FunkyStuff

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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 12 hours ago

Letting all my teeth fall out to own the libs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah lol. He's a little cringe about a lot of things. Still, I genuinely think his heart's in the right place, and I wish more libs were like him.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

How unrealistic would it be for the US to completely defossilize its economy? With a Stalin-like level of central power, could it be achieved before 2040?

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The important thing is you gotta vote Rizzler because if Baby Gronk wins they won't let us do more bake offs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

FD Signifier has a similar avatar, and besides a qualified endorsement of Kdolf he's pretty good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 15 hours ago

Hey what's up, army of manchildren, wanna continue to be my loyal sycophants and display your utterly odious presence upon this comment section? Sound like a good use of your time?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly it's within the range of well intentionedness that I can hear okay-okay saying this while he fails to solve a children's puzzle.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago

Trans flag too, seeing as Kamala L3HARRIS has also thrown trans people under the bus.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Exploration does feel lackluster next to Subnautica. I do like the places where you find the probes, though, they tend to be pretty nice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

After Subnautica I went for Astroneer. Way more base building, way less menus. Similar amount of exploration. No combat. Just chill vibes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Look I know we don't approve of lesser evil voting here, but come on he's promising to line up the Cheneys and wall them! It's so tempting!

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, a big motivating part of Jan 6th was that the left had had our own riots so they didn't wanna get left behind. Not to mention Trump is too out of it to instigate another insurrection.

 

Here's a little gaming effortpost for the treat piggies matt

PoE story summary for those unfamiliar

Wraeclast is a dark fantasy world with several fallen empires that each fell victim to an event called the 'cataclysm' that made people go insane, causing the fall of those empires. The game is set some decades after the Purity Rebellion, an event in which various rebel groups from the periphery of the Eternal Empire banded together to defeat Emperor Chitus, a despotic and corrupt ruler who was experimenting on people with virtue gems. The emperor's thaumaturgist, Malachai, retreats into Nightmare by sealing himself inside a beast in the north, where he hopes to achieve immortality.

The game starts when you, an exile from Oriath (island nation off the coast of Wraeclast and host of the Templar empire) embark on a quest for revenge from the High Templar Dominus who exiled you. After defeating him, and his successor Avarius, the exile continues on to slay the gods which broke free after Innocence's (God who was inside the High Templar) death. The exile then continues to get exponentially more powerful and defeats Kitava, god of hunger/corruption, and triumphs over their present day cataclysm.

Often, discussions of PoE's story remark on the themes of liberation and how surprisingly progressive it is, especially for a game with a hardcore gamer chud audience. The cast of exiles includes an indigenous slave who is exiled for killing his masters, a lesbian hunter exiled for shooting a noble who told her to stop hunting in his property, and a himbo duelist who also murders a noble in a duel for insulting him. However, the campaign's arc is much more reactionary than revolutionary or liberatory, and the game ultimately reinforces a Nietzschean 'ubermensch' archetype with the latter half of the narrative. Furthermore, I argue that the power fantasies of the ARPG genre are predisposed to bend in this direction.

Nietzsche is all over PoE. The historical empires of Wraeclast were all condemned by their search for immortality: the Primevals, the Vaal, and the Eternals, all doomed to fall because they wanted to last forever. The Templars are no exception. The exile's role in the Templars' fall is then to become the cataclysm, the punishment for their hubris. The repetition of the same history, eternal recurrence, and the failure of humans to surpass their vices is Nietzsche. These empires each became Nietzsche's 'last man,' haunted by greed and decadence.

Therefore, the liberatory arc of the exile who overcomes historical oppression, kills their master, and becomes free must be understood through the lens of will to power, in contradiction to a Marxist conception of class power. This is the story of an exceptional individual's triumph of will: the Marauder begins as a slave throwing off his shackles, but when does he liberate the rest of the Karui? By killing Kitava, overcoming the basebess, a moral victory, the Marauder is not liberating his people: he only liberates himself.

This general attitude is actually apparent all throughout the second part of the campaign. God is literally dead and we have killed him, now the conflict is against vices represented in the form of other gods.

Then we can generalize this criticism to the ARPG as a whole. The player slays masses of mindless enemies that do not put up a fight; they're morally inferior, aesthetically inferior, basically bugs. As much as Mao tells us that reactionaries are paper tigers, to depict some kind of revolutionary or liberatory struggle as Gigachads slaying the cringe bugs is ahistorical. That's just not how it works. The power fantasy, as an archetype, limits our understanding of class struggle and the mass movement.

Further reading: Actually Existing Fascism

 

Not sure I should've voted for this guy, but my ballot's already cast shrug-outta-hecks

 
 
 

You're telling me they made a whole platform to do hate speech in, and they're keeping Israelis from making accounts? That's like banning Sinatra from karaoke night!

 

Mods take this down if it's too close to JAQing off territory.

Are they meant to be used like any other set of pronouns? What's the possessive form?

trans-heart hexbear-non-binary

 

This is the only correct way to do true crime slop tbqh, actually solid research and presented with the gravity the subject matter deserves.

 
 

Uphold anti-treat-printer-thought

 
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