The whole false scarcity thing is the thing that drives me into Lovecraftian madness. The sheer amount of normalization of the phrase “access to care” drives me up the wall. Or how we have replaced “healthcare” to “insurance” as the goal is just so damn wrong. I’m very lucky/blessed/fortunate to never really have any real need for physical healthcare or mental healthcare, however always deeply troubled by the ceaseless parade of nightmarish stories of people trying to get care. From people who are uninsured to folks who supposedly had “good” insurance, everyone seems to have a terrible time accessing their “access to” their care. I

Capitalists have convinced the liberals of the world that something very much not real is very much real. For the record, you are not crazy for not buying into the “Catastrophe or Ruination” dichotomy they false create. You are in fact cool and normal for proposing a third mystery option of “What if we didn’t have to pick between those two?”

Neoliberalism/Late Stage Capitalism/Hellworld is all about buy into this idea of false scarcity when there is in fact abundance were there the political will. The current Media machinery and apparatus does so much of the heavy lifting for these MEGACORPS too.

Striking is cool. Protests of all any form should have an actionable impact on the world. I am so happy to see people are moving past this liberal poisoned “peaceful protest” mantra. Agitation should ya know… agitate.

RIP to the homie. Sorry to hear that. Overdose deaths are a real bummer.

The whole black dragon and red dragon war plotline was just some of MK worst writing. Then again pretty I’d say that Earthrealm is the weakest narrative space in the whole series. Shirai Ryu, Lin Kuei, The “Special Forces” (peak 90’s “military is cool”), all of Earthrealm is just kinda lame to me.

Love to see bro make his way into the mainstream. Glad to see a kat like him crack the algorithm and just make enough off YouTube to just do YouTube. He has great will thought out videos. Even when I don’t agree with him I feel like he’s always coming from a good faith place and genuinely and generally believes in black leftie thought.

Striking is cool, and labor rights and value remains the focus of the strike.

This video series is really cool. I really like their exploration of the themes of community and social ecology. I really like this vision of Animal Crossing. Honestly I wish there were more opportunities in real life for us to engage in real meaningful community.

If you’re doing it for you cause you think it’s the right move for you, I respect that. Be vigilant with yourself, but more importantly be kind to yourself, you’re ultimately doing this for some personal betterment, so be nice to you.

Agreed on all counts. Work as is it currently exists is a racket build on slavery and fascism dressed up in pretty words from academics who try their best to bend all of understanding to justify its existence. It all sucks so much. It’s all alienation all the way down.

As an American I think our general lack of knowledge of Hawaii is just plain sad. We just told in school “…And Hawaii is a beautiful collection of islands that became a State 😇✨🇺🇸✨”.

Being totally honest, prior to like 2018 I had like ZERO knowledge about the real history. Other than the vague knowledge that the government and a handful of MEGACORPS have done every native people dirty. It’s just so pathetic not knowing the truth about native people and history of Hawaii. All and any reference to native peoples is just erased from our education. This sucks so much.

It’s also super frustrating that these STEM dweebs have have lucrative skillsets that the “Mark€t™️©️®️ “ “values”. Because of this they can’t justify to themselves why they should go into the public sector for the betterment of the people. STEM dorks across the board would be so much cooler if they were used for public welfare and social good.

I totally understand why a regular non-CHUD publicly educated STEMheads would go private sector. They have bills and debt and all that jazz, and sadly the public sector jobs can’t give out those sorts of attractive salaries and benefits.

All of this further perpetuates the cycle original post was talking about. Nerds get their education in the public then leave to private sector which hallows out the public sector. It’s just a vicious and vile cycle.

I’m always immediately suspicious when someone starts throwing around absolute numbers like that.

Agreed! Anyone who uses tries to use math to justify why a bad thing is a good thing goes to super hell. The one where the Doom Slayer just goes buck wild. That’s where they go.

I’m in the same camp as you. When I saw the trailers I thought “Yo this looks kinda dope” but as I watched them I didn’t quite understand what the game was or was meant to be. I kept hearing “it’s a Bethesda game” and then I got kinda confused because I can’t really define a “Bethesda game” like could define a “Arkane Studios game” (excluding Redfall i guess) or an “id Software game” or even a “Yango Gameworks game” to compare against their Bethesda softworks peers.

Even the official steam description doesn’t really tell me anything if I don’t already know what’s going on with Bethesda.

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

All that just makes me say “Okay cool, you guys have been in the game for 25 years and you made two heavy-hitters. Cool! What is this game though?” I’m not trying to be obtuse or anything, I’m not even being a hater. I’m just saying as a player I don’t know what you’re selling me. Part of me feels like they are making it too abstract so you can’t get mad at them. Like if the game can be anything or everything, if you don’t like it you’re doing something wrong.

If you go further down in the game description it says

Starfield is the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery.

Again, I’m just thinking “Cool you made two award-winning games, that’s tight. What is this game?”

I love that sort of late golden-era Sega Arcade game look. It’s like peak “Video game-y” (in a good way) to me. I love it. I think it was 1997-2001 era.

The gift card conspiracy has depths beyond our understanding. A gift card or should i say GRIFT CARD!?! It’s a pyramid that extends up and down, it’s a card balance without beginning or end.

This is what they don’t want us to know. 👁️🔼

Companies intentionally make it hard to find the balance on a gift card so you forget to apply the remain balance. Saving them billions for free. Even it’s just like $3 or whatever, that’s three dollars worth of dollars. It’s your $3, use it.

“Whores” should be venerated in the hustle-grindset-gig-economy the world has created but strangely are not.

On the real though, sex work is so weirdly moralized in the market economy when everything else isn’t. They want you to monetize your free time, your thoughts, your interests, your relationships, but you monetize your sexuality they get all

Public programs are purposely underfunded to make it easy for people to point to why they don’t work (the average person doesn’t think about/care whether they get funding), making it easier to continue the process of privatizing everything.

I 420.69% believe this is 100% true. It’s such a great feedback loop for someone wanting to dismantle it. It doesn’t work so no one uses it, no uses it because it doesn’t work, and it doesn’t work because it was underfunded and ill-equipped, and it was underfunded and ill-equipped because they didn’t want it to work. It doesn’t work so no one uses it, its perceived value is lessened so it then doesn’t work.

First off just wanna say I have played through VTM:B I think six times in total, sadly I don’t think I ever played the Unofficial patch. It’s truly one of my favorite RPGs of all time. It’s a great game.

That said I have genuinely little faith in the sequel. I don’t even think I’m being cynical about big box AAA RPGs and all that jazz, I just don’t think this specific project is going to meet expectations. It has had a long and weird development and not in “they overcame impossible odds” sorts of endearing way. Just plain production and development issues.

I think the heat scars of development hell will leave this game creatively all over the place. They lost key staff at the old studio, the old studio had organization switch ups, switched publishers, lost key staff again, and then the game then switched developers. I’m not saying a good game can’t come out of this sort of development, but I don’t think a cohesive creative vision can. This especially concerning for me as this is a game were tone and mood are paramount to the fantasy fun factor.

I think a great VTM:B style is needed now more than ever and I think most players would really dig it. I especially think younger katz will really like how WoD games are all about forging new understandings self/identity with weird makeshift families will raging against existing often unjust hierarchies. However, I feel like the news surrounding this project since its announcement make me feel like were going to get a “just release something” sort of title. Any MEGACORP AAA publisher like Paradox probably wants this mess offer their books. Again I’m not trying to be cynical or salty.

Steamboy is so beautiful. Love its design.