MolochAlter
@MolochAlter@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 1 week ago:
Soon to rebrand from “game” to “merch”
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 1 month ago:
I use names off the list of 22 fallen angels from the Book of Enoch.
It’s a really interesting piece of hebrew apocrypha that details the circumstances leading to the flood. Feels much more high fantasy/pagan myth than the modern bible/torah.
- Comment on best anime to start on 2 months ago:
Great pick
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 2 months ago:
The best thing is he apparently actually didn’t get the fish sticks joke which, if true, makes Parker and Stone the best satirists of all time on merits.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
What the fuck are you talking about? These two things aren’t even remotely alike.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
Yeah, pain is more tangible and actually experienced, whereas what society actually looks like is 99% vibes and personal biases.
So this applies even more to sociology than to painkillers.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
First, shitting on folks who are new to left politics and (god forbid) harbor excitement for these new insights. At least we have folks leaving comments like this to grind that eagerness out of them.
Christ on a pike, “enthusiastic about politics” is probably the worst thing you could ever be, it only leads to pie in the sky idiocy and utopianism.
Yes, please let’s grind that down as fast as possible, politics is a pragmatic exercise like doing groceries and taking a shit, you shouldn’t be excited about it. The only people excited by politics are fanatics and zealots and we could do with a lot fewer of those on all sides right now.
Then, it failed a narrow expectation you fully put on it. Maybe it was using an a medium to express an idea in a novel way. What a concept. Let’s call it Art. It can be something other than homework.
Yeah, God forbid I use my experience of the medium to judge a piece of art.
All this is, is a more biased, more cut down version of games like Papers, please, Not for Bradcast, or The Westport Independent, that doesn’t even use its gameplay loop to really give any direct experience of the issue it’s trying to showcase.
Having played it until I got bored of it, the only feeling reinforced through the gameplay is “boy i wish I could read faster”.
It doesn’t even leverage the idea that you need to send newspapers to print, allowing you to plan your front page to build a more coherent narrative, you literally just need to constantly swap articles in and out of the paper as if people’s copies would change in real time. It doesn’t account for the appearance of bias or conflicting interests between the parties you want to keep happy. It lacks nuance and a proper understanding of how to evoke what feeling through gameplay.
So, yeah, I think it’s banal and aggressively poorly thought out, not even mediocre but genuinely bad. Are you going to argue otherwise or are you just gonna say I’m being too harsh or unfair?
And before you highlight that this is free, so is The Westport Independent, and it’s been out for almost 10 years (god I feel old).
But essentially saying “I’m above the target audience and it’s pointless”…cool, share something you made
LOL I’m not about to dox myself to prove a stranger wrong, if you want to feel like you have successfully defended your point because you want to think I couldn’t have pulled this crap off, feel free to do so.
My criticism stands on its own regardless of my own output or even of myself as a source for it.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
if you want something on media , censorship, spin, ect? I’d say Not for Broadcast is pretty good.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
Everyone consumes whatever they agree with with less critical thinking, it’s an absolutely normal bias to have and nobody is immune.
That’s why when you hear someone say “I do my own research” you don’t think “this person must be highly educated” but rather “this person listens to ‘alternative’ media.”
Just because you consume a different kind of propaganda, doesn’t make you wiser, it makes you have a different set of biases.
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
This feels very “just found out about politics and damn” tbh.
The game isn’t really teaching anything of note beyond “private entities have their own interests,” which anyone who would even find this compelling already knows.
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 3 months ago:
If you’re into pro wrestling, a lot of older wrestlers have podcasts and they’re generally pretty conservative.
Chris Jericho keeps politics typically separate but has donated to the Republican party in the past, Matt Cardona is at least center right depending on where you sit, Busted Open has a variety of hosts and some are definitely right wing.
All of these are first and foremost about other topics though, so the political leaning of the hosts rarely gets involved.
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 3 months ago:
Sounds like you believe right wingers are better at persuading people than left wingers 🤔
- Comment on Final Fantasy 8 - Ragnarock Overhaul Mod 3 months ago:
IKR, there was no saving anyone, except the dog I guess.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 8 - Ragnarock Overhaul Mod 3 months ago:
He was also quite clueless to the point of endangering himself and others, but yeah, he’s probably not as bad as squall in retrospect.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Raising the floor doesn’t mean raising all wages.if when raising minimum wage every other wage were increased by the same amount you’d see a very different pattern.
