nah, if you’re weird enough to be you, someone else is weird enough to be for you.

I find myself on Quora more than I would think based off its layout. I think the website is very messy and sometimes makes the information hard to parse. But I do agree in general that I think it has a bad reputation for what it is.

I love BE, I’m in that sweet spot of having never engaged with his online presence but occasionally watched his scripted videos. It makes everyone seem absolutely unhinged when they auto-nope out of any conversation involving him, when the takes usually in question is something like ‘genocide bad’

I think this view only slides if you do actually already have inherent misogynistic or misanthropic tendencies, and those tendencies mix with the natural jealousy feeling that cheating invokes. I think of asexual people who also don’t love being cheated on.

yes but unironically

re-releaseing bethesda games is tricky because for at least a few months the original + mods is a far far better experience, at least when it happens with skyrim it only takes the modding community a few months to catch up

remaking bethesda games with a graphical layer on an entirely different engine is a recipe for disaster. from what i’m hearing the game is still moddable with the original modkit but several elements don’t work as they should. it’s going to take years to port over oblivion modded content to the new version, and you better hope those original modders are still even around.

essentially fracturing an ancient modding community for a smeary UE5 re-release of a beloved game. not the worst thing you can do but just mod the original release christ. do you know how well modded oblivion runs on anything?

Just imagining that clap some teachers do in the morning to get their class doing the morning salutations.

"Good morning honorable judge presiding…’

Hypersexuality can be destructive for the self and online spaces see high rates of hypersexuality that are seen as sex-positivity instead. This leaks out into the real world eventually.

I think it’s direly important to understand where sexuality ends and the real world begins. lots of functional adults cannot do this and it leads to things like bioessessentialist thinking (women just want to get RAILED by HARD STRONG ALPHA MEN WHO ARE BLACK) or obsessive shipping (x and y would be so good together! imagine how they would have sex?!). It makes conversations uncomfortable and makes whatever space they are inhabiting inherently adult-only.

There is so much to this world other than sex. There’s so much to just human relations other than sex. Really, sex takes up such a small part of our lives but disproportionately motivates much of it for most people. It’s a sad state of affairs and I can definitely see where you’re coming from, OP.

Downsizing the roo was a mistake. Now instead of chilling at home they’re diving in front of my car at night.

I think my dog is reactiveary. he barks too much.

did you post on lemmygrad and get upset over tankies replying to you

russia is the no-no country for doing bad things, like starting pointless wars and terrorizing a civilian population. so you can’t support them. you’ll have to find other alternatives to your services that support bad countries doing bad things.

Common misconception. Karl Marx was actually inspired by Quentin Tarantino because they both liked feet. Follow me for more facts

Now that Minecraft has received an update that allows leashing villagers together in train-like formations, how does this analysis change?

K-HOLE EXECUTIVE!!

All leftist video creators are overrated, leftist authors less so but there’s still a huge contingent of them that are just co-opted by their main topic of critique. I don’t think this is a failing on the creators themselves but a feature of the market.

When you get down to it, no matter how ideologically ‘pure’ you manage to be, once you’re earning money for something - even if it’s not your primary income - your ability to affect the change you’re talking about becomes limited. You don’t want to risk your income. You don’t want to get ‘cancelled’ by your peers. For some this comes down to mindful self-censorship, but for most they don’t even realize that they’ve started down the algorithmic intellectual death spiral.

But! I think this is very okay and for our purposes can be leveraged. I absorbed endless amounts of this content when I was feeling the full effects of alienation. Alone all day, underappreciated and working my body to the bone in a warehouse. The reason I read ML theory at all is because of some of these chucklefucks - ThoughtSlime, The Deprogram, even broader liberal-types like Hbomberguy. They were friendly voices to listen to and fueled an inherent rebellious nature most of us have within.

But content cycles, your interests peak and change, and if you walk away from ““breadtubers”” having absorbed any actual theory, your admiration turns somewhat to scorn, and you begin to feel frustrated with the endless complaining and no actionable solutions. You’ll either fall back into liblight or your exposure to theory will grow into a larger revolutionary sprout.

That’s when you’re pushed out of the content mill and become exposed to the dreaded ideas that YouTubers can’t actually say due to ad revenue concerns. Getting to this stage of radicalization, especially in the west, used to be like pulling teeth. You’d need serious organizational power to spread the education needed.

Now it can be achieved by listening to freely accessible (and even semi-mainstream) content slop and letting well-known parasocial elements play out in a listener. Learning, admiration, surpassing the teacher, and finally finding your revolutionary spirit.

I usually love reading about someones special interests but just feels like this guy is overcompensating and feigning an admiration for some bygone era of crafts work that obviously still exists but can’t compare to buying a handbag for a price you can afford, all so they can dunk on the asians making their clothes

But there’s another way to appreciate fashion—through craft. It’s not about how well something performs or what it communicates. Instead, it’s about valuing the skill, time, and intention embedded in the object itself, even if no one else cares or recognizes those qualities

who motherfucker, who is appreciating fashion through craft that aren’t already hobbyist tailors

Most anarchists that read theory and history eventually come round to realizing that centralized authority is a necessary part of revolution

honestly playing a sandbox game with spawnable NPCs could tell you this but that’s neither here nor there

I think he really is just trying to line the pocket of his and his kind. Probably combined with cognitive decline meaning he’s having a harder time hiding it.

This song really seems to wound my more liberal friends. They see the moon landing as a self-justifying, noble event that of course was worth every dollar spent.

Ignore that the problems people outlined back then never really got better. Ignore that humanity would have landed on the moon regardless. Just double down on some Reddit-tier reverance for “Science!”

Russian state disinformation is also, seemingly, the most powerful influence on Earth. Seriously, it can get into anything and affect everyone. US-based free media press are under Russian influence depending on who you ask. The president himself? A cold war sleeper agent. It’s all Russia!

These are the same groups of people who, generally, can’t comprehend how Trump won, and how many trumpists spout earnest disinformation like their lives depended on it. So much disinformation is present, Trump won the presidency!

But no, it’s Russian disinformation that’s causing all the problems. America just has, um, cooky rednecks.