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@bedwras @blacknredtext @ShadyIndividu4l >uses the word 'chud' lmao

@blacknredtext @ShadyIndividu4l 4chan chud plays pretend and acts like their greasy message board matters irl

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@RobinPoedev it's going the "literally" route where "objectively bad" = "really really bad" (to some people)

People really dont understand what "objective" or "subjective" mean. Even if we are talking about a game that actually 100% of people dislike its still not "objectively bad". Its only objectively disliked by everyone

@clockstiqqun well it's a spectrum. I do agree this is too close though

spiritual successorism is a cancer. Mirror's Edge- the game whose excellent, dynamic parkour gameplay only just barely manages to compensate for its total lack of other features- deserves to be *iterated upon* not treated as a museum piece to replicate 1:1

@TheGovernology @explicandomarx @ReviewsPossum status comes from culture and culture can change

@wirgil9 @explicandomarx @ReviewsPossum No one is cleaning toilets for status my man.

I remember a thread where a communist asked their followers what they would do once communism took over, and nearly every reply was some variant of artist or therapist. No one wanted to put in the years of training it takes to be an optometrist purely for the good of the collective. Unsurprisingly, there also wasn't anyone who wanted to work in construction, farming, sewer line maintenance, or any of those other dirty and dangerous jobs that people generally only do because the pay's good. They all believed they wouldn't have to work to keep society going because someone else would do it, and that someone else would do it just because they felt like it.

@wolf_dare828 @wynnzhang7 @khaliltooshort they were very inversely hyped for the game

@wynnzhang7 @khaliltooshort PC gamers lol

Name one game PC players were hyped for and it flopped

@KillerKanka @friendlyplant98 @revenant_MMXX I am not even being disingenuous that is virtually the same thing. Though "evil" isn't terribly accurate to the original hence.. marginally larger words..

@friendlyplant98 @revenant_MMXX "-inject a strange, not exactly subtle sense of cynicism and menace into squaky clean corporate visual language" Many words boil down to "It's uses corporate style to express that corporations are evil" (funny one coming from bungie)

There are maybe 20 conscious humans on this entire website

@Owlcatcher42 @BasedDepartmint the middle to upper class suburbs

@BasedDepartmint Who the hell are these kinda people and where do they come from lmao

@spotshole @fearlesswee @BasedDepartmint it works for family and small communities. Worker co-ops (can) work in smaller groups. These do not scale in the least

@fearlesswee @BasedDepartmint Aside from the millions of years we did

@konkonxo @RealHerseyHours always at least a couple. The problem is you need several thousand times that figure

@RealHerseyHours You jest but that is literally a thing. People will do anything even without a profit incentive

@TheGovernology @explicandomarx @ReviewsPossum status or familial tradition (ie lineage of x trade) ig

@explicandomarx @ReviewsPossum All you said is that if someone is incentivized by something other than a wage, people would still do the job. I agree. But what incentive are you talking about? And if you have an incentive, in what way is that not a market economy payment?

@LilBubbey @iznbart @ReviewsPossum well this is supposed to be some idyllic parallel reality where we imagine away all that icky relevant history. Even in this highly contrived hypothetical everything still falls flat on its face

@iznbart @ReviewsPossum It's more like "Oh, due to central planning, we have an eye-test equipment shortage, your only option is to go wait in a 3 hour line at the Bureau of Vision Management"

@kirkneverdied Yeah people just get used to things no matter how justified or not they are. If youtube finally forces me to pay after 15 years of leeching off the platform then fair enough

It's a very basic non-predator business model. They offer unlimited FREE access to their service with ads. If you don't want ads, you can pay to have them removed. It's a business providing FREE hosting and FREE access. They have to pay for that AND MAKE MONEY somehow.

@bunnielesbian I always end up ending this usage like "tiss" which just makes them sound extra retarded

i do not understand how anyone got the idea that ts means "this". when in the history of the english language has a 4 letter word been abbreviated

@_sevatar @AnishA_Moonka bro didn't make it past the first sentence

@AnishA_Moonka "Oh, you think things were nice? Well, did you consider bad things also happened? Bet you feel like an idiot now." What are we doing, man?

Humans invented writing to track debts. The world's first writing system, cuneiform, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3200 BC to record who owed what to whom. Clay tokens for accounting date back as far as 8000 BC. Debt isn't some corruption of a golden age. It's so fundamental to human cooperation that we created literacy because of it. War is even older. At Jebel Sahaba in Sudan, archaeologists found a cemetery dating to 13,000 years ago where half the people buried had been killed by arrows, spears, and clubs. That's thousands of years before the first city, the first farm, or the first written law. And about that beautiful planet of trees and sunshine: for most of human history, roughly half of all children died before age 15. Researchers who studied 17 hunter-gatherer societies found an average child mortality rate of 49%. Even in Sweden in the 1750s, 40% of children didn't survive to 15. Today globally, it's about 4%. In Japan and Iceland, 0.4%. The systems the tweet mourns are the same ones that changed those numbers. In 1820, roughly 84% of all humans lived in extreme poverty (per economic historians at the University of Paris). Today it's about 10%. Between 1990 and 2025, roughly 118,000 people escaped extreme poverty every single day. None of this means that debt or capitalism are without serious flaws. They obviously are. But the "paradise ruined" framing gets the history backwards. The planet was a place where burying your children was normal, and violence was a constant threat. Everything that makes modern life livable was built, imperfectly, by humans figuring out how to cooperate at scale.

@AnishA_Moonka well said

@kadey180_x @puppycelebrity he's just saying "bad thing happening but everything looks clean and colorful and is a play on real corporate aesthetics", I'm ngl it's perfectly reasonable..

@puppycelebrity nah, this is legitimately just word salad to try sound sophisticated without actually getting a clear message across. There are dozens of ways you can construct a good video to breakdown pros and cons about a product but this is not it lmao

these aren’t even like smart words or anything. this is just a normal analysis. people have gotten so stupid that they can’t even understand average words used in college lectures anymore

@monomajestic @revenant_MMXX ik I thought the caption was a quote from the video lol. It's really not anything that crazy

@revenant_MMXX he's a little wordy but everything he's saying makes sense. you just interpret it as nonsense because you have the lexicon of a third grader, and apparently the attention span of one considering you can't watch a video without it playing on 2x speed.

"I love the way Marathon plays with the semiotics of the clinical hyperreality of super post-industrial violence, thematically menacing corporate megacapitalist cynici-" Oh my GOD, shut UP

@puppycelebrity I would bet you a lot that 95% of college students don't know what semiotics is

@raphaelgoated @PtrPomorski ??

@PtrPomorski I wonder what his humiliation ritual is. I mean he probably has a 1 incher too

No way, a product that sucks doesn’t work as expected! idnfinancials.com/news/61918/zuc…

@mwilcox @PtrPomorski eh once you have billions it's gotta be more about the status of doing something important and successful to these people. He was already a billionaire before he went to meta