SuddenDownpour
@SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Before it's too late! 3 months ago:
How would they react if they were told that they’re using the colors of the trans flag?
- Comment on Before it's too late! 3 months ago:
I for one support him on his gender affirming medical procedures.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
On that, I agree.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
This will be great for the workers, but I don’t think it will necessarily fix the issues in Bethesda’s organization when it comes to game development (and it won’t make them worse either).
Given what we know from Starfield, Bethesda is really lacking when it comes to planning: they aren’t doing a good job at establishing a compact vision for the final product which also results in having issues to establish an agile workflow to get from start to finish. In the best cases, this results in ludonarrative disonance where the story isn’t really supported by the mechanics of the game (example: Fallout 4’s story incentivizes the player to hurry up and look for their son, but they assign a lot of resources into making sandbox mechanics such as those related to base building); in the worst cases, this results in teams returning the ball to each other all the time because they aren’t properly coordinated to build things in the way other teams of the studio needs them, which loses a lot of time and becomes even more glaringly obvious the larger the project is.
The silver lining is: this problem isn’t so noticeable when the designers have the template of Oblivion in their minds and they’re making Skyrim, but it was going to be completely exposed when making the jump to a new IP (and thus a new universe), with a new engine, with some large design jumps such as ceding ground to dynamically created areas; so ES6 doesn’t have to be as much of a low point as it has been Starfield, as long as they’re conservative in their design choices. I’d vastly prefer the leadership of Bethesda to be completely reorganized, which would allow them to innovate by taking well measured risks, but I don’t have much hope for that scenario.
- Comment on Sex 4 months ago:
“Yep. I can confirm that sex is indeed happening in this bedroom. I’ll send you an invoice.”
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
If you join the army because you’re fucking stupid in your 20s, and by your 50s you’ve become a wise, anti-war person who still has PTSD, you don’t deserve to get your PTSD triggered.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
If you have any kind of anxiety disorder, sensory hypersensitivity or heart issues, the sudden noise of fireworks will at least startle you. The constant barrage of noise that takes place in some places through some celebrations or through the year provoke people to develop even more serious health issues. Ah, but don’t you dare to suggest that the health of vulnerable people should take priority over some brief dumbfuck fun, or that there exist less harmful ways to celebrate, or that constant fireworks in places with certain population density means annoying a lot of people for the sake of very few, because then it turns out that you just “hate freedom”.
- Comment on Benny 😍😍😍 4 months ago:
My condolences.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
My point is that plenty of high-information Democrat voters ultimately fall in line, but the party fails to reach further beyond, while Republicans don’t actually have to “fall in line”, because they like what they’re voting for. Is this not the opposite of the quote?
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
On top of that, it’s an issue that will easily change the leanings of a lot of low-information voters. Republicans know that the 2025 agenda isn’t popular with moderates, and while most of Biden’s policies have been short-reaching, they’re generally considered a positive (save for Gaza), so they attack at the very obvious and glaring weak point that isn’t actually policy-related.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
I actually disagree with this sentiment.
There’s clearly a split in the Democratic Party regarding the candidates and leanings of the old guard, vs a very large portion of their voter base that wants structural reforms in the country (universal public healthcare VS increased access to insurance, for instance), and I bet a large portion of the latter feel whipped into having to vote for a lesser evil rather than for a political project they actually have passion for.
Meanwhile, Trump was an outsider of the Republican party who managed to get their voters in love with him, to the point that he managed to hijack the party and leave it ripe open for a transformation from neoconservative to proto-fascist, despite the Republican old guard initially being hostile towards him.
The Republican party has managed to stay competitive, despite their political goals being less popular overall in the US than the Dems’, precisely because they allowed themselves to mutate and stay responsive to the changes in the electorate, the obvious tragedy being that democratic institutions (mostly referring to both political parties) have been far more willing to incorporate far right nutjobs who want to end democracy than they have for left-wing populism that wants to make housing affordable.
