Eldritch
@Eldritch@piefed.world
- Comment on Don't 3 days ago:
I am an enemy of the state in general. All states. Authoritarianism 100% exists. Though I get it. You have a different taste in boots. Authoritarianism of course can’t exist without the state. And the state once it’s achieved a significant size inevitably Trends toward authoritarianism. But they aren’t the same thing that’s just silly. Though if you can explain how a governing state built on something like total/absolute consent is authoritarian/oppressive, I’m all ears.
- Comment on Don't 3 days ago:
Authoritarianism. It has no strong preference for left or right. Wherever there’s a strong man. You will have the people that think the strong man protects them and serves them. Even as he serves himself. And the people who are being tread on.
- Comment on Fox News stars attend China’s State Dinner despite ranting about communism in the US 3 days ago:
To the reactionary / conservative mind communism just means enemy. And they have no actual concept of what the word means. In no small part thanks to the countries like China and Russia misusing it for decades and decades.
But now that China is powerful capitalist Nation. With a strong man whom our strong man pathetically sucks up too. They’re kind of into it. And the only time you see them complain about Chinese communist. Is when the pavlovian term slips out naturally in a string of slurs as they speak. It was a dog whistle they were trained to bark at for decades if not Generations. So it’s hard to give up old habits.
- Comment on Recommendation to defederate from hilariouschaos 5 days ago:
Jokes on them. I only new my subs and top all. But yes if they eat evaporated tomorrow nothing of value would be lost.
- Comment on When will .world admins start actually caring about Piefed.world ? 1 week ago:
To be fair. They need to ban that poster and their IP as they are spamming multiple communities and instances. But yes, I would like to see updates as well. But resources go where they are needed most.
- Comment on Two rocks and a lump of petrified shit. 1 week ago:
Metamorphic, sedimentary, and ignoramus.
- Comment on Where is ShitLemmySays? 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps, if it exists. All I get is the instance login page. !shitfediversesays@moist.catsweat.com should turn it into a federated shorthand link for other instances.
- Comment on Where is ShitLemmySays? 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is part of a larger ecosystem. Not a monolith to itself. There are plenty of communities targeting other communities like that. But seeing as what one person views as Lemmy could also be piefed, mbin, mastodon, miskey, etc. It doesn’t have quite the appeal.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That might be the only way I would get it. But somehow I’ve missed all those LOL.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
GTA IV was the last one I’ve ever owned. Been tempted by 5:00 a few times but I have got enough games that I’ll never play. I don’t need it as well.
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 5 weeks ago:
That’s upsetting. The BBC-A version had a lot of creativity and interesting characters. Shame that people won’t control themselves and chose to abuse others.
I prefer the BBC version by a margin. It’s the much more Adams coded of the two. Dirk was an actual detective with an agency. Portrayed as extremely morally ambiguous. As opposed to magic British himbo twink. But it was also short. As is BBC tradition, where most shows don’t go beyond a series or two. Just figured BBCA was doing the same. 😂
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 5 weeks ago:
Eh it’s over twice the length of the original BBC one. I wouldn’t have minded seeing more. But it ended at a good spot at least. Honestly surprised it lasted that long with Elijah in it post LOTR.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 1 month ago:
Is it that different today? I’d argue a lot of the legislation getting done that isn’t just naming things. Or approving reoccurring spending isn’t just useless, but harmful.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 1 month ago:
They’re 100% is. But it 100% requires addressing what you just talked about. There needs to be a new labor movement. Where terms are renegotiated again.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 1 month ago:
Initially politician wasn’t supposed to be a career. It was a side hustle you did after planting and after harvest. Which exains some of the session schedules you see today that seem odd.
I’d argue that we need to get these offices back to being what you do outside your day job again. Whatever that means in modern society. However, if were going to make the mistake of letting it remain a career path. We do need to pay accordingly. While codifying actual laws against graft. Not just unenforceable “norms”.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 month ago:
You’re going to face it anywhere you go. Don’t let it hold you back. There’s always a slight feeling of unease around those that are different from yourself. But not everyone turns it into a justification to hate. I saw this video 5 years ago about a guy going to Japan trying to track down the location of a meme image from the early internet. They ended up heading off to a smaller town that wasn’t very touristy. Something that could go very badly. As some of the small towns like anywhere else can be very insular. But instead when they got there. Ended up spending the night chatting up an eager bar owner about Kurosawa and star wars.
