jwiggler
@jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 day ago:
bahahahahah I was so confused
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 day ago:
that is fundamentally untrue but i suppose you cant have a revolution without breaking some axiomatic eggs
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 days ago:
awesome. that album is so sick. the lyrics have a shock factor that i really like. sometimes theyre straight up hilarious.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 days ago:
me too lol. the shirt with the lego guy ? that’s the one i got
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 days ago:
subversive punk is still around. It’s still politically leftist. Jeff Rosenstock and his fans are pretty anarchist in ethos. Go to one of his shows, you’ll find a whole lot of messaging about solidarity, mutual aid, building better world, fuck the police, etc. His lyrics aren’t always about politics but they have an anti authoritarian edge.
There’s Infinity Knives x Brian Ennals who are mixing punk and hip hop in a very in your face political way and theyre GREAT.
Viagra boys are a pop punk who satirize the alt-right, especially in their album Cave World.
Mount Eerie is a noisy folk band that dabbles in some punk aesthetic – their most recent albums contains themes of decolonization and anti-war.
Honningbarna just came out with an amazing record called Soft Spot that has some leftist political themes, but not as overt as the others. Amazing sound though. Maybe more Hardcore than punk.
There is no centralized counter culture because the media landscape is so different now. There’s no radio to all listen to together. Communities are pretty isolated online. There are advantages and disadvantages. At the very least, decentralization of the counter culture prevents it from ever being squashed completely. On the other hand, decentralization makes it harder for people to see, and cause them to lose hope and feel alone. But as another said, you’re here, aren’t you?
- Comment on How much more progressive are European views as compared to progressives in America? 1 week ago:
You should check out the last chapter of Bullshit Jobs. The author makes a good case for UBI as a liberating force for people whose lives are tied to demeaning work. His idea is that UBI would free people from being dependent on an economic master in order to have access to basic human needs like shelter, food, water, healthcare, etc. but also less concrete needs such as sociability, leisure, and play. It would have to go hand in hand with some regulation on prices.
He’s an anarchist so he ostensibly has your same aversion (completely warranted) to the perpetuation of money and capitalism.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 1 week ago:
relevant
- Comment on New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware 1 month ago:
I figured “frame” refers to glasses, but looks like people are thinking it’s a box of some sort.
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 2 months ago:
not sure how i can express how much i hate this comment. nice job.
- Comment on Magic Rocks 2 months ago:
Me too! I prune my yard of invasives and let the natives grow, cataloging with iNaturalist as I see new species. My yard was a dirt slope last summer, this summer it is full of a wonderful variety of plants! My crotchety gardener mother and aunt keep trying to offer me non-natives to transplant – I tell them I’ve got plants growing already but thank you – they say, “yeah, weeds.”
Funnily enough, my yard with milkweed, primrose, violets, tickseed flowers, black-eyed susans, a walnut sapling, pepperweed, and st johns wort (not actually native here but not as invasive as some other plants) looks better than theirs and probably requires way less maintenance.
- Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 3 months ago:
I really don’t think it is. For one thing, there’s texted added to it that certainly wasn’t part of the original. Then there’s the matter of multiple versions of a similar line-drawing with text in the center floating around. And then finally, no mainstream media has released the image. It seems like someone just mocked this up and posted it on twitter.
Although I’d be happy to be proven wrong.
- Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 3 months ago:
Thats not the real thing though, is it?
- Comment on kingdom come 3 months ago:
I mean it in a most sincere and endearing way. Gave me a joy and chuckle.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 months ago:
good post, sounds like a copypasta
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 3 months ago:
At my work, we maintain computers that use Nvidia glasses to view stereo images of protein structures.
Nvidia doesn’t support them anymore, and there was an email thread that was forwarded to us by the lab manager of some scientists discussing the issue. One of them suggested to the others that they could just cross their eyes and see the images that way instead of using the glasses. Funny stuff!
- Comment on How can I start getting familiar with the plants, trees and animals around where I live? 3 months ago:
I use inaturalist. You essentially take a pic, upload it, add info about its location and stuff, and it goes into a feed where others will see suggest the scientific name.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 4 months ago:
I’m sorry:(( I’m dumb.
I have Dredge already, and I had bought Animal Well for $18 last night. That left Inscryption as the final game in the bundle. Steam dynamically prices games in the bundle and since I already had two games, I saw the bundle as $7 and got confused.
I literally just refunded animal well, waited for the refund confirmation, went to rebuy animal well, and saw the bundle was now priced at $24 (because I still already have Dredge).
Sorry I got your hopes up :(
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 4 months ago:
Bah. Bought Animal Well for $18 last night, but just saw now it was included in a bundle for $7.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 5 months ago:
It’s fantasy, part of the fun is the mystery of this strange looking technology and how old, used, and dirty it is. Makes you wonder, what kind of history did this object see?
Relevant aside: I just learned Lucas renamed Star Wars to Star Wars: Episode IV in 1981, before knowing he’d help make the three prequel films. It was just a stylistic choice, to make Star Wars feel like just a small piece of a larger epic.
