LGOrcStreetSamurai

joined 3 years ago

This game rules! I love it and I want everyone to try it. It's one of the most "This game is it's own game" game since like Disco Elysium to me. It obviously takes influence from other previous games but it's just everything i love about indie games. It's just a game that's totally it's own thing.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 8 points 10 hours ago

Ponchos go hard. If I had a poncho to rock I would.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The man dressed in red who gives gifts based on need and virtue? Sounds like he's a commie himself and trying to throw off the scent.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah. Like one thing I like about the Gravel Institute (before they stopped posting) and things like Means TV are those little quickies that grab “normies” attention and breakdown why capitalism bad or why socialism good. Having videos or posts or whatever media you give people to just their foot on the path away from liberalism and capitalism and at least look at different (ideally look away from it) I think would be good. I’m not sure what that would look like exactly I’m not a organizer type but I think anything we can just get people to at least begin to question the system would be a big help for us and for them too (them being the person we want to reject this nightmare machine).

Whatever we can do to get people just a step closer to being based rather than cringe ideologically speaking. Move them a based we are so back rather than a cringe it’s joeover

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Personnally I’d love to see a QuickDraw utility belt selection of memes or videos I could use to counter popular right wing ideas that don’t require a PH.D in history, sociology, or economics. Kinda like the gravel Institute. I would to see more “elementary”/“intro level” socialist and commie stuff. The more we can break down leftie stuff into super small building blocks the better. To get more regular people in the door at the very least.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Civility” fetishism grinds my gears. The DNC can’t say this dude is an existential threat to “Democratic values” or whatever and then do a photo shoot with them. It’s other all performative nonsense, or you and your party are really in line with the conservatives’ ideology and agenda. The DNC and their acolytes just are a cowards who thinks the Republicans’ methods are “icky” but don’t fundamentally disagree.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I donated before, just dropping a comment. Really hope you hit your goal very soon.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I genuinely think the aesthetics 2005-2015 were some of the "safest" ever. It's really crazy in such a booming era of the new "endless blockbuster season" that things looked so very plain on screen. Visually things were just so "safe" visually on screen.

I'm gonna need to see some solid culinary excellence before we start letting everyone cook. A time to charge is not culinary excellence, it's barely fundamentals.

Exactly. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the dude is bummed out pretty major. We are all not feeling super jazzed about the future, but that's not excuse to just say "This thing that has defined my artistic expression/professional experience is now bad". It's kinda of a cop out to me. Again, I feel for him, I feel for anyone who does artsy stuff right now, but yeah it's a bit lame to just say "No more cause America voted bad".

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Cooking" would be a banned word. It means nothing.

I read that one too, really glad I broke out of the orbit of that nonsense. Yeah, it’s all slimeball literature. It’s not poorly written sadly so can’t even dunk it for that or anything like that, however it’s all gross. The whole genre is like “elevated manosphere” stuff. There is some real thought and some basic philosophy infused in these books but most of them are all about understanding philosophy for personal gain or accumulation of power. Which is why I hate it the most, in that if were written in a less slime-y way it could offer something of worth to people, but instead it’s just how to push others down so you can stand taller

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It's a OST for a really cool cyberpunk TTRPG I played. I liked the game and the OST is great too.

 

It's REALLY bad on Steam, but on many online platforms (sadly even itch.io) there is so much damn shovelware. Not even "slop" something below "slop", sludge is the only word I can think of (no disrespect to Sludge Life 1 & 2, great games go play them). It clogs up online storefronts and really ruins searching games by tags.

It's really annoying that my personal favorite genre, "immersive sim" has been utterly flooded with these shovelware games. Unless I know exactly the name of a game, I cannot find anything worthwhile. Good games, small games, gems of yesteryear, all that sort of stuff is just hidden by this layer of sludge. I like to browse storefronts (digital and physical) and just check stuff out, get a feel for what's out there, but you can't do that when there is "XYZ simulator: prologue" every other item.

It fuckin' sucks. I really do think many real good games get lost in the sludge pit and have to hope that some internet video essayist/review or something discovers it by chance. I'm not saying everything is an undiscovered legend but I am saying, I can't even find games on most of these storefronts because the whole thing is flooded with effectively spam games.

