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🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈
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🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈
@stsDrex
Mostly on bsky now but occasionally likes or retweets https://t.co/fAjnHwbGVd
He / Him Katılım Nisan 2018
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@nuhre_ I mean, OwlCat is a private company so we dunno what their budgets are - but they are 50% bigger than Obsidian by headcount and Obsidian has released twice as many games since 2020...so I think there's a good chance OwlCat spends more per game and you have it reversed.
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@stsDrex Owlcat has been making RPGs with $5 and a dream and they could do it. It just sounds like a whole lot of excuses to me.
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I do find the whole “we can’t live up to BG3 standards” discourse hilarious, because the way some devs talk about it, you’d think Larian created some impossible, once-in-a-lifetime miracle nobody could ever replicate.
When in reality, they mostly just… put genuine effort into the game, listened to player feedback, and respected their audience.
And somehow the industry reacted like Larian personally ruined RPG development forever.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
RPG developer Josh Sawyer says Obsidian Entertainment is not against romance systems like the ones in Baldur’s Gate 3. He explained that these features take a huge amount of time, money, and work to create properly. “It’s not like an opposition to their existence,” Sawyer said. “It’s just that I don’t know if we’re going to be able to do it.” Sawyer said romance systems need a lot of extra writing, voice acting, cutscenes, and character reactions. Because of this, Obsidian would rather focus on other parts of a game instead of adding romances that feel incomplete or low quality. He also said players now expect romance content to be as detailed as Baldur’s Gate 3, which raised the standard for RPG games. Sawyer added that Obsidian still cares about emotional stories and character relationships.
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@ObviousRises "Dual Loyalties" is one of the most tired anti-Semitic tropes. Have an original thought and figure out a real reason to attack someone.
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And that end-to-end encryption will be useless because the CEO is literally from Israel—its going to have a backdoor.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Discord has rolled out end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls It is turned on by default for every user so only the people in the call can hear and see what is said because Discord cannot listen in or watch the It works for direct messages, group messages, voice channels, and Go Live streams but not stage channels yet
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🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈 retweetledi
🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈 retweetledi
vying for one of the best tweets of all time
octopus/caveman@octopuscaveman
Telling the barista at Starbucks i clogged the toilet as Im leaving
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🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈 retweetledi
did a FAT16 file system write this tweet
fish@fishPointer
a file should be no more than like 5-20 MB. 100MB max. that's the right size for a file. anything bigger is just absurd
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As an anarchist I've always pushed back against the compulsory atheism that some promote. What someone believes only impacts you when they seek to dominate you. We need not fear a world of believers, only a world of masters.
Jacobin@jacobin
Radical abolitionist John Brown was born on this day in 1800. “I acknowledge no master in human form.”
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On top of that, obviously, this website incentivizes awful takes. At the end of the day we all have to figure out who we want to talk to and how much energy we put into those conversations, but recognizing the patterns helps a lot.
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This is why you see so many out-of-pocket responses to AOC. People reflexively oppose any suggestion the system they like needs reform and they will do so with complete dishonesty.
The sooner you recognize this trend the easier your conversations will become...
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When I was younger and growing up in the woods I saw a raccoons as miserable trash goblins who would fight and kill your pets.
Now that I'm older...that's still all true. But I recognize my own trash goblin nature. Not even a goblin deserves to die on a freeway.
rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac
human-affirming anecdote to offset that jerk trying to hurt the hawai'i seal: drove home from breakfast this morning and saw a dude stop his car in the middle of 580 to help a lone baby raccoon to safety after it wandered into the middle of the freeway trashpanda marked safe
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People claim we live in a market economy and yet our media overlords deny us the most in-demand content. Our best creators need to beg for and accepting venue.
rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac
@gbrl_dick i hope you are cool with me throwing up on you on camera
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🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈 retweetledi
@NathanpmYoung @paulg Look, your time is your own, but I do not think these hyperspecific attacks trying to pick apart particular things AOC has said are going to do you any favors. Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Y'all are making her point for her.
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AOC has boxed herself in. She said you can’t earn a billion dollars. Then she gives examples of individual companies.
But that’s not how “can’t” works. @paulg only needs to name one good enough billionaire and she’s wrong. Many have suggested examples (Swift, Rowling, Bezos).
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.
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@Lormif1 @mattyglesias Lol there certainly are ways! If you don't like a straight wealth tax we could, for instance, have a surcharge based on wealth for expenditures. Bezos has a $500m yacht - we could tax him another $250m based on his wealth for the purchase. There's tons of ways.
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@stsDrex @mattyglesias Because all the actual wealth we are talking about is tied up in ownership of companies, not actual dollars. Bezos makes 60k a year, musk 0. There is no way to change how that is distributed in any meaningful way
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@Lormif1 @mattyglesias How does it do that? Theoretical value aside actual dollars go to actual people sometimes and I'm saying we should change the proportions and that would increase overall value. You are insisting that view is zero sum for apparently no reason.
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@stsDrex @mattyglesias This again concludes dollars and ownership of companies that have theoretical value and in doing so is zero sum
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@HistoryBoomer You are making up reasons to disagree with her. Jeff bezos can have added value and also it could be true that we should not allow people to accumulate over a billion dollars in wealth. Most distributive systems that meet the latter goal are more efficient than what we have now.
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This far-left idea—that you can't 'make' money—is why I can't be a progressive.
Of course, you can!
Amazon gets packages to me, cheaply, THE NEXT DAY. Jeff Bezos made that happen. He earned his billions by doing that.
He's a weasel, but he's added value to the world.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.
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🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈 retweetledi
@QuinnyPig AI could never come up with something this beautiful
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🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈 retweetledi
The argument here AOC is making is that billionaires frequently make their money via a form of rent seeking, and most of us find condemnation of rent-seeking relatively uncontroversial
You can disagree with the specifics but that’s the argument she’s making
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.
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🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️🌈 retweetledi
my position is
1. most billionaires earn their money legally
2. even if billionaires mostly "earn" their billions, i think that the concentration of wealth is a political, societal, and even economic problem. (for example: billionaire contributions to national elections could easily get to 25-50% of total political spend, and the power that implies over political and agenda capture makes me nervous; plus, at some point, concentration could move money from spenders to savers in a way that could be troublesome for growth)
3. recent tax cuts for s corps and c corps really don't help with (2)
4. to begin to address (2) i think we should undo the trump tax cuts, increase avg effective estate taxes, and probably raise the national minimum effective tax rate for the wealthiest ppl. it's too easy for billionaires to pay lower effective tax rates than the middle class with the c/s corp rules we have now
laurence pevsner@Lpevs
@DKThomp @CarterD generally agree with you derek, but in this case it seems possible to argue that it's good to create billions of dollars of wealth for equity owners, but also, ultra-extreme concentration of wealth isn't great for society?
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