- Comment on About half of lemmy today 2 months ago:
This has nothing to do with that. This has to do with someone who develops a piece of software sneakily trying to enforce their own megalomania. Without making that fact sufficiently clear. And to be clear no matter what side of the political Spectrum you stand. This was unequivocally absurd the way it was done and handled once it was found out.
If you want to be in a status quo cocoon. That is your choice. But it should be your choice and not something forced on you. Quite frankly I feel that these types that want to avoid all politics aren’t very bright. Life is politics politics is life. There is no escaping it until you die. And even then people may still try to use you.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The futo software does seem to work fine. But I removed it from all my devices over their shadiness of the group behind it.
- Comment on Update: 136 workers have been laid off at id Software 2 months ago:
Parts of Blizzard have unionized as well. Though I did see yesterday that nearly the entire iD Tech development team was let go. Which is a fuck ton larger thing than many people would assume at first.
Think of just about any major 3D engine, that isn’t automatically unreal or Unity. It likely has ties directly back to iD tech. Call of duty, half life and the entire source engine and so so many more. Though it’s branched a lot less since Bethesda took them over and now Microsoft. But if the team is gone and the engine is officially dead this is a massive thing.
- Comment on Update: 136 workers have been laid off at id Software 2 months ago:
No one was spared. Blizzard has been slashed as well. These big Mega companies were never going to be good stewards. No one should have ever assumed they would be. It was always a mistake to sell to them.
Hopefully something good can come up this. Such as the developers Etc unionizing widely. It’s a lesson that we unlearned that we desperately need to learn again. And hopefully many of these laid off can keep cut and form new groups of their own. Which they can control for their own benefit. And keep it that way. So what if these big Mega corporations have all this ip. It sucks that it will decay and die. But the artists and creatives we’re always the heart and soul of it. And we’ll be capable of making more. Even under a different name.
- Comment on Guess the game (#005) 2 months ago:
- Comment on 1 big tiddy goth gf pls 2 months ago:
Black lace elderberry, sought after for the “goth” gardens trend.
- Comment on You think your kool not realizing that you are so dumb you can't even spell 2 months ago:
Hail satin!
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 3 months ago:
When ever you think something sounds too stupid even for trump. No you didn’t.
His stupidity is his defining characteristic among his voters. For the wealthy and powerful, he’s an easily manipulable rube. For the poor saps he says the same stupid things they think and say. He’s just like them, so relatable!
- Comment on We got a dangler 3 months ago:
Is this from a recent Ryan stream?
- Comment on Maybe they are drawn towards the confidence this process makes them feel? 3 months ago:
Yep, as an eldergoth man. It was very entertaining and well done. Well out of my wheelhouse but still good.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 3 months ago:
This. The petite bourgeoisie cannot coexist. They must prey on society by their very nature. And they know that. As such they know that any actual socialist government is going to be set against them and will oppose it. As you have no doubt seen. The Lambs do not lay with the lion.
Unfortunately the only thing they have to offer you is equal but opposed state dogma. Excusing all repression social and otherwise because of the current infrastructure being built and the temporary uplift it brings to the people there. Once the infrastructure is built it will stagnate just like it did in the United states and elsewhere. A fact that they love to ignore. The United states for all its problems raised the material conditions of many people across the globe not just at home. Just like China currently. None of which justifies the bad they do. It’s ultimately not left vs right, or the west vs everyone else. It’s us vs the state. And anyone simping for a state is rightly suspect.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 3 months ago:
Well it has to be said, Hitler’s was blatant malice and incompetence projected outwards. Had he just slaughtered every romani and Jew in Germany. I don’t think the world would have collectively batted an eye if he’d stopped there.
Mao was largely incompetent internally. Though those attitudes have only metastasized in the country and turned towards malice which is now being set for export.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 3 months ago:
That depends on implementation. But “technically” could be, though I think the reality more often than not is that it isn’t.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 3 months ago:
Indeed. That would be far too reasonable though.