Drewfro66

Didn't realize Dubai was so close to Iran. When they get the bomb they should nuke it

I really liked a lot of the mechanics of Starfield. I think some people can get a bit overly-critical and "throw the baby out with the bathwater", even if the baby is a little ugly too and has 13 toes in this analogy.

Ultimately I think it was a game killed mostly by poor writing and, consequently, a failure to tie that writing into interesting enemy variation.

The different types of human enemies all felt the same, there wasn't enough variation when it came to robots or aliens, and these were used in uninspired ways pretty much uniform. The randomly generated locations etc. definitely added onto this.

I had a lot of fun with the ship and weapon customization, the core gameplay felt good to me. It is a game primed for a very fun and interesting New Vegas to its FO3, if they chose to go that route (which I doubt they will, alas).

One of my biggest issues is that it feels like a game written entirely by Libertarian Atheist Redditors from 2013. It is so completely out of touch with the current culture and political landscape that I can only assume the issue is that Bethesda, or at least the people responsible for this messat Bethesda, are Libertarian Reddit Atheists who haven't matured in their understanding of culture and politics for 15 years, like you took Hank Green, Niel deGrasse Tyson, and pre-2020 Elon Musk, threw them in a blender, and asked the resulting mush to write a sci-fi setting.

The joinable factions are obviously supposed to be exaggerated stereotypes of Democrat and Republican politics as conceived by someone with a very shallow view of politics, but the thing about the Democrat and Republican parties is that 90% of the country fucking hates both of them. What's your other option? Get a job? The pirates could have been fun but I'm not even going to get into how they were butchered. And the snake-worshipping religious zealots are the only major faction you can't join, despite being the only mildly interesting one.

The majority of residents of Hong Kong wish to remain a part of China, but desire some autonomy from Beijing. Americans in Boston, New York or Chicago would say the same about their relationship to Washington, on the whole.

If you look into the ideological character of the protestors - who have been basically irrelevant for, what, half a decade now? - they were exactly the sort of people I would hope we all stand against: annoying upper-middle-class Redditor bros dressing up like pepe the frog and asking Trump to save them from the evil Communists. They're right-wing nutjobs that Western media pretends have a point because it's convenient for the joint foreign policy agenda of both Capitalist parties.

Oh no, not the poor entrepreneurs

If you actually read End of History, it isn't so much a celebration of the new liberal order as it is a pessimistic prediction of a permanent, stable unjust world order. Less "We did it guys, history is over!" and more "Maybe Marx was wrong about the inevitability of Socialism and this is all there ever will be for the end of time. And that kind of blows."

I would compare his viewpoint to that of Frank Herbert, author of Dune. He is an Anticommunist not in the sense that he believes Communism is bad, but in the sense that Socialism does not represent a new, stable mode of production that will inevitably rise from the old, but that the facets of the current system - states, corporations, families, etc. - are the stable entities that will stand the test of time.

In my political scientist tier list I put him firmly in the "Wrong but not bad" tier.

I remember reading an article about a month ago about how Kenyan writers were getting mad about being mistaken for AI because that's just how they write, and the Faith emails are all from Kenya.

I'm not saying it's not AI but that might be the reason why they sound that way.

Same, can't be too mad about it - hopefully they throw us a hardball for 1,001

    
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I've been saying this for a while, digital art is truly the downfall of fantasy. Everything just looks like shitty Deviantart slop and in 5 years it'll just look like AI slop instead

I'll be at the Kent OH one if anyone wants to say hi

All scolds get the wall when the revolution comes

Note the lack of Nazi patches and tattoos

While government funding shutdowns do hurt more, the difference is that a general strike is an expression of the power of the Proletariat, while a government shutdown is an expression of the power of the Bourgeois parliament.

The Bourgeois parliament can be a progressive force when it is at odds with even more reactionary forces, but it will never be in the direct interest of the worker.

General Strikes tend to be difficult to bring about in the United States because our only productive, profitable, material industry is in the reactionary sectors: oil and polymers, automobiles, weapons, and the production of raw materials for these industries (steel, etc.). These industries are either comparatively well-paid or staffed by immigrants who are in a precarious position.

Most of the wealth of today's billionaires is in intellectual property, speculative assets, and foreign production. These things aren't going to be affected as much by a strike in the U.S. as, say, a factory that makes boots.

Every single Zionist in the United States should be forced to actually reside in Israel as long as bombs are falling on it

This take is standard conservative garbage but at least it's just, like, a version of the archetypical Conservative argument.

"Your life will be easier if you conform." It is the negative peace which is the absence of tension, rather than the positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Yeah that's exactly what I expect a Zionist to look like lmao. Looks like he crawled out of an overpriced coffee shop on the outskirts of Silicon Valley

Update: started my new job today, bummed some money off a couple friends, no longer in the hole but still going to be short for next months rent.

We're better than any of those things, we're Workers

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Guys I found a solution

Starfield is a game people were "just not ready" for and it'll still come good at some point, reckons Fallout 4 composer

Lenin on freedom of the press

One-Third of Russian Entrepreneurs Ready to Quit as Economy Keeps Getting Worse, Russian Sources Say

Guys, did someone hit Francis with a Tankie Brainwashing Gun?

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U.S. troops to Iran? Join tomorrow’s nationwide protests!

My favorite genre of images is where people clutch their pearls and take everything too seriously

Samara Region. In memory of a comrade. Communist Vasily Viktorovich Sadchikov died during the Special Military Operation. Honor and glory!

What's preventing a General Strike in the United States?

What's preventing a General Strike in the United States?

Quentin Tarantino has been killed by an Iranian missile in Tel Aviv

[CW: LGBTphobia] What are some of the wildest takes about LGBT you've heard from cishets?

[CW NERD ALERT] I have no choice but to abandon my principled leftist position of hatred of the genocidal racist imperialist project known as Israel and support it.

Lost my job, might not be able to afford rent next month

PSL Candidate running for governor of California

Lost my job, might not be able to afford rent next month

The results are in!

The results are in!