Zombiepirate
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Midweek feels 1 week ago:
We’ve all bean there.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 2 weeks ago:
That’s my point: billionaires are an establishment unto themselves, and they’re already in a cartel to control the US government.
Corey Robin put it better than I can in The Reactionary Mind:
Far from yielding a knee-jerk defense of an unchanging old regime or a thoughtful traditionalism, the reactionary imperative presses conservatism in two rather different directions: first, to a critique and reconfiguration of the old regime; and second, to an absorption of the ideas and tactics of the very revolution or reform it opposes. What conservatism seeks to accomplish through that reconfiguration of the old and absorption of the new is to make privilege popular, to transform a tottering old regime into a dynamic, ideologically coherent movement of the masses. A new old regime, one could say, which brings the energy and dynamism of the street to the antique inequalities of a dilapidated estate.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 2 weeks ago:
How anyone can see a billionaire as “anti-establishment” is beyond me.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 2 weeks ago:
Musk is so impervious to ego-death that I suspect his will hang around for a few decades after his body.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s a mistake to believe that everyone has a sense of empathy; there are plenty of people who do not because of their brain meat or their experiences.
I think the closest Musk gets is the desperate and pathetic attempts to get gamers to like him: it makes him crazy that he can’t just buy their respect like he does for everything else that he wants.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 2 weeks ago:
People like that genuinely believe that they should be in charge because of who they are. He has absolutely no feelings of guilt about the terrible things that he does; he thinks they’re good because he did them. Narcissistic megalomaniacs, especially ultra wealthy ones, lose their ability to empathize (or even the ability to mask and pretend) because they quite literally never have to care about how another person feels. I do think he’s confused as to why people hate him though. He sees himself as a lovable cheeky troll instead of the Nazi dickhead that he clearly is.
- Comment on What a mess 3 weeks ago:
You can’t sit for long on a stool with only two legs; I think it just becomes a stool sample at that point.
- Comment on [UFO 50] Personal highlight of fun cheat codes in UFO 50 4 weeks ago:
UFO50 is one of the most astonishing pieces of game design I’ve ever seen; its a master class in elegance.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro wargame? 5 weeks ago:
I completely agree; the buildup and production involved in most RTS games is tedious to me. Close Combat seems like the perfect middle between simulationist war games and RTS chaos. It was actually developed as a Squad Leader game before they lost the Avalon Hill license.
The Combat Mission games were fairly similar, with my favorite feature being a mode where you issue orders in 1 minute increments; you’re watching the battle play out in real time, but it’s still turn based.
The only modern franchise I’ve played that has a similar play style are the Total War games, but I think they realize WWII isn’t a great fit for them.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro wargame? 1 month ago:
Oh, I’d forgotten about that game. I actually liked it better than Age of Empires.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro wargame? 1 month ago:
I played so much Warlords 2 multiplayer with my siblings when I was a kid. I should check that series out again.
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 30 comments
- Comment on Comparison between graphics modes in Space Quest III 1 month ago:
I think that bad CGA palette comes from quick & dirty VGA conversions. This was probably near enough to the changeover that it was worth doing a good job because there were still quite a few people still using CGA.
Just a guess though.
- Comment on Comparison between graphics modes in Space Quest III 1 month ago:
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on You never forget your first 1 month ago:
The 5200’s was the best home version of Joust.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 2 months ago:
The Oblivion score is so good.
- Comment on Achievable goals 2 months ago:
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’ve got the flu, no time to talk Muzak loud and samples warm, I’ve been coughing loud Since this morn And now it’s all right, it’s okay And you may look the other way But we can try to understand This NyQuil dose effect on man
-Staggeringly High Fever
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Mad about a senator flying to El Salvador to investigate the condition of the father of his constitutes. Doesn't give to shits about the millions we spent to put him there. This is conservatism? 2 months ago:
Yes. Conservatism is about establishing a heirarchy that puts conservatives on top.
Everything else is secondary. Everything.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 2 months ago:
Good pick! I was so bummed when I heard that was cancelled.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 2 months ago:
I’d like to play around with whatever alpha build they made for the original concept of Team Fortress 2.
I love the one that came out (it’s probably my most played game of all time), but those first few screenshots before retooling were captivating when we’d already been waiting so long for the release.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 2 months ago:
I can’t grab it either. It keeps telling me to log in when I’m already logged in.
- Comment on What peripheral do you think should make a comeback? 3 months ago:
I was hoping someone would bring this up!
I got to play with one at PAX. It was so much fun!
- Comment on What peripheral do you think should make a comeback? 3 months ago:
House of the Dead was an all-timer.
I also loved the Jurassic Park arcade game.
- Comment on What peripheral do you think should make a comeback? 3 months ago:
I’ll throw out another one, too: Force feedback joysticks were amazing for flight sims, but I’m not sure you can get a new one at a reasonable price.
- Submitted 3 months ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG adds 100-floor megadungeon for a fiver 3 months ago:
I might have to dive back in. I had so much fun with this on the Steam Deck.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 3 months ago:
The graphic design looks so much like Spelunky. Cool!
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 3 months ago:
I don’t know if it was their SDK or what, but Epic’s sound design in this era was so good. Jill of the Jungle still stands out to me for that.
