I think this view only slides if you do actually already have inherent misogynistic or misanthropic tendencies, and those tendencies mix with the natural jealousy feeling that cheating invokes. I think of asexual people who also don't love being cheated on.

yes but unironically

re-releaseing bethesda games is tricky because for at least a few months the original + mods is a far far better experience, at least when it happens with skyrim it only takes the modding community a few months to catch up

remaking bethesda games with a graphical layer on an entirely different engine is a recipe for disaster. from what i'm hearing the game is still moddable with the original modkit but several elements don't work as they should. it's going to take years to port over oblivion modded content to the new version, and you better hope those original modders are still even around.

essentially fracturing an ancient modding community for a smeary UE5 re-release of a beloved game. not the worst thing you can do but just mod the original release christ. do you know how well modded oblivion runs on anything?

Just imagining that clap some teachers do in the morning to get their class doing the morning salutations.

"Good morning honorable judge presiding...'

Hypersexuality can be destructive for the self and online spaces see high rates of hypersexuality that are seen as sex-positivity instead. This leaks out into the real world eventually.

I think it's direly important to understand where sexuality ends and the real world begins. lots of functional adults cannot do this and it leads to things like bioessessentialist thinking (women just want to get RAILED by HARD STRONG ALPHA MEN WHO ARE BLACK) or obsessive shipping (x and y would be so good together! imagine how they would have sex?!). It makes conversations uncomfortable and makes whatever space they are inhabiting inherently adult-only.

There is so much to this world other than sex. There's so much to just human relations other than sex. Really, sex takes up such a small part of our lives but disproportionately motivates much of it for most people. It's a sad state of affairs and I can definitely see where you're coming from, OP.

I think my dog is reactiveary. he barks too much.

did you post on lemmygrad and get upset over tankies replying to you

russia is the no-no country for doing bad things, like starting pointless wars and terrorizing a civilian population. so you can't support them. you'll have to find other alternatives to your services that support bad countries doing bad things.

Now that Minecraft has received an update that allows leashing villagers together in train-like formations, how does this analysis change?

All leftist video creators are overrated, leftist authors less so but there's still a huge contingent of them that are just co-opted by their main topic of critique. I don't think this is a failing on the creators themselves but a feature of the market.

When you get down to it, no matter how ideologically 'pure' you manage to be, once you're earning money for something - even if it's not your primary income - your ability to affect the change you're talking about becomes limited. You don't want to risk your income. You don't want to get 'cancelled' by your peers. For some this comes down to mindful self-censorship, but for most they don't even realize that they've started down the algorithmic intellectual death spiral.

But! I think this is very okay and for our purposes can be leveraged. I absorbed endless amounts of this content when I was feeling the full effects of alienation. Alone all day, underappreciated and working my body to the bone in a warehouse. The reason I read ML theory at all is because of some of these chucklefucks - ThoughtSlime, The Deprogram, even broader liberal-types like Hbomberguy. They were friendly voices to listen to and fueled an inherent rebellious nature most of us have within.

But content cycles, your interests peak and change, and if you walk away from ""breadtubers"" having absorbed any actual theory, your admiration turns somewhat to scorn, and you begin to feel frustrated with the endless complaining and no actionable solutions. You'll either fall back into liblight or your exposure to theory will grow into a larger revolutionary sprout.

That's when you're pushed out of the content mill and become exposed to the dreaded ideas that YouTubers can't actually say due to ad revenue concerns. Getting to this stage of radicalization, especially in the west, used to be like pulling teeth. You'd need serious organizational power to spread the education needed.

Now it can be achieved by listening to freely accessible (and even semi-mainstream) content slop and letting well-known parasocial elements play out in a listener. Learning, admiration, surpassing the teacher, and finally finding your revolutionary spirit.

Russian state disinformation is also, seemingly, the most powerful influence on Earth. Seriously, it can get into anything and affect everyone. US-based free media press are under Russian influence depending on who you ask. The president himself? A cold war sleeper agent. It's all Russia!

These are the same groups of people who, generally, can't comprehend how Trump won, and how many trumpists spout earnest disinformation like their lives depended on it. So much disinformation is present, Trump won the presidency!

But no, it's Russian disinformation that's causing all the problems. America just has, um, cooky rednecks.

I hope my kids don't grow up to murder me over unhinged conspiracy crap.

crimes, as soon as times get hard in the home country i'm resorting to crimes. organized crimes, random crime, union adjacent political crimes, whatever. fuck fighting for the imperial machine and fuck dying due to austerity. i'm straight crime'ing it.

UberEats but for national defense. If you tip below the threshold they either don't come or spit in your ammo.

sometimes when I'm in a real 'shower thoughts' mood I find it deeply amusing how we needed marxism to understand this, or at least have it defensibly asserted

He's at my place. Just wanted to smash some cones in the shed but got lost in the smoko.

Surely the action of inserting unfamiliar penis into unfamiliar vagina isn't mentally destructive. If there's truth to these statements, I think it'd have a lot more to do with your relationship to sex and your own self confidence/worth. And I could see that - sex/orgasms are extremely powerful reward systems within our brain that can easily reinforce negative behaviors or thoughts.

Great stuff comrade, I think there's a serious dearth of useful pirating information for the newer online generations.

I've only read the novels and partially watched the series, but imagining it as sort of an 'anti-trek' is pretty accurate. It's a rather depressing view of our immediate future. The setting is very interesting and I overall like the novels, but it's fair to say it's not for everyone.

And since it's the 'grad I should mention that you get an overwhelming sense of libness from the authors. A huge plot point is the exploitation of a new underclass that turn into irreverent terrorists who commit the worst crime imaginable. They're not vindicated in any way by the end and aren't even the 'primary' antagonists of the plot. In fact the crushingly cruel conditions of this new underclass aren't even ever resolved. The universe just moves on without them. If stuff like that bothers you, consider it a fair warning.

Otherwise - I do generally recommend.

It's important to note...but not like, the most important to note, I guess.

Villagers aren’t slaves because Minecraft leashes don’t work on them.

I'm really glad to have read this sentence today.