There was a post recently saying the total sum of wage theft, including conventional theft and the results of suppressed wages, totals to like $50 trillion over the past few decades.
Shit’s bad. But other than the rich, people in the US have like no class consciousness.
I do wonder how the media will frame it when ICE tries to kidnap someone, and gets shot. I guess it depends on if they live or not. If the ICE agents are dead, the survivor can tell a story without being so easily contradicted. Otherwise, it’ll be competing testimony and a lot of people reflexively believe police/police-like-figures.
CEO seems like an idiot and/or coward.
On the one hand, yes. On the other, I don’t want them to stick around doing evil for a long time. Maybe something immediately debilitating that takes a long time to finish?
I was hoping you would explain what you meant by “There’s not a reason to fight most enemies in most video games to be honest”. I don’t think that’s a true statement. I think most games do give reasons to fight enemies.
I haven’t played enough BotW to really weigh in on it, specifically.
I think there was a bit in Vampire: The Masquerade where you could eat drain another vampire to gain their powers. Someone tried to do that to an especially powerful vampire, but the eaten vampire was so powerful they took over the one who ate them from the inside, eventually. So that might be a concern. You eat someone who’s so vivid that it eclipses who you were.
There’s not a reason to fight most enemies in most video games to be honest.
Hmmmm… that’s a thinker.
In the older zeldas, you didn’t especially need to fight stuff on the overworld. I’d usually just run by, or kill the ones that were in my way.
In most FromSoft games, you can run past enemies but that can quickly spiral out of control. Killing them gives you time to explore safely, on top of the XP rewarded.
In shooters like Doom, you could probably run past most enemies, but they’ll keep attacking. Clearing them makes you safer.
Monster hunter it’s the whole point of the game.
What games are you thinking of where fighting is pointless? I don’t think it’s “most” games.
Oh I remember this post. I remember being surprised to see The Courtneys on the list. They’re a fun band. Did a nice live show when I saw them, once.
Right, humans are bad about that kind of thing. I think it has to do with Dunbar’s number? The monkeysphere? It’s hard for us to model a lot of people as full people in our head, especially as they’re more removed from us.
Like you probably don’t really think about the garbage man as a fully fleshed out guy with hopes, dreams, a favorite band, a love that got away, and all that. When you have some absolutely rancid trash, you probably just throw it in the can and forget about it. But if it was your mother or best friend that was going to have to deal with it, maybe you’d be more careful. Wouldn’t want the bag to rip and spray maggots all over Mom.
That’s fine. That’s all of us.
But I think there’s degrees. Shades. Like you mentioned cell phones. Most of us accept the out of sight horrors that go with them. But, like, some people are absolute assholes to wait staff. Just treat the waiter like shit, are rude to the coffee shop people, whatever. I think most of us recognize that as bad.
Somewhere between those two points I think is “I’m going to build software to spy on people”. Personally, I think that should be ok the far side of the line. The not okay side. Why? A bit of self preservation, a bit of ethics, and a helping of “I don’t want to contribute to bad things happening to people, even ones I don’t know”.
This post is getting long. I think you’re right that it’s not as simple as “doesn’t care about other people” but I think that’s a factor.
It’s not a betrayal. That’s an absurd characterization.
They’re not being mocked for their immutable traits. They’re being mildly disparaged for not doing anything to resist the trump administration, and the fact that they are personally extremely safe is being pointed out. They are not being insulted for being cis het white guys. They are being mildly insulted for staying home playing video games while fascism is outside shooting journalists.
The fact that they’re cishet white etc is brought up because it’s, let’s say, interesting that they’re not doing anything when they’re not in any personal danger. There’s a whole poem about that, the one that ends with “and there was no one left to speak for me.”.
Let me say it again. They’re not being attacked because of their immutable traits. They’re being insulted for their inaction. Their immutable traits make their inaction worse. Like if you need a place to stay, it’s harder to accept when the guy living alone in a four bedroom says no than when the couple living in a studio does.
I’m sorry you’ve been hurt and felt betrayed but I think you’re really reading more into this than there is. I texted one of the guys I was referring to in the initial post and he laughed pretty hard about it.
You’re really going to bat hard for people you don’t even know, huh.
Atacking them based on a characterization? What? My point is they’re not going to protests or doing much to resist the trump admin, and they’re privileged enough that they’re not in any personal danger. They know why they’re being asked to go. It’s on the news and internet, too. They decided they’d rather just stay home and play video games.
I know one thing though. you’re a shit friend for attacking them for things they can’t change and implying they are wrong for being it.
lol what. Are you serious? They’re not being attacked for their immutable properties. They’re being derided for staying home instead of doing a bare minimum.
Why are you so worked up about this? Did you also freak out about the “in the woods: man or bear?” thing?
The original or the remake? I think the original is more solid overall, but the remake has some fun stuff.
Did you know in the original, you can get more than one support effect on a spell if you have more than one copy? I only learned this like last year, despite playing the game when it was new. So you can do like
[ Ultima + MP Absorb ] [ Ultima + HP Absorb ] [ Ultima + Quad Magic ] in your armor, and when you cast ultima it’ll Absorb HP, MP, and cast four times.
Also that will freeze the game on the 2nd to last boss.
You’re right that I don’t know you. All I got was your post.
When you wrote, “what exactly is offered to these friends for them to leave the comfort of their homes?”, it came off as very transactional. Like, “I don’t care about other people and their struggles, unless I’m being offered something.”. That’s why I ask if I’d need to sell you on the idea of caring about people.
I don’t know how much you’re doing. Your whole tangent about comparing weiners is kind of a non sequitur.
Your line “I just help others because it needs to be done without my ego getting in the way.” specifically seems to contradict “what are you offering them?”
So I don’t know what your deal is.
Do I have to try to convince you that you should care about other people? Specifically, people you don’t already know personally.
Nothing effective. Invited them to come out with me to the protest. Suggested we hang out after. Tried to appeal to their civic duty. Tried to appeal to their obligations to the more vulnerable.
A handful of my friends are going. A couple friends I can’t convince to leave their house, so they’ll be staying home enjoying the safety of being straight white cis abled bodied men, I guess.
this is a question I often want to ask the pearl clutchers.
I think some of them don’t have an answer because they actually support the regime, and they’re going hard on “non violence” because they don’t want people to fight back
Some probably haven’t thought it through, and don’t have an answer.
Some probably have an answer that’s a variation of “too late”. You know, after they came for the unionists, the jews, the catholics, the mexicans, and there’s no one left to stand with them.
I just played Deathloop, a game where you have to kill 8 people in a single day that repeats until you get it right. So I read this and thought, “Shit, they all get together for a meeting? Well that’s easy.”
Did anything even happen to the cop that shot that journalist? Seems like everyone just accepted this instead of bringing charges or vigilanteism
NYC had good turnout despite the rain.