Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 1 week ago:
Communism in the strictest sense is the means of production are owned by the state.
Not off to a great start. “Common ownership” is not synonymous with “owned by the state.” There’s lots of ways to set up a government such that the means of production are owned by the state and almost none of them are communism.
The classless doctrine was proposed by Marx and is often inferred when talking about communism.
Yes, Marx was the political philosopher who described a possible outcome of the inevitable collapse of capitalism and is the de facto reference point for discussion about communism. Many subsequent people have built off those ideas or arrived at similar conclusions from another angle but it’s good practice to specify which when it’s important. Marxism-Leninism, anarchist communism, Luxemburgism, whatever. Marxist communism is indeed inferred without other context.
You can absolutely have a communist society with a caste system.
You can have a communist movement with a caste system but a communist society is classless by definition. It is post-scarcity and utopian. It might be literally impossible for humans to organize in such a way in significant numbers but moving toward that ideal is the unifying philosophy of all communist movements.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 1 week ago:
communism describes an economic system that places most of the control with the government.
I know you’re simplifying things for brevity but this is misleading at best. You can’t gloss over the goal of a classless, stateless society when defining communism, and it is explicitly a left-wing philosophy. Contrast with fascism, a right-wing political philosophy that places most of the control with the government by reinforcing control over capital and creating a clear national identity.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Ha, you think the rest of the world doesn’t profit off slavery…
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 weeks ago:
The modding has the same problem blacksmithing/enchanting in Skyrim has: You have to invest a lot of advancement in the system to get any benefit out of it. Older Bethesda games let you sidestep that by throwing money at the problem which is a totally valid way to let players have more freedom but all the good stuff is locked behind feats and high stats now. Why can’t my character be an emotionally stunted moron with a skilled mechanic on retainer to access the good shit? Instead I am completely reliant on farming raiders of various factions and hoping for good drops. (This is the “looter shooter” thing the other guy brought up but I don’t think it’s a great version of that either.)
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 weeks ago:
in everything but graphics.
And stability. I’ve recently replayed the main Fallout games and the crashing and bugs in the vanilla New Vegas experience is inexcusable.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 weeks ago:
FO4: Welcome to Fallout! Here’s your nuclear war, here’s your vault, here’s your wasteland, here’s your wacky robots, here’s your dog, here’s your Good Guy Faction, here’s your power armor, here’s your first Deathclaw, now either go find your son or fuck off.
It really tried to cram the entire setting into a playable E3 demo, made most builds nonviable, not to mention how half-baked the modding system and settlement construction tools are.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 4 weeks ago:
I’m free to buy my PC games lots of places. Sometimes I go through GOG or itch.io. But I’ve uninstalled the Epic launcher and whatever Ubisoft calls theirs because they’re a worse experience than Steam in every way. It’s not a monopoly just because there’s a clear best option.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 4 weeks ago:
Reasonable “death with dignity” options would erase the need for such drastic measures but of course the Christian Nationalists hate that kind of thing.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 4 weeks ago:
I’d rather walk in front of a bus than die in a nursing home, frankly. Wasting away unable to care for myself seems uniquely miserable.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 month ago:
the lives of my partner and kids is worth more than your inconvenience.
But not worth more than your inconvenience or you’d just slow down when you can’t see as well.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 month ago:
Counterpoint: I drive a 98 chevy and I can see fine at night because my eyes are good unless someone is in the oncoming lane and their headlight spill washes out my vision. People that can’t see adequately with old-style headlights simply should be legally restricted from night driving. (The same way vision-impaired people are restricted from all driving)
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 month ago:
Switch to one specific LED bulb instead. (Or two! Your choice of circle or rectangle.)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
Illustrating the wide range if ways people enjoy games, because I absolutely hate playing with people like you. I want everyone trying their best to fairly engage with the objective. Competitive, sweaty even.
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 1 month ago:
the idea that we’d dumb down a curriculum for the minority is… troubling.
“No Child Left Behind” peering out from the shadows, gutting programs for more advanced students.
It’s easier to lower the bar than make people jump higher.
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 1 month ago:
Nah, astronomical spectroscopy is cool as hell and it’s really easy to have simplified examples you can fiddle with. At its most basic you’re using a prism to divide the sun’s light and measuring the visible bands. (This is pretty much how infrared light was discovered in 1800!)
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 1 month ago:
I can read way faster than I can listen to a narrated video or whatever, and I can easily split my attention without losing my place in the information.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 2 months ago:
Slingshot (or old-school sling but they’re much harder) is probably better for small game if we’re entertaining real dystopian collapse, unless you also learn how to make arrows.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
Maintaining my own home and garden justifies the continued use of my 98 pickup, plus I’m “the friend with a truck”, but it’s not my daily car and I dread the day I have to replace it. Contemplating an EV conversion kit if it can manage the same loads.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 2 months ago:
3070 can’t play them to my standard.
You’ve poisoned yourself. Chasing fidelity and refresh rates has done for graphics what short-form media did to attention spans. I’m emulating PS1 games and playing Fallout 4 on a 970 while my computer fans blow like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and I am free.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
Oh, and it would be nice if the main character wasn’t automatically the leader of every faction in the game.
Really wish Bethesda would get over this and their fear of letting players miss out on some of the content in their gigantic worlds. Taking over a guild should be hard and it should have consequences. Preston Garvey knows Nate/Nora all of fifteen minutes and puts you in charge of an entire movement (while gatekeeping essential system mechanics behind further investment in his faction, fuck you if you wanted to roleplay as a raider warlord you gotta be a good boy first)
Actually the whole first hour or two of FO4 is the core of what is wrong with it. They went all-in on essentially an E3 demo and expect every player to follow along exactly their rails.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
What I really want is Steel Battalion.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
I really love the idea of asymmetrical games like DBD but the community always ruins it. Evolve was absutely incredible in the first few weeks before players optimized all the tension out (and before the backlash over what is now laughably tame monetization).
- Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 2 months ago:
Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of outputs that aren’t those things.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 2 months ago:
Fuck off then, stop hiding your “I don’t care for the current trends in gaming” behind a boomer-ass “they don’t make em like they used to” take. There’s tons of good games and there’s always been a bunch of low-effort garbage to sift through. We used to call it “shovel-ware”.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 months ago:
Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 3 months ago:
It’s called “sealioning” and the only solution is to not engage with these types. They aren’t interested in honest answers, just controlling the conversation with a veneer of legitimacy to shield them from criticism.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Imagine if “exciting” was the only metric all art was judged by.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 5 months ago:
It was a pretty standard anti-corporate satire that would not have stood out against films like Brazil or Joe vs the Volcano.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 6 months ago:
I prefer “naughties”
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 6 months ago:
Timbuk2 isn’t as good as they used to be. If you can find a used one it’s worth it, I’ve had mine for like twenty years, but I wouldn’t gamble on one made in the last five years. (They closed all their physical stores and cut costs on manufacturing by moving offshore)