Doc_Crankenstein
@Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 9 hours ago:
Holy bad faith Batman. What a blatantly ignorant misrepresentation of what I said.
You have no concept of what a community property system is. For the love of God, go read fucking theory and educate yourself on alternative political and economic systems.
If you live in the house, it becomes your personal property. Meaning you own it while you live and reside there. No one can just come into your personal space. Yet, when you no longer wish to live there and are moving away, the house transfers ownership back to the community until someone needs it.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 10 hours ago:
No, the system should be changed to not arbitrarily restrict people’s access to necessities.
Housing, and other necessities, should be community property. If you don’t live in the house, you forfeit ownership of that house so someone else who needs it can live in it. Fuck the exploitative system of private property ownership.
Renting is only necessitated because we live in a capitalist system. All your complaints only exist because of the capitalist system. It doesn’t need to exist.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 11 hours ago:
Blame the system that makes it arbitrarily difficult to transition between houses, which is in part exacerbated due to the fact homes are being used by parasites as vehicles for profit generation through rent seeking models artificially increasing the floor price of homes.
What you’re mad at is the private property system inherent to capitalism restricting what you’re able to do because of arbitrary bullshit. Why do you need to purchase a house in the first place? It is empty and not being used, so why does the previous owner still retain control over it and be allowed to arbitrarily prevent others from using it unless we can satisfy their greed? Why do we support a system that arbitrarily restricts our access to basic necessities in such a way and just glazes over such blatant exploitation?
Instead of trying to justify exploitation under the current system, how about we think about changing this system to one based on the needs of people instead of one based on imaginary, monetary interests?
In a system of community property, any vacant homes would be readily available and the ownership of units transferred from communal to personal property based on usufruct where, so long as you live in the home, it belongs to you but, when you vacate to a new home, the ownership is transferred back to the community.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 1 day ago:
Nah, all landlords are leeches. Rent-seeking is literally parasitic by nature.
- Comment on Day 444 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
I’ll never forgive Rockstar for not giving us Undead Nightmare DLC for RDR2.
Such a masterpiece of a game that they just let fall to the floor and collect dust while they kept GTA on a pedestal to milk it for every penny.
- Comment on “Hell’s Paradise” Season 2 Character Visuals 3 days ago:
Bruh please let this be soon. I need it.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
As if I needed yet another reason to not purchase EA games.
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 1 week ago:
Not one bit
- Comment on Nearly 3 in 5 American workers say they're behind on retirement savings. The other two are working until they drop dead 2 weeks ago:
I disagree. Power doesn’t need to come from the top down. The current system of hierarchical authority established through a small body of elected representatives that have controlling authority over a vast number of people is what allows for corruption. Corruption only works because entities gain hierarchical control over a population and, through the abuse of systemic power, force its will down the chain.
On the other hand, a system where power of authority comes from the bottom up and is distributed horizontally across a federated body syndicated interest groups inherently prevents corruption as no singular entity can commandeer controlling authority over the other. Authority is established only through mutual agreement reached through a consensus of all parties involved. Through this structure of governance people will always retain the ability to de-federate from any corrupt entity and bypass its authority.
If corruption cannot take control over your means of living your life, the corrupt have no power over you.
- Comment on Nearly 3 in 5 American workers say they're behind on retirement savings. The other two are working until they drop dead 2 weeks ago:
What you are looking for is anarchism. Please, read up on it. Kropotkin is a wonderful starting point. David Graeber’s work is also great; less political and more anthropological but still a great source of information to get started.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Ah fuck you’re right
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Every collective will always have to prepare for and content with oppositional actors. Sadly, this is a fact of life. Anarchist theory is well versed in the concept that the state will inevitably retaliate as the existence of an anarchist society threatens the perceived hierarchical structure that state authority is founded on. If people understand they do not need to acquiesce their political autonomy to an arbitrary authority to ensure stability in their lives, the state loses the power it has over the people.
- Comment on Rime, a descendant of Ico 2 weeks ago:
Rime was such a relaxing game. Sad to hear about their studio.