(I then feel bad that these scumbags can get a game on steam and i can't even hack together a playable game jam thing, but that's a different post)

 

After doing my budgeting for the upcoming month I was pretty saddened by how little my income seems to cover these days. internet-delenda-est .

I was curious and checked the existing inflation. It's not looking good. It's insane to me that over the last four years the cost of living has gone up approximately 22%. I think four years is a good period to examine, as whenever I hear "inflation is going down actually, it's gone down 2.9% since July! We are in a "cooling" period" actually " those people are usually referring to like maybe six month period at best. Also shut your dork-ass up man.

I checked a couple of different sites, some newspaper, some official US Government sites, and an economics site I'm like 96% certain some evil GOP-backed SuperPAC probably funds and they all seemed to say the same thing.

I'm not an economics guy, but one thing I have a vague understanding of is stuff like the Vampires and their ghouls thought COVID-19 conditions would extend forever. I'm not exactly sure of what they did or the mechanisms behind it, but it seems uniquely bad to have everyone's paying power reduced by ~22% (that's numbers probably higher for people who already in a bad spot). I'm sure it gets worse with interest rates and other fancy economic terms and devices I don't understand.

What is a person to do? I'm not even talking about hip and cool leftists of various stripes like us who at least have a framework for understanding why this everything sucks ass, but what about regular "normal™©®" people? I don't understand how people are making it these days. People with kids or dependents, people with medical needs for themselves or loved one, or people with any real complications in life? Just regular people trying to have a decent and upright life, how they supposed to make it man? I think about my younger cousins who are graduating high school or are in college right now and I think how are supposed to even get started?

How are people supposed to survive let alone thrive, when they have 1/4 less than they did four years ago? Also they didn't have enough four years ago to be frank. I'm also sure that this was like a zillion times worse for people nations under US sanctions, as I while I'm a US citizen I don't want to think we are the only people who exists, cause that's not a very cash-money thing to do.

Like what the fuck?

I'm not on some doomer-shit, more so on that "How do i find optimism in these dire times"-shit.

 

I just watched "Vampire Hunter D" for the first time. It rules, I can also see its influence in a lot of other anime, scifi, and other cool nerd shit. It's really a shame I have never sat down and watched it until now. It fuckin' rips!.

I need more animated films of that era that aren't made for the selling of toys. Doesn't have to be anime but really any sort of sleeper/underrated animated films from the 80s and 90s. I need more animated cinema.

 

What's the mindset behind forcing a user to create an account to view the media on a page? For example an artist I like posts their art on Instagram and Twitter but I can't look at it unless I create an account. What's the dumb corporate rationale behind this? I have seen this on so many sites you can't even see what's there without an account? Doesn't it just scare users away? I know it certainly does for me. If I have to log in just to view a page I don't want to view the page.

 

They are objectively on the highest of tier public workers. If you make a bracket of public worker they are automatic S-tier

 

Not even a "Start Here", "Locations", or something super basic like that. They really want you to deputize yourself and the local "Big Brother" super snitch. lenin-rage It really got me heated lenin-rage , slamming away on the keyboard helping a less then tech-savvy person input their information and upload their documents. At the very least I think I got them squared away, and helping others is cool.

The supposed vigilance against "Welfare queens" is so goddamn stupid. If we really actually wanted to protect local and state budgets, we would y'know at the very least do something about tax avoidance/evasion. Of course this isn't about budgets at all, just making public services as punitive as possible. The bandits of Neoliberalism attempting to coarse people into the workforce while simultaneously robbing the public wealth.

It just gets me so mad, katz are out here struggling and even trying to do the "right thing" and they are "supposed to do" and we go and it so fuckin' difficult to do so.

Be sure to check out the c/mutal_aid channel to help out some strangers, cause I'm pretty damn sure their local government isn't gonna do it.

 

This is a genuine question.

(Please pardon spelling or grammar mistakes I typed in a meeting at work. A meeting on a Sunday morning. Fuck work)

I know that college students can be “annoying” but I have noticed that everyone seems to hate college students. From conservative college educated business vampires and ghouls, to college educated liberal rainbow/pink/pro-black capitalism types. Even many online progressives (not sure what that term even means anymore) as well college dropout “dirtbag leftists” (I don’t know if that term is still in use, I’m not on Twitter and I don’t even listen to Chapo anymore) say that college is stupid. . Which just so odd because while I agree there is a ton to critique about higher education and academia as a whole it just seems to dismissive and weird to dunk on students for being students.

