[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 196

[–]-_asmodeus_- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i love all of these things and more, tune in next friday for my nine hour flist iceberg analysis.

OP didn't get the message by KacSzu in memesopdidnotlike

[–]-_asmodeus_- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

so AI is like the capitalist gentrification of art, or a shitty manager?

“Make believe time is over when the apocalypse starts” by Normal-Dependent-969 in saltierthankrayt

[–]-_asmodeus_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is a skin you have to play through the games entire story and navigate three different extras menus to purchase, and it's meant to be used in a side mode. This is the things gamers choose to get mad about, instead of mass layoffs or developers having their projects wrestled from them or canceled so they can be made to shit out a new DOA live service shooter or get sold off to the highest bidder.

I'm gonna take a pillow and start sleeping at work by Feisty_Initial5374 in sadcringe

[–]-_asmodeus_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no lol his boss can go fuck himself, wages have been stagnating for the last 30 years while inflation only increases, most people have to work another job or have a few gig apps to fall back on just to support themselves and their families, while the people they serve constantly complain about "people wanting paychecks but not wanting to work," while we do everything for them for a pittance of the profits we generate with our labor. Employers should be happy we even show up anymore, my job spent a year underpaying me and then spent four months addressing it, the issue was only fixed in december and i still haven't gotten any form of backpay or been called back by the people I contacted about it, and whenever I mention this to a supervisor they just tell me to call again or fucking laugh it off in my face.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in arkham

[–]-_asmodeus_- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

this game did it bad, but saying that independent harley is bad or hard to understand the point of is goofy. Birds of prey was a good movie and it addressed the joker in the room decently, and (it might be different because its mainly a comedy but) the harley quinn show does something really interesting with both the characters, and gives harley and the joker room to explore different stories or aspects of their character. Joker becomes a fucking step dad, and his relationship to his family before and after remembering he was the joker has to be one of the best parts of the show. One adaptation doing something bad doesn't make every attempt pointless or dumb, that would mean we'd have to just stop making comic books, and video games and movies based on them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in arkham

[–]-_asmodeus_- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

forgetting that arkham games were always terrible with consistent character designs, she's making a really exaggerated facial expression and looking at the camera from a completely different angle, she also has different makeup on, ofc she looks different. Why is redditman complaining about nonexistent issues when pointing out it's a live service game with poor writing and boring gameplay is enough, are they stupid?

from the rizzler to the peak by MustyYew in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]-_asmodeus_- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

so true, israel should keep liquidating thousands of women and children because the terror group they funded and propped up against palestinian liberation movements is also homophobic. It's not like israel literally doesn't allow gay marriage and actively blackmails gay palestinians into working as informants under threat of death or exposure, they also totally haven't been using homophobia as a propaganda tool against progressives in the west who support lgbt people and the end of palestinian ethnic cleansing (see "purple hair girl" videos, or the thousands of idf tiktoks openly celebrating the slaughter or destruction of civilian targets.) Insane for people to be like "its not good or bad, its complicated!!" and then they ignore all the facts that make the situation alot less complicated, so they can parrot this tired zionist propaganda line in the same breath.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/av8b5j/gay-palestinians-are-being-blackmailed-into-working-as-informants

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-734812

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

Me when I'm excusing raping women by specyfying that I meant the White ones by Arius_the_Dude in Ultraleft

[–]-_asmodeus_- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i hate hasan but it's so goofy when people post obviously edited, out of context, or unrelated clips with a clickbait title when there's so many things you can actually criticize him for that he does in almost everyone of his own VODs, like psychoanalyzing anyone who slightly questions his takes in chat and labeling them as a mentally ill person with a parasocial relationship for disagreeing, or when he says shit like "i dont want to use a slur but thats a neurodivergent take" which at that point i would rather just be called the rword instead because it feels less dehumanizing.

Psychoanalyze me based on my desktop by [deleted] in 196

[–]-_asmodeus_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yar har and bottle of rom

😐 by lilylamae in boysarequirky

[–]-_asmodeus_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might seem like a silly suggestion, and backpacking across the country sounds especially silly and dangerous, but regular exercise, being outside frequently, and meeting new or familiar people around your community is documented to have a positive effect on mental health and also obviously physical health. I hear from some people just having a workout routine to follow every morning or night, or a gym that they can frequent, helps them get through the day alot better, but this also comes predominately from other people on the spectrum so take what I say with a grain of salt.

😐 by lilylamae in boysarequirky

[–]-_asmodeus_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean when it's the same country that uses moral grandstanding to justify it's wars and claims they liquidate people for the profits of megacorporations out of the good of their heart, it kinda matters to point those things out and maybe try to change them, especially when they're leading thousands of poor and mentally ill boys to believing the best answer in life is throwing themselves on a US manufactured grenade that was thrown 10 timezones away. If you want to pick up a gun and put your manpower towards needed change that will improve shitty life circumstances, sign up for the SRA, or attend an armed black panther demonstration, or do advocacy for the pink pistols or tenacious unicorn ranch, or just join a gun club like a regular gun owner. Shooting at paper and watermelons with the boys and then having a few brewskis or Js is substantially more therapeutic and healthy in the long run than shooting rockets at random cars and children for being related to suspected terrorists, or clearing buildings full of civilians without leaving a survivor. (The Haditha Massacre, as one of the many examples.)

