UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Saint > Pope 16 hours ago:
What is the opposite of a saint?
Sinner, broadly speaking. A heretic or demoniac or, in extreme cases, an antichrist would maybe qualify.
But the church doesn’t make a big ceremony of cataloging and cannonizing the bad guys. You don’t have priests running around looking for whatever the inverse of a miracle is in order to verify this or that individual was supernaturally evil. The closest might be the documentation of the subjects of exorcisms.
He ruins what others can’t.
The dogged insistence that Trump is a uniquely bad person (much less president) heavily neglects the long history of shit political leadership in this country’s history. If anything, one could argue that Trump isn’t an anomaly. The Post-FDR Era has been the anomaly. We’ve had an unusually good (relatively speaking) run of Presidents and now we’re drifting back to the 19th century Tyler / Pierce / Buchanan / Johnson / Cleveland mean.
Americans had an unusually good run of luck following the Great Depression. And it propelled us into the Superpower sphere of influence. Now our luck has run out and we’re plummeting back down to the baseline. Trump’s a symptom and a vehicle of that decline. But he’s got tens of thousands of fellow-travelers who have rallied behind him to drag the country down. We have an entire economic orthodoxy centered around the theory that Americans have had it too good for too long and they need to start living like their poverty-wracked Latin America / East Asia / Central Africa peers.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii 2 days ago:
14 crashed and burned until they brought in the A-Team to reboot it.
I’d say that had a much bigger impact on Dev cycle than a successful release on the first try with 7Remake.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii 3 days ago:
No, but it was very close.
I believe there’s a playable version somewhere.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii 3 days ago:
That’s more a consequence of the MMOs sucking up all the oxygen. Plus 15 bring fumbled over and over again for nearly a decade.
But there’s no lack of talent. What SquareEnix lacks is vision and leadership.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii 3 days ago:
I’ve had a great time with Remake and Rebirth. They put a lot more into it than some of the earlier spit-shines on 2D classics, which wouldn’t have worked for a game that was kinda in between generations of art and technique. But they’re really dragging this shit out. And I really don’t need a ChronoTrigger Integrade.
The franchise and the world have abundant potential. There’s no reason they couldn’t do something really creative and exciting with it. It just feels like the modders already did exactly that, only to have their work thrown in the trash.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii 3 days ago:
The best remakes of ChronoTrigger were killed by vindictive SquareEnix litigators a decade ago.
I’m not holding my breath on an FF7Remale treatment on these terms.
- Comment on Anon struggles with a one day chip 3 days ago:
Did anyone ever hook 4chan up to a new machine or is Greentext now trapped in amber from a few weeks ago?
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 4 days ago:
mainleaf.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-market-a-vi…
As a rule of thumb, you’re looking at 25-50% of a AAA game’s budget going to advertising. So a $40 game becomes an $80 game in large part because the publisher is putting out $10Ms-$100Ms just to raise name recognition and build hype.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 4 days ago:
there are the likes of South of Midnight and Clair Obscur launching at $50.
Beautiful games, both. But again, they aren’t having the full court press of advertising like a new Call of Duty or Final Fantasy or Diablo would.
That’s the real cost savings. You don’t need to change $80+ for a game if you aren’t focused entirely on presale figures to justify your studio’s budget.
Incidentally, you also get to focus on a better game. Balatro didn’t need wall to wall subway ads in New York to end up on everyone’s phones.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 4 days ago:
Steam doesn’t advertise at the scale of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. It won’t have a ripple effect because it won’t change the degree to which artificial hype drives people towards the “Buy” button.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 4 days ago:
$80 on release day. $60 a month later. $40 a year later. $20 a year after that.
What you’re paying for isn’t the game, its the hype. An enormous component of a modern AAA game’s budget is just advertising. That’s what your $80 is going towards. You’re paying to have people tell you to buy it.
Even assuming you don’t feel like pirating… Just be patient, play something that came out a few years ago, wait for the next Steam Sale, and own the game for pennies on the dollar.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 5 days ago:
Anything that gets a rise out of your parents is going to be repeated on a loop whether or not you understand the context.
I remember saying “Pimp” in front of a friend’s parent. She chewed me out over it, while my friend’s younger sister listened in. She then proceeded to say “Pimp! Pimp! Pimp!” all the way home.
I was not invited back to that house for a month, which I think is a bit unfair.
- Comment on BBC Greenlights “Real Life ‘Black Mirror'” Doc About Artificial Intelligence 6 days ago:
Love my documentary “Don’t Build The Torment Engine: The Real True Story of the Building of the Torment Engine” because I get to live it and then watch it as a funny show.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 6 days ago:
they have been culling via shadowbanning for a month now
Way more than months. This goes at least as far back as the 2016 kerfuffle over The_Donald, ChapoTrapHouse, and other increasingly popular outside-the-mainstream communities.
