yakko
@yakko@feddit.uk
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I don’t think we disagree on a great deal, except in terms of the interpretation, and how much hope is left.
Personally I think people are cottoning onto the fact that the nuclear sabre-rattling is empty terrorism, and I think that just as war in the 2010s isn’t war in the 20s, war in the 20s isn’t going to be war in the 30s. We might be near a point at which production rather than manpower is the sole decisive factor in a conflict. That said I’m a Protomen fan, and I do feel that the willingness to stand up to your oppressors with your own skin in the game - and never any machine by proxy - will always be the final deciding factor. But I do see the way war is changing.
The main thing people forget in situations like this is that nothing is vouchsafed to us, no matter how much we know about history, no matter how well we can apply its lessons. The future is forever unwritten, and there is more potential in the infinite present than can be known. We only diminish it with despair.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I still don’t think we’ve seen the upper limits of what western countries will do to support Ukraine. It’s becoming clear that what we’re up against is an attempt to re-establish the right of conquest by force as a norm. If Ukraine falls, then the Baltic states are clearly next and they know it, given the depth of defenses they’ve been preparing.
And look, I’m as sour as anyone about how Obama handled 2014. All I can say is, back then it was easier to pretend that Putin was a tolerable regional power, and not an existential threat to the international rules-based order. I don’t think anyone who actually understands Russia was tricked.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I mean yeah. Russia attacked a country that merely glanced at NATO with eyes that yearn, and we’re still sending Ukraine money and weapons.
Whatever the case may be, Trump’s main tactic is to spread despair; do not oblige him.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 1 day ago:
I think you have sense on your side there about outlawry. It existed as the photo negative of the golden rule, and it’s a great way to make an example of people who break the social contract.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 2 days ago:
Based
- Comment on Unquestionably high class 2 days ago:
If I haven’t by now, it’s not possible
- Comment on Unquestionably high class 2 days ago:
Then replace the bread with cheese
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 4 days ago:
Agreed, the steam deck belongs on this list or the switch doesn’t.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 5 days ago:
Maximum Derek!
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 6 days ago:
Awhh brehh he was like brehhh
- Comment on Pizza styles 6 days ago:
If we’re gonna let people call bull testicles “oysters” when they eat them, we can bloody well let Chicago call their delicious casserole a pizza, right?
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 week ago:
Bold of you to assert that the American right isn’t effectively a monarchist movement. Trump and his hangers-on have been stridently in favour of a presidency that is king in everything but name, and they have shown an abiding disdain for democracy since at least the Reagan era - though those dots connect backwards as far as you please.
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 1 week ago:
This is right up my street, thanks!!
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 week ago:
Not my tempo. I was talking about the loss of a global empire. Many have called the UK’s a “soft landing”, but even the hardest collapses so far will have been a different level of scale from what America is cooking up for itself.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 week ago:
The trends and forces would have been no different, but it was a choice between a collapse of empire versus a soft landing a la UK. They chose collapse.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
We mostly agree.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
C’est la vie. I envy their determination.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I’d really love to see MMX: Corrupted get finished. They seem to be doing new things within that space at least
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
That would be enough!
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I just heard there’s going to be another Mega Man game. At this point I’m wondering if they have anything to contribute to modern platforming at all. By the time Shovel Knight came out new MM was already looking kind of tedious, and now compared to things like Gravity Circuit, what exactly is the point? Are we just going to reprise the gear system? Is there enough material in that for a whole game worth of new ideas?
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
You might enjoy Noah Gervais’ video called “Playing Quake For The Plot”.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I should read the manga, I’m curious to see how closely it parallels. I’m willing to bet that early weirdness is the same, and they didn’t come up with the overarching plot until later in the story.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 2 weeks ago:
It’s crazy how much Brian Thompson isn’t even a name in my head. If someone murders me, I only hope they’re not so charismatic that when people try to remember me they just picture a beige balloon named John Lastname.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 2 weeks ago:
I mean yeah, how else could you give a shit?
- Comment on Day 519 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I think the ending was similar for me. That and the quick time event boss at the end was a bit of an anticlimax.
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 2 weeks ago:
I like a big jobs program, but I don’t have truck with this one
- Comment on Day 519 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Really? From what I recall, I genuinely felt enmity with my nemeses. It got ugly and vindictive.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 2 weeks ago:
You’re right! Thank you.
See how that works? In my wildest dreams I get thrown under the bus by the wrong kind of leftist. Are you kidding me? I’ll roll those dice all day and still be more worried about the actual shit happening.
There is currently no revolution, and we know arguing doesn’t hardly change anybody’s mind. Especially not authoritarians’ minds, right? You can’t convince me to do anything but laugh at tankies and, god forbid, patronise them.
So in summary you’re right and thanks. Great stuff. Sarcasm, but also solidarity. Take it or kill me.
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 2 weeks ago:
Anything but trains lmao
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 2 weeks ago:
I gave up arguing with anyone I even slightly agree with. In my wildest dreams I’ll get to bicker with them at a city council meeting about what version of leftism we like best. You go to the revolution with the wild-eyed dreamers (and/or dangerous maniacs) you’ve got, not the ones you want.