Eldritch
@Eldritch@piefed.world
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 21 hours 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 6 days 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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) 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 1 big tiddy goth gf pls 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Hail satin!
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Is this from a recent Ryan stream?
- Comment on Maybe they are drawn towards the confidence this process makes them feel? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Indeed. That would be far too reasonable though.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 month ago:
.world has a solid segment of unthinking leninist. Who substitute theory for thought. There isn’t an overarching ideology imposed on .world however. So you will find plenty anarchist/communist, democratic socialist, and even liberals too. But many of the leninist are very online and much more organized in imposing their dogma. Much to the detriment of discussion and the fediverse as a larger entity. A number of their politics specific instances are defederated from many exactly because they were known for brigading discussions. And while it can no longer be done directly from those instances. They still use accounts on other instances including .world.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 month ago:
100%
You can point directly to people and individuals impacted. And they will deny it to your face or find a way to attack the messenger without addressing the message. They have the word of the state. And as we all know. No State anywhere has ever lied or misled. Or any non Western State at least. /s
- Comment on Hi everyone, I'm French Fry Noob – a 1999 Chinese gamer 2 months ago:
Welcome, and people are people everywhere you go. 😉
- Comment on We are so close 2 months ago:
Yes, but no. In this fucked up world some zeros are bigger than others.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 3 months ago:
Well hopefully a bit of salt and a lot of Yorkshire tea.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 4 months ago:
There were some decent games. What killed it for me was the layout. Constantly bumping the power switch mid game. It happened so often.
- Comment on GIMP: The Movie (2026) | Official Trailer 4 months ago:
Image manipulation program would be a very generic and bland name. And you are always free to not use the full acronym. Or hyphenate it to rework it. GNU-IMP. The G in Gimp was from an acronym already, so loping it off is kind of messy. And an imp with its relation to sprites with their relation to games and rasterization would make for a decent rebrand.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 4 months ago:
Steam and PC gaming if anything. That and changing life priorities in my 30s and 40s. GoG and epic too. Between them I have almost 1000 games I didn’t pay for. Combined with hundreds on steam from humble etc. I probably spend more time trying to decide what to play than playing it.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 4 months ago:
Then I will continue my 20 year Sony boycott.
- Comment on Jonathan Majors Sets Acting Comeback With Daily Wire-Produced Action Movie 5 months ago:
It’s official now. His career is dead.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 5 months ago:
Alternate realities/timelines. It ain’t over until they destroy the whole universe, and even then it’s probably still not over.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 months ago:
And how is not voting for them going to do that? They’re fine with you not voting for them, and even losing in the case of DNC leadership. Always have been.
You want to put pressure on them? Be the candidate to primary the party line candidate in Democratic primaries. Yes they will use every structural advantage they have against you. But if enough people do it constantly. The cracks will widen and show. Otherwise they’re happy to receive donations and funding from the wealthy, even if they don’t win.
To be clear, I think all national parties should be outlawed. Generally state wide ones as well. But unless you can change the political reality we are in. The only possibility is not just holding off the worst possible candidates such as trump. Though more should have shown solidarity against him. But being the candidates we want to vote for. And not letting some uninterested complacent national organization make those decision for us.
- Comment on Vin Gasoline 5 months ago:
It’s about acquaintances.
- Comment on Celebrate, brothers and sisters! 5 months ago:
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 5 months ago:
Nope. Sadly among all the other things checkering Louis Rosman’s past now, kiwifarms is supposedly part of it.
