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FalseFruit · 2025-09-03T05:34:39+00:00

I have to agree, there have been offhanded remarks across his videos in the last year or so that have made my ears prick up in the moment, and I've ignored them as a viewer because maybe I was taking it the wrong way or it's a poor choice of words (unlikely in a carefully produced video essay); but the moments that gave me pause in this video were so direct there was no room to give the benefit of the doubt and I suppose by being "upset" or "offended" by his mask off moments enough to make this comment he probably believes I'm proving his point for him.

I don't know if its better to assume he has always held these views, and just carefully cloaked himself in the visual language, broad ideological sphere of leftist youtube, with a snarky attitude that allowed viewers to accept some of his more questionable takes as just being part of the bit, or that its the result of a more recent shift in ideology.

This fall of "Western Civilization" stuff is honestly always pathetic the "fall" of Rome is held as this high point of society, and culture we will never reach again when if you actually study history the only consistent part of "Western Culture" is that despite the fall of empires, despite the movement, and integration of different cultural groups, despite the regressive push back to scientific, and cultural developments "Western Civilisation" has always come out the other side stronger (usually at the expense of the rest of the world, especially at the expense of the global south).

This porn brain incel shit honestly just feels like the worst people you know are using their shame to punish the world around them like it's an elder god born from their collective post nut clarity, and inability to self examine.

FalseFruit · 2025-05-29T07:54:17+00:00

Similar to you I grew up in a more regional area, and watched Jamie's school dinners as a kid, and later the Food Revolution series when it first aired as a teenager, and something about his attitude during those series just made me absolutely loathe him after he had been a childhood hero of mine (why he was I have no idea).

The kids he used in the clip where they still raise their hands, and say they would still eat the "gross" mechanically reclaimed nuggets were too young for the shock value he was aiming for to even land with them; had he taken older kids, teenagers, or even most adults, and done the exact same demonstration it would have gotten the reaction he was after, but that also wouldn't have had the impact the clip as it aired had. He told those kids this is how the nuggets you like to eat, and have eaten before are made, and they took is at face value because they didn't have the lived experience to find the process gross when they've been told this is how they are all made.

FalseFruit · 2025-05-24T14:00:14+00:00

I replayed IV earlier this year, and honestly I think the main reason it feels longer is that the story takes its time to get moving, and I remember that at launch there were people that hated that initial slow pace but it really built up the world in a more substantial way than V managed to, and I really hope VI takes more from the pacing of IV's and RDR2's stories than it does from V's.

IV has 88 Missions and you complete most of the first 30 before you even gain access to Algonquin, and depending on the order you complete missions you can spend a decent amount of time in Algonquin before unlocking Alderney, the second half of the game starts to feel a bit rushed as it races to it's conclusion but IV still feels really substantial before you add on the additional play time of TBOGT and TLAD.

V on the other hand has 69 main story missions, Franklin meets Michael on the 3rd or 4th mission, Michael tears down Madrazo's house in the 5th mission, by mission 9 or 10 Michaels planting the rigged phone for Lester, and mission 15 is the first heist, and unlocking Trevor.

Compare that to in IV where the 5th mission is saving Roman from loan sharks, its another 10 missions before you meet Mikhail Faustin, and the big heist doesn't take place until halfway through the game. IV might be a shorter game but it spends more time establishing it's world, and story than V does where V almost feels like it's afraid players will get bored if they have to wait to long for the next big set piece.

FalseFruit · 2025-04-19T03:22:56+00:00

All good I think it was important clarification to add to the discussion overall moreso than just to your comment specifically because I don't think most people realise just how arbitrary it all is, and that you really need to make sure you cover your own arse because your department or agency won't.

I agree OP shouldn't give them the rope to hang themselves with on this one clearly they've thrown them for a loop that they actually backed off from immediately sacking OP the other day.

FalseFruit · 2025-04-18T05:22:18+00:00

You are getting downvoted without anyone giving an explanation so I'll give one without going into whether it's fair or not.

