aesthelete

@aesthelete@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only fast food I enjoyed in recent memory was Pizza Hut. During some scare about MSG they removed all of the MSG and I ordered it a time or two after that and it was nearly inedible.

  I suspect similar things happened with other types of fast food. I think there’s a flanderization effect happening with a lot of it. The same is definitively not the case for things like pizza in general, as I can order from my local NY-style pizza place and pizza is still just as good as it ever was.

  It wouldn’t surprise me if fast food was objectively shittier across a number of different metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like they suck at making games now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The “American experiment” as far as I am aware is one of “self-governance”.

  It arguably has never been tried in earnest since the founding of this country, at very least failed entirely in 2016 with Russia’s influence and the zero consequences that rose from that, and was likely dealt a critical now by the citizens united decision which all but guaranteed that rich people would decide our elections for us in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy rn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably a very unpopular opinion, but I feel like Jon Stewart is overrated. He was at the height of his powers in the GWB era and he helped Kerry to a hefty loss, and then followed that up by running pointless and distracting political rallies that did nothing at all to prevent the 2010 shellacking by the tea party.

  He helped provide cover for Trump this election cycle by laughing at him and at times even joking that he was gonna vote for Trump. I guarantee the daily show episodes that couch potato democrats like myself used to soothe themselves during this sleep walk into fascism will age like milk.

  I couldn’t even bare to watch the election night coverage him and Colbert were doing and I’m sure that it got grim as hell (similar to coverage of 2016) as the jokes started to not match the bleak reality of an upcoming second Trump term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think lemmy will ever be popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already popular enough to be a meme scroll substitute for Reddit so I’m good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get my clothes to smell like I just bought them at the store?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spray them down with microplastics, unnatural dyes, and hazardous chemicals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect they have their own emulators.

  I mean they have old games available for new platforms and have had that for multiple generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all just speculation. I have no idea how much it would cost for them to build new systems for every playable game in the museum.

  Aside from the could argument, I don’t really understand why they would do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your body is going to fail eventually, so you might as well stop brushing your teeth and drink bottles of scotch for breakfast. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Them being the original creator of the products doesn’t necessarily imply that they still have running production processes for everything they ever made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it ok to slut shame a website for having too many partners?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are clueless about what it’s like to live in this country. Healthcare being largely a scam even if you have insurance is just one piece of the puzzle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just exposure to political content that makes it not fun to live in America. It’s the never ending mountain of shit you deal with on a daily basis simply because you’re an American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it doesn’t look like fun anymore.

  It hasn’t really been fun to live in this country in nearly a decade, and that’s me speaking as someone sitting on the top of the privilege pile.

  The country is basically 6 corporations dressed in a trench coat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cuz the video in question is as biased as fox news. Just into the opposite direction.

  The video in this post is from a comedy show on comedy network.

  It ads nothing to the political debate

  As you continually do here with your “this adds nothing” and “this wastes electricity” posts.

  If you don’t like the video or the show, here’s an idea: don’t fucking watch it. You don’t live here so it isn’t even for you, and you don’t seem to enjoy it much from your pissy moany comments.

  Some of us have to live in this country where people make the absurd arguments refuted in the video about Trump, and some of us like to kick back with our feet up and blow off steam with a little mild humor about the absurdity of the political situation in this country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You might feel like it’s “everyone”, because you never hear anything the other side has to say.

  Au contraire mon frere. I would posit that nobody that gives even a single iota of a shit about politics in this country hasn’t been exposed to what “the other side has to say”. I’d also venture to guess that the number of people who don’t give a single iota of shit about politics in this country have also heard what “the other side has to say” is very distant on the number line from zero. There have even been studies (since you occasionally pretend to give a fuck about objectivity) confirming that Republicans who watch Fox News know less about Democrats than Democrats know about Republicans.

  It’s kind of difficult to not “hear what the other side has to say” when half of your news media spends its time interviewing people on both sides of divisive issues such as “the vaccine question” or “is the earth round”, and the other half of your news media openly roots for Republican candidates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think your message is ever received by anyone who disagrees. My question is what’s the point? This is a waste of electricity.

