CancerMancer
@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Contrarian take: The "Soft Landing" narrative looks dead if you analyze Burry’s latest hedges 2 weeks ago:
Warren Buffett is also betting against the market (in his case liquidating positions), and both of these two have a history of good calls. I wouldn’t be anywhere near the tech sector right now.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
Running away saved me a lot of times. It also failed me twice, and those two times left me with a scar and a permanent disability. As your complete self-defense solution it’s a bad idea, but as part of your defense it’s a great suggestion for any able bodied people.
I can no longer outrun potential attackers. This door is closed to me.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve faced many attempts to severely harm me but I usually escaped. I failed to escape twice: got kneecapped with a bat once (leaving me with a permanent injury), and stabbed once miraculously missing anything vital.
My crime: having to work late, growing up in a poor neighbourhood.
I’d feel a lot safer if I could be armed. I don’t want to die.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
I just moved my main PC to CachyOS like two weeks ago. It’s been quite nice so far actually. Minor hiccup when trying to play The Guild 2 (had to use Protontricks to download DirectPlay)
- Comment on Dusting off the old PS2 3 weeks ago:
If you can get your hands on R.A.D. (Robot Alchemic Drive), do so. It’s a very interesting robot combat game developed by Sandlot, who would later become famous for Earth Defense Force
- Comment on Actual theft 5 weeks ago:
Based, this man would be added to my discord immediately
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
It’s a napalm bombardment from Helldivers 2 and it is pretty great.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
This is the material analysis we need to be doing. During COVID I saw farmers shredding crops instead of selling them because we lacked the transportation capacity to get food to market. “How the fuck is that even possible?” you ask? We rely too much on individual truckers when we should be using rail… And that’s kind of an analogy for the whole market.
No system in place to ensure there is enough energy, water, food, steel, concrete, lumber, etc. to go around, just this vague hope that “the market will respond to price information as it always does”.
Well now that price information is telling people to invest in space mirrors to send sunlight to their AI-powered saffron gardens, employing cheap foreign workers rather than local labour so that they can sell the spice to wealthy people. So yeah I think that mechanic is busted now and needs a rethink.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 months ago:
I bought a cast iron pan 20 years ago for $15 and I still use it to cook almost everything, including eggs.
I did splurge and buy a nice dutch oven to make baking bread easier, but it’s not necessary.
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 2 months ago:
That game was so much more fun than reviewers made it out to be.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
I don’t understand why people keep saying Elden Ring is so different from Dark Souls, because it’s really not different at all. I say this as someone who enjoys these games: if your issue with Dark Souls was the base gameplay loop and not the map, Elden Ring will not fix that.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
I never made it out of the first zone. I was honestly shocked by how little I cared for it considering I made it through Jade Empire, but Origins just felt like Knights of the Old Republic and that game bored me too.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
I mean most of the people shilling it probably were teens at the time they played it. It’s like Neon Genesis Evangelion: teenage drama that’s “deep”, but when you watch it as an adult it just doesn’t hit.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
These people don’t seem to learn the lesson the game teaches you right from the start by having the asylum demon stomp your ass until you figure out you should try a different path.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
One of the most emotional gaming experiences I ever had was Iji, a freeware game I happened upon while looking for something else. I did not expect that.
Prepare yourself for two playthroughs :)
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
Take a look at Ballionaire and Cloverpit if you enjoy Balatro.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
Maybe you’d prefer Monster Hunter or Elden Ring combat.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
Deus Ex and the Metal Gear Solid series both have some shockingly prescient plot points. In 2025 playing these is a trip.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
I didn’t play Darkfall but I know people who did, and I was completely unsurprised when it failed the first time because it had the same problem as Ultima Online but much worse: the people engaging in PVE are the only ones actually taking any risks.
