You use algebra every time you start up your your matte black cybertruck, you fucking dork

I'm a man. It was a joke.

God, so sensitive

That's fair, although I don't have friends who play it either. Found a discord group with an active common and pick up games from there by and large. The game is also quite good solo IMO, especially with the Executor character I mentioned. Just thought I'd bring it up because Executor checks basically all of your boxes. I actually couldn't get the hang of Sekiro until I played NR, so I feel a lot of fondness for NR since Sekiro is probably my fave FS game, and it used to frustrate the hell outta me, so getting over that hump was huge for me

To fascists, fascism is free speech and other free speech is fascism. To everyone else, a spade is a fuckin spade.

Take her wealth, use it to fund gender affirming care for her victims, and put her in prison until she's willing to teach writing at a free community college

Other red flags:
Man owning Meta glasses.
Man using Meta products.
Man

I just completed a few runs of Elden ring with a parry build, it was really fun! Forced myself to develop parry strata for Malenia and PC Radahn. The more I played with it the more parryable attacks I discovered. Most of the time if an enemy is two handing a colossal weapon, you can't parry. Otherwise there are tons of attacks that are parryable. Parrys absolutely trivialize lots of otherwise very difficult fights.

Historically, the way I like to play fs games is to like pick one strong build and use it all the way through. This doesn't really work for ER, every boss is kinda like a puzzle with different weaknesses and strengths to defend against. So you need a few different approaches in your build unless you wanna struggle like hell using a slash weapon against like Radahn. Parry is like this too, its a good tool against many enemies, absolutely trivializes others, but doesn't work well, or at all, against some others. Its just how the game is, IMO.

But there's def some sides of it I don't like. I really enjoy quick roll mechanic but the game gravitates toward heavy armor and a giant fuck off weapon. Being quick and nimble is hard, being unga bunga is easy. There's not really incentive to develop a quick and nimble play style, eventually it becomes like a challenge run. I could not defeat like Malenia or even make real progress in the dlc with a light roll character. I accept it for what it is, but it doesn't work for me. And yeah there's probably a skill issue component, but I've completed probably 10 playthroughs of Elden Ring base game, and SOTE 4 times. I've platted every game since bloodborne, and have thousands of hours logged in soulsborne series, I got as good as I am going to get.

Sekiro is one of my favorites though, mastering the parry in Sekiro made me want to try a parry build in ER. I think my favorite thing about Sekiro is if I'm struggling with a boss, the strategy isn't to find some gimmick, but to just play them straight, defect their attacks, focus on position and spacing, concentrate. It feels more honest to me. I also came from Bloodborne. Have you tried Nightreign? There is one character that is parry focused and is very fun.

I'd never considered how the algo might actually be improving user experience.

I still haven't considered it, and I never will, but I never had

First of all, none of these downvotes are mine. Just to clarify, I don't do that.

I did write a long response to you, but honestly, I don't see the point. My objective in these spaces is to learn and educate. If you want to self medicate with asinine debate, find a different mark. There is nothing in your reply that merits repeating the points I already made and which you, intentionally or otherwise, ignored.

I appreciate the discussion. If you have anything you'd like to discuss related to reality, I'd hear you out.

I've been through it, I have nothing but sympathy and respect for well meaning comrades who have had this thrust upon them. Nobody gets into this work because they want to litigate factional disputes and get to the bottom of actual abuse. Its sad and its easy to lose sight of the fact that PSL is full of people with histories, feelings, and in my experience a lot of grit. My heart goes out to anyone dealing with factional disputes. I have faith in the members to get hold of the reigns and turn it into a better org.

This is all hypothetical. These are hypothetical houses and a hypothetical owner in a hypothetical market, frozen in time. There is a direct correlation between quantity and quality, since changes in quantity lead to changes in quality. This is a fundamental part of socialist theory of change. This is not a moral consideration, there is no "right amount." Because there are absolutely no possible scenarios where someone owns 10 vacant houses and just loses money on them indefinitely. Is this someone who owns and maintains ten houses all for their own personal recreation and use? How can they afford 10 houses?

The discussion is about the difference between personal and private property. The definitions of these things are socially contingent. We cannot conduct analysis outside of the social context and be serious about truth or social transformation. There is no arbitrary number cut off, splitting this hair in this way is completely besides the point. There is no reason for someone to own and maintain 10 empty properties while others have nowhere to live. My point is even if we aren't consciously capitalizing on the houses, the houses exist within a context. Broadly, that's capitalism, and broadly the properties still function as part of capitalism whether the owner intends it or not. Trying to further abstract this hypothetical in a desperate search for a generalization that is so alienated from reality that you "might be" sort of correct if viewing the situation from one very narrow perspective does not help anyone understand the relationship between personal property and private capital. Because over time, at some point, circumstances beyond our ideals decide that our ten houses are worth more if they have a use value or an exchange value for us. The system asserts itself upon our lives, and there's no real escape.