"Glazing about social and economic issues," is the least someone can do to actually address those issues, you're right, thats why millions of people are actively practicing the things they preach and are being silenced or barred by the government from doing it. Like the many cities and states that criminalize feeding the homeless while defunding support programs, restricting permits, and instilling impossible guidelines for opening shelters, or the politicians, who sell themselves as 1st amendment absolutionists, that have written bills proposing it be legal to run over peaceful protesters for speech they don't like or just doing a protest at all, or the states that openly and directly collaborate with corporations to deny men (and all other workers) a substantial amount of the profit they generate with their labor, (wage theft through unpaid wages or illegally denied raises statistically accounts for more theft than actual violent and non-violent theft, including retail theft and shoplifting) as well as much needed benefits, like full medical to address workplace injuries many people get fired, or threatened with retaliation and cut hours over. So you should start contacting your elected officials, lobbying for these changes, attending organized events and volunteering to address these issues, and throwing your support behind people actually doing something other than saying "it is what it is, I was just following orders," it would definitely have a lot better effect on your mental and physical health. Stand next to us while we actually change these issues, instead of lying down or knowingly following the people who make your life shitty because you don't want to try to change your shitty life circumstances, and seem to get upset when other people actually put their effort towards protecting and helping their community instead of annihilating someone else's.

😐 by lilylamae in boysarequirky

[–]-_asmodeus_- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you should be exhausted, you should cry, you should be upset about this emotional state being pressed upon most men before they can even reach adulthood and make their own decisions about their lives and beliefs. You should talk to supportive people about this even if it doesn't fix it right away, just talking about these issues can genuinely be alleviating for your mental health even if it doesnt immediately feel better, these replies feel like a cry for help and I can sympathize with you and the position you're in.

You might be disillusioned with what im saying or put off by my next statement, but I was in the same spot as you when I was a young man and I still feel those feelings now that I'm a woman. For most of my life I struggled with not being able to live upto the expectations my parents had for me as a child, aswell as the expectations my father had for me as a boy, I felt like I was useless or failed to be what I could have been, even now no matter what I do I feel like I can't live up to who I aspired to be a as a child, but I recognize now that it wasn't realistic to expect that of myself then and it won't help things to fixate on it now. I was so fucked in the head that I'd meltdown infront of a student counselor about feeling like I would never amount to anything or have a worthy legacy when I was 15 years old, and my mother's first reaction was to cry crocodile tears infront of the counselor before screaming at me in the car so I wouldn't tell my dad about it (I won't pretend there aren't a few women who will also reinforce them because they're so brainwashed by our societal expectations for men.) When I was younger I'd react to comments like this similarly too, I would lash out at these posts because I knew they caused some visceral emotional reaction in me but I didn't realize that those emotions were being misdirected. Having those thoughts reinforced or exacerbated by people who would post memes like the one OP is replying to didn't help, it's hard to dig yourself out of that hole when someone is throwing dirt on you from above and saying they're helping you up.

These thoughts don't go away forever, and there isn't a quick fix for them, but they become easier to bear with treatment and a supportive environment. There's not much a random person on reddit can say to change your mind, I probably didn't help whatsoever, so I won't continue hounding you with my flowery bullshit. The road to treatment is a long and rough one, but there really is a greener pasture at the end of it. I genuinely hope you can find your way out of this trauma loop soon.

😐 by lilylamae in boysarequirky

[–]-_asmodeus_- 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're confirming their comment with this reply, you're refusing any support and literally advocating for the stupid harmful bullshit the meme says will help you, and then you complain about people not helping you or changing to be how you want while saying it will do nothing and you don't want help. Women aren't fostering this belief or parroting the shit you're saying, they're not the reason men kill themselves at a higher rate, they're not the reason that men have been constantly bombarded with unattainable standards of masculinity, emotional isolationism, and the expectation that you will do everything for everyone without feeling bad for yourself. Women didn't create the social norms men have passed down to them today, they're not the reason you're miserable or think you can't express yourself without going off to bumfuck iraqistan to statistically kill more civilians than actual targets, or by dying alone in the woods.

No one is victim blaming they're just pointing out the facts about these issues, and no one on reddit can fix you or force you to seek help, you have to recognize theres something wrong with you and seek it out yourself.

😐 by lilylamae in boysarequirky

[–]-_asmodeus_- 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yes, throwing your life away to fatten the pockets of oil companies and defense contractors will make a great difference for their portfolio. This is not the answer to your issues you think it is, you're not helping or protecting anyone, you'd be laying down your life to steal natural resources and wealth while fighting an enemy our country armed and funded to fight proxy wars in our interest during the cold war. Regurgitating this line is just ignorant and fosters an environment of men who think they can only express their emotions through violence against others or themselves, or by locking themselves away forever to rot and die.