- Comment on There are no laws! We made the whole thing up! 2 weeks ago:
Congratulations, you have discovered the starting point of anarchist philosophy. Please, read further. It’s good stuff.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
“Rule of Law” is itself a form of tyranny. It is nothing more than the dictates of a hierarchical authority trying to assert its control over others. It is a fundamentally oppressive system that can and has repeatedly throughout history been used to facilitate the oppression of marginalized peoples.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
And then there is Andor… Image
- Comment on [Episode] DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 11 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I fucking knew we were getting a Gundam episode when I saw the Kaiju and remembered the new guy had sci-fi mech magazines at the beginning of last week’s episode.
Why not? We already have paranormal, supernatural, and fucking soccer genres. Let’s toss mecha into the mix.
- Comment on Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty huge 4 weeks ago:
*cries in PS Plus Game Catalog*
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t called the military-industrial complex for nothing.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Saw a couple streamers show off an hour of gameplay.
looks that they took fan criticism to heart. The night is back, it’s deadlier and darker than ever.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 5 weeks ago:
I see the appeal but that appeal doesn’t apply to me.
They took the Metroid out of my Metroidvania and replaced it with Dark Souls, and that just rubs me wrong.
I like some Souls-likes (Elden Ring, Lies of P, and Lords of the Fallen reboot are some of my favorite games) but I don’t like souls design creeping into my other genres that don’t need it, especially when some of the mechanics are antithetical to the genre (looking at you corpse runs).
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 5 weeks ago:
It’s also plays very differently even if both are still Metroidvanias. Axiom is more of traditional Metroidvania while Hollow Knight/Silk Song are modern “Soulsvanias” that include Souls-like mechanics, such as precision combat with a high skill ceiling and corpse runs. I also prefer Axiom over Hollow Knight as well and wish more retro styled games were more popular.
Hollow Knight gained popularity so rapidly and widely explicitly because of it kinda, and I mean no offense by this, riding the coattails of the Souls genre and doing a better job of it than Salt and Sanctuary, which is also a great game, with great art, runs on a potato, and is also in the “Soulsvania” genre yet didn’t receive nearly the same level of recognition.
Hollow Knight just got lucky going viral. That’s just how markets be sometimes.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 5 weeks ago:
Shaka literally tells you they will go back to town if you talk to them I think two or three times. That’s just a Soulslike thing ya gotta get in the habit of. Exhaust that dialogue, always.
But Corpse Runs are just a dumb mechanic for a Metroidvania. Those platforming challenges wouldn’t feel so bad if not for them. Losing 200 rosary hurts. That’s a lot of time grinding that back.
- Comment on [Episode] DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 10 discussion 5 weeks ago:
The new dude being juxtaposed into all the flashbacks as if he was actually there the entire time threw me for a loop and made me question my sanity.
Then I remember I am watching Dan Da Dam and that’s just what this show does to ya.
- Comment on [Episode] DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 10 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Yea, I do believe the flashbacks stopped after the unintentional teeth knocker.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 5 weeks ago:
Called it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 5 weeks ago:
RIP Steam download servers.
- Comment on Finished while ago Khamelion (MK Armageddon), by me 5 weeks ago:
Good work, bad choice of pose though.
Idk what you were going for but it really looks like she’s just lifting her leg to show off her butt and nothing else.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 5 weeks ago:
Just to say, they were still semi-anarchist in nature, but not in the modern sense where it means “chaos” rather the political sense where it means “absence of hierarchy and horizontally-structured self-governance”, which is representative of the confederated nature of the Flying Gang where the different crews were considered equal and all had a say in their governance, based in a mutually agreed upon code of conduct. Within the crews themselves, captains were more like delegates who were chosen to take on leadership responsibilities but were at the whims of the crew. Power came from the bottom up, not the top down. If a crew was displeased with how their captain led the ship they were well within their right to depose him and appointed a new one.
Anarchism is not the bad “chaos and disorder” that the ruling class would have you believe.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 5 weeks ago:
Really wish more people understood this.