You have not discovered a loop hole by inventing a kind of property that has neither a use value or an exchange value. You've merely discovered a pit of idealism where material relations exist to suit one's own confusion and wrong headedness. This is not a road to understanding socialism. But I do appreciate the contribution to discussion.

This is all very unfortunate and deeply affecting toward all members. If you've never been through a split in a group, it is incredibly stressful and demoralizing. People who did nothing wrong are being forced to take sides. I know that there have been claims that PSL has covered up assaults and have a rigid and sectarian internal structure that is self preservationist rather than deliberative and building toward a mass character. I can't really confirm the SA allegations but I have some experience with PSL members being a little too inside baseball wrt their mass work. But I have also worked closely with PSL comrades in a wide range of struggles, I have seen the same activists consistently showing up and organizing in the streets for years in my city. Their org isn't perfect perhaps but many of the people in it are fighting like hell, and now I'm sure they are going through some shit.

PSL internals are being shared outside the internal of the org in a way I have never seen before. There are literal fascists cheering on the demise of the org. Try not to take the bait, don't drink the tea, just let this factionalism sort itself out based on the conditions set by years of organizing. Now is the time to extend a hand, invite members to things, help people create or find a new political home, whether that means transforming the org, liquidating into other groups or forming new ones. Don't stand alongside the fascists in cheering on the destruction of authentic, if imperfect, worker organization. Its time to step up as comrades, not give in to turning a legitimate internal crisis into petty drama.

I have faith that nearly all PSL comrades do not condone or tolerate SA, I do not condone or tolerate it either. But let them figure it out for themselves and don't contribute to toxicity. PSL is made up of real people, good comrades, who are going through some shit and most of them had nothing to do with this situation that a few leaders created. I've seen splits form and take shape a few different ways, and its always ugly. Try to be human and scientific about it.

The distinction is a class distinction. Capitalism functions to.ensure that the greatest number of people do not own enough to be self-sufficient. Peasants under feudalism were self sufficient and communal, so the first job of the capitalists in countries that were industrializing was to buy up most/all the communal land, kick everybody off of it and force people to still work it for a paltry wage. There were still people who owned houses and land during this period, but legal and economic pressures forced people to give up what they owned and get a waged job. Even today, small family owned farms fall into debt and get bought up by large landowning companies/trusts and converted into farmland or data centers. It isn't happening to everyone at once, but its a gradual process where it happens to a few people here and there. Some people buy farms and are successful, there are always contradictions and exceptions.

If you are able to sustain yourself 100% on your own production, that's extremely rare. My cousin was a nurse practitioner and stacked cash his entire life, and in the last few years became like a yeoman. He butchers his own meat, he grows much of his own food, but still buys 10-20% of what he needs, mostly flour and grains. Under socialism, at least any socialism that I would fight for, he would be left alone, because he really isn't the problem. The family that owns an ice cream shop or a bakery, particularly small businesses who help people, contribute to social movements, are against ice are pro Palestine, pay their workers well, these people own capital but they aren't the problem.

The social relations you are describing are so far in the future that they are virtually impossible to understand. The first socialist revolution will shift power from the capitalists to the workers, but will not abolish private property. This will begin a phase of transition where private property will be collectivised. But the biggest barrier to collectivization isn't just who owns what, it is the divisions in the working class. There are a lot of social relations that have to be "worked out", and nobody is able to create a one sized fits all solution for everywhere (socialism is necessarily international) at once. Some places might hold on to private property and become more social democrat, retaining their ruling class in order to have higher wages for workers. Other areas might try to become fully communist. Some places will try to ban all private industry, some will collectivise some large industries and leave others privately owned.

Social conditions are deeply contradictory because people are contradictory. So trying to logically work these things out is always gonna be incomplete and imperfect. What matters is the working class continually working together to create better conditions for more people. Eventually, this collective effort will reach like a tipping point, and the next revolution will occur, which will be more humane, more democratic, and less violent than any that came before.

There is a ton of real world struggles that can actually be won (universal healthcare, universal jobs guarantee, robust social safety net, improved transportation/sanitation/education) that can be accomplished by just taxing the rich to the hilt. But in order to get there, we need solidarity and class unity. Once we have that, we can reorganize society in ways where the answers to your questions will have clearer solutions.

Socialism isn't just a future, it is being able to see the resent society, the people in it and their needs and experiences, and working for a better society. IMO individual private/personal property questions will make more sense once the conditions for them have a concrete basis.