Honestly easier to trace it back to 2012, when Reddit was gaining popular steam and doing lots of high profile AMAs. Shadowbanning was a great way to quash the mix of spam accounts and hecklers without letting the people running the accounts know they needed to roll up new ones.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 week ago:
Less dumping ground and more release valve. The people Reddit is jettisoning are many of their more active and prodigious content creators and contributors. The site admins simply don’t want new human content anymore. They want passive observers who will consume advertisement content without creating drama.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 week ago:
Reddit simply doesn’t want an active user base. They want passive viewers ingesting AI generated content.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
The 8 hour workday was implemented days after the Bolshevik revolution. And the 6 hour workday was reserved for utopian fiction outside of Communist states.
You’re being deliberately obtuse.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
www.marxists.org/history/ussr/events/…/29.htm
In the Soviet Union, the eight-hour day was introduced four days after the October Revolution, by a Decree of the Soviet government in 1917
www.marxists.org/history/ussr/…/ch17.htm#%3A~%3At….
The labor efficiency has risen through better industrial processes and better machinery. Output per worker in the Soviet Union is still low by Western European standards, but it has been showing a healthy rate of advance. The advance has been aided by a campaign against absenteeism. In 1913 the days of actual work per worker in industry were 257. In the fiscal year 1921-22 they had fallen to 219.5. In 1926-27 they were 262.1.
On the other hand the length of the normal working day, which was 10 hours before the war, was reduced to 8 hours at the beginning of the Soviet régime, and for dangerous occupations to 6 hours. During 1926-27 the working day averaged 7.5 hours.
The Council of People’s Commissars, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet State, in November, 1927, decreed the gradual introduction of the 7-hour day in industry. This is being put in force first in the textile industry.
From the 1928 release of Soviet Union Information Bureau report on labor.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 week ago:
GEE WHIZ WHO WOULDN’T WANT THAT
The promise of Copilot is this fanciful idea of automating every job that involves as computer.
So employers love this, because it is supposed to usher in a drastically smaller office fully of middle management prompt engineers who can simulate a new worker with a few button clicks.
That’s the dream. That’s who it is for in theory. In practice, the technology doesn’t work.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
it’s not an achievement of socialist countries specifically
It is an achievement of socialism, specifically.
And when the socialists get control of the whole country, it becomes an achievement of a socialist country
- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
You’re not really giving any actual examples of automation shortening the work week in socialist countries
I pointed you directly to the 8-day workweek, which was the consequence of socialist reforms following the industrial revolution.
You can find the same reforms implemented in socialist states ranging from Lenin’s Russia to Sankara’s Burkino Faso. It wasn’t just in England that we got statutory limits on the labor day and rules for overtime pay.
- Comment on Bingo 1 week ago:
What?
- Comment on Bingo 1 week ago:
What is stopping it?
- Comment on Bingo 1 week ago:
Ever since the executive branch started to get more powerful
The Jefferson Administration was a mistake.
- Comment on Bingo 1 week ago:
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People surrender enormous amounts of personal autonomy to their bosses, their landlords, and their political leadership
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Bosses, landlords, and political leaders pool all their power under a Unitary Executive position with entirely unchecked authority
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Chief executive abuses the office
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New chief executive abuses the office
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Even newer chief executive abuses the office
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The latest chief executive abuses the office
Some dummy with a sign “It’s not supposed to be like this!”
God damn, read a fucking book. For every moment you’ve been alive it has been like this.
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- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
Yeah because of how mega capitalist it was
Capital accumulation is a predicate for the surpluses needed to build a socialist economy.
Worker ownership of means of production, usually.
Public pensions and union shops lay claim to the surplus profits of capital. The UK’s union membership peaked in the 1970s, as did its wages/pensions. After Thatcher, that share declined rapidly, as did the supply of council housing, the access to public health care and education, and the various other amenities common to socialist economies.
Let’s say Eastern Block, China, you get the picture.
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
- Michael Parenti
Don’t get much more “worker ownership of means of production” than that.
- Comment on Surely the moderators, admins, investors and bots would never interfere in any way 1 week ago:
If you’re organizing a new political group, you’re going to be setting up a lot from scratch.
Pointing your core of supporters to Reddit instead of a more private and independent space means setting them up to be exposed to the freaks and the bots.
- Comment on Satire, I think 1 week ago:
Finally going to settle the question of whether or not the Pope is Catholic.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
If you read a bit further it even says how it originated in industrial revolution Britain and happened all over the world.
Industrial Britian had an enormous activist labor movement. A slew of left wing thinkers and agitators emerged from the British academic scene, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Ghandi.
I’m not asking about socialist or social democratic or labour movement policies in capitalist countries
How are you defining “Capitalist Country” if you ignore all the socialist policies a country has implemented?
Hell, how do you define Socialist Country, if you exclude every one that’s undergone Capitalist accumulation?
8-hour work week is a socialist policy, espoused by socialist parties and implemented in governments with socialist majorities. Same with pensions and other public retirement funds.
The more socialists you have setting policy, the shorter your work week and the earlier your retirement.