MolochAlter
@MolochAlter@lemmy.world
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 days ago:
This isn’t like, basic necessities food. This fast food.
The cost is the manpower and prep involved in being able to deliver food, fast.
The deals are there to make you check the rest of the website and be acquainted with their products, in exchange you get a price reduction.
There is no ripping off, you’re just not doing an additional bit of trading. If you don’t want food at the price Domino’s offers nobody says you must purchase from them.
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 6 days ago:
Soon to rebrand from “game” to “merch”
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
Ikr, I live in the Netherlands and not only do i not wear a helmet myself but I’ve seen dutch people ride with no hands, holding an umbrella and a phone, with bikebags full of groceries, in the rain.
That shit is close to a circus act, istg.
- Comment on How should news sites be funded? 4 weeks ago:
Realistically? The way newspapers were, you have a profit driven business where the client is the reader. Buy the paper, read the articles.
The reality is that that is never gonna happen again; the free alternatives are exactly as shit as the paid ones, so why would I waste my money?
Journalism had devolved into sensationalism made to drive sales to foster ad buys already well before social media and the web made this exponentially worse, at this point, follow the scant few journalists who don’t suck and go from there.
Best thing about this is that everyone will think I’m talking about any amount of pundits depending on their and my political alignment, and that makes it funnier to me.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 2 months ago:
The best thing is he apparently actually didn’t get the fish sticks joke which, if true, makes Parker and Stone the best satirists of all time on merits.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
What the fuck are you talking about? These two things aren’t even remotely alike.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
Yeah, pain is more tangible and actually experienced, whereas what society actually looks like is 99% vibes and personal biases.
So this applies even more to sociology than to painkillers.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
First, shitting on folks who are new to left politics and (god forbid) harbor excitement for these new insights. At least we have folks leaving comments like this to grind that eagerness out of them.
Christ on a pike, “enthusiastic about politics” is probably the worst thing you could ever be, it only leads to pie in the sky idiocy and utopianism.
Yes, please let’s grind that down as fast as possible, politics is a pragmatic exercise like doing groceries and taking a shit, you shouldn’t be excited about it. The only people excited by politics are fanatics and zealots and we could do with a lot fewer of those on all sides right now.
Then, it failed a narrow expectation you fully put on it. Maybe it was using an a medium to express an idea in a novel way. What a concept. Let’s call it Art. It can be something other than homework.
Yeah, God forbid I use my experience of the medium to judge a piece of art.
All this is, is a more biased, more cut down version of games like Papers, please, Not for Bradcast, or The Westport Independent, that doesn’t even use its gameplay loop to really give any direct experience of the issue it’s trying to showcase.
Having played it until I got bored of it, the only feeling reinforced through the gameplay is “boy i wish I could read faster”.
It doesn’t even leverage the idea that you need to send newspapers to print, allowing you to plan your front page to build a more coherent narrative, you literally just need to constantly swap articles in and out of the paper as if people’s copies would change in real time. It doesn’t account for the appearance of bias or conflicting interests between the parties you want to keep happy. It lacks nuance and a proper understanding of how to evoke what feeling through gameplay.
So, yeah, I think it’s banal and aggressively poorly thought out, not even mediocre but genuinely bad. Are you going to argue otherwise or are you just gonna say I’m being too harsh or unfair?
And before you highlight that this is free, so is The Westport Independent, and it’s been out for almost 10 years (god I feel old).
But essentially saying “I’m above the target audience and it’s pointless”…cool, share something you made
LOL I’m not about to dox myself to prove a stranger wrong, if you want to feel like you have successfully defended your point because you want to think I couldn’t have pulled this crap off, feel free to do so.
My criticism stands on its own regardless of my own output or even of myself as a source for it.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
if you want something on media , censorship, spin, ect? I’d say Not for Broadcast is pretty good.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
Everyone consumes whatever they agree with with less critical thinking, it’s an absolutely normal bias to have and nobody is immune.
That’s why when you hear someone say “I do my own research” you don’t think “this person must be highly educated” but rather “this person listens to ‘alternative’ media.”
Just because you consume a different kind of propaganda, doesn’t make you wiser, it makes you have a different set of biases.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
This feels very “just found out about politics and damn” tbh.
The game isn’t really teaching anything of note beyond “private entities have their own interests,” which anyone who would even find this compelling already knows.
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m not eager to go from sending my floorplan to zuck to sending it to the CCP, lol.
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 2 months ago:
It currently does, I still use mine both standalone, and linked with my desktop on the oculus platform and SteamVR, since i disliked how cheaply made the oculus 2 was.
Right now I’m waiting for a competitor to the quest to even appear on the market, since there doesn’t seem to be any other standalone option right now.
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 2 months ago:
It should still work fine with SteamVR right? I’m not too pressed.
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 3 months ago:
Oh I am well aware, I just wanted to call out this bullshit behaviour because it’s frankly the major reason why the right keeps gaining support.
The left looks weak, disharmonious, and more preoccupied with adventist “after the revolution” bullshit than with actually explaining their ideas and more importantly their policy positions.
The average rightoid has very quick and snappy numbers and policies they can rattle off at a moment’s notice, with (often simplistic or even incorrect) explanations as to how and why they will work.
Meanwhile I have seen so much fucking economic illiteracy about UBI and the labor theory of value and their relationship to scarcity and actual economics on this site it makes me want to jump out of a window.
Right wingers are at least able to explain a leftist point of view. Their explanation will probably be unflattering, but it will be more or less accurate. I have not seen a single leftist (and this is why I decided to poke here) being able to do the same. When faced with an unaligned or questioning person their only recourses are shaming/cautioning (like in this case) or condemning as already an enemy anyway.
I am a liberal, so depending on how far left you are, I am either already a fascist, or I’m a fascist in potentia. Believe it or not, I am neither, and would much rather the left do its part in contrasting the rise of fascism rather than enabling it by being a terrible at opposing it, which includes winning the battle for the hearts and minds of the people, which y’all are doing really poorly at right now.
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 3 months ago:
If you’re into pro wrestling, a lot of older wrestlers have podcasts and they’re generally pretty conservative.
Chris Jericho keeps politics typically separate but has donated to the Republican party in the past, Matt Cardona is at least center right depending on where you sit, Busted Open has a variety of hosts and some are definitely right wing.
All of these are first and foremost about other topics though, so the political leaning of the hosts rarely gets involved.
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 3 months ago:
Sounds like you believe right wingers are better at persuading people than left wingers 🤔
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Raising the floor doesn’t mean raising all wages.if when raising minimum wage every other wage were increased by the same amount you’d see a very different pattern.
Also, nowhere tried UBI uniformly to every member of the country. The problem with UBI is that testing it with a subset of the population doesn’t have any predictive power because these people individually exist in a society that doesn’t have UBI.
Think about it this way: the lowest amount of money a person needs to survive is your break even point. Ideally, your minimum wage should be a little higher than that so people can save some money for emergencies etc.
For the sake of ease of use let’s make that our unit of value, call it 1L for Life.
So, every person working (ideally) receives at least 1L, if you’re not working you either have savings worth 1L for the span of time you won’t work, or you’ll have to incur debt or other hardships.
Now, if you took absolutely everyone, working or not, and gave them, say, 0.5L for free, this won’t raise the floor, it’ll mean everyone will.amke at least 1.5L if working, 0.5L if not.
This leads to either lowering of wages back to a level where the total is closer to 1L, or the increase of the minimum cost of living to 1.5L, or more likely a mix of the two.
The reason why money is valuable isn’t random, it’s because money is finite and scarce.
The amount everyone has is the null amount whether that is 0 or 100L, because it’s the differential between your income and that null amount that gives it purchasing power.
Look at the effects of the covid stimulus and bailouts on purchasing power, and you’ll see a much closer result to an actual UBI than looking at the european UBI trials which ended up being much closer to randomly giving welfare to people than actual UBI.
- Comment on How do people carry notebooks without bending it 5 months ago:
Put it in the chest pocket of your jacket, that way it stays flat.
- Comment on China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. 5 months ago:
Calling china a broken clock is not sinophobia, it’d be sinophobia if it were saying the clock is broken by virtue of being chinese.
Same as if i were to shit on the US because it’s a clown country or because it’s run by white people.
- Comment on China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. 6 months ago:
Lol where’s the sinophobia? They didn’t even mention China.
- Comment on Flying used to be this magical, miraculous thing! 6 months ago:
Fun fact: i had to take a train through Switzerland and change trains in Germany, on the day a major swiss tunnel collapsed.
I made it to Frankfurt perfectly on time despite having to go around a fucking mountain instead of through it, and still accrued 3 hours of total delay on the remainder, 2 of which were just the train being stuck at the station in Frankfurt itself.
I’ve taken to calling them Scheiße Bahn.
- Comment on Make signing up complicated and difficult to discourage people from signing up. What's that practice called? 6 months ago:
Dictatorship by red tape
- Comment on Sega wants classic franchise reboots to show ‘edginess and a rebellious mind-set’ 6 months ago:
Simple, just do what AEW is doing.
Just, please more women’s matches than that.
- Comment on Former Mass Effect Lead Forms New Studio To Make Narrative-Focused Games 7 months ago:
Ah yes, mister “more bigger”
- Comment on Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic Remake Is No Longer In Development - Report 7 months ago:
Gaming journalism being an incestuous pit of incompetent buffoons? No way.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 7 months ago:
Happens to the best of us lol
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 7 months ago:
You’re Italian too, huh?
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 7 months ago:
FYI, the abbreviation is AD for “anno domini”. Anno Christi would work too but it’s not the normal choice.
Kudos for AR, would that be “Anno Roboticus”?
- Comment on I wish 7 months ago:
It’s a re-attribution of a joke tweet made by someone else.