Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 6 days ago:
Good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 1 week ago:
Probably some variation of “fuck I’m hungry”
It’s a great motivator.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 1 week ago:
My position is that people are selfish because they’re raised in a society that rewards selfishness. There’s always going to be outliers but that’s the goal of vanguardism: someone needs to steer the ship while the generational change happens. I don’t know if that’s the best path forward but it is a path and might work better with more safeguards against a Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot type but that’s a hard conversation to have when people aren’t willing to to consider any element of communism.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
At no point in here have I said that Russia isn’t a fascist state. It checks all the boxes: violent, authoritarian, nationalist, suppressing minorities and marginalized groups, single party, lots of corruption. You’re confusing my Communist sympathies with uncritical support for the modern regime dressed in red.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s easy, I don’t. Looking at the actions of Putin or Xi Jinping and saying “this is a communist state that I fully endorse” doesn’t make sense to me. But I think there’s a lot of people that look at those countries through the historical lens and resonate with the aspirations and ideals of Marx and Lenin and other political thinkers of the era and get wrapped up in the association. And America has made it really easy to bash America, that tends to land you among modern and historical rivals.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re losing some nuance but yeah “anything that goes against US interests is the priority” is a real problem in some leftist spaces (I was banned from /r/latestagecommunism for suggesting that maybe the things we hear about North Korea aren’t just Western lies to discredit a true Communist state.) Of the “big three” I see the most of that on lemmygrad so I don’t bother.
But there’s a scale of uncritical support and I think people use “tankie” a little too broadly to dismiss people rather than consider the different facets of belief. Online discourse sucks.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
Oh it’s a terrible app, just the worst.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
There sure is, including “vanguardism” which was what many conflate with totalitarianism because of how the Cold War shook out. Really, it was the success of anti-Communist propaganda in the Red Scares that has colored so much of our assumptions and talking points as well as the unbridled might of the American military to suppress and punish any nation that tried something other than subservience.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
Hexbear is specifically the shitpost refuge of displaced terminally-online /r/chapotraphouse diaspora and it’s hard to parse the layers of irony and in-joke and I’m not invested enough in that community to try and fairly represent it here. I’m not surprised that people have an aversion to it but the amount of space it takes up in some people’s head here is bonkers. The goals and culture are very different than .ml.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
At the extreme, sure. Authority/Anarchy isn’t a binary selection. (Fascism is an authoritarian position, specifically it’s a right-nationalist movement centered on cultural identity)
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
Anarchism isn’t the only way to be a leftist.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
You’re oversimplifying (and so was I, to be totally fair). The Reddit exodus has lots of reasons. I think it has more to do with one’s thoughts on corporatization and technocultural knowledge which does correlate with left-leaning politics. I’m sure there are many who are just sick of platforms giving Trumpists tacit approval (I think this is the primary driver for people leaving twitter) but that Venn diagram is not a perfect circle.
.ml has tankies, and there’s plenty of fair criticism to direct at Dessalines and the mod team for generally cultivating a culture of knee-jerk anti-Western thought (and the inverse, more importantly) but it’s not “closer to fascism” because it leans authoritarian and drapes itself in USSR/CCP aesthetic. But it’s mostly a FOSS instance with well-deserved bashing of US imperialism and state-sponsored terrorism.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
If this were a lefty echo chamber people wouldn’t hate .ml but they do.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 weeks ago:
Eh, it’s a center-left chamber at best. As evidenced by the extreme reaction to the far-left echo chambers.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 2 weeks ago:
Only server browser, no matchmaking.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 3 weeks ago:
The “every single American is culpable and therefore my bigotry is excused” energy is getting wild.
- Comment on Disturbed 3 weeks ago:
DEVO covering (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction is way up there for me. Loses the fuzzy guitar but the lyrics land better as an odd punk song than the whining of one of the biggest rock acts in the world.
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 4 weeks ago:
That part is like only like five fights against humans and robots, the only tricky part is the kicky robots will ruin you if you save them for last. And you’ve been without Yuna for a bit by that point so somebody (Kimahri or Rikku) should be filling in the healer role already. It is a weird and kinda weak story sequence but I think the game starts improving after that point.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 4 weeks ago:
The system of corporate veiling of responsibility is going to kill us all. What should happen is every single person who signed off on, voted for, or materially contributed to the implementation of this dangerous hardware should be prosecuted for criminal negligence. Gut the C-suite and the board.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 4 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: there’s an episode where a genie kills a man by giving him a giant penis but not enough blood to fill it and keep his brain alive, then turns another person invisible. It’s a monster-of-the-week episode, but still. Definitely magic.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 5 weeks ago:
Plane or sand it smooth and refinish it. Probably you would need to strip and refinish the whole thing to blend it in but that is an advantage to wooden furniture.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 5 weeks ago:
Pass on sticking within the bounds of treadon and tyranny. I’m gonna keep idealizing beyond that.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 5 weeks ago:
Oh, uh, pass.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 5 weeks ago:
Nobody should be obliged to host bigotry. That’s not “censorship” in a way that matters.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 1 month ago:
The fan base is earned.
This is what I have a problem with. The fan base WAS earned but now is taken for granted.
You can’t just pretend that online play isn’t important for multiplayer games. It’s a huge knock against the titles you mentioned.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land tries so hard to keep gameplay smooth that any enemies more than like 15 feet away drop to 8fps and it still dips when there’s too many effects on screen. Breath of the Wild simply banishes mobs that get too far away (or just run for too long) to keep the memory functional (and many things don’t even render at the edge of bow range). Super Mario Odyssey also aggressively culls actors and gets a bit sad when you force too much on screen (high up in Metro Kingdom, for example) It might not matter to you but it impacts the game enough for me to notice it.
I simply don’t think that you can trust a Nintendo game to be worth the day 1 cost.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 1 month ago:
Nintendo makes pretty good games but nothing about their product is “top tier”. The online experience is terrible, their flagship games suffer from framerate dips, pop-in, and stuttering because they don’t invest in better hardware, and speaking of hardware they went with the same will-break-down-and-drift sticks because they’ve been coasting for ages. Meanwhile they’re suing fan projects into the dirt and growing increasingly out of touch. (Sony and Xbox are hot on their heels, the big three could really do with some outside competition)
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 1 month ago:
Disagree, I think being in the pilot seat is important. The immersion of control amplifies the experience.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
I think you missed my point if you’re accusing me of straw-manning, I was pointing out that even their flimsy justification is baseless.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
Nevermind that lots of countries allow for personal firearm ownership.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
Final Fantasy VIII, almost at the end of the third disc. Hot take: this is my favorite PS1 entry in the series (and IX is my second favorite). I’m not going to pretend it’s a perfect game but it takes a lot of chances and I think most of the them pay off.