EVE has the same problem if you’re running high end gear or implants (indeed people will always kill your escape pod in the hope of causing you this pain). The factors that are supposed to discourage random killing are easily subverted with only minor investment.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
I honestly have concerns about recommending EVE, it has changed a lot including a lot more real-money transactions.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
Its funny how much of the random PVP crowd still cries about Seamless Coop. I have been playing open PVP games since Ultima Online and frankly open PVP has never been fun. See the fans of this mechanic will say “well you’re just afraid to take risks carebear” but in reality they’re the ones closer to carebear mentality than the people running valuables through risky places. The victim is ironically the only person taking any real risk, because the attacker can choose their battles and take only equipment they’re willing to lose.
Once I figured this out I built myself to trick people into attacking me and then they’d find out I’m entirely specced for player killing, usually much too late to do anything about it. The tears from the people who call others carebears are the best tears of all.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
My friend and I got into Wurm Online and we went way too hard doing this. Like to the point we managed to upset half the server (and I’m not exaggerating, there were many forum threads about us lol).
Has your friend ever tried EVE Online? I guess a better question follows: should they ever try EVE Online?
- Comment on The duality of man 4 months ago:
If the dems can’t even beat the fucking goon squad, what good are they?
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 4 months ago:
True, but how long until that happens too? So far I’ve navigated these things with intelligence and the will to live, but I know better than to think that will always be enough. I’m ~40 and I’ve got kids, I’m not a young man with nothing to lose anymore.
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 4 months ago:
Not OP but I was the victim of years of abuse in school. So many time I was viciously attacked and no one cared. They would follow me home and attack me and my family or steal our things. Reported it all, no one cared.
One day while preparing to go home, I was attacked and one of my bullies began choking me. I thought I was going to die and gripped his neck too. He nearly died. Government blamed me for it and I was expelled pending institutional psychiatric examination.
Another time I was told by someone at college “don’t go to graduation”. He hadn’t been all-there for a while by then so I erred on the side of caution. Took it to local and provincial police, to national police, to the school… No one took it seriously. Had to ping an old friend who worked in intelligence to get someone to take me seriously.
When he finally got raided: thousands of rounds of ammo, body armor, explosives, manifesto, etc… Everything he needed but the guns, but he was working on that too.
Two very serious times the government failed to defend me or other people in my life and I had to take it into my own hands.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 months ago:
I just personally wish the COVID lifestyle was more accessible.
Same, it suited me quite well and I feel bad saying I missed it because so many others suffered. Now that I’m back in the office 5 days a week, I lose >2 hours a day with my kids. Had my own parents say “i don’t get why you’re complaining, we got by before COVID” while refusing to acknowledge it’s different because one of them stayed home with us, while my wife and I must both work to survive.
I grew up in a religious conservative family. These and other experiences drove me to the left in a big way. I see now that thinking we can solve systemic issues with individualism is bullshit. I want a world where my wife or I could stay home (or some communal solution) to raise our family right rather than having a bunch of latchkey kids and being stuck doing chores from the moment we get home until the moment we lie down. Some people say “well that’s how I was raised” but it isn’t right.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 months ago:
Now that would be a funny headline.
No sadly COVID lockdown isolation did them in. I’ve never seen minds and bodies decay so fast. I have another friend who developed full-blown psychosis from it too, and at this point it looks like he’s never coming back. The lockdowns were harder on some people than we were/are ready to talk about I think.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 months ago:
When my wife’s grandparents had to get a new computer they got upset about the new windows interface and the fact their old games didn’t work, so I set them up with Linux and a DE that resembled XP (it’s what they were familiar with), and I was able to get most of their games going.
They used it without issue until they died.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 months ago:
Your OS isn’t getting regular updates!!!
This is a feature imo.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 5 months ago:
It aligns with Democratic Socialists well enough, but not the seize-the-means socialists.
That’s a fair observation I think: UBI doesn’t put the same pressure on financialization that worker- owned industry does. Ultimately I think eliminating work is a terrible idea, but reducing work, focusing on actually productive work, and ensuring we all collectively benefit from it is ideal.