  And you go down the thread posting shit like this. That’s also a waste of electricity. I guess humans are just wasteful. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, tell me, if I’m an outsider with no horse in this race, and no way of objectively measuring the reality by living in the country of question, what should I think?

  Living in the country of question is not necessary for an objective evaluation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the media print rags to riches stories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep everyone also thinks they’re exceptional, and so they’ll be the exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright stop, collaborate and listen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do office workers actually work? No, but they make coffee, collaborate, and network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but it could also be that PalWorld is a bigger target because it is kinda like a Mickey Mouse horror film: it runs counter to the brand of Pokemon to have a game where you shoot them with heavy weaponry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the recent movements in company structure have been away from selling things and toward rents (i.e. away from capitalism and toward neofeudalism). That is why everything has become a subscription service (even things that you used to pay once and be able to use as is until you wanted to “upgrade” like, for instance, Adobe Photoshop). AWS is another example of this.

  Doctorow explains the difference in this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Tl6yIsCoY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This country has lost its fucking mind is the only conclusion I can reach.

  I remember the summer of 2016, when I was playing Pokemon Go in the parks and people I had never talked to or knew they lived nearby were playing it next to me. We were all celebrating when we caught a pokemon when we were after, and comparing which ones we’d caught with each other.

  At the time I thought…who would buy Trump’s conman routine? Who actually thinks that the country is in a terrible enough place that we need to elect this person who seems to actively hate the country and seemed to want to set the entire thing on fire?

  I left my Californian home and went back to my original state to visit my family. We went to several different areas of the state in fall of 2016 because my wife was from a rural area and I originally grew up in a slightly more suburban area. I saw the signs in the yards, I saw the discontent, and I saw how people did not seem to be reacting the same way to his craziness. I saw how casually they would put on his rants in the background while talking about other issues. I saw how some of them were amused by his antics. It had been a couple of years since I had last been back and it once again struck me how much worse the area appeared to be from the last time I was there. I was in a rural area when the “Access Hollywood” tape dropped. People seemed to visibly shrink at even the mention of the news. I thought he was done for, and that this was a bridge too far for his supporters to cross. That people would vote third party, or not vote at all.

  When I came back to California, people were talking about the debates. It was sunny and nice out, and people would talk about the projects they had going on in their houses, or they’d talk about work related affairs. People were sometimes amused by Trump’s antics, but everyone uniformly thought it was impossible for him to win the election. Having seen what I had seen in the weeks prior, I was no longer one of these people. “They’ll never let him win” one of my co-workers said. I was stunned…who are “they”? Does the rest of the country actually believe this?

  It turns out quite a few of them did. Many people thought there was just simply no way that Trump would win, because either the system was already rigged against him and would not allow him to win, or because the country was just not in dire straits enough to elect such a madman (as I once thought).

  Hindsight is 20/20 but when I thought it was bizarre that he was even a viable candidate at one point in 2016, and I saw the decaying state where I grew up, I thought “if he wins the election, then we are in a much worse state as a country than I thought”. And we undoubtedly are.

  Of course he won, but the reason that I have this somewhat rambling response to this question is that the answer to “why is he still in the race?” ultimately comes down to the overall state of this country.

  He is in this race because this is where we are as a country: barely able to imagine a possible future that is brighter than the current one, because we are still caught up in degenerative non-sense that keeps us thinking that our broken down towns, and our poor social bonds are caused by some horde of “others” instead of their true cause: our ever-widening wealth inequality and our ever-decaying moral responsibilities to each other as well as our national instinct to absolve ourselves of our responsibilities by claiming it is correct to be forever self-serving, that even the idea of altruism is a facade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point, companies completely absolved themselves of a large part of their purpose…which is to provide employment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally track with the fact that the eventual destination here isn’t capitalism, it’s actually worse than that…it’s fucking neofeudalism.

  They don’t want to produce a better product than the competitors, they want to extract rents from anyone unlucky enough to need to use the tools or knowledge in their fiefdom, and they want to use those rents to buy up more tools and knowledge to charge rents on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The American public also elects them to office so they get to run your entire life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨after 40 all meals are horror⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Working from home isn’t really the problem. The job is.