Any and all gaming projects, be they full game releases or some dudes personal mod, will be hounded by JAQing off about how communism is actually bad. There’s a real smugness to it, too. Like, “whao guys I know you’re having fun over here but we’re all on the same page that stalin murdered my grandparents with a giant spoon, right??”
they made zelda woke 😞
literal ghoulish depictions of the image of man dreamed up by the soulless
i hate thumbnails. i hate search engine optimization. i hate algorithms. i miss feeling like people on the internet were ever at all genuine
anarchism is a handy tool for radicalization. lots of people get attracted to the cool aesthetics of anarchism and that feeling of intellectual superiority you get when you can recite some obscure untested and unfounded political theory
so it’s ineffective outside of the individual’s ego but it does position them firmly against capital and modern statehood. if you sit in that long enough you start to build genuine hatred for the status quo. genuine hatred leads to genuine curiosity which leads to actually reading theory and uncovering the utterly absurd idealism of anarchist theory
this isn’t like a codified pipeline and anarchist theory still poisons the well of a lot of western leftist discussion, but most commies I know in real life had personal brushes with anarchism in their past. and if all else fails they’re still useful idiots when things get spicy. that whole ‘you’re alright now, it’s after the revolution we’ll have problems’ meme.
is this praxis?
it’s not your fault that sort of crushing labor is poisonous to your soul. we’re all a product of our material conditions and yours are different to others.
i struggled a lot with work myself, feeling useless for most of my life because i couldn’t enjoy or even tolerate most types of labor that were available to me. there was no easy solution for me but it’s not an impossible situation to escape.
the support you’re going to get from your comrades on grad won’t be as helpful as support you can get from your co-workers or other people immediate in your life. when I worked a factory, we had union reps visiting throughout the week. even just talking to those guys made me feel sane, though the trade union situation in my local area meant they weren’t effective help, they were firm commies (that just couldn’t say so in as many words.)
i hate the whole ‘white women have sex with dogs’ meme
it’s disgusting, obviously, but it’s so mean-spirited as well. like it’s resentful, geniuenly hateful, due to a perceived trend that women have sex with dogs
of course almost all fetish content with animals is made at the behest of, with the involvement of, or specifically to appeal to, men.
If you join an official public server, there’s an extremely high chance you’ll join with cheater bots that spawn endless, aimbotting snipers. It’s less of a problem on community servers as they’re actively moderated by players, but official servers have to rely on vote kicking a fresh cheater bot every few minutes.
This is all done by some script kiddy group who apparently want to highlight Valve’s deprecated support. Basically ruin the game until Valve fixes the game. There’s also some measure of farming ingame item drops to sell for money, I think.
Honestly, I don’t believe save TF2 will get anywhere. Valve is clearly uninterested in supporting the game, and who could fault them? It’s an old game, and games don’t need to be supported just because people play them.
The real problem Valve is playing with is that TF2 is still monetized. They should not be selling microtransactions for a game this broken. If they weren’t selling microtransactions, they would be entirely in their right to kill all official support and leave the game to community servers.
My main concern is that Valve will calculate this over the bad PR they’re receiving, and rather than do anything to curb the bot problem, simply kill their support for TF2. I would be okay with this. I think most people wanting to #SaveTF2 won’t be.
my time working in a factory was similarly crushing, though, i always believed that if the job had paid well enough and considered me as a person and not a number on the floor, i would prefer manual labor over the mindless white collar shit i’m doing now. but we’ll never be in a position where labor workers are compensated entirely for the body and soul crushing work they’re expected to do, so i’ll never be in a factory again.
hopefully, anyway.
This is a really neat video idea, actually, and it’s throwing me for a loop that a time period I remember very well (post new vegas release, grabbing all the early mods) is now presented as sort of a lost history with enough content someone can produce a video on it.
shit like this reminds me of before i was accepted for a line of credit, when financing a grocery store gift card to pay off over 4 weeks was the best way for me to keep the house supplied
This is so good, and if you did it, they’d probably complain about it on the local community facebook page about the hatred they’re receiving.
It’s ok, those signs are actually flags for burglars. You can morally break into and rob that house. Cool, huh?
This is the most haunting thing anyone has ever said to me on this website.
I think there’s something to be said about raising kids in a Marxist environment, though. Even if they grow up and have a fundamental disinterest in that sort of thing, you’ve normalized Marxist thought and maybe even warded off some brainwashing from capital. That’s a powerful thing, making even one to three new people who believe Marxism to be normal and logical in the west.
ouch boys, you forced police into solidarity with the workers
don’t you know the police were your defense against the workers??
communist algorithms censoring your ability to use the word kill might be the worst misunderstanding of capital advertising spaces that i’ve ever seen
how is it that lefties simultaneously want to put you against the wall for not using preferred pronouns, but also are so afraid of the word kill that they use the algorithms they’re definitely in control of to censor it?
Yes! They patched it out of the directors cut, though. Personally I think much of the personality of the game was stripped away when we could no longer make Norman Reedus drink three full heart attack potions between each mission.