Once you explain the mystery of the technology away, or the mystery of the rest of the saga, some of that magic disappears.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 5 months ago:
Can you recommend me a starting point? For someone who has no experience with these games, or any Japanese games besides Soulsgames and RE4 remake.
Feel free to roast me in the process.
- Comment on [DeliberatelyBuried] Ratatouille 5 months ago:
I found this fact particularly fun. thanks for sending me down a lil rabbit hole.
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 5 months ago:
I think totally. 100%. If Wikipedia is to be believed
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people that perceives themselves to be different from other groups based on shared attributes. These attributes include having a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.[1][2] The term ethnicity is sometimes used interchangeably with the term nation, particularly in cases of ethnic nationalism. It is also used interchangeably with race.
Then I think that your ethnicity could be based on the internet communities you exist in.
Its directly related to things like the slow dissolution of regional accents we see due to the internet and the general melting, appropriation, and reappropriation we of cultural aspects we see facilitated by the internet.
- Comment on "You Will Own Nothing" - _jared 5 months ago:
I enjoy Jared Henderson. Frustrated there’s nothing about free software movement anywhere in this video
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
When i was a kid, my grandma lived with us. She’d listen to this piece of garbage non-stop. She had me parroting the drivel he spouted. Nothing could make me forgive this dude for poisoning her mind, and nothing will make me forget how she helped make me into a hateful little kid. Glad they’re both dead, only hoping my own mother doesn’t take up the mantle with my nieces and nephews. She does not understand the harm and the trauma she perpetuates.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 months ago:
Spoken like a true 12 year old. Lmao
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 months ago:
Wow, I gave you a lot of benefit of the doubt in my comments, but you’re really out here to just denigrate other people’s tastes, aren’t you? How refined, how cultured your game library must be. How sweet your shit must smell. How does it feel up there, where you’ll never touch a game frequented by us Dorito-eaters and us Mountain-Dew-drinkers? Feels good, huh? Feels better.
What a fucking joke.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 months ago:
For sure for sure. I definitely read it that way, in part, because I have to consciously remind myself that my taste is my own and I should try not to dismiss people who like their art to be more…palatable, i guess? Because I have the capacity to be that guy, unfortunately. So I try to watch a blockbuster every once in a while, so to speak.
I think it was probably the comparison between GTA and Madden and CoD that threw me, because they have almost no similarities besides being AAA.
Their comment kinda reminded me of how the Kingdom Come: Deliverance fandom can be. I mean, I fucking love KCD and KCD2, they’re two of the best games I’ve ever played. They can slow AF though, and frustrating at times. But whenever someone mentions that, or that they didn’t like it, someone else invariably comes along and completely dismisses their opinion, like “You just don’t understand it,” or “Maybe you just don’t have the attention span to really immerse yourself.” It’s like dude, you don’t need to make someone feel bad for not liking a game.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 months ago:
I think GTA online could be compared to Madden and CoD in that they all have aggressive(-ly lame) monetization tactics. But the way jordanlund frames it (sorry jordan, I don’t mean to rag on you – like I said, I can also be like this) sounds more to me like a “i only listen to artists with less than 1000 monthly listeners” type of statement
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 months ago:
I get it’s a massive franchise, like Madden or Call of Duty… don’t buy those either.
whew, I’m trying to understand your comment, but this is kinda coming off pretty…holier-than-thou? Which, I do get that because I can find myself like that with movies/tv, but still…we gotta let people like what they like.
In this case though, I honestly think this is a pretty terrible comparison. Madden and CoD don’t have massive single player appeal that GTA or RDR have. They are total schlock in that regard (though, I hear CoD’s recent campaigns are actually good).
GTA and RDR on the other hand very skillfully mix elements of RPG, immersive sim, and adventure game. They’re huge sandboxes for the player to explore and discover new things, within which are nestled very well written stories that critique modern life and touch upon themes that, yes, you could find them in various indie games if you look a bit, but are somewhat unique in the blockbuster gamescape. It’s difficult to find other single player games with the scope of Rockstar games, though I think it is getting easier.
But comparing GTA to Madden or CoD is kinda whack unless you’re looking at GTA Online in isolation.
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 6 months ago:
I think installing linux on another hard drive is best. It can be frustrating to jump straight into linux and realize a particular thing doesnt work, not knowing why, and realizing you can’t play games at all before doing work to fix things. Saying this as a linux sysadmin.
For a long time I had a dual boot setup for this reason. I wasn’t sure why Ubuntu always felt so sluggish gaming (especially Rocket League, which requires a very low amount of input lag)
Eventually I found two things that massively MASSIVELY improved my perception of the performance. First, the kernel I was running. Switching to the liquorix kernel with my NVIDIA card made a huge difference in my perceived input latency (please, if someone could correct my verbiage here. Input latency may not be technically correct.) Secondly but almost as important – my desktop compositor. I switched to KDE Plasma so I could manually turn it off and make sure that it was off. I never was certain with Gnome, even though I am more comfortable in that environment. Smooth sailing since then. But it was important for me to be able to reboot into Windows if I wanted to play with friends without running into technical difficulties.
Now, I’m fully off of Windows for gaming and, well, everything. It’s sick.