ProdigalFrog
@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 6 days ago:
A co-op campaign I’d be down for, but I can’t say I’m excited for this. I’m just not feeling the vibe.
- Comment on Mafia: The Old Country - The Initiation Trailer 1 week ago:
As a huge fan of the original, but disappointed with the sequels, I’m cautiously optimistic!
- Comment on The one who's coming was foretold to us has arrived 1 week ago:
Ah, but did ye not pull thyself up by thy bootstraps to attain such magnificent power over thy lessers? Thou hast surely earned thy power by the divine right of business!
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- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
Some communities have a lot of homegrown posts that you could share over there, especially text heavy posts, though they can be interspersed between links to elsewhere as well.
as an example, @Blair@slrpnk.net made a ton of really well done informative posts on various communities on my instance, such as this one.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that sounds about right. I only read the first few chapters of the expanse, but I believe the world is still capitalist overall, yes? if so, that would make it more in line with perhaps the end goal of a social democrat, where there’s a super strong welfare and social safety net, but still capital and big businesses. The assumption from Anarchists is achieving that Social Democrat ideal is impossible under capitalism, as it would remove almost all of the leverage corporations have to exploit their workers, leaving little profit left for them, and thus inciting them to revolt, like they almost did during The Business Plot in response yo FDR’s new deal finally giving the working class some room to breathe.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Yes, and charging below that would be a deviation from the norm.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Dense community housing would still be optimal for cities and towns, especially if housing was a human right, as it’s much more efficient and uses less resources. They would still exist as cooperative housing, where each tenant owns a share of the complex. Those already exist today quite successfully, they’re just not the norm as it doesn’t generate profit for a landlord or realestate investor.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
The ethical option would be to give the deed to the friends after the mortgage is paid off.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
I agree, that sounds fair.
I suppose after the house is paid off, they could switch to pay the equivalent percentage they were paying for the mortgage, toward property taxes and utilities instead.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
If you’re not charging them above what is required to cover their share of the mortgage, then that’s not immoral at all.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
If you take out a loan to purchase the apartment, then have your friends pay just enough rent to pay off the loan without profiti yourself (perhaps a small amount extra to cover any recorded time spent in administration responsibilities), that would not be immoral at all.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Sn alternative to a landlord is for the apartment complex to ve collectively owned by the tenets, making it a housing coop. That would mean any big expenses would be dustributed amongst everyone, making it more nsnageable. Collectively owned buoldings tend to recieve more maintainence, as the tenents have an incentive to maintain the value of their property.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Alternatively, those apartment complexes could be cooperatively owned, cutting out the landlord without any loss.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Your stocks do not deprive anyone else of an essential human need, while owning and renting out a house you do not personally use artificially deprives another of buying that house, which further raises housing prices, making an essential human need an investment vehicle.
Using a different analogy, if you lived in an area with scarce water resources, but happened to purchase land with a particularly abundant spring, you could then profit handsomely by selling that water to the thirsty at an extremely high rate, exploiting the human need for water in for your individual profit.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Ideally houses that aren’t used by anyone would be cared for collectively, and would be free for anyone to use for as much time as they need it.
That assumes that housing is a human right, and that adequate housing exists with a small surplus in most societies (and considering there are more empty homes than there are homeless in the US right now, that would be a feasible thing to achieve were capitalism bit creating intense conflicts if interests).
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
The answer you receive will vary based on which political ideology you ask.
I will answer from the perspective of an anarchist.
Your Aunt and her Husband are not committing the greatest of evils, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re a part of a bigger problem, one that they themselves would not even perceive, and in fact would have strong personal incentives not to grant legitimacy were it explained to them.
An anarchist, or libertarian socialist, are generally against the concept of private property in all forms. This is not to be confused with personal property, which are things you personally own and use, such as the house you live in, your car, your tools.
But private property is something you own to extract profit from simply by the act of owning it, and necessarily at the deprivation and exploitation of someone else.
Buy owning those townhomes that they themselves do not live in, they are able to exploit the absolute basic human requirement for shelter in an artificially restricted market, and thus acquire surplus value in a deal of unequal leverage.
You could argue they are justified due to offering below market rates, taking on the financial risk of owning and maintaining the property, and fronting the capital to own the investment.
But the issue is: their choice to become landlords is what in fact creates the conditions in which they can then offer solutions to in order to claim justification.
For if we consider if landlordism were completely abolished, and people were only allowed to own homes they personally use, it would result in an insane amount of housing stock to flood the market, causing housing prices to plummet. This would in turn allow millions of lower income people to be able to afford a home and pay it off quickly, allowing them to actually build wealth for the first time instead of most of it going to pay off rent (remember, your aunt charging below market is the exception, not the norm).
Most humans would much rather pay off a small mortgage on a non-inflated home themselves, instead of paying off someone else’s mortgage and then some.
But that’s all assuming we have a housing market still. In an ideal Anarchist society, housing would be a human right, and every human would have access to basic shelter and necessities of life, like was enacted for a short time in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-11-30: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice still on top in its second week; 4K's market share slinks back to sub-25%. 1 week ago:
Seems to be a common sentiment 😅
Makes sense, especially the economic factor.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-11-30: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice still on top in its second week; 4K's market share slinks back to sub-25%. 1 week ago:
surprised to see how popular DVD still is, would’ve thought that’d be on its way out by now.
- Comment on Everyone talking about the Indiana Jones game lately, so I gave in and bought it. It's a 10/10 recommendation from me! 1 week ago:
There’s multiple paths in the game that open up slightly different content. There’s a critical point when you can choose to take Sophia with you, or to go it alone with either thinking (harder puzzles) or fighting.
- Comment on Everyone talking about the Indiana Jones game lately, so I gave in and bought it. It's a 10/10 recommendation from me! 2 weeks ago:
It warms my heart to know that damn parrot is burned into someone eles’s memory too
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- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
Oddly enough I actually pre-ordered a phisycal copy of Primordia, and got a ways into it before stopping for some reason, never finished it. I should really go back and finish it!
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I would say:
- Thief 1, 2 & 3
- Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis
- Mafia 1 (not the remake)
- Gemini Rue
- Deus Ex (Game Dungeon has a great video on why the story punches so high, link to relevant segment here)
- Disco Elysium (even though I personally didn’t really care for the game due to the setting, the writing is undeniably high quality)
- A Mind Forever Voyaging
All of those games have, IMO, a tremendously good sync between gameplay and story, where everything lines up to the point where you can become fully absorbed into whatever experience the writer/designer crafted. I would say Thief accomplishes it the best, and Mafia’s and Deus Ex’s clunky gameplay do hinder the experience, but I can see what they were trying to achieve, and overall are close enough to my ideal.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
I have a very similar experience to @Zarxrax@lemmy.world. When I was younger, I’d play just about anything I could get my hands on. But now, it’s like you, where 99% of what’s out there doesn’t interest me.
I think this happened for a few reasons for me:
- Games are a pretty big time commitment compared to other media, and my time has only become more valuable as I get older. I’m just not willing to invest it in a game that isn’t really scratching an itch effectively
- There are more games out now than ever before in history. Combined with the previous point, there’s never been a better time to be picky.
- AAA games are stagnating pretty badly due to profit incentive. While there a still some that break the mold and show artistic value, most if them are so commodified and painfully derivative, it’s difficult for an older gamer who has already played things like it to get excited
- I’ve become more attuned to my preferences in genre, and know what I will and will not enjoy, which is something I didn’t have as much when I was younger, since everything was still relatively new and therefore, interesting enough to play.
But this last one is the biggest reason for me: games are not reaching the potential they have locked within them.
I say that as someone who is a massive fan of storytelling, good writing, and immersion in games. Compared to books and movies, writers are still given extremely low priority in the gaming industry, which results in a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance, simplistic writing, and a lack of innovative gameplay inspired by said writing.
Indies have been the most willing to experiment, but that’s mostly with pure mechanics or themes, and writing is still often neglected.
There have been a few titles that I think reach that potential, but most of them are quite old now. With so few to truly tickle me in that way, I’ll instead opt for arcade type games that manage to create a tight gameplay loop, as it let’s me not lament the lack of a good story so much.
- Comment on Get the door! BREACH BREACH BREACH 2 weeks ago:
Every movement begins and is made up of individuals working toward making things better, which is how anything in history has ever gotten better. One more individual joining their local mutual aid group, protesting for the climate, and fighting for what’s right is exactly what this world needs right now.
Also @Atlas_@lemmy.world
- Comment on Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects adopt platforms Mastodon and PeerTube as main communication channels 2 weeks ago:
XMPP has quite good encryption nowadays, and at least according to our sysadmin, it’s quite a bit lighter on system requirements. I think there was also some concerns about the matrix foundation being pretty corporate oriented.
- Comment on Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects adopt platforms Mastodon and PeerTube as main communication channels 2 weeks ago:
My instance uses a self hosted XMPP for mods/Admins to communicate quickly, which works quite well.
- Comment on 7/7 of Required Countries Have Met the Petition's Threshold. 3 weeks ago:
If you’re an EU citizen, you can massively help by joining the petition over at www.stopkillinggames.com
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 4 comments
