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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Im not referring to any particular cod game. Im referring to the whole series. Its triple A garbage that is churned out like pop music and its boring. Every new game is a rehash of a previous one with no innovation and more monetization.

    Its not a review of the game. Its an opinion about the capitalist nature of the companies who make these games and how shit it is.







  • I hope you are doing your bit to stop it. You are clearly passionate about it. I just worry that too many people feel hopeless because it looks worse than it really is, which is the very tool the fascists need to win. Much like you say, apathy and inaction is what will destroy the world.

    I am sorry to see so many downvoting me during this exchange. I don’t feel like i oppose your views, i just have a different perspective. I think its healthy to allow others views to help to shape your own. Even if all it does it reaffirms your already held beliefs. If i was to think of an example of this, i would compare it to the characters in always sunny in philadelphia. They are not the heroes of the story, they are assholes, they are a charicature example of what not to be. They reaffirm my position against that type of person and those types of views.

    I hope you are safe over there. Its a scary place to live right now, or at least it seems it from the outside looking in.


  • Ok, so, you are not a fascist country, you are a country run by fascists with fascists in it. But this doesn’t represent the values of the entire population. Especially when trump rigged the election (by his own admission) that means that not even the majority are fascists. And then you have to exclude all those who voted for trump because they were duped by his campaign who aren’t fascist and are just more republican and 4ight leaning than left.

    I feel the same way about israel and palestine. We are quick to speak to the separation of hamas and palestine as a whole, but when it comes to israel, the same voices are shouting its the whole country and not just a genocidal organisation and their followers.

    I think its an important distinction.





  • I guess because otherwise you have something more akin to communism.

    Which is a big scary monster and the biggest economies in the world would rather suppress a system the levels the playing field and helps everyone than give up their dollary-doos.

    I think about this from time to time.

    Its like, hey we make a product and it costs this much to make and we make this much profit, so that should be it. Thats how much this product makes. Dunzo. Next muffin. But it never works that way, once they have found the sweet spot where the product is useful and works well whilst also selling for a price that pays for production development and wages then it becomes about cutting costs to increase profits and that takes the form of using cheaper materials, paying lower wages, firing staff, incorporating planned obsolescence so people need to buy more. All in the name of profits and bonuses.

    Its disgusting, it damages society, the environment and warps peoples minds so that people like donald trump exist and i hate it.



  • Maybe instead of everyone calling it isreal and palestine, they should say the isreali government and innocent people.

    They should say Netanyahu is committing genocide.

    Saying israel instead of directly naming the culprits is sort of like when people say antifa. In the case of antifa it makes bad actors able to demonise the word and make it seem like a bad thing, so it can be used to twist peoples minds and make them think its a bad thing.

    In the case of this genocide, it dehumanises the people committing the atrocities and diverts blame to the word instead of the people. Which has the effect of people like Netanyahu being able to reassociate the word with the israeli people and the jews.

    So it absolutely isnt antisemitic to say israel is committing genocide, but it is unhelpful to divert the blame from the real asshats in charge.



  • I really like the polybridge series of games. Bridge puzzle game worh great mechanics.

    Lots of good PC ports. The Kotor series and Baldurs gate 1 and 2 and icewind dale ports are good.

    Autochess is fun. Lots of opportunities to spend money but none are important, just cosmetic.

    Balatro is good (if you like that game as i do)

    And also a series of games called “doors” are fun to pass the time. Like a puzzle box where solving one element opens another until the door is opened.

    It is 99% crap on the stores though. I tend to get ports and emulators for most of my mobile gaming.