UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on wish 4 hours ago:
Or Myanmar.
- Comment on wish 4 hours ago:
Everything boils down to your economic cohort. Being upper class in Korea and Japan is fantastic. Being upper class in the Philippines is pretty great, all things considered. Just be born rich. Anywhere, really. Even being a rich Ukrainian or Syrian gets you a lot of extra mileage, globally. And the spread between rich and poor in a country like Dubai or South Africa, right now? Astronomical.
- Comment on The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game developers 7 hours ago:
Listen, I think its cool that people are following their dreams. But I can’t imagine looking at the modern world and thinking “The thing we’re really lacking right now is new video games”.
What I would love to see is the existing pool of video game developers enjoying more labor protections, shorter working hours, paid sick leave, and guaranteed housing/health care benefits. Because, as someone who has seen the industry chew up and spit out really talented developers, that strikes me as far more important than just learning to code or getting networked into the crunch pipeline at EA or Microsoft.
Walles says: “My favourite example of someone in our cohort who has work experience but is trying to break into the games industry is this young man from Nigeria. He’s a home builder, he’s project managing every day, building houses – and he codes. He wants to take that project management experience and become a producer in video games.”
This is such a bleak read, knowing how many people - both inside the gaming industry and out - who are struggling to find affordable housing.
- Comment on PM Starmer is driving the U.K.’s China policy into a quagmire: London doesn’t know how to respond to pressure from Beijing. The aborted China spy trial feels like a turning point. 7 hours ago:
Starmer has never seen an issue he won’t cave on.
He’s running to the right of the Reform Party because he’s scared. He’s running to meet Trump on foreign policy because he’s scared. He’s running to turn over his country’s water rights to AI companies because he’s scared. He’s running to embrace the St. George’s Cross, ffs.
Why would China be any different?
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 11 hours ago:
what matters is if they will uphold their duty to serve this country or be cowards and do whatever Trump says and serve him
They seem happy enough to Just Following Orders their way into Portland and Chicago.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 11 hours ago:
Like Tiananmen square, the regime stopped using local troops in an attempt to flex their authority and instead brought in outside military with no attachment to the area so they would have less trouble being ordered to fire on civilians.
One minor quibble. To date, I am not aware of any US cities where residents are actually rioting. To date, no one in ICE has actually been injured by protesters. Certainly nobody has died. No property has been destroyed. Nobody is really fighting back.
Let me know when someone in Portland actually sets an APC on fire. Image
The closest thing to Tiananmen in America in physicality was J6. Then maybe the Chaz Protests in Portland in June of 2020 or BLM in Ferguson and Baltimore. Nothing like that is happening now. Even the anti-genocide college protests at Columbia and UCLA don’t really come close to what Chinese protesters managed in Beijing.
Americans are largely passive in the face of their own oppression.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 11 hours ago:
When Texas sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 1 day ago:
I think there’s a whole webcomic DM of the Rings that makes fun of this idea at great length.
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 1 day ago:
The irony is that they can’t
Pretty sure I saw a bunch of these guys sucking people’s souls out or whatever, during the battle, at least in the movie.
From the book, its ambiguous. Per Legolas to the hobbits, following the battle:
Faint cries I heard, and dim horns blowing, and a murmur as of countless far voices: it was like the echo of some forgotten battle in the Dark Years long ago. Pale swords were drawn; but I know not whether their blades would still bite, for the Dead needed no longer any weapon but fear
A lot of Tolkien’s storytelling involves this kind of Word of Mouth recounting, such that it’s hard to know whether you’re getting real High Magic or just mythology passed down second hand.
However you slice it, I’d describe “literally scares you to death” as physical harm.
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 2 days ago:
One of the new tricks Trump’s DHS has been pulling is to embed right-wing journalists behind the ICE goons busting through major city centers.
Even setting aside the deluge of AI slop, there’s a ton of staged photography and engineered content intended to shape public perceptions. As more of the national news media gets gobbled up by right-wing tech billionaires, we’re going to see news coverage sync up with the photo-ops and public opinion bend with the propaganda.
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 2 days ago:
- Comment on *squints* 2 days ago:
Plenty of people will still be horny for this.
- Comment on mobile gaming 2 days ago:
Busy Box for senior citizens.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Yeah, its a really weird way of deflecting from the context.
“Haha, I was just sleepy, UwU silly little me just being a smol bean oopsie!”
- Comment on Pretty sure he's fine 3 days ago:
Oh that’s crazy. Those are good schools
- Comment on Simpler times? 3 days ago:
Reminds me of the double standard with teacher sexual abuse. Male teacher abuses student, pedophile. Female teacher abuses student, “wish I was him”
That was a transition from the 70s/80s to the 90s/00s. Sexy teenage girl desperate to hook up with the handsome clueless professor was a chronic trope of GenX media. Then social mores changed and the male teacher became an insidious predator, rather than a clueless schmuck. But we still wanted to tell the old story, so it was time for the sexy teenage boy to be Hot For Teacher instead.
The morality play in both instances teaches us that chastity is a form of maturity and responsibility, while horniness is comic relief. But neither really lay out the idea of consent or the bureaucratic power of a teacher over a student. Everything is played up for drama or for laughs. A parent’s concern is merely a trope to be inserted to advance the story. Scandal is about raising tension, not defining proper behavior. The taboo exists to be broken.
- Comment on Simpler times? 3 days ago:
Being sexually harassed by two people who refuse to respect boundaries while peers, friends, and school administrators look on and laugh was the “comically terrible” situation in 2006.
The awkwardness of high school sexuality played up for comic effect was generally a setup to a morality tail in the closing arc, where the producers punish the sluts/horn-dogs and reward the chaste conservative trads.
Given the content of this meme, nothing has changed
TV in the '00s was Britney Spears waggling her butt and saying “Why do boys keep chasing me?! I just want to have a nice Christian marriage, but I’m being assaulted by these savage infidels who think thigh-high school girl outfits are sexy!!! Oh, whoa is me!”
TV in the '20s is Zendaya luring two tennis playing men into kissing one another while she jills it in a corner.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 3 days ago:
Americans owned roughly $31.63 trillion in foreign assets by the end of 2022
shrug
- Comment on Pretty sure he's fine 3 days ago:
He had two Masters degrees
To which schools, though?
- Comment on Pretty sure he's fine 3 days ago:
Joke’s on Willis. The school is going to fire him and demand teachers do his job after hours.
- Comment on Red, gold and green. 3 days ago:
Man bits lizard, which is just what that karma chameleon deserves.
- Comment on Does anyone know? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 3 days ago:
wtf is wrong with people.
That, Idfk. One thing to collapse under the pressure. Another thing to get up in someone’s business and say something so vile.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 3 days ago:
Serious illnesses can be horrifying to watch someone go through and poverty routinely seperates loved ones.
Standing by someone in a terrible - perhaps terminal - condition is absolutely an incredible challenge and shouldn’t be dismissed as anything less than that.
A big reason you want to stand by your partner in perilous circumstances is because you want them to be there for you. And another big reason is because you might not get any more moments together than this, so make them last.
In a place like America, where sick days are a luxury and health care can still bankrupt you, being at someone’s bedside is a cross to bare. Be happy when you’re not carrying it. Don’t be so quick to judge when someone else can’t.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 3 days ago:
Spit on That Thang
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 5 days ago:
imagine if the scenario was flipped and you called german fascists MAGAs.
It’s semantics. The German and American fascists all pull from the same ideological and rhetorical playbook.
Veneration of the national security state. Zealous religious orthodoxy. Obsession with loyalty oaths and ethnicity sorting. Reflexive xenophobia. Institutionalized quackery.
It’s all the same shit. Same as Apartheid Africa. Same as Kuomanting China. Same as Pinochet’s Chile and Milei’s Argentina.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 5 days ago:
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 6 days ago:
the worst kind of 12yo is the one who want to change the world for the better
Ah, so you’ve never met one of those kids that just likes torturing animals for fun
- Comment on Truly 6 days ago:
All of these people will vote to have “drug addicts” executed.
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