supersquirrel
“Disney and Marvel should have never been allowed to merge.”
I actually feel nauseous when I think about the fact that everything has degraded so much that this is even a sentence that actually had to be stated out loud as if it was a contentious idea that must be arrived at rather than a truth so obvious that everyone feels the same rage in their bones and words are hardly necessary to understand why.
Let AAA die.
I don’t give a shit generally about AAA games but the value of having large stable game development studios goes beyond the direct games they create, this is a crucial stepping stone for would be indie game development studio founders detonated and destroyed and mark my words the collapse of stable, consistent employment in the game development industry will play right into a brutal deleveraging of worker’s negotiating power and lead to further consolidation in the industry around AAA studios that have to try less and less hard (and pay their developers less and less) because very few indie studios will be able to weather these manufactured and designed shocks to the system.
This is the same old strategy cut throat robber barons/capitalist oligarchs always use to steal from workers.
This is the only plot line that will get any oxygen from a fascist society that is losing its ability to tell stories about realistic villains because to make them realistic is to make them dangerously indistinguishable from real life CEOs, politicians and the ultrawealthy in general.
What you are observing is the symptoms of a society on the verge of plunging into nihilism because the political center has agreed to take everything with substance off the table so as not to offend conservative snowflakes who mass murderers like the late Brian Thomson of United Healthcare hide behind while they condemn countless of us to death or lives of extreme suffering.
A descent into authoritarianism only can happen after people have had their imaginations filled with villains who are even worse, which in practice always means reducing villains in storytelling to one dimensional agents of evil who desire to do evil because they are evil and ugly and that is just how it is.
It means centrists can conveniently forget about the promises they made to shrill, naive environmental activists which was getting hard to do anyways because it meant they had to pretend they didn’t hate environmental activism and that their lukewarm embrace of it was because… reasons…
Now those people can shrug and with a big smile gesture at AI and say “I am really sorry but we have to” and everyone just nods their head in resignation as if we weren’t killing the entire biosphere off for a vacuous series of scams nested inside of one another.
AI is invaluable to the ruling class just for accomplishing that alone.
Hey, make sure you get a balanced diet of board sports though.
You got your downhill longboarding racing with Driftwood
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223700/Driftwood/
and your realistic, park/trick focused realistic snowboarding with Shredders
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874170/Shredders/
All part of a healthy breakfast
Have y’all seen the TNG Christmas episode where Picard is transported back to 20th century earth and learns that santa was real and was a weird old non-violent Klingon messing with precontact era humans in their spaceship flimsily disguised as a sleigh complete with a taxidermied reindeer bolted to the front?
Picard spends the night helping “Santa” deliver presents and is moved by all the happy children but then decides the law is the law and arrests Santa for violation of the Prime Directive.
The episode ends in a famous scene of a horde of angry children chasing Picard across a field while hurling rocks at him after Picard reveals to the children Santa is a fraud.
Ok I will help you out, why don’t you think critically about how you were sure there was a decisive mass of lefty voters who didn’t vote for Kamala just to make a statement and when the numbers came in it turns out environmental voters were among her most loyal voting demographic.
Not only is your view politics broken, it is about as incorrect as it can get in this case at predicting what people will do and why.
The question is who’s self interests are you blindly serving when you decide to close your eyes and lay back into the comfy hate of the narrative (truth be damned) that selfish lefty idealistic voters voted against their own interests to prove a shrill point and now we are screwed because they betrayed us all just to give Kamala the middle finger?
We have already been through this with the “bernie bro” narrative about why Hillary Clinton lost that centrists had what I can only describe as a borderline obsession with even though the opposite was exhaustively demonstrated in voting statistics.
For me it is loading up Xonotic to strafe jump around and blast bots. The movement in Xonotic is hypnotic, and while I usually play in short bursts I don’t think I will ever get bored of returning over and over again to learn the nuances and creative opportunities of combat and movement in Xonotic. All it takes is the first strafe jump to put a stupid smile on my face.
Also I love open world driving games and Motortown is my jam. I do urgent taxi jobs and just let my mind relax as I drive like a complete madman. The tire grip and burnout mechanics along with the vehicle handling in general is the best I have tried in any game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/