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- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 3 days ago:
I would prefer to have it come from someone who... is not Andrew Yang.
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 3 days ago:
Mamdani won by focusing his campaign on the most pressing issue to voters today: affordability. The cost of living keeps going up, wages stay the same, and everybody's scared and frustrated looking for someone to promise they can do something about it. And he had answers.
In increasingly uncertain times, we can win voters over by appealing to their fears and frustrations and promising change that will directly address their needs. This is, in a way, how Trump won. He told voters, "I know you're upset and scared in a changing world. Well it's the immigrants' fault, it's trans people's fault, it's whatever target I tell you to hate next's fault, and when I own the libs, I'll bring the price of eggs down."
Of course you and I both know Trump was full of shit. But as long it sounded like he was addressing their fears, the most frightened people struggling to make ends meet latched onto whatever false hope he gave them. And I believe we can win people back by speaking to those same fears, but this time we offer real solutions.
However, there is a very important catch. Do not ever say the word 'socialism'. The legacy of McCarthyism has ensured that that word is still political suicide on the national stage today. You can get away with it in a city as deeply blue as NYC, but not in a general election.
But it's really only the word that's the problem, not the ideas behind it. People really are fed up with capitalism, they just don't know that that's really what they're fed up with. And as long as you avoid the word, I think you'd be surprised what you can get people to agree with.
Look at Obama in 2008. He ran his campaign on universal healthcare as his main issue, knowing that healthcare in America is a major problem voters wanted addressed. Detractors called it socialized medicine, but as long as he never said that word himself, voters just understood that he was offering change and they wanted to try change. They were fed up enough with American healthcare that red scare tactics didn't stop them from considering change.
I believe a viable next step that could work in 2028 could be to campaign on universal basic income. The job market is becoming increasingly unstable, especially with the AI bubble. People fresh out of college can't get jobs because everything that claims to be entry level wants three years of experience, and they can't get that experience because they don't have experience. We're coming to a point where it's time to rethink one of the fundamental flaws of capitalism, that everyone must work or else they starve and die, as this is about to break when too many people lose their jobs. But don't use the c-word, don't use the s-word, just talk about UBI as its own issue and I think people will warm up to the idea.
- Comment on Learning Japanese 3 days ago:
About as weird as calling Nihon "Japan".
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 days ago:
I miss my old Motorola Droid 2. I don't need a thinner phone, give me that slider form factor.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 03] 5 days ago:
Watched This Monster Wants to Eat Me. Started off very strong, the premise had me hooked, but it sorta felt like too many episodes were going by with no real development. S1 ending felt kinda anticlimactic, and it sounds like I'll be waiting a while for any kind of resolution.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Active users are what matter. Dormant accounts aren't doing anything.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 week ago:
Miyamoto says: If the player is not locked into a succession of inescapable and slowly plodding text boxes where they're offered neither choices nor agency, it must mean they're not sufficiently engaged!
What Miyamoto game is this describing? If anything I'd say he's got a reputation for being anti-text.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
Did you have a modded console? Without modification, the 10NES lockout chip prevents PAL cartridges from running on NTSC or vice versa. But it is possible to disable the chip to get around this.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
The real point here is that they don't have the ability to manufacture at the scale of the big three. It literally can't be in direct competition.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
I don't think that's had much of an impact when Nintendo sold more Switch 2s at launch than Valve has manufactured Steam Decks over its entire lifespan. The Steam Deck is still an enthusiast product for a niche crowd, and will likely never be in direct competition with the big three.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
NES and SNES were region-locked. In addition to an actual lockout chip, they even had different cartridge shapes so you couldn't physically fit Famicom or Super Famicom games.
Handhelds were not (until DSi and 3DS), but I specifically said home consoles.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
It's early and there aren't a lot of heavy hitters yet. But for me, Kirby Air Riders alone was well worth it, I waited 22 years for this sequel and it delivered.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
That was always the case for Nintendo's home consoles, not like it was a new thing that started with the Wii. Switch was the first one to be region-free.
- Comment on GB and GBC 1 week ago:
Gray cartridges run in GB mode. The GBC can apply some limited colorization, the firmware has a database of game IDs to apply specific palettes to, or you can select one manually with a button combo on startup.
Black cartridges are dual mode, they'll run in GB mode on original hardware or GBC mode on a GBC.
Translucent green cartridges are GBC-only. If you try to boot them on an original GB you'll get an error screen telling you this game is only for GBC.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 week ago:
I think you vastly overestimate the education level of previous generations.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 week ago:
Yes, Idiocracy misses that education matters far more than genetics. And education is something that has steadily gotten better for each generation. We stand on the shoulders of giants with access to the combined knowledge of everyone that came before us.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 week ago:
Idiocracy is an entertaining fictional comedy, but any time someone tries to compare it to real life I want to smack them. IMO, the movie would've been improved if they'd chopped off the eugenicist intro and just said he'd been isekai'd into a world of idiots.
The movie portrays a world where everyone is stupid, no exceptions, but nearly all of them are well-meaning. President Comacho cares about doing the right thing, he just has no idea how to solve the problems the country is facing. But then when someone smarter comes along, Comacho at least understands that he can step aside and let Not Sure save the day.