It seems to me that most people seem to Make a caricature of the college student. Everyone who was college educated (especially liberals) seem to make their college education to be some halcyon golden age but now it’s all fallen apart. Those people seem to believe college is just young adult daycare now but was some rigorous training facility for the leaders of the world in past.

It seems to me at least this is a weird expression of the US hated of youth and youth culture but also a weirdly kinda fetishists it simultaneously. My theory is we collectively dunk on college kids because we hate ourselves and who we have become and see them using their youth to do youth stuff. Exploring and expressing themselves in a way were unable or perhaps unwilling to do in somewhat similar conditions.

But that’s just a baseless theory, I got my degree in STEM not in humanities/social sciences. Real talk venerate the humble humanities and social sciences majors. while their degrees are also used for evil like everyone else’s they at least don’t have a “start-up” they are pitching.

When I got my undergrad in 2017 at state university most of the katz I knew were working +30 hours a week and/or living with mom and dad and still in crippling debt. Now that I’m returning to get my master’s degree (part-time to be fair but I do into a campus for the night classes) also at a state university I’m still seeing the same thing. A lot of these young people are working, doing education as well as trying to become adult. It’s a lot, and honestly i empathize them. They are playing a rigged game and it sucks so many of them take it so personally, it’s a lot pressure to put on a younger person.

I don’t know why the pop-culture narrative is that everyone who goes to school is a “fail child” or some trust fund kid. I met a few in my here and there while at school my first time but was mostly just regular people of all types trying to get a degree, though maybe I was in the minority as I was (and still am) a square.

All that to say why do we hate college kids? Why do we think they are all “blue hair baristas” or whatever other current derogatory pejorative is. It just seems really stupid to me that we dunk on young people for doing what we tell them to do. The whole cultural narrative is “go to college, have fun, make friends, get a good job” but they seem to only care about the last part. It’s not like their a lot of alternative pathways for them to try, it just seems so odd to me

 

It's very frustrating watching knowing that quite literally everything bad that they said would happen in this hearing does in fact happen. They even directly point out that more cops will not reduce crime. I know 1994 and 2024 are two radically different time periods but goddamn. This bill has was fundamental to the expansion of the carceral and surveillance state.

It's a really long watch but I think it's worth watching. It's very long and dry and boring, but it's very insightful. I have seen clips of this C-SPAN broadcast in many different video political essays and such and never have I seen it in its entirety.

I think about this not just as it's an election year, or not even really about the DNC; Instead, I think about this is respect to all of the people who were hurt when they cranked up the police machine to 11.

( Just a reminder this isn't just a POC issue either. "Funny fact about a cage, they're never built for just one group...")

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net to c/ttrpg@hexbear.net
 

Jennell Jaquays is a unsung game developer. She has a really rich history in games and design. Itchio had a game jam in her honor.

Salute to a real one 🏳️‍⚧️

Check out her website. It's old-school and good.

 

I hate the current YouTube thumbnail meta. I found this extension and it just takes a frame from the content of the video and displays that. I believe that is fair and more representative of the video. I have been using this extension for a while and I find myself paying more attention to the names of creator and then considering if I want to watch the video; rather than being enticed by some intentionally inflammatory image.

I find it just make YouTube more enjoy in combination with Ublock Origin and YouTube Search Fixer.

Just wanted to share this extension with any Hexbears who aren't liking YouTube's thumbnail arms race of increasingly distracting images. I didn't know if I should have put this in c/videos or c/technology. I rolled a D6 and odds was c/videos and evens c/technology. I rolled a two.

 

It can be time consuming due to the sheer length and duration, but I have found fat falling off in the places I have most issues (lower abdomen, chest, and back). It's free, it's super chill, and I have found it clearing my mind too. In combination with more intense regime, I think it is a a necessary supplemental exercise. I think walking outside is probably better (it feels more natural to me at least), but just a plain ol' treadmill or other cardio machine will probably get those steps up. Its super low-impact, easy, and do-able.

I'm dropping weight and I'm finding my brain rebooting in some places as well. It's overall super great and I encourage every Hexbear to increase their step count.

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