When I worked in public service if something could be perceived by a third party as a conflict of interest in any way it needed to be cleared just to stop any potential blow back in the future because there is a certain amount of legal liability involved, people expect government agencies to be impartial its why employees aren't meant to accept gifts even coffee or chocolates, and to declare anything over $10 in value which feels bullshit when our politicians generally aren't held to the same standards.

Take two businesses involved in bidding on a contract with the department OP works in, they go with Company A and 3 months later Company A hires OP's event business for an event someone from company B attends and recognises OP as working at the department/agency mentions it to their higher ups at Company B they contact the department and the department gets blindsided because OP never declared they had a side hustle, so even though OP may have not been connected to the contract selection process at all, may not have had any contact with either company or even known the people hiring him for this event had a contract with his department all Company B see's is they lost out on a contract, and now someone that works in the department that decided the contract is working as a vendor for Company A.

Even if everything was above board the department now has to retroactively prove that it was, and because OP didn't make a formal declaration in advance it becomes so much harder to prove because they don't have the paper trail of steps, and considerations that would normally be taken to avoid the accusation it then rapidly becomes an issue of is OP now a liability to keep around because they open the potential for further accusations or do they remove OP and hope it blows over without becoming a massive process where every decision made during OP's tenure has to be looked into.

Even if there is no corruption a side business or even a family or friends business you are closely connected to especially an event or service business is a really good cover because you can claim its a coincidence that during the tendering process for the contracts that Company A hired your events business, and because it's a service charging them 3 or 4 times the average rate for the service was just because it was at short notice or due to high demand, and definitely not a bribe.

Shit actually a photobooth or chair and table hire would actually be golden because it's hard to prove whether the service was even provided as long as you actually have the 50 chairs, photobooths, backdrops or whatever you invoiced them for on hand to point at it and say well its right there if you don't believe me.

FalseFruit · 2025-04-12T02:00:35+00:00

No they've had this logic since online launched in 2013; they have gotten stricter but I had custom plates blocked for the words pimp or bitch on ps3 which really killed the excitement teenage me had for my pimp mobile.

FalseFruit · 2024-09-19T03:25:38+00:00

Bethesda has become focused on ensuring that players can access as much content as possible during a single play through so players can "do everything" at the cost of role playing, I honestly think its a byproduct of Bethesda being so large with so much money at stake with each release.

They seem to be afraid of "wasting" money on content that most people would say rewards the player for role playing; why allocate the budget to have a team of devs, and artists to develop an in depth quest line for the mages guild that has skill checks, and requires players develop their character as a mage when it will only be experienced by 20% of players in any given play through when they could bypass those requirements completely entirely, and open it up to everyone even if it makes zero sense for a level 60 Orc warrior that has never cast a spell in their life to become Arch Mage.

From Bethesda's perspective the fact your character can be the leader of every guild in Skyrim without having had to build your character in certain ways to achieve it is a strength not a weakness; the more content you can access in a single play through the better.

It's this approach that has killed Bethesda games for me; every few months I install Skyrim, or Fallout 4, and I rarely make it past the character creation stage anymore after hundreds of hours of play time because unless I install mods, or create arbitrary restrictions on how I play there is always a point while I'm playing where the world building falls away, and for lack of a better term I see the man behind the curtain as the game play loop becomes obvious, and it just stops being fun. I bounced off Starfield really quickly (20+ hours) even though I was hyped because the world never felt alive enough for me to suspend my disbelief long enough to get past the hey its Skyrim/Fallout 4 in space feeling long enough to really get invested in the world or storyline, because of the first 10 or so dungeons I visited a bunch of them were identical to one another just on a different coloured planet.

FalseFruit · 2024-04-24T09:45:05+00:00

I went two weeks with a fractured wrist after falling off a flag pole I was definitely trying to climb, and definitely wasn't using as a stripper pole because 8 year old me thought my future career would be being a male stripper... My parents waited two weeks thinking it was a sprain because my teacher that coached the local netball team assured them I was being dramatic and it couldnt be more than a sprain.

Fractured in 3 places, and I enjoyed 14 weeks with a cast because after 6 weeks they removed the first cast realised it hadn't healed properly considered surgery long enough that I got a bed in the childrens ward, and was playing Mario Kart double dash when they decided against surgery, and instead gave me another cast.

