aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo stock falls after mixed reaction from Switch 2 announcement 21 hours ago:
Nintendo consoles have better exclusives and last longer than the competition.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 week ago:
I think the movie Elysium is basically what they want.
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 2 weeks ago:
Stop buying shitty, overpriced food from a dumpster organization.
If you stop buying it, you’ll help signal to the dumpster organization that their prices are too high.
- Comment on We need to go back! Back to the terminal! 3 weeks ago:
Not if notepad isn’t installed.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 3 weeks ago:
In a lot of cases, I find I’ve already read the underlying content or skipped it with my reader and therefore can go right to the comments. But ymmv of course.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 3 weeks ago:
I’d recommend trying RSS and if they don’t support it just quit reading them.
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 3 weeks ago:
Mainstream speaking it’s hard to beat All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix.
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 3 weeks ago:
If we’re going obscure, chvrches is worth a mention: youtu.be/msgimk3mV6g
This Kendrick Lamar cover is incredible. Similarly, they have a cover of the Arctic Monkeys that’s awesome.
- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 3 weeks ago:
Not everyone has money to do it, and not everyone knows you can do it. Also, as the dollar devalues most everyone will become a millionaire, but being a millionaire won’t mean what it used to anymore – which is already the case.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 4 weeks ago:
We need something in America to distract us from the consequences of our actions.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 4 weeks ago:
COINCIDENCE? I think…so.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 5 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 month ago:
save one jackass, ever considered the job worth a damn to do anything over.
I feel like there’s a Dwight Shrute in every type of job under the sun.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 1 month ago:
Sure, no problem. Hope you like it.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 1 month ago:
You like horizon? I played the first one and thought the story was pretty good. Maybe not like Bioshock level, but better than most games of the type.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 1 month ago:
Yes
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 1 month ago:
Wellness influencer doesn’t know the definition of fucking…raw?
Yeah, that checks out.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 1 month ago:
😆
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 1 month ago:
Coal
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
One definition of a collapse is a sudden drastic reduction in the complexity of a thing.
I’m not sure whether we’re going to have a societal collapse or a slow decline, but either way the US is in a downward spiral. I think Trump increases the likelihood of us going into the collapse trajectory.
All that said, on the other side of a collapse, there is some room for hope. The incendiary portion of the collapse will definitely suck to live through (if you’re lucky enough to do so), but our country could probably use some simplification long-term because the people within it largely cannot navigate a country this Byzantine. A lot of this country’s systems are too complex for an average person to understand let alone administer.
Most of these complexities were probably birthed via intentional decisions by the system creators, and others were a product of unintended consequences. I think the gap in education between our commoners and “the elite” – to borrow an awful trope – also played a part here.
No matter how we arrived, I don’t think the current population can actually operate these systems anymore and long-term one way or another our people require a drastic reduction in the complexity of our society.
There is another path in which the United States invests more in education and scales up the average intelligence of its citizens so that they can handle the complexity of modern life, nuance, do research, and create better policy…but at this point I think we’re frankly too far fucked to ever go down that path.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 month ago:
They’re idiots
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 months 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 2 months 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." 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
No
- Comment on lemmy rn 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.