koleswastaken.bsky.social
Games, books, politics & chinchillas
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Genders been called genders for century?
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That's what I thought too, a greenlight for others to "serve their country" and that will be whatever Trump says is "gonna serve" it and you will be forgiven everything.
Just brownshirts.
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Idk, I think choosing your battles is a legit tactic. Rubio seems overall okay.
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Right wing nationalists fighting technobros pretending to be right wing nationalists.
It's not much, but it's something.
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I'm surprised there was any, I see wildest shit on there all the time. It's pretty much nothing but boomers and conspiracies.
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At least MAGAs are pretty open that they don't give a damn and are spite based.
Meanwhile some lefties online are like "read my essay on material conditions of the working class on how doing anything is actually just reaffirming capitalism" and then functionally do the exact same thing as MAGA.
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No joke, my pretentious ass also thinks if entry to use tech/ online would be higher, like it was back in a day, and rewards less quick, we would be utopia right now.
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*save
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I heard there is permadeath for your companions and no safe scumming, so you better feed them.
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Few years back I finished III and Vice City.
I have no idea how I played III as a child, that shit is brutal.
It also made me appreciate QOL such as... Actual map and ability to restart missions.
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It's pity, I remember peak of Overwatch, when PUBG just released, it was genuinely fun games.
Now it feels like every multiplayer game just wants you to play it all day to grind some cosmetics and that puts me off.
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🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕
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Because it sounds like randomly generated name titles.
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NGL, that sums up a lot of JRPGs for me. So far the only ones I have played or are interested in are ones with one or two words.
Persona? I can try it.
Granblue Fantasy Relink? I would think it's a fake video game for some tv show made up by people who don't game.
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I imagine after being bombed themselves the empathy for potential civilian targets is pretty thin, especially when WW2 era bombings on default had huge collateral, so you know Germans equally dgaf about it.
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I don't think drones have anything to do with it, it's just how fast and filled media environment is.
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What class warfare? In 3 weeks most people will forget his name.
I think people seriously overestimate how lazy we all are.
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I don't think Russia had a say.
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Not much to show at all yet, only worked on it over the weekend and setting up core system's. It's about buying and renovating apartments... But with cats (yeah the basic indie formula).
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Quite a bit of it literally isn't.
And many "non mainstream media" (that are more mainstream that msm) have 0 integrity and are making bank.
Your BBC journalist is making 70k, meanwhile Tim Pool who screams civil war every second show is making millions.
Oh, and literally taking Russian money.
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In Europe there is quite a lot of media with no shareholders, nor privately owned, but funded by public/ are non profits.
But I think when people criticize msm most don't actually really care about it. It mostly boils down to:
Guy on the internet I like = good.
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I nod along.
... And then I buy EA key for PoE2.
I stood no chance.
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Leaked Male. 👀
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I think one way or another we will come with some sort form of corporation anyway, so the name doesn't change the fact that regardless what it is, when you have unit that holds a lot of power and wealth it will be trouble.
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I think that corporations are bad when they are unregulated, don't have competition and hold unproportional political influence, same thing as extremely wealthy people.
I do think they are tool that can be used for good, or at least neutral.
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I think quite a few CDPR employees, including the founders, were raised quite literally under communism in Polish People's Republican at that time.
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That's the part I don't agree with. I don't think there is any sinisner conspiracy from CDPR to co opt anticapitalist messaging. Criticizing capitalism is as mainstream as it goes. I just think it's average writing, that's all there is to it.
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Yeah, maybe.
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Everything has to be on the nose, everything has to be "told" not "shown", characters don't have enough time for development of feel like caricatures (this is referencing writing in general, not Cyberpunk).
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And no shade to the writers, hence why I called it mid and not bad, and as far as video games go the bar is pretty low so many aspects are above average.
But I think it's generally issue with almost all mainstream writer, authors are afraid to take their audience seriously.
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What are they afraid of? You genuinely think they went out of their way to make cyberpunk game but they are "afraid" of the main obvious message of the game?
And the story is mid because most likely writers were mid, it's not that deep. It's also meant to appeal to mainstream and be blockbustery.
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That CDPR isn't shaking in fear of one of the most mainstream genres causing communist revolution and they just made mid story.
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Murdering for money is older than capitalism.
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CDPR got scared of... Basic dystopian message? Lol what.
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I think there is a little bit of that, seeing that behavior as cool.
But I also think a lot of them just became insanely conspiracy brained. Basically anything that is bad is just "deep state trying to put dirt on him".
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I'm still there but that site is just so blatantly exhausting.
Everyday I see Elon's post on my feed even if I never interacted with them.
Entirety of top comments are blue checkmarks who are like crypto bros and... Literal nazis.
Even the "left" checkmark people are often equally unhinged.
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I don't think it's pondering just that demographic, I think it's pandering to pretty much majority and everyone has some sort of grievences against "establishment".
I agree that it fails, the whole point of populism is just gather votes and fervor, not real solutions.
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Except it's true. You can see same people voting for Trump then AOC, that's why down ballot results were so weird.
I think the actual take is that most Americans are simply populists. Most of them don't even care enough for left or right values or consistent idealogies.
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I never even had an app, I only used it through a browser.
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Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, if you are more into slower, psychological sci fi.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer about Everest expedition going wrong. Nonfiction, but it reads like a craziest thriller.
The Terror by Dan Simmons. Historical fiction, arctic expedition gone wrong.
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When you automate half of the stuff, get most of the achievements and then are wealthy enough to retire, that's when the cozy part starts.
Just like IRL.
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Proper what?
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My "blackpill" is that Western Europe doesn't actually care. They were fine with the Soviet occupation. They know Russia doesn't care about them, so why defend anything? They want to have good relationship with Russia and get cheap shit.
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Precious 🥺.
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I'm here for Europe might still have a future hopium.
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I'm really thinking about it, but all my book reader friends are on goodreads.