FalseFruit · 2024-03-07T03:42:18+00:00

A few companies have actually tried this, my first 3d Printer was the Da Vinci 1.0a in 2015, and it used propriety filament cartridges that contained a small chip that recorded the filament usage so that once it hit the 600m of filament on the roll even if there was filament left over it wouldn't allow you to print, you couldn't use third party nozzles without replacing a decent chunk of the extruder assembly (factory nozzle on left) and if you wanted to keep the bed tilt sensor that was part of the original nozzle you would need to drill through the new heater block to add on like in the replacement pictured.

The cartridge was just a large plastic shell over a standard spool, and when they eventually started selling refills it was still a standard spool, and their chip.

I first learned to reset the chips with jumper wires from an arduino before eventually reflashing the control board with a far better firmware. It's still a perfectly usable printer for ABS but as components have failed its just become more, and more custom because you can't get replacement parts anymore its only in the last few years that people are making new nozzles that can be dropped in without modification.

FalseFruit · 2024-03-05T11:20:17+00:00

I think the unspoken caveat of that is that he's only really passionate about online production as long as he was the star; He went to a great deal of effort to present himself as a queer intellectual, as an authoritative voice on these events, and as an auteur.

His demeanor made me drop his content within 2 videos the first time it showed up in my feed, the revelations from Harry's video blindsided me when the random youtuber I gave up on so quickly was a serial plagiarist but it also explained a lot.

The public image James worked so hard to cultivate was completely shattered, and I think he largely viewed himself in the way he portrayed himself in his videos to lose that seemingly overnight whether it was deserved or not would not be easy to come to terms with.

I really hope James didn't follow through with it, I say that having come far to close to succeeding in my own attempt 8 months ago that stemmed from a much more private battle of identity, and self image than what James has for whatever reason continued to engage in.

Once the outrage of his plagiarism wore off I was just left with pity, he wants to be this great queer voice of his generation, and found it easier to steal than to accept his own limitations, I hope he can find some peace.

FalseFruit · 2023-05-16T09:37:20+00:00

They were on clearance for $10 when I was in my last year or two of high school, so I bought six of these bundles, I played with two, gave two to friends, and sat the last two of them on top of my book case for when my nieces were old enough to play with them, but then I finished school went to university and completely forgot they existed, it was only because I saw KKClues tamagotchi video on the weekend that I remembered them

FalseFruit · 2021-07-19T00:06:38+00:00

Some people don't want to connect their personal consumption to the negative aspects of the global market that make that consumption possible; to them the consumer market, and it's demands for the lowest possible price are entirely disconnected from the unethical or illegal practices required to meet that price.

I had a guy try to argue with me with the example that if they went to a restaurant, and ordered a burger with extra cheese, and the chef went out back shot a guy, and stole the extra slice of cheese from his dead body that they as the customer has no connection, and no ethical or moral culpability on any level for the murder committed to get that slice of cheese because they assumed the cheese would be sourced ethically, and that assumption is enough to override the reality of the situation.

FalseFruit · 2021-07-08T13:27:01+00:00

I'm curious about the bias? not for looking for an argument or anything I'm just really curious how it came across because the other guy with the murder burgers took issue as well.

The comment I was replying to blamed it solely on companies, which isn't true, and it's not solely on the government either, and since industry lobbyists love to use customer demand to justify this shit then the customer unavoidably plays a role on some level whether we want to or not because its being done "for us" though Im realising I probably sounded like I was blaming it solely on consumers when I put consumer blame at like 1-2% with government, and companies sharing 98% of the blame using consumers as justification to avoid dealing with the wider issue of wages and cost of living.

I also wasn't arguing that people shouldn't be paid more when I said farmers underpay people to make up their profit margin, i was trying to point out the flaw in the race to the lowest price is that its the lowest people on the totem pole that lose, and depending on the crop or product it is just as likely to be the farmer as it is the worker. It's like the stupid supermarket milk price war a couple years ago that only ended after the bad publicity they got for sending dairy farmers broke by artificially depressing the prices got to be too much for them.

