Also isn't it so petty to admit you (would) move because you don't want to shell out your bit for your community? Like isn't that incredibly cheap? Don't you like living in New York? Don't you like your city?
It's like the rich guy passing on the collection plate at church type move.
I certainly wouldn't know what this could possibly be referring to since I'm on a yacht and have just taken some very powerful amnestics. As far as I know I've never been on the internet.
There are a bunch of people here wearing baby masks. They all have hammers, which is odd because as I said we're on a very large (expensive) yacht.
I've heard much the same thing from the world of biz. People think the CEO is the ultimate dictator in the corpo world, but you don't get to that position without being useful to the upper classes and financial automations. The moment you start going out of sync with those forces is the moment you will feel you "power" rapidly decreasing.
It's only the power to enunciate the will of capital. Never to act against it.
Yeah it was never really real, except as a dream. But real people did actually come the murica to try to dream it together. It's just the money men got there first.
It could be! You were once the great hope for democracy and working people everywhere, until you were captured and contained by the aristocracy. You could be that hope again.
I think that's overly simplistic. Power does attract people who want to abuse it, but it also attracts people who want to change their world for the better.
The latter group view power more as a weighty responsibility than a privilege, but the power still exists.
Although that latter group is also more likely to spread their power around, thus reducing the opportunities for abuse by the former group, and... I kind of see your point. But I view it a bit more systemically.
Oh wow I haven't played since the original Source. I thought you were just talking about how you had to manage an equipment budget in a match. But no, legit gambling scheme with real time and money for what amounts to NFTs that can only be used within Steam's ecosystem.
The vast majority of their players are just addicts who fell victim to the predatory mechanisms.
I don't play Fortnite, but the only players I know are kids, and they just play it because that's what everyone else is playing and they want to play with their friends. I'm not excusing the company for monetizing the shit out of it, but (anecdotally) the players' behaviour just reminds me of me and my friends playing Dooms, UTs, or Quakes back in the day.
You could also just show up to a board meeting or similar and keep pushing them to the ground until they stopped trying to stand up, then tell them to give all their money away or you'll just keep bullying them in increasingly humiliating ways.
OK we're definitely talking about different things when we say photorealism. I see stylized and photorealistic almost as on a linear spectrum. I realise there are more dimensionz to it than that, but that's the usage I think the meme is critiquing. That's how I took it, anyway.
Ds9? I don't watch shows anymore, though I like remembering it