quota, but also isn’t restricting when marginalized demographics can be used as characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨triosaur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck terminocavum, at least follow the ceratops naming scheme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was definitely created by millenials, but that doesnt mean it wasn’t used by gen z. Generations aren’t as clear cut as people like to pretend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of this was Gen Z slang. Like ROFLcopter. Early Gen Z was part of the stuff like Gay Luigi, the troll song, nyan cat, yeeee, rick rolling, swag, 360 no scope mlg, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nietzsche vs Nietzsche

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is neurodivergents tend to be more militant in our preferences because the factors that affect the choice weigh a lot heavier on us. Like how loud crowded areas aren’t really pleasant for anyone, but it can be down right crippling for neurodivergents because of how severe the over stimulation is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe we should have nation elections. I believe in horizontally organized systems, not hierarchical ones. So that seems to be the misunderstanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you are right, I am living in it right now and it fucking sucks and doesn’t work. I am watching it descend into fascism because that is the inevitable cycle of capitalism and liberal democracy. If you want examples of anarchism working internally you can look at the CNT-FAI of the Spanish Civil War and how they organized, or the currently existing Zapatistas. Fact of the matter is anarchism hasn’t failed because it doesn’t work as a method of organization, it hasn’t worked because they haven’t been able to defend themselves when they end up having to fight a war on multiple fronts. Which if you are going to criticize anarchism, that is where you do it. In its ability to defend itself when its being attacked on all sides and its tendency to end up in that position in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not think centralizing control and decision making is the answer to that. What little decentralization America has rn is exactly what is protecting states like Maine from being completely in the pocket of fascists. The answer is further decentralization to the point people do not have power over others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen someone explain how liberal democracy and capitalism can work on a large scale with billions of people. The issue with your logic though is it doesn’t need to. Billions of people do not need to work together all at the same time and don’t need to all be included on every plan, decision, or whatever. It doesn’t need to work on a scale larger than it is able to work at because the foundation of power originates from the bottom and stays there, it is organized horizontally. Hierarchy is what isn’t scaleable as it requires deeper and deeper layers of bureaucracy the more it grows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I recognize democracy (particularly democracy as we have it) sucks, and I do recognize you aren’t disagreeing with me about how we can’t take rights away. I just don’t like the idea of using the flaws of democracy as an excuse to take rights away from people. That is and was the strategy of fascists, authoritarians, and bigots.

  And I do believe being careful who we quote is important because “separating art from the artist” is a flawed and problematic rule. The only way you can separate “art” from the “artist” is by removing it from context, and that is a dangerous thing to do. For example if I wanted to make an anti-war point I wouldn’t use this quote,

  “Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.”

  That is because this is a quote from Jefferson Davis. In the end my point is its probably not the right move to use a quote from a racist (Churchill) in response to a comment about how voter restriction is used by racists and bigots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you could juat make it so no one has the right to govern others. Then you wouldn’t have to take people’s rights away just cause they have beliefs different than yours, like you are suggesting. A problem in this world is people only seem to think about taking things away and punishing people to solve a problem, which doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone deserves the right to have power over themselves and things that affect them personally, no one deserves the right over others. Thats the issue. We insist on using methods of organization where there are those that govern and those to be governed.

  Also maybe Churchill isn’t the best person to be paraphrasing in this context considering how imperialistic and racist he was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was literally used as a way in the south to prevent black people from voting. Yall failed history, maybe you shouldn’t vote. Or maybe we should remember laws that restrict rights tend to affect more than their target and will be used in bigoted ways, and so we just shouldn’t restrict people’s rights and shouldn’t give anyone the power to restrict others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oldie but Goldie.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Me and my friends were literally just making jokes about this tonight and its the first thing I see when I boot up Lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has regrets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only bacterial STIs are curable. Viral ones are not. Some have vaccines and some have treatments, but no cures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. I remember in Conquest of Bread when Kropotkin talked about freeing up more time by automating creative and intelligent pursuits so we can focus more on menial labor.

  Obviously /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Limited edition orange juice mint condition looking for trade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It feels like they are getting new photos more often lately. When the scam first started they used the same like two photos a lot. Now it feels like there is multiple new photos just this week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Facts. I live in Maine. I dare anyone that says to ban cars to come live here without one. The only form of public transportation here is a very shitty public bus system. If you live outside of its route, you are shit out of luck. Its why you have a lot of old people driving here that honestly should have had their license revoked a decade ago. Can’t take their license away cause they will have no way to access the resources they need to survive. But shouldn’t let them keep their license cause they are a major danger on the roads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨adhesive tape to the buttocks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what I came to the comments to find out. Thank you random stranger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The potential value to the Americans of Japanese-provided data, encompassing human research subjects, delivery system theories, and successful field trials, was immense. However, historian Sheldon H. Harris concluded that the Japanese data failed to meet American standards, suggesting instead that the findings from the unit were of minor importance at best. Harris characterized the research results from the Japanese camp as disappointing, concurring with the assessment of Murray Sanders, who characterized the experiments as “crude” and “ineffective.”

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

  To back up your point that the research gained by unit 731 was useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please punish me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok boomer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been building up my collection by browsing my local Bullmoose (idk how widespread that store is) and other places that sell CDs. I’ve got a disk reader a friend gave me to rip them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh do you have any recommendations on how to do that? I’ve just been using Syncthing which works fine, but I’m curious if you have better ways of doing it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so glad I swapped to downloading my music rather than streaming. Fuck Spotify and every other streaming service. Owning my music is more important to me than any level of “convenience” those services pretend to offer