Zombiepirate
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- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 1 week ago:
That’s my point: billionaires are an establishment unto themselves, and they’re already in a cartel to control the US government.
Corey Robin put it better than I can in The Reactionary Mind:
Far from yielding a knee-jerk defense of an unchanging old regime or a thoughtful traditionalism, the reactionary imperative presses conservatism in two rather different directions: first, to a critique and reconfiguration of the old regime; and second, to an absorption of the ideas and tactics of the very revolution or reform it opposes. What conservatism seeks to accomplish through that reconfiguration of the old and absorption of the new is to make privilege popular, to transform a tottering old regime into a dynamic, ideologically coherent movement of the masses. A new old regime, one could say, which brings the energy and dynamism of the street to the antique inequalities of a dilapidated estate.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 1 week ago:
How anyone can see a billionaire as “anti-establishment” is beyond me.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 1 week ago:
Musk is so impervious to ego-death that I suspect his will hang around for a few decades after his body.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 1 week ago:
I think it’s a mistake to believe that everyone has a sense of empathy; there are plenty of people who do not because of their brain meat or their experiences.
I think the closest Musk gets is the desperate and pathetic attempts to get gamers to like him: it makes him crazy that he can’t just buy their respect like he does for everything else that he wants.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 1 week ago:
People like that genuinely believe that they should be in charge because of who they are. He has absolutely no feelings of guilt about the terrible things that he does; he thinks they’re good because he did them. Narcissistic megalomaniacs, especially ultra wealthy ones, lose their ability to empathize (or even the ability to mask and pretend) because they quite literally never have to care about how another person feels. I do think he’s confused as to why people hate him though. He sees himself as a lovable cheeky troll instead of the Nazi dickhead that he clearly is.
- Comment on What a mess 2 weeks ago:
You can’t sit for long on a stool with only two legs; I think it just becomes a stool sample at that point.
- Comment on Save Us, Senators, From a Very Expensive Mistake 2 weeks ago:
Too often, state and local progressives have called for climate action, but then fought off, shut down or lamented the energy sources — especially hydroelectricity and nuclear power — that until recently generated the bulk of America’s clean electricity.
I guess it wouldn’t be a NYT editorial without going a mile out of their way to run over progressives for something that’s not really even true.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
Especially when there’s a free passing lane.
- Comment on [UFO 50] Personal highlight of fun cheat codes in UFO 50 3 weeks ago:
UFO50 is one of the most astonishing pieces of game design I’ve ever seen; its a master class in elegance.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!) 1 month ago:
The Oblivion score is so good.
- Comment on Six Men Are Charged After Woman Was Dragged From Idaho Town Hall 1 month ago:
Hilarious how they throw the bootlickers under the bus to protect the POS sheriff.
- Comment on Achievable goals 1 month ago:
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’ve got the flu, no time to talk Muzak loud and samples warm, I’ve been coughing loud Since this morn And now it’s all right, it’s okay And you may look the other way But we can try to understand This NyQuil dose effect on man
-Staggeringly High Fever
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- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
Good pick! I was so bummed when I heard that was cancelled.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
I’d like to play around with whatever alpha build they made for the original concept of Team Fortress 2.
I love the one that came out (it’s probably my most played game of all time), but those first few screenshots before retooling were captivating when we’d already been waiting so long for the release.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 2 months ago:
I can’t grab it either. It keeps telling me to log in when I’m already logged in.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Reviving U.S. Coal Industry 2 months ago:
Time to replace our infantry with the mighty phalanx. The Achaemenids won’t know what hit them!
- Comment on The first 1 star review 2 months ago:
Urm, actually… These glyphs were pressed into wet clay and then fired.
Much like Ea-nāşir should have been.
- Comment on Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG adds 100-floor megadungeon for a fiver 3 months ago:
I might have to dive back in. I had so much fun with this on the Steam Deck.
- Comment on Elon Musk Calls Social Security 'The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Of All Time' 3 months ago:
Maybe we shouldn’t have elected this fascist as president then.
He knows he’s lying, he wants to gut the benefits that we pay for to get a payout.
Fuck him and anyone who put him in office.
- Comment on It's almost that time of the year... (Easter lamb cakes) 3 months ago:
I’d never heard of Easter lamb cakes before, and it’s my sincere hope to never hear of them again after seeing this.
- Comment on Bombshell report reveals staggering amount of government funds paid to Elon Musk 3 months ago:
The thing about reactionaries is that they think that money is finally going to the right place. Enriching billionaires is the one thing the GOP consistently delivers on.
They’re happy to be subjects to the elite; that’s exactly how they want it. They don’t want that money spent on making people’s lives better by providing services, they want to be ruled by someone who they can see themselves in and therefore be raised up in the social order.
It’s pretty pathetic.
- Comment on Do you think progressives understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration? 4 months ago:
Reactionaries don’t care about other people.
Even their family; they’re notorious for disowning their children for being someone different than they wanted. They treat their wives like slaves.
He’s fine with it, because it doesn’t affect him. There’s no more thought to it than that. It’s an inherently anti-social ideology.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 4 months ago:
Reactionary ideology is all about protecting privilege by demonizing marginalized people. They believe in zero-sum rights and privileges: in their view, expansion of rights for another group inherently means a loss of rights for them.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 4 months ago:
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 4 months ago:
Maybe it’s aspirational.
- Comment on Exploring Kowloon Walled City in an Afternoon – Vlog (1991) by Suenn Ho 4 months ago:
Fascinating video!
I went looking for some footage of Kowloon a few months ago and I couldn’t find anything. I’m glad she recorded this while she could.
I watched the Jackie Chan movie Crime Story to get a glimpse, and they had some amazing scenes, but everyone had already moved out. It did have some crazy cool action scenes though with some long cuts.
- Comment on Dungeons & Dragons Rolls the Dice With New Rules About Identity 5 months ago:
Exactly! And then you can get the books even cheaper.
Besides, the last ten or fifteen years have been the most inventive (in terms of mechanics) in the history of the hobby. Something like Wildsea or Blades in the Dark will have a similar level of “crunchiness,” but uses those systems to empower the players and GM to improvise an adventure that is, to me, far more exciting than a D&D story and gives solid, transparent mechanical consequences for success or failure.
- Comment on Dungeons & Dragons Rolls the Dice With New Rules About Identity 5 months ago:
Some longtime players are upset.
So… The same thing that happens every time a new edition is released.
I don’t hate D&D (as a player; I’ll never run it again myself), but I do wish people would try the better offerings out there.
- Comment on Anon sees happy people 5 months ago:
Well I’ve had to deal with them my whole life, so you should too.