The problems facing the real world come from people who are both intelligent and evil. Smart people at the top use propaganda to manipulate dumb people at the bottom. That's nothing like Idiocracy, not even close.
- Comment on [RYTHM TENGOKU] Why is Remix 6 such a pain? 1 week ago:
Been a while since I played, but I dusted my copy off to give it a shot and got a pass on the second try. Couldn't quite get the superb, but close enough. I didn't think anything stood out as too hard, it's just long so a few misses here and there will add up.
Any section in particular you're having trouble with?
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- Comment on How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates) 2 weeks ago:
There hasn't been a major update since Jungle Inferno in 2017.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like you're upset that a game that clearly put a lot of focus on PvP in its design, has PvP in it. I'm not sure it's fair to blame the game because you expected something else.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I think this just a sign of changing times regarding how games are made. We've come a long way from the days when one programmer added multiplayer into Goldeneye at the very end of development, that could never happen today. And those are the footsteps Halo 1 followed in, they didn't even have Xbox Live until the sequel.
Today, I think trying to make a game do a little bit of everything may risk struggling to stand out against titles that focus all of their development resources on just doing one thing really really well. You do have a point that having solo content to fall back on is at least a safety net, but does the opportunity cost of implementing that solo content make it even harder to succeed as a multiplayer game in such a competitive market?
- Comment on The highest-rated games and what the people say 2 weeks ago:
I'd argue that if a game doesn't have anything to nitpick at, it probably wasn't doing anything bold enough for me to truly fall in love with either.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen what modern arcade games are like? In order to set themselves apart from consumer hardware you can get at home, modern games have been leaning heavily into unique hardware gimmicks (of course this has always been a thing to an extent ever since Beatmania and DDR, but it's much much much much more of a thing now since these are effectively the only kinds of games that get released in arcades anymore). Which does mean specialized cabinets are more expensive now, and maintenance is a whole can of worms - Wacca at my local Round 1 has had display issues for over a year and I've just assumed it's never getting fixed because Marvelous is no longer servicing parts for it.
Look up how much a Maimai or Chunithm cabinet costs. We've come a long way from the JAMMA era when operators could get new games on the cheap by reusing an old cabinet and just swapping out the PCB.
On top of that, some modern games even require revenue sharing agreements where the operator has to give the publisher a cut of every credit played, which cuts into profit margins even further. I think they literally can't just charge a quarter for some of these games.
- Comment on fediverse reference 😱😱😱 2 weeks ago:
The only reason I'm here on Fedi is because Miiverse is gone.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 2 weeks ago:
Card-based credits allow the arcade operator to offer finer-grained pricing options than tokens that can only be spent in integer amounts. Whether that's a pro or a con is debatable, they can put less popular games on 'sale' to attract players to try them out, or they can gouge you on the hottest new title. It's also very much a way of obfuscating prices so you don't even realize how much you're spending. And are you really getting the best deal by loading your card with the maximum amount of credits at once so they give you a bonus, or is that just how they get you?
In the grand scheme of things though, I'm a lot less bothered by it than I am by the way modern arcades are mostly just gambling for kids now. At least most arcades still keep a few rhythm games in the back, actually I do love that arcade rhythm games are going through a sort of modern renaissance right now, but that's kinda just the only thing still worth going to an arcade for anymore.
- Comment on Anime Fall Season and 2025 Year-End Discussion [2026, Week 1] 2 weeks ago:
I only watched three new shows this year but loved all of them. Got a lot more to catch up on (especially Spy x Family S3 and Apothecary Diaries S2).
- CITY: The Animation - The only thing I like more than Keiichi Arawi's artwork is the production values putting it into motion. TBH though, I thought the writing was decent but mostly just carried by the artwork. And I'm fine with that, the animation carried hard.
- Takopi's Original Sin - Binged it and had to go lie down. What really made this show so compelling was having it be told through the eyes of an alien that doesn't realize what's wrong, leaving the viewer to scream "Takopi no, stop, you're not helping, Takopi please stop!" Is it bad though that I kinda wanted the ending to twist the knife a little more?
- Apocalypse Hotel - I want to say that it's hard to choose a favorite this year because both CITY and Takopi were fantastic, but on further reflection it absolutely has to go to Apocalypse Hotel. What an incredible ride this was from start to finish. If you somehow have missed this one, I urge you to look nothing up and go in blind.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 2 weeks ago:
I enjoy overanalyzing and theorizing about media as much as the next guy, but this isn't actually part of the text. You as the player are expected to regularly change up your party, why couldn't Green have also just decided to swap Raticate out for any number of reasons?
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 2 weeks ago:
That's nothing more than headcanon. I don't think you can compare that to the actual text of Z-A here.
- Comment on Ruri Dragon Anime Officially Announced! | Studio: KyoAni 2 weeks ago:
I had a page-by-page vocab list from Wanikani, but the goal is to use as little assistance as possible, only check words I don't know. If I read a translation side-by-side, I'm really just reading the translation rather than understanding the original Japanese.