Also, nowhere tried UBI uniformly to every member of the country. The problem with UBI is that testing it with a subset of the population doesn’t have any predictive power because these people individually exist in a society that doesn’t have UBI.
Think about it this way: the lowest amount of money a person needs to survive is your break even point. Ideally, your minimum wage should be a little higher than that so people can save some money for emergencies etc.
For the sake of ease of use let’s make that our unit of value, call it 1L for Life.
So, every person working (ideally) receives at least 1L, if you’re not working you either have savings worth 1L for the span of time you won’t work, or you’ll have to incur debt or other hardships.
Now, if you took absolutely everyone, working or not, and gave them, say, 0.5L for free, this won’t raise the floor, it’ll mean everyone will.amke at least 1.5L if working, 0.5L if not.
This leads to either lowering of wages back to a level where the total is closer to 1L, or the increase of the minimum cost of living to 1.5L, or more likely a mix of the two.
The reason why money is valuable isn’t random, it’s because money is finite and scarce.
The amount everyone has is the null amount whether that is 0 or 100L, because it’s the differential between your income and that null amount that gives it purchasing power.
Look at the effects of the covid stimulus and bailouts on purchasing power, and you’ll see a much closer result to an actual UBI than looking at the european UBI trials which ended up being much closer to randomly giving welfare to people than actual UBI.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 8 - Ragnarock Overhaul Mod 3 months ago:
Doesn’t change Squall being the worst main character in FF history next to Tidus, unfortunately.
- Comment on "tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“ 4 months ago:
Person who does not care about a topic
No reaction
Person who cares
Strong reaction
No way!
- Comment on How do people carry notebooks without bending it 5 months ago:
Put it in the chest pocket of your jacket, that way it stays flat.
- Comment on China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. 5 months ago:
Calling china a broken clock is not sinophobia, it’d be sinophobia if it were saying the clock is broken by virtue of being chinese.
Same as if i were to shit on the US because it’s a clown country or because it’s run by white people.
- Comment on What are your homelab stats? 6 months ago:
- 116 docker containers
- Running on 25 docker hosts
- 50 are the same on each docker host - Watchtower and Portainer agent
- 38 Proxmox LXCs (19 are docker hosts)
- 8 physical servers
- 7 VLANs
- 5 SSIDs
- 2 NASes
And a partridge in a pear treeeee.
- Comment on China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. 6 months ago:
Lol where’s the sinophobia? They didn’t even mention China.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 6 months ago:
Damn, nice, you got receipts and everything, too!
Thanks for not calling me a bozo, too, cause i definitely was, lol.
- Comment on Make signing up complicated and difficult to discourage people from signing up. What's that practice called? 6 months ago:
Dictatorship by red tape
- Comment on Sega wants classic franchise reboots to show ‘edginess and a rebellious mind-set’ 6 months ago:
Simple, just do what AEW is doing.
Just, please more women’s matches than that.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 6 months ago:
Worth eating a ban for being objectively correct, IMO.
Which instance is this bozo administrating?
- Comment on Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea 6 months ago:
Can’t remove a tax without lobbying or breaking the law.
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 6 months ago:
Yeah, it is in line.
Are you not sinning for fear of retribution? Would you give pause to your actions only cause I called them sinful, or would you dismiss my accusations and go on with your day?
I’m dismissive because that’s what “token” credence gets you. Yeah, it may be possible, but we all know it’s about as likely as the sky falling tomorrow, so I’m not about to waste my time entertaining the possibility.
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 6 months ago:
Sure, I give a sentient mollusk the same credence, i.e. a token amount that does not change my behaviour at all.
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 6 months ago:
Theoretical is not the same as “made the fuck up”
Something being theoretical is as good as it gets short of being observed in science, it means the most evidence points to it being real which is why we spent insane amounts of money to find evidence of it.
If you were to postulate black holes without evidence they would exist but they would still made the fuck up until proven otherwise, not “theoretical”.
Again, have you accepted the lord Jesus Christ?
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 6 months ago:
Ok, have you accepted the lord Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour?