Glide

@Glide@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He did not explicity state this, no. But the entire premise of the invisible hand metaphor is to show that a core function of the capitalist system is that it moves wealth to those that bring good to their society. The natural inference from this is that wealth is representative of virtue, ie, if Roblox was doing net bad things, it wouldn’t be worth millions.

  Don’t get me wrong, fuck the various Catholic attempts to justify wealth as a virtue too, but the issue is as prevalent in the secular world as it is in the non-secular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even worse than that.

  At it’s root, capitalism, as shown via Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” theory, infers that wealth equals virtue. To receive wealth is to have provided a benefit to society, and to be bereft of wealth is to contribute little while taking much. This system inadvertedly places a dollar value on the abuse of minors in Roblox: any suffering caused is of no consequence to the great good being provided to society, otherwise Roblox would go bankrupt.

  CEOs and corporations take the moral high ground because they live within a system that tells them that wealth is virtue, and they are overflowing in wealth. Until we accept that the core principals of capitalism are flawed, we will never begin holding bad actor’s appropriately accountable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, I am extremely pro-immigration, but many of the immigration policies as written are tools used to suppress wages. This is the reason we see so many immigrants, often with degrees and training we refuse to recognize in Canada, in low paying, minimum wage jobs. I personally had the pleasure of working with a wonderful woman from the middle east who was a qualified teacher, stuck working 30 hours a week in a grocery store deli because we refused to recognize her degree or decade of experience. She spoke perfect English and was incredibly pleasant, and visibly intelligent and well-mannered, but she’s a brown immigrant, so fuck it, minimum wage for her.

  We can take immigrants at the rate we have been while not using them to further wealth inequalities. But as a friend of mine says, the purpose of a system is what it does, and the current iteration is not about creating a multi-cultural nation.

  For additional clarity, this isn’t to say that you’re wrong and immigration isn’t being used as a scapegoat. I’d just argue that the problem is more substantial than simply calling the issue a scapegoat suggests. There is a real problem, but it’s not in that we’re accepting immigrants at all; it’s the conditions we’ve agreed to accept them under.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck do you mean some people don’t have an inner monologue. How do they… Think thoughts? I literally cannot comprehend how they work through thoughts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The most interesting part of this is that Musk allowed it to happen. Either he genuinely does not realize he had been working with and supporting other foreign actors attempting to destabilize the US, or some X dev is about to get fired/disappear/“fall” out of a window. There’s no way Musk both knew these accounts were dishonest foreign astroturfers and permitted this feature go live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are people who exist between “I build, format and otherwise manage my own gaming rig,” and “I don’t need a PC for games.”

  My partner is a perfect example. She has my old PC shell, with some $500 of GPU, internal memory, and accessories, hooked up to the TV. She uses it daily, almost exclusively for Steam games and streaming services that she finds more comfortable to navigate with a keyboard and mouse. A smaller, quieter, streamlined, “this more or less will do the things you want to do straight out of the box” product would have saved both her (and I, because that thing has has some troubleshooting) a lot of headache, while looking far more presentable to boot.

  Maybe she’s the odd one out and the target audience is more niche than my bias’ recognize, but I guess we’ll see for sure when this thing releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a huge difference between an intentional allegory used as an attack on a marginalized group, and a word being used to durogatorily refer to a non-living, non-feeling group of machines which are actively damaging the world.

  yea, i guess someone saying “screws will not replace us” or “13% of the code, 50% of the bugs” (both real things i’ve seen people say)

  I would agree that these things are not okay, becuase they’re imitating insults that literally only exist to put forward racist ideology, and I’d tell anyone who used them around me as much.

  cause it’s the same shit with clanker and other assorted nonsense, you’re making racist jokes but swapping racialized people for an acceptable target. but guess what, it’s still racism! you’re still doing a racist joke!

  So, how about “chud” then, intended to refer to right-wing-minded hate mongers? Or, here’s a better one, how about when we call right-wing extremists nazis as a durogatory insult? I mean they’re certainly not all members of the third reich. We’re using the term to equate them to something they strictly aren’t, even if they share more ideology than is okay. We’re still using words to categorize groups of people, and using them in intentionally insulting ways. Such durogatory terms are a part of our natural language. They’re not nice, sure, but I don’t want to be nice to people who are actively calling for violence against marginalized groups. But most importantly, we don’t think of these words as slurs. Slurs are durogatory terms that target marginalized groups, unlike “chud,” “nazi,” or yes, “clanker.”

  I think there’s far too much nuance here to make blanket insinuations like “durogatory terms used to refer to things we don’t like are stand-ins for racist remarks.” But considering some of the other connections you’ve seen people make, I can certainly understand the trepidation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Slurs target a marginalized group. “Clanker” does not a marginalized group, because generative AI is not part of a marginalized group. It is not even alive, therefore it is not a slur in the sense tou!rr equating it to.

  Please don’t call other people “clueless” if you don’t understand the things you’re getting worked up over. Equating non-thinking computer processing models to oppressed minorities is doing far more damage than anyone using the term “clanker,” ironically or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pot crashing out the kettle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmfao, valid. Ty for nothing the typo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pot crashing out the kettle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Skibidi toilet is this generations “badger badger badger.”

  Yes, some of the memes kids are absorbing is absolute brainrot. So we’re some of the memes I absorbed frowning up.

  Good on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America has, since inception, been absolutely fine with violence, often celebrating it, and completely disgusted with sexuality. It’s perhaps the single most backwards thing about North American culture, imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turning into? Sony has been worse than Nintendo or Disney for years. They’re the OG “we’re going to silently brick your machine to protect our digital assets.”

  At least Nintendo had the decency to put in their EULA that they’re going to fuck you for trying to pirate content on their proprietary hardware. Sony just bricked your personal PC because fuck you and then lied about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to spoiler it and talk about it, because I am genuinely interested in other people’s opinion/experiences on this.

  Spoilers for late chapter 1, early chapter 2

  This is mostly centered around the kiss. Save the “proposition” innuendo, it became pretty clear that Blonde Blazer’s whole schtick was to recruit Robert. Even in the moment when she moved close to him, she kind of sizes him up like someone looking at a horses teeth as opposed to someone losing themselves in the eyes of a prospective lover, so I didn’t kiss her, and save making a joke on the “proposition” comment, didn’t say anything overly romantic of flirty. This made the whole conversation the next day feel weird and out of place. It was toned like Robert DID kiss her, as Blazer just constantly apologized, and the responses I had options for (“I don’t think it was a mistake” met with “it was, for reasons I’ll explain later”) kept that same awkward connotation. Blonde Blazer acted like she did something incredibly inappropriate in… being slightly drunk when she offered Robert a job? But as a result of my options, there really was nothing to act like this about. But the conversation HAD to be toned this way, otherwise Invisigirl overhearing and responding with “what, you two fuck?” wouldn’t make any sense. The game didn’t “assume I made choices I didn’t” as much as they clearly wrote it with an expectation in mind, but my choices didn’t meet those expectations, leaving the whole section flowing weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just finished Chapter 3 of 8. It has some very classic Telltale foibles: sometimes the script seems to assume you made a decisions that you didn’t make and it makes the dialogue feel awkward, or the sarcastic tone in a written dialogue choice isn’t clear when you select the option and the resulting scene isn’t at all what you thought you were suggesting.

  Despite these fairly common for Telltale problems, it’s an incredibly witty and entertaining piece of entertainment. They use the “dispatch” mechanic to engage you as a player and they tie it into the narrative in ways that feel clever. Everyone is at each others throats because of a story beat? People are actively sabotaging each other on the job and it’s making your job as their dispatcher harder. The writing is laugh-out-loud funny, the voice acting and character animation is top notch, and there’s an interesting story and world holding it all together.

  It’s very good. Not perfect, but very good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Monster Hunter Rise was more visually satisfying that Wilds. Prove me wrong (you can’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is built on the notion that wealth is virtue.

  If you are rich, you made good decisions and the invisible hand has guided money to your pockets. You’ve created things that contribute to the comfort/progress of society as a whole, and your reward for it is to be held above others.

