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- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 1 week ago:
The video is about a retro game, it’s just that the retro game has content you don’t like and don’t want other people talking about.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 1 week ago:
I think the analogy holds up beautifully.
The man proceeds to tell the booth talkers that he’s taken great pains to avoid seeing or hearing politics in his daily life, such as quickly muting political ads on TV, requesting his neighbors take down their Trump flags, and local candidate election signs in their yard. He’s taken backroads to avoid seeing a political billboard on the way to work, all in the effort to spare their eyes the misfortune of sliding across disgusting politics. So it’s perfectly reasonable that he demand to the booth talkers they cease their discussion immediately, and switch to a topic he approves of, he explains confidently.
The two people in the booth glance at each other uncomfortably, wondering what terrible fate brought this strange demanding and oddly entitled man to their booth. Finally, one of them flashes a half-grin and spreads their hands disarmingly “Hey man, I get it that you don’t like what we’re discussing, but if we give in to your demand, wouldn’t that mean we’d have to give into any other demand you have about topics? What if we were talking about sex amongst ourselves and that too wasn’t acceptable? I don’t think we want to live our lives beholden to your feelings on things, that’s for us to decide. Have a good day.”
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 1 week ago:
Interesting, by your guidelines, there’s quite some limits on expressing oneself to appease people who can easily avoid and skip over a clearly labeled piece of content.
From my perspective, it’s as though someone came into a tavern and, fresh ale in hand, overheard a political discussion happening in a corner booth. Perhaps the subject was particularly distasteful to this theoretical tavern goer, and instead of ignoring it or moving to a seat where they can’t hear it, they instead march up to said booth and demand these booth talkers cease their discussion immediately, explaining that they come to the tavern to relax, not have these political ideas pop up everywhere they go.
I suspect the people in the booth would be quite bewildered as to why this theoretical person is going to such trouble to involve themselves in ceasing an activity they could so easily avoid.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 1 week ago:
Could you elaborate on that? If I’m understanding you correctly, you’re suggesting it’s identity politics to say publicly that a piece of media influenced your political views?
Are there cases where that doesn’t apply? for example: “There Will Be Blood made me Anti-oil” or “How Nausica Valley of the Winds made me an Environmentalist”, or “Grave of the Fireflys made me Anti-war”. Are all of those conceptual titles equally verboten?
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 1 week ago:
In another comment below, I briefly describe the sort of political content the game has in it. It’s not something a random leftist is projecting onto it, it’s explicitly political content in the game itself, which is what is being discussed.
It’s not really any different from discussing the themes or political content of Metal Gear Solid, Disco Elysium, or Planescape: Torment.
If that’s not something you’re interested, fair enough my friend! But surely it’s not an inconvenience for others to discuss it? The title makes it clear what this is, which makes it pretty easy to avoid and scroll on to the next post.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 1 week ago:
The first part seems to be for people who are unfamiliar with the games. The political analysis begins at 19 minutes.
The games go into:
- Discussion of monopolies, how they are used to exploit, and how they use state force to maintain their position to prevent competition
- The Carrot character is an anarchist in the first game, who infiltrates the weather factory of the second game to document the exploitation of its workers. He then gives the player a quiz about US economics so that you can infiltrate a board of directors, but when he becomes a member of the board himself, becomes a liberal reformist.
- In the third game, the devs put an easter egg only accessible by editing a config file with an obscure code, which adds police branded riot gear to the marching fascist candy soldiers, in a reference to the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 1 week ago:
It’s pretty solid, and reveals things I never could’ve imagined the devs would put into the game. Loved it as a kid growing up, but I have a whole new appreciation for it now.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I have a funny story about a Sony Mavica.
My family bought on when it was still relatively new, but on sale, I forget from where. We used the crap outtakes that think, and when we became internet savvy, used it as a way to upload pictures to.the computer for eBay listings. Eventually we replaced it with an digital camera that used an SD card, and in its little protective case the mavica went, to rest.
2 decades later, I find it while cleaning out old boxes, found that it still worked perfectly (thanks to using standard AA’s, and decided to sell it on eBay.
It sits up there for a while at $20, until one day I get a message about it, asking if the screen was okay or sum such. I tell them it is, and shortly after they buy it.
Out of mild curiosity, I click on the buyer’s profile, and see that he sells stuff as well, and it’s a very old account, about as old as mine.
I notice on the pictures for the items he currently has for sale are pretty grainy, and I thought… Surely not…
I download a picture of one of his items, and sure enough; it’s the same resolution as the mavica takes, 640 by something.
That crazy bastard had been steadily using his Sony Mavica floppy disk camera for over 20 years for his little eBay business.