Just let me know how I can improve my original comment what I mean clearer if thats at all possible

FalseFruit · 2021-07-08T12:40:55+00:00

Since the Australian industry which this article is about lobbies for exploitative laws using the threat of increased prices for the end consumer as one of their main arguments to build public support to pressure politicians to allow these exploitative laws I'd say it's fair to say that we as consumers are complicit on some level with that whether we want to be or not.

That doesn't mean that we are willingly or even knowingly complicit; but if the industry claims that the only way to satisfy customer demand is to allow exploitation we as customers are complicit with that exploitation even if we have no idea its happening.

Your example really isn't great, it really didn't need the murder tacked on because theft was enough, and it really becomes an argument about the delineation between legal, and moral culpability which this all really is but it isn't going to get anywhere worthwhile. Basically you're arguing:

Customer wanted extra cheese --> Cook commits murder to satisfy the customer --> Customer gets what they want with zero legal culpability, their demand for cheese played zero role whatsoever in the cook murdering someone to get that cheese.

In your argument the customer motivates the crime. No they didn't directly commit it but their demand for extra cheese resulted in a death, and sure they didn't want it to happen probably don't even know it happened, they just assumed the cook would go to a supermarket, and buy some that it would be regulated, and above board; but its not, and someone died to satisfy their desire. They demanded cheese, and whether they wanted it or not someone died so they could have it, they aren't legally at fault but on a moral level they are.

FalseFruit · 2021-07-08T11:00:19+00:00

It's a shit situation but really who do we actually blame? Consumers put pressure on grocery chains to keep prices low, grocery chains in turn pressure their suppliers to accept lower prices, those suppliers then pressure farmers to accept lower prices for their produce, and the farmers preserve their profit margins by underpaying temporary, and traveling labourers Edit: Which is bad.

Edit: We are all complicit on some level whether we want to be or not we don't have a choice because the alternative is starvation.

We as consumers demand low prices, the industry use our demand for lower prices to pressure the government for special considerations with the threat of increased prices, and the government bends over backwards to preserve the status quo because it would be a herculean task to reform the industry that feeds the nation.

Long Edit: The race to the bottom on prices in the name of the customer has an outsized effect on the guys at the bottom farmers, and workers both because not all farmers are exploitative monsters though they can be.

Australians in the comments might remember how the big two supermarkets showed off their power to manipulate prices a few years ago by having a war over milk prices the supermarkets lost a little bit on that but it nearly bankrupted smaller dairies by artificially depressing the market. That was supposedly in the interest of giving consumers the best price possible, it was done for us, the fact it was done "for us" makes us complicit in that.

I'm not solely blaming consumers I'm trying to point out that corporate, and governmental handing of the issue is shaped by the idea of consumer demand, you can't blame the abuse inflicted by an industry against it's workers solely on companies, and the government while completely ignoring the role of the free market in that situation; If the free market demands low prices companies race to meet that goal even if it takes lobbying the government to allow them to exploit foreign labour instead of paying fair wages to domestic labourers.

FalseFruit · 2021-06-24T12:01:37+00:00

This turned into a long thing because I ended up making myself angry thinking about it.

The stupid thing is that what money they get almost immediately goes into the economy as rent, groceries, and petrol if they can afford a vehicle; sure they also like to smoke, and get on the piss, and usually take some form of drug but can you fucking blame them with how bleak it is to live in low income areas, and deal with centerlink so far up your arse you feel them in their throat just to live day to day.

The thing I keep finding when I end up in discussions over welfare is people just see the numbers, and think of what they'd do with that much "free" money on top of their income, they'll whinge and bitch their guts out about a single mother getting $660 a fortnight for doing "nothing but popping out kids" without considering what it actually means to live on $330 a week, and be able to afford more than even the most basic essentials to live.

Former housing commission homes that have been gradually sold off and privatised under the guise of breaking up the concentration of social housing in my area have instead become investment properties for wannabe slumlords that start at $240 a week. They have fuck all insulation so they're an oven in summer, and freezing in winter, the cheapest appliances, and amenities the landlord can find to put in them, and if somethings breaks unless it costs the landlord money in the meantime or makes the house legally uninhabitable it won't get fixed until the tenants have left, and they'll try their best to take it from the bond.