- Comment on Mildred 4 months ago:
Enough talk about trans rights, it’s time to talk about trans wrongs /s
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- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
The vibes I get from the French left in social media remind me of the days when Podemos (in Spain) was soaring. It gives me a bit of hope. Good luck.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
“The scary socialist madman” accompanied by the Democratic Party apparatus? A presidential candidate Sanders along with a moderate liberal VP would have gotten both the traditional Democratic vote (as long as the party collaborated with him, rather than giving him the Corbyn treatment, which I don’t trust liberals not to do) and a considerable chunk of the electorate who doesn’t feel represented by either party. The day you guys understand that you don’t have to fight the Republicans in traditional terms, but rather, to change the coordinates of the fight, you’ll force Republicans to choose between evolving or getting buried. But the real problem by this point is whether it is too late.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
Look, you haven’t sold me on the idea, but I’m going to upvote you because, if nothing else, this is an original take.
- Comment on Extreme sports are weird 4 months ago:
Do you know what’s worse than stimulating your fear response? Stimulating your anger response. And millions of people choose do that daily in their interactions with social media.
- Comment on Objectivity 5 months ago:
The general laws of physics, sure, I have no solid reason to think they’ll be forever out of reach (only doubt), but in order to determine if there was intelligent life (even moreso civilizations) in galaxies that have already stranded away from our field of vision, we would need to have immense luck for physics to allow us to cheat the limits we know about today.
- Comment on Objectivity 5 months ago:
Man, NGT gets so much bullshit thrown his way. Sure, he’s an annoying shitposter on Twitter, but the vast majority of the time he makes a public discussion with someone he’s either one of or the voice of reason, and that sentence does definitely throw all nuance he has out of the window.
- Comment on Objectivity 5 months ago:
Even if we were beings of implacable logic, there would also be the issue that we aren’t omniscient. We are never going to reach the full truth of everything because we aren’t going to be able to gather all the data.
- Comment on Tacos. 5 months ago:
About a month ago there was a Christian philosopher making exactly this argument, perhaps not realizing how absolutely psychotic he sounded like.
- Comment on Tacos. 5 months ago:
Virgin “I live in an existentialist mental hell I’ve been indoctrinated into” vs Chad “A meaningless life in a purposeless universe means I’m the master of my own destiny, and therefore I choose to eat tacos”
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 6 months ago:
No, no, because he didn’t eat out.
- Comment on A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life 6 months ago:
Religion indoctrinates you into replacing reason with faith in your earliest formative years, when you don’t have the tools to realize what they’re doing to you, which I think accounts for the cult of control thing.
Not sure I’d take them over religion though, given that capitalism is on the tracks to destroy our actual ecosystem. I’m going to be a centrist on this issue and claim that both suck. Very brave, I know.
- Comment on A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life 6 months ago:
Agreed. What’s even the point of arguing in favor of the cultural legacy of a given religion in shaping a city’s architectural history if they pull shit like this?
- Comment on How ‘Zionist’ became a slur on the US left 6 months ago:
The headline raises eyebrows, but the article itself is ok.
Here’s a contention I have with it, however. I find it really difficult to argue for a substantial difference between “hardline zionists” and “liberal zionists” when the latter have been blocking efforts for the recognition of rights and self-determination of the Palestinian people for decades, and even now that Israel have been killing civilians left and right, they drag their feet before they finally admit: “Yes, the US should do whatever is in its hands to put a stop to this” - IF they even get to admit it. There might be “zionists” who argue that Israelis and Palestinians should both have the right to coexist in peace in the same land, but when the majority of people defending that aren’t zionists, does that opinion really qualify you to call yourself one?
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
What, you guys haven’t killed the other one? You truly aren’t minmaxing your brain usage capacity.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 6 months ago:
My favorite depiction of Batman is the Harley Quinn TV show, where he (third season spoilers):
spoiler
Gets detained by Joker, who has turned into Gotham’s left-wing populist mayor, for evading taxes. ___
- Comment on The University of Texas at Austin has 'delisted' this video so that it's harder to find. 6 months ago:
Plenty of universities and politicians are attacking students protesting for Palestinians. Wouldn’t look good on them that they’re attacking free speech.
- Comment on Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 6 months ago:
Are we certain that the people running healthcare institutions in the US aren’t vampires?