I suspected that his camera must’ve finally given up the ghost, and he spotted my prime example and bought it so he could continue he well worn routine.
He left me positive feedback for the Mavica, and I suppose he’s still using it to this day, keeping that old equipment alive.
As a fan of the brave little toaster, it nearly brings a tear to the eye… I just really hope he switched to rechargeable batteries at some point, the little floppy drive on it chewed through them quick.
- Comment on Reddit infiltrators, need a shortened Lemmy link to evade Reddit filtering? DM me 2 weeks ago:
There’s definitely something going on. Whoever I add a Lemmy instance URL that isn’t obsufcated somehow, like replacing the periods with commas or (dot), then my comment gets no likes or responses, whereas a very similar comment in the same thread without a link does.
- Comment on Resistance from the tech sector 2 weeks ago:
Both are excellent :)
- Comment on Resistance from the tech sector 2 weeks ago:
Laws obv vary by country, but in the US, a corporation is legally required to recognize and bargain with a union if over 30% of their employees choose to unionize.
- Comment on Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments 3 weeks ago:
At least here we have Fediseer to vet instances, and the ability to vet each sign-ups.
I think eventually when we’re more targeted, we’ll have to circle the wagons so to speak, and only limit communications to more carefully moderated instances that root out the bots.
- Comment on Resistance from the tech sector 3 weeks ago:
Solid post from Drew, agree with everything there.
He mentions doing your best to join in your local communities with like minded folk. Here’s a good guide on how and where those folk might be to join up with.
And if you follow his advice to unionize, I highly recommend the IWW). They’ll help you form a grassroots union that’s directly controlled by you and your coworkers. And they’ll help you no matter what kind of job you have! Beefing it up is one of the best things we can do to resist.
- Comment on Disappointing Sequels 3 | Game Sack 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately Dave had to leave the show a few years ago to spend more time with his family, but Joe has been doing a pretty awesome job on his own. :)
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- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 3 weeks ago:
I’ll grant you that make language is potentially a dogwhistle, but on their blog, they post about Earth day and Sustainability, which is currently vilified by MAGA.
If I had to guess, their marketing team is trying to play both sides.
Without more clear evidence of their politics, I’ll probably continue to recommend them if they get people to stick with saving water, as ultimately that’s the opposite of what Trump’s policies are trying to do.
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 3 weeks ago:
As someone who dislikes traditional low flow heads that tend to icepick you with little streams, I highly recommend high sierra showerheads. I don’t know how they pull it off, but it absolutely blasts you with water while still being low flow. Like I prefer it to any other shower head I’ve tried, low flow or not.
They make one with an adjustable valve that let’s you dial in the perfect amount of flow too.
- Comment on Another round of anti-Trump protests hits US cities 4 weeks ago:
In addition to protests:
- Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, and will lay the groundwork for effective resistance.
- We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This would massively impact their income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
- Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective (plus you’ll get better pay and benefits!)
If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Join up with allies while we still can easily!
- Comment on Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had a similar experience with other alternatives like Soy curls, which I got to taste good a couple times but strangely could never replicate, and ended up just tasting like adding cereal to me. And Beyond beef, which has an off flavor from the pea protein base.
Quorn seemed to have no off flavor to me or my family, it seemed totally neutral, and they couldn’t tell the difference in tacos, chili, stuffed peppers, etc. I was surprised it wasn’t more popular based on how long its been around.
Maybe there’s a genetic component that’s influencing our flavor perception of it? like how saccharine can taste terrible to people due to genetic differences, limiting its use in soda or candy.
- Comment on Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds 4 weeks ago:
Collective action on a wide scale far outpaces what Elon could do, and it’s not as though he would increase his personal consumption to counteract what thousands of others do.
We need to keep in mind the overall picture, and not let other people continuing harmful practices to stop us from trying to reduce ours. Otherwise nothing would ever get better.
“I’m not going to drive less or use a bicycle because the rich use jets.”
“I’m not going to install balcony solar because the rich waste energy with factories and mansions.”
“I’m not going to consume less because the rich consume more than me.”
These mindsets stifle positive change that can genuinely make a difference, especially when we are so short on time.
Also, there are now extremely good plant based red meat alternatives like qlQuorn, Impossible, or on a budget, Seitan. All of which that allow us to continue to use our meat based favorite recipes without contributing to climate change (and lower bowel cancer risks :D), letting us give elon the finger without sacrificing anything.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes anti-solar, wind bill 4 weeks ago:
Doomerism isn’t going to get us anywhere. the US might be driving off a cliff, but the rest of the world is still strongly in favor of renewables.