I always leave all my doors open. I have a cat and she likes to walk around. Also if I leave the blinds open on the front windows there’s technically a direct line of sight from the front walkway to my bathroom toilet through like two open doors so if someone really wanted to they could watch me poop

The Beach Boys

150-or-so years ago, Karl Marx developed a scientific method for understanding socio-economics and translating common political goals towards collective action. Most of the conclusions he came to through this scientific method have borne out in the decades since, a few have not, but the method itself is, I believe, concrete.

As the years went on, additional theoreticians - especially Lenin and Mao - have further developed his theories.

But I think the key is to never be dogmatic - that different times call for different approaches, that sometimes you need forced collectivization, but sometimes you need the New Economic Policy. Sometimes you wage a protracted peasants’ war, sometimes you elect Sewer Socialists.

A lot of people can get too caught up in the tendencies and sub-tendencies. I believe that all Marxists should be part of a single Socialist political party where disagreements are handled internally by rigorous debate and elections among Communists.

Reminds me of the Elon Musk quote where he wants to be a brain in a jar with his penis attached to it

I’ve been told the key is to just not pay the last months rent and let them take it out of the deposit

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.

Oh no, not the poor entrepreneurs

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.

Not the captain, the political commissar.

We are 26 years into the Chinese Century

“When is the last time you hit your wife?” ass question

It seems like all of the really old human fossils are young girls for some reason

If I killed a Nazi I’d steal his watch too

And enemies clipping through walls and floors!

The last Etho video with the maggot had me laughing with how many times it’s happened to me. “I guess he got away”

The invention of the cotton gin helped keep slavery economically viable in the U.S. for nearly a century after people thought it would eventually phase itself out.

Was the cotton gin bad? Was it good? That’s the wrong question - slavery needed to end.

As soon as the cotton gin was invented, the North should have militarily invaded the South and freed every slave by force.

Today, we are in a similar fight against AI and Capitalism. AI is a tool of Capital consolidation that accelerates the need for a Socialist revolution based on Marxist principles.

Cum

We are all in the same side opposing American military imperialism, comrade!

BrikoX becoming Chinapilled in real time

I don’t care if it’s antisemitic to say so, but I will never take someone named “Schlomo Kramer” seriously.

It’s what they’re called in the DnD 3.5e Monster Manual as well