  If you are poor, you have not been actively contributing to society. You have instead been a drain, and the invisible hand is punishing you got this. Your inability to find meaningful ways to contribute is a vice, which should be looked down on. Ultimately, if you cannot afford to live, that is survival of the fittest, and the world is better off without you.

  If you believe any of the above to be true, you are delusional scum of the earth, and you are the reason everything sucks. You’d also feel right at home with the right-wing chuds currently undoing decades of progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olympics ends Esports plans with Saudi Arabia after just one year | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Olympics ends Esports plans

  Aww…

  with Saudi Arabia

  Oh. Nevermind, carry on, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨here comes the truth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How can we accept transgender people for who they are / if they can’t accept themselves for who I see them as

  Fixed your shitty, degenerate, transphobic meme for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, yeah. Using other people as a means to your end is pretty well defined as immoral. Don’t try and throw your moral bankruptcy back at the whole world like we all feel the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Goon Squad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the actual fuck is this article, lmfao. They act like they’ve cracked the code of what a “gooner” is, and likeness it to this almost religious state of being. It’s slang for someone who unapologetically gives their time and energy to one of more targets of their sexual fantasy. That’s it. They’re not trying to ascend to a state of goonvana, or whatever the fuck this article is trying to paint it as. It’s literally just a culturally accepted way of referencing obsession with sexual fantasy.

  So fucking weird, dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait to see the exemption for “part time workers” and suddenly everyone making less than a triple digit salary has exactly 32 hours a week, or whatever is legally permissible to pass as “part time work” in your country.

  You’ve provided a fantastic common-sense solution designed off the simple premise that no one needs 12x of a living wage, and I can’t agree enough, but I know the capitalists would fuck it up at every stage possible, while simultaneously arguing that they’re justified in doing so because the method of economy that they worships has given them moral purchase to look down on the poors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ceo makes $96.5 million a year.

  This should be severely punishable by the law. It causes more societal harm than many crimes with serious penalties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red balloon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta say, he fooled me too. I genuinely thought, “huh, it’s been a while since mickey7 graced us with his uncomfortable, sexist boomer humour” only to tab back. Shocked, I say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the most overrated game gamers hype up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While you are absolutely right, that doesn’t make it more engaging to listen to. Perhaps ludonarrative harmony can go too far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the most overrated game gamers hype up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fantastic response tbh.

  It’s a good game, and very unique in what it does, but it’s not the objectively best written masterpiece it gets praise for.

  My friend who thinks it is also thinks the same o Shakespeare, which I think explains a lot. I tend to be impressed with works that say more with fewer words rather than say little with very many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is about enthusiasts buying less games, though. We’re not talking about the average number of purchases the consumer makes. This is more evidence that there are a lot more casual players out there, who will make their 0-2 large game purchases a year and play their games over a long time. The college guy who literally only buys a couple sports games that they play online with a friend. The burnt out parent that can only make time for their 2 open world adventure games all year. I know a few people in my life who own a Switch, Mario Kart and Animal Crossing, and that will be literally the only two games they load all year. And this is to say nothing of people who strictly play F2P tirles, which apparently are 33% of players.

  “US game players purchase 1-2 games a year on average” is not the same thing as “the bottom 60% of purchasers only purchase 1-2 games a year.” This is evidence that, one, the medium is reaching a much more widespread market and, two, the casual market is often more engaged with F2P titles.

  I think if we looked at enthusiasts and hobbiests, there would still be a decline in purchases. I don’t think this is evidence that games have become too expensive for most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a real post from the official DHS account on X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …in that order?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outsiders, studio behind Metal: Hellsinger, is being closed by Funcom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Metal Hellsinger was one of the more inspired experiences I’ve played in the past several years. Really sad to see a studio making genuinely quality games have to shutter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded for Dark Cloud 2 specifically. Game is incredibly good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HOW TO CHECK IF YOUR ARYAN GENES आसक्त TUTORIAL *WORKING 2026*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP read “shitpost” and thought it was a challenge.