synthwave syndicalist

obviously I'd prefer the government to be a featherweight congress of trade unions focused primarily defense and disaster aid, but failing that, this country needs a robustly democratic syndicate of renters who can counteract the housing cartels and we need it fucking yesterday

of course Elon loves all the trappings of Rome and European medieval design. it's a fantasy world where rich men had battlements and levies, instead of tripping on his own deep psychiatric issues and having his pants fall down on an international electronic network where we all can see his tiny dick

I don't discount the hypothetical possibility of wealthy humans comprehending ethics beyond simulating it towards the end of maneuvering in the sad version of feudalism we're immersed in, but of course the real point of anticapitalist socioeconomics is that human psychology has a problem doing so

the Venn diagram of socdems who handwaved Kamala's silence about Palestine, and those Just Asking Questions about people making even a modicum of consternation about the conceptual identity of the "left" having a Waffen-SS stan as a mouthpiece, isn't just a circle. it's a deeply annoying hypersphere

also watching a hands-on review & the price Valve's aiming for with the Frame is under the Index, so <$1000. it'll be interesting to see how far under that they go for, given Fuckerberg's monopoly in the $300 range (and datamining surely making back the cost), so <$80 for the controller is plausible

I'm just happy I refunded my HTC VR set a few months ago. doing programming work in VR has always been the dream (at least until there's a deck in my brain) and a VR set - that works natively in Linux, without finagling ALVR - with a passthrough to see the keyboard is gonna be an instant buy

fuck it, my image editing skills needed some practice tonight

loved the people who were surprised at Emma Watson coming out in favor of her money-printing TERF auntie, because I remembered her name being in those papers

she's a hollow bank account who takes a human form, of course she's handwaving her fellow dead soul who gave her thirty pieces of silver

Gaben really out there riding up to the saloon, a month before Geoff Keighley does his annual advertising bonanza for companies run by abject sociopaths, just to pull out a double shotgun that has "Fuck Microsoft" and "Fuck Zuckerberg" lovingly engraved on the barrels

that Sarah Jeong post from earlier today, about how insane modern literacy education is in teaching neurologic conceptualization of words, is really about to get some absolute mileage in my head

always a fan of the engineering logo making it quite clear that your job, at all times, is to be part of the human apparatus keeping an antimatter explosion engine from exploding juuuuuuuust a little too much

one-winging it?

[a giant cane drags me off stage and I am immediately shot]

"Need any help?"
"Oh, all I can get."

it was amazing watching that Seth MacFarlane western because it's 2 hours of trying to do the safer jokes from Blazing Saddles and failing miserably

the "good old days" weren't? we know, Seth. try being like Brooks and Pryor and writing an actual joke about it

tommy lee jones giving a tired, disapproving look above a newspaper

sensible hedonic imperative enjoyers watching bad poster #72847 once again reinvent puritanism for the sad burst of dry narcissistic pleasure it gives them

Burning Sea is, in a world full of dead MMOs (and various attempts at private-server adaptations), remarkably, still up. and while I gotta sit down and get it running on Linux at some point, as I recall the windows client is still quite stable, albeit very, very much looking like an MMO from 2008

and that's in spite of the ship combat being anything but deep. just a set of hitpoints, and a brig that can eventually go toe to toe with triple-gundeck frigates Because Protagonist Ship

but it works based on pure vibes, and sometimes that's all you really need, especially in a dearth thereof

we're not tackling it right away but anything with big maps, cutlasses, flintlocks, and good ship combat would crush right about now.

ubisoft is currently remastering AC4 because it's the only one non-asscreed-hyperfans actually loved, and every human alive knows that's because It Is The Pirate One

one of the things me & the lads, still learning the Godot engine, keep discussing is how weird it is that there's like one (current-generation) pirate game that isn't shit, and Sea of Thieves being a crew-based thing instead of "everybody gets their own ship with NPC crew" means it's still kinda bad

I love Cyberpunk, but that first teaser they put out was in 2013, three years before CDPR had dev staff available. could they have made something less risky, a 3PS with REDengine 3? yep. but ohh, the bracket

and that's CDPR. 0% faith that a post-Starfield Bethesda will iterate in an interesting way

I think it's more or less a constant that as soon as a gamedev company hits a certain bracket of revenue, they immediately decide they're gods amongst men and feel the need to outpace average consumer GPU capacities in pursuit of an era-defining game, as though they hadn't just done so

From the cyberpunkgame community on Reddit: Why Cyberpunk doesn't have New Game+ (Animation) Explore this post and more from the cyberpunkgame community

countering what I said before: assuming you avoid corpo liberal trash quadrants of the site (which is a lot of it, to be sure), reddit can also sometimes be quite good

opening the app, seeing this post, saying "nice" quietly to myself in an open field as I smoke an American Spirit Orange Box, and then never interacting further

YouTube video by Technology Connections What's the deal with the popcorn button?

technology connections, truly the best of us.

good fucking Christ, what a timeline to live in

YouTube video by AlternateHistoryHub What if Big Bird Exploded in the Challenger Disaster?

nobody posted it yet? nice.

goddamn this would crush if it were a bit

Stavros Halkias giving a little grin to the camera

it's his time. it's always been his time

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"but what about in an emergency" - life pods. you're thinking of life pods. they were already there.