“pay the tax” lol … nah they’ll just get tax breaks and find loopholes on top. paying taxes is for plebs.

except you didn’t buy all your games from blizzard. we’re talking about having your entire library depend on one company.

what the fuck

(TLDR the first two paragraphs this turned to a novel of a rant)

this is stupid as fuck. no. it’s on the dems. the reason they lost is because they don’t mind losing. they’re corporate cunts anyway, if they’re not in power they’ll still be comfortable so why even pretend to challenge the status quo and possibly scare away your bribers?

fuck no. the american people are stupid, yes, but it’s not like that’s genetic. they’ve been undereducated, overworked, constantly distracted and endlessly bombarded with propaganda for decades at this point.

politicians are allowed to work for companies they regulate and regulate companies they used to work for. they’re allowed to be bribed legally as long as you call it lobbying and don’t have “I will pass this law in exchange for this money” in writing. they’re allowed to lie to the public without consequence.

the media is allowed to lie without consequence even when it’s provable that they know they’re lying. every day for years. lie. lie. lie.

the dumbest fucks alive are allowed to homeschooled their children and make sure their kids are at least as dumb.

not that schools are perfect. they are allowed to push religion and politics over science. meanwhile churches are allowed to give political sermons and still keep tax exempt status (technically not but in practice they are).

even with all this brainwashing it’s not like people are allowed to think for themselves for a minute let alone research shit and stay on top of political issues. wages are ass and lots of people have to work multiple jobs. even if they don’t companies aren’t mandated to have PTO, not even for federal holidays. they’re not mandated to raise wages either, even though rent always keeps rising.

just in case some people still might feel a bit too comfortable most are also blessed with crushing debt for the garbage education they got and the healthcare industry is just waiting for the chance to fuck them over if they ever dare get sick, let alone have an accident. you’re not allowed to think, you’re not allowed to breathe. work. crash. consume to feel barely good enough to keep working.

and on top of all of that, even if you manage to get through all that hurdle… voting is a privilege, not a right. especially if you’re likely to vote blue, the system is in place to make your chances to vote as low as possible.

and even then, you have the electoral college and the senate to make sure a bunch of rock and dirt has as much say as millions of people on one side. which leaves tons of people to think why even bother?

so with all that, when everything is bad, and everyone is lying, as one of only two eligible parties you can’t just throw your hands up and say “why aren’t people more educated?” IT’S YOUR FUCKING JOB! people are hurting and one side is saying “hey I know everything sucks and you don’t know how anything works so here’s an easy answer: it’s black and brown people” and the other side instead of correcting THAT, they’re trying to correct THE PEOPLE and their justified feelings about how everything sucks and say “nah things are good actually”… fuck the democratic party.

yeah please tune out to make sure he gets zero pushback whatsoever. I mean it worked to get him elected president, why not advance to godking?

I’m talking user experience. egs used to be the slowest app I’ve ever used but right now egs starts and works faster for me than gog. also its video player works faster than steam’s, by like a mile. I don’t know if it’s just me because I never hear anyone complain about steam’s video player but for me it’s so goddamn terrible in so many ways I want to punch a wall every time I’m curious about a game while browsing steam because the video just takes fucking ages to get going and the controls are horrendous. I end up just searching on YouTube.

gog doesn’t have regional pricing and their launcher at this point is worse than epic’s. as an old fuck I like having old games back but it’s not convenient at all.

funny you never hear about games being ONLY on steam. it has nice features but riding so hard for a gigantic monopoly is going to bite our asses real bad when gaben retires. nothing lasts forever, and we don’t know who or what will replace the current structure at valve.

not to mention valve has had its share of anti consumer and predatory practices. most of the concessions have been in response to legal threats.

I’m against the death penalty. I have many objections to it. though if the person at hand is a billionaire all but one of my objections disappear.

the one remaining is that I’d rather not have the government have the power to kill its citizens. so I’m willing to accept life sentences and forfeiture of all assets instead. mind that the crime I’m talking about here is being a billionaire.

not bad in the realm of Chinese tattoos

you laugh but this is where culture is headed.

I don’t think it matters. the specific ways in which email services work or are used are not what the analogy is supposed to explain.

it’s supposed to explain how two people who log in to different lemmy instances is different from logging into Facebook and MySpace, or Twitter and Threads.

"how does it work? aren’t they different sites?’

“you know how you can have a gmail and someone else can use an outlook email but you can still send emails to each other”

done. even 70 year olds would get it. problem solved. easy, approachable analogy.

apparently we won’t because we’re not modular enough

yeah I usually sacrifice the king to protect my pawns

well then you’re just a deadbeat user aren’t you? did you forget to pay for your gpu fan spins too? you’re gonna cause a fire, you irresponsible broke-ass dummy.

yeah… for me I was willing to give black flag a chance to see if they would find a way to make a new series, maybe with a new current day plot, but nah. people seem to dislike the current day portion of those games but to me that was the main interest, along with the mythology…

black flag’s current day portion was so goddamn awful, they turned abstergo into a parody of ubisoft? I don’t even know what they were thinking… but it was so immersion breaking. completely killed my interest.

pirate stuff was fun, and it still had a nice plot twist near the beginning… but it was clear that the overall story was going nowhere so I just quit playing after that and decided that the series ended with 3.

it ended in 3, they’ve been treading water ever since.

if only he had openly expressed disdain for veterans, maybe they would’ve known he doesn’t give a shit about them.

oh wait. he did.

for all the lies he told, he didn’t deceive you. you’re likely not wealthy so you didn’t vote for him for that reason. so that leaves only the possibility that you’re just a price is shit racist and/or sexist asshole. so fuck you, i hope every single day for his entire administration will be worse than the day before.

c/communitiesashashtags

lol… yeah but i meant in terms of using guns to oppose the government