M1ch431
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- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
Well considering that I live in a rural area where warehouses (Amazon or otherwise) are literally the only jobs that pay much of anything outside of trades and the medical industry, I think they do have a choice.
It isn’t a fair one and again, we agree. But this example I can relate with personally.
I am somebody who has an option to be employed by Amazon, I am in need of funds, but I am too sickly.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but it’s not that I am being hard on the companies. I just buy different things.
Are you selective about the chocolate you consume? I am, because I don’t support child slavery.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, the workers of the megacorps you mentioned likely have more choice than most to tread their own path. They very likely have significant financial reserves (at least compared to a poor and sickly person like me).
When there is a mass exodus of NVIDIA/etc. workers, I will be chipping in to support them directly.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
I am read up. I see the franchise and studio as dead. Krafton has shown their bad faith.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
With some exceptions, we all have a choice in the first-world. Chains can be external and internal. In your example, the chains are mostly internal even if there is some degree of external chains. If you’re living in SF and are a game developer, chances are you aren’t doing terribly.
As for exploited and poor third-world countries or those who lack citizenship in first-world countries, I’m inclined to say that is modern slavery. It sometimes literally is slavery, even child slavery.
Here in the first-world, we benefit from child slavery and third-world in the products we consume. The scary thing is that it’s not uncommon either.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
Well, we agree.
As for myself? I chose to not be a slave and I’m sticking with that.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
You can hate mega corporations, CEOs and board members
I do not hate any of the above. I don’t agree with their decision to move forward with Krafton. They obviously wouldn’t retain full sovereignty by letting a publisher buy them completely out for $500 million.
but most of the lower lever employees are not there by choice.
This is a design lead speaking as far as I know, and all employees are there by choice.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
Krafton won’t be getting my money.
“Thanks for pirating a game that I’ve spent years working on,” game design lead Anthony Gallegos replied to one such self-reported pirate. “I’m disappointed that you’d do that when it’s kind of how we make our living. I hope you rethink your life choices.”
Thanks for working for a studio that sold their soul for $500 million and a $250 million bonus.
(I’m not pirating the game.)
- Comment on Doomer 2 weeks ago:
Hey, don’t slander us Solarpunks ツ
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
Seems like the OP meant what I meant. But thanks for the link.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 1 month ago:
Why is our planet so boring and stupid?
Because billionaires want it to only be interesting and beneficial to themselves and their class.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
The difference is back then, I didn’t have to wait 2 years (give or take) for it to go on a proper sale to enjoy it. I’d just wait until a month or two passed and ask around, go into Gamestop, find used games at yard sales, etc.
We pay $70 to not play at release due to server issues and critical bugs and we enjoy zero QA and do it for free for these big corporations.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 months ago:
Yeah, really. Like a lot of games refuse to let me bind “1” through “0”, “[”, “]”, “;”, “'”, “,”, “.”, “/”, ""
Like c’mon. I need those keys. It’s feels like laziness and is sometimes the result of a console-focused development cycle (with PC as an afterthought). They add all the major keys, but those special characters? Nah.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 6 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve encountered a few games that do that.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 6 months ago:
Same, but I left Windows. On Linux/Wayland, it’s a bit more difficult and less powerful with current tools. AHK can’t be beat.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 6 months ago:
I’m left-handed and while key rebinding has gotten better in some ways, it has recently regressed in gaming in the past few years.
I make custom layouts for every game I play. IJKL to move, Semicolon to sprint, Quote to crouch, etc. I find many games where “I” is hard-bound to inventory, some bindings overlap keys I’ve bound, some keys are unable to rebound entirely in-game, some keybindings menus require jank to actually work, and so forth.
It’s very frustrating. I can only imagine what people with physical disabilities and assistive devices deal with if it’s this hard for me.
- Comment on AI "Phone Farm" Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam 6 months ago:
They could just call it what it is: an astroturfing “business” revolving around fraud, impersonation, spam, and abuse.
- Comment on AI "Phone Farm" Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam 6 months ago:
a legitimate new business
Interesting framing by Futurism.
- Comment on Banana 7 months ago:
name one bad thing about it.
Okay, the wages and working conditions of plantation workers. The cost of bananas in first-world countries is ridiculously low, and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 7 months ago:
Instance doesn’t check out.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 7 months ago:
the way things are now is still better than they’ve ever been.
Untrue, and again, it’s whitewashing. You make a lot of big claims, but they don’t hold true in reality. The advancements you tout are as weighty as a corporate slogan for real people.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 7 months ago:
For every pretend step taken, the actual reality is hidden and moved out of sight for those in the first-world.