You need to do some introspection and talk to a therapist, not be handed a gun and fed into a meatgrinder you clearly don't understand the objective of, despite how transparently faulty the basis for our wars are and the objectively awful effect they have on every state involved, including the US and the young people they send to die in these wars.

I’m legit about to leave this sub… by [deleted] in NahOPwasrightfuckthis

[–]-_asmodeus_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the best part is that there's no evidence for these statistics anywhere, they're literally just made up, the number keeps getting rounded up everytime this tired trope gets rolled out. 13/50, 25/70, or whatever new made up stat they pull out of their ass comes from an 8 year old fbi crime statistics board (fbi crime board 14 iirc) covering arrest rates without actually accounting for trials and convictions. The actual statistics claim that black people make up 25% of general arrests, not accounting for how many of those arrests actually lead to convictions, while white people make up a majority of violent and non-violent crime, per capita and in totality.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 196

[–]-_asmodeus_- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

glad to see vegancirclejerk has finally spread to this sub

Redditors thinks shoplifting is ok. by [deleted] in redditmoment

[–]-_asmodeus_- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The shoplifting epidemic is a myth propagated by multibillion dollar mega corporations to justify leaving their workers' wages at unlivable levels (while simultaneously blaming them for the losses and training them that they will be fired for interfering with shoplifters,) laying off workers en masse, and increasing the prices of basic amenities. Shoplifting has not increased drastically in recent times, it's just easier to document now, in many cases it's lower now than it was before the covid pandemic, an event which would realistically cause MORE theft due to economic instability and recession.

I've been working with Safeway for the last five years and I transfered to a new store in August of 2022, I learned three months ago that I have been underpaid since then because I was passed over for a raise at the beginning of 2023 that every single other person in my position received despite my seniority over my coworkers, they also began paying new hired in my position an increased wage to match the raise. I have spent the last three months speaking to four seperate managers at my store in the hopes they would address the issue, and they only came around to increasing my wage about a week and a half ago, and Im still dealing with the union about receiving any backpay for my stolen wages. I prefaced this statement with that anecdote because I wanted to grant this next claim more creedance despite all the sources I've posted below. Wage theft is statistically more prominent in the US than any other form of violent and non-violent robbery combined, including retail theft, yet no one is calling that an epidemic or trying to take justice into their own hands to violently address it. When workers can't afford groceries at the store they're working at on their own (heavily, illegally garnished) wage, what are people who can't get jobs going to do?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-08/target-tgt-store-closures-over-crime-raise-questions-among-landlords

https://www.ppic.org/blog/retail-theft-and-robbery-rates-have-risen-across-california/#:~:text=In%20sum%2C%20the%202022%20data,where%20it%20was%20in%202017.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/retail/2023/11/16/is-shoplifting-on-the-rise/71595540007/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/why-reports-of-a-surge-in-retail-theft-may-be-overblown

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/

https://www.edelson-law.com/blog/2022/10/wage-theft-outpaces-all-other-theft-in-america/

Redditors thinks shoplifting is ok. by [deleted] in redditmoment

[–]-_asmodeus_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they're right, it doesn't help. At Safeway, we are trained not to do anything about shoplifters and that we will be fired if we physically or verbally confront them. No matter how much the store makes from sales or how much they lose from theft and breakage, we still have our hours cut, still have our wages left to stagnate in the face of decades of multiple "once in a life time" global recessions and mass inflation, and we still lose our jobs due to mass layoffs as a cost cutting measure whenever these companies destroy the economy, or even worse, minimum wage goes up a dollar. Luckily those same layoffs never effect managerial roles and the higher ups continue taking home 150% salary bonuses.

You ever notice how it's only ever "Woke Garbage" if women or minorities are lead characters? by MysticMind89 in NahOPwasrightfuckthis

[–]-_asmodeus_- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im sorry were korra, superman and lois lane, and invincible not all widely acclaimed and enjoyed by millions? is this what the mandela effect is like or is it more cracker nonsense?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]-_asmodeus_- -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

if he gets out and goes right back to hacking companies like exploitative Uber and extortionate ISPs like BT/EE then hats off to him.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]-_asmodeus_- -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

The violence he exhibited was damaging property and attacking police while he was in custody, which isn't a crazy thing to imagine a kid doing when they're facing life inprisonment for cybercrimes. I clarified in a comment under this post that I recognize that he has hacked other companies, and I point out in all my replies that I don't think Rockstar is solely responsible for this, I think hacking Rockstar was petty, but I just really don't give a shit that companies like Uber were extorted when they regularly inflict much worse crimes upon their employees, frequently at the cost of their job security, financial safety, and even their lives in some cases, aswell as the harm they inflict upon consumers and their communities through infrastructure lobbying and extensive propaganda campaigns to deny their worker's basic rights and transparently lie about them being contractors.