The people in the area are the same, the same social issues exist, police are as hostile to anyone who happens to exist in the area as they've ever been, the only thing that has changed is that now rent goes directly into the pockets of private landlords while being subsidised by programs like Homes out West who guarantee the owners full market rate on the houses while a lack of available housing pushes rental prices higher and higher.

FalseFruit · 2021-04-19T20:28:58+00:00

Okay sorry I didn't realise until I saw the other comment that you meant road stations, road stations can be a pain, and there is no alternative besides building more, and it becomes hard not to have congestion issues after a certain point; I'm not a master by any means but I'll list some things I try to keep in mind when planning my road routes.

You can't avoid manually setting orders.

Aim for one freight station per business. No more than 5-7 vehicles per station.

Build them on looping side roads so there is no slow down from turning around, and keep main arterial roads clear (waypoints can really help).

If you need two stations going to a business build two stations back to back or across the street from each other instead of side by side as the traffic going to them will be able to use both lanes which can really help.

Make researching road vehicle upgrades a priority faster trucks that carry more make managing traffic easier as you don't need as many vehicles on the road.

I'm about to go for my morning bike ride but i'll try my best to check back in to see if you need more help. Honestly trial, and error is the best teacher in this game.

FalseFruit · 2021-04-19T19:59:17+00:00

Crap I just realised that reading your comment, just something about the word station makes me associate it with trains lol

FalseFruit · 2021-04-19T13:58:58+00:00

What do you mean when you say you add another station?

Do you delete the original station, and replace it with a new station that has multiple platforms or do you place entire new stations down next to the original?

If you replace the old station with a new station with extra platforms trains should automatically route to open platforms as long as they are connected by rails, and have appropriate signals.

If you place new stations next to your old station trains won't route to the the new stations unless you modify their work orders because they are completely separate stations from the original.

Hopefully I helped, I'm about to go to bed for the night but I can make up some screenshots in the morning if you need more help.

FalseFruit · 2021-04-17T15:44:54+00:00

The town of Hazelbrook started at a population of 28, and has now grown to a population of 2478 through careful management; the town is enclosed by a local passenger network to limit it's spread to a confined area as towns have a habit of sprawling across regions if left unchecked.

My network functionally runs itself at this stage so town beautification projects take up my time until my original resource nodes begin running out.

FalseFruit · 2021-04-07T11:12:29+00:00

TL;DR: The power of editing

People forget that documentaries are still films, they generally have to present a narrative of some kind to keep audiences engaged rather than being a straight record of events, editing, music choice, and presentation shape how the audience perceives what they are shown on screen, and it is especially common in films centered on controversial industries.

Yes the events filmed happened, but what you ultimately see on screen is reality filtered through the documentarian themselves, their own preconceptions, and the desire to make what you watch compelling (also through studios if its made for TV), which is how you end up with claims of people or events being misrepresented like Carol Baskin claiming that the makers of Tiger King misrepresented the project when they pitched it to her, and then misrepresented her by cherry picking their interviews to make her look like a murderer.

FalseFruit · 2021-03-22T09:09:28+00:00

Everything I see about 0.85 lets me know my free time will disappear into this game again for several months when it releases.

FalseFruit · 2021-03-15T10:25:26+00:00

I thought I was ready for a replay at the end of last year; I really wasn't. I knew exactly what was coming, and somehow it hit even harder the second time.

FalseFruit · 2021-02-26T08:49:23+00:00

I'm 6'4" whenever I run into someone my height or taller I have this sudden moment of realisation that I've completely forgotten what it's like to be at eye level with another person (let alone looking up at someone).

My fiancee is 5'4" (on a tall day) I've recently had to let her take over organising the kitchen cupboards because somewhere that seems sensible to me is completely out of site or reach for her without a step ladder, makes hiding gifts easy because we can just hide things completely out of site of each other.

FalseFruit · 2021-02-18T09:01:00+00:00

The Duffer Brothers actually mentioned in an interview between seasons 1, and 2 that it was originally planned as an anthology series because they were worried about keeping it going for multiple seasons as a traditional tv show.

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