People live in better conditions today
I see way too many poor, chronically ill, and visibly distressed people. This isn’t normal, not even a little bit.
even just considering social acceptance
Social acceptance has been nonexistent for me as a gay, autistic male - people frequently tell me about their similarly horrible experiences.
and not technology
Technology has advanced, sure, but it just serves to enslave, manipulate, and spy on us in increasingly dystopian ways as the years go by. Mass surveillance, centralized databases, and unregulated AI have been normalized.
or medicine
As a chronically ill person, medicine has significantly caused me more harm than good because doctors are too overworked to identify side effects and complications - and I have nearly died several times due to medical negligence/iatrogenic illness. No, I’m not exaggerating. There have been many key advancements in medicine, but our healthcare industry is very sick - even in countries with socialized healthcare. There are people experiencing relief that previously wasn’t possible - I’m not denying that.
Most societies are at least in theory democratic, where people get some input towards the ruler.
Democracy is largely illusory, especially here in the states. Consent of the ruled is not present in many “democratic” societies if you’ve been paying attention.
There are legal protections against slavery
Slavery has exploded overseas to support first-world needs (even child slavery), prison/slave labor is incredibly pervasive in the states, and before Trump became Führer an estimated 40%~ of US agricultural workers were undocumented immigrants - modern slaves.
misogyny, homophobia, racism, transphobia
The legal protections are effectively nonexistent to prevent discrimination in practice. Two-party consent laws for recording are really terrible for those subject to abuse.
Trade unions have successfully campaigned so that now people work less than they have since the start of the industrial revolution
Unions are largely nonexistent, people still work significantly more than they need to, productivity has risen but wages have largely stagnated, people are largely in significant debt and they cannot afford a house or a car, they cannot afford to reliably access healthcare (and even if they can “afford” it, it isn’t timely), higher education is inaccessible and college debt is unreal, etc.
in unprecedentedly better conditions.
Yes, and no. There are many careers that harm you in ways that only modern society can. Like plastics workers being exposed to a greater risk of cancer. I have known many people in various careers that have been denied access to necessary PPE in multiple fields.
Have we taken some steps? Sure. But we’ve taken many, many, many more backwards while people are oblivious in their bubbles. Pop your bubble, please. More people than ever before in history are suffering silently in ways that only can happen in modern times.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 7 months ago:
In my opinion, it’s always been a pretend step forward while slowly walking backwards unbeknownst to everyone.
- Comment on Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place 8 months ago:
Bluesky, which they view as more useful, welcoming, and aligned with their goals.
For now, maybe.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 8 months ago:
I really appreciate that, I’ll consider taking you up on that after I get blood-work next.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 8 months ago:
At this rate, everything in the last decade or last few years or even in the past few months has been nearly unpredictable. Thanks for chatting even if strong emotions flew around. I am not your enemy and we may have more common ground than I initially thought. Take care.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 8 months ago:
I hope you are right.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 8 months ago:
I think it’s the global wealthy, but same.
I concede, but I think some are more prepared than others.
I think our legal system as its bare bones isn’t bad.
Perhaps there are solid foundations present, but slow reform will not save us. We literally can’t afford to delay immediate action.
Yeah again my plans are not your business and not something I discuss online. Youre giving off Fed energy over there.
You were free to not engage, that was me being incredibly brave in light of recent developments. I don’t take great measures to hide my identity online and I don’t care to.
The documentary is direct evidence, primary sources, and specific excerpts. Literally there’s even pictures. It’s so solid as evidence and as a case, they didn’t even get sued by Trump over it (avoiding discovery).
Then why didn’t the US government under Biden take action? I’m serious. I immediately told you I’d check them out, I am aware of the allegations loosely being made by at least the book from other sources.
If you want to do this democratically - then go to the protests and town halls and talk to people. Go ahead. I’m not stopping you, there are many movements like that already.
We need country-scale action. I spend most of my days living with impaired health, bed-bound - I can do only so much by myself. I’m doing my best to improve my health when doctors aren’t trying to kill me. I have had extremely life-threatening encounters with the healthcare system.
I can tell you’ve never been homeless or did anything with the homeless network.
I have lived in a rural area, in poverty, without much dignity at all, and with chronic illness my entire life. I am gay, autistic, regularly discriminated against, I have experienced prolonged sexual abuse with absolutely no support, and I am effectively a dissident in the state I live in. And I have volunteered to directly help the homeless in the past. I’m not the vanguard, I’m just giving small nudges here and there where I can and am able.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 8 months ago:
I think if the rich kill everyone, they will also die.
They have been preparing for decades, at least. You are free to believe what you want though.
They want the Fallout games to become reality. It’s almost certain. Fuck all of that. Pushing the development of AI unsustainably in a way that other countries can mirror (e.g. China) is suicide for the country, besides them.