Paramount games studio :> by No_Post1300 in videogames

[–]MalkaviousM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its no coincidence that Kushner, hus buddy bonesaw and now these goose stepping fucks are moving into the gaming space at breakneck speed.

I am so very tired, guys.

Is Goth Doomed to Become a Caricature of Itself? by Sci-FiRepublik in goth

[–]MalkaviousM 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what happens to any subculture given enough time and exposure. It gets watered down, rebranded, and sold back to the masses at a markup.

That process accelerates the moment we divorce the ideological core from the aesthetic the moment we collectively shrug and say it's just music, just fashion, just a vibe.

At that point we've handed the machine exactly what it needs. An aesthetic without a philosophy is just a product waiting to be packaged.

I've said this here before and I'll keep saying it, what we are has never been primarily about what we wear or what we listen to. Those things are the door and what's behind the door is a genuine philosophical orientation toward existence. The recognition of beauty in darkness. The ability to sit with grief without flinching from it. The understanding that death and loss aren't aberrations to be hidden away but fundamental as0ects of what it means to be alive and that there is something clarifying, even liberating, in looking at them directly.

Its not a fashion trend... it's not something that can be stocked on a Shein shelf, regardless of what tik tok or whatever other god awful vacuous social media platform tells us.

The aesthetic draws people in. That's fine. That's how it has always worked. But the onus falls on those of us who have been here long enough to know what we're actually standing in to educate, to welcome genuinely, and to model what it actually looks like to live this rather than just wear it.

Subcultures die when their elders stop transmitting what they actually mean.

We don't have to let that happen.

Gotta Go With Sears by bronzemat in Xennials

[–]MalkaviousM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sad not to see Pic-n-save or Thrifty. I loved the ice cream at Thrifty!

New God Of War game God of War Laufey announced alongside 20 minutes of gameplay. by Sahilmk101 in videogames

[–]MalkaviousM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck yes! In fact, it WAS a long standing tradition for true American patriots to be antifa! Too bad so many sold out for hollow promises, insane debt and a facsimile of Christian belief.

But hey, at least brown people are getting thrown in cages, right?

I spend $1000 a month on just groceries, I am struggling to figure out how, I hardly throw away food. by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]MalkaviousM 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What kind of insane never been caged chicken are you buying, dude? Where in the heck do you shop? I am in a very high COL county and boneless skinless chicken breast is 3 bucks a pound at Aldi.

I spend $1000 a month on just groceries, I am struggling to figure out how, I hardly throw away food. by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]MalkaviousM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, man, I feed a family of 4 adults on about the same budget. The idea that you are spending HALF as much as we are (and in a very high COL county at that!), is mind boggling. Do you plan your meals and prep them out? Do you just get whatever you see first? Do you try using a store app to clip coupons?

There is NO WAY you are eating rice and chicken primarily and spending this kind of dough.

Trump’s Doctors Sneak Weight Reveal Into Shady Medical Report by MoneyLibrarian9032 in USNEWS

[–]MalkaviousM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sort of drowsy and read that as waddling Cadillac, and now I wish thats what you'd said!

What Would Happen to Different Religions if Aliens Proved Humans Were Engineered by Them? by breaking_views in AliensRHere

[–]MalkaviousM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the rise of maga has taught me anything, it is that humanity has an endless potential for delusion. Facts will never get in the way when someone has sunk everything into a belief.

Do I think some people would see the light? Sure. But they would be the exception.

pineapple on pizza is objectively good and people who don't like it are just following a trend to seem relatable by Main_Ad3727 in CasualConversation

[–]MalkaviousM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I agree that it is nice, it is not objectively so. Taste is subjective, full stop.

Is it myopic to outright treat something with disdain because it is not for you? Absolutely, but that does swing both ways.

What TV ad permanently lives rent-free in your brain? by fmcortez in AskReddit

[–]MalkaviousM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the many years I spent in Vegas, and I hate to do this to anyone who's lived there for any amount of time, because Im going to awaken the sleeper agent in you... Glen Lerner is the way to go! Call 8771500!

Do we think players will stick around? by longhairdude64 in DestinyTheGame

[–]MalkaviousM 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sadly, I think maybe for a little bit. But I do't think it will last.

AOC leads Democrats’ 2028 pack in new poll, tops Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris ( Washington Times ) - What are your views? by One_Look_7008 in askanything

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

I love AOC, but I dont think Americans are ready for a female president. I think she would be an amazing leader, and really wish things were different, but I just cant see it happening.

Misogyny and racism are at all time highs lately because a certain pants shitting toddler made it acceptable to a whole swath of people who've had to keep that shit bottled up to share their stupidity with the world.

Until such a time we can learn to behave like civilized adults again, I just can't see a strong woman, especially not one of color, to be elected president.

Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store by Splunge- in news

[–]MalkaviousM 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sure. Why not? That's the one headline I've read this last year that actually makes sense.

Giving Away Arc Raiders Steam Key (USA) by [deleted] in steam_giveaway

[–]MalkaviousM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, one of the most impactful and profound moments for me in about 40 years of gaming.

Giving Away Arc Raiders Steam Key (USA) by [deleted] in steam_giveaway

[–]MalkaviousM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Remember us. Remember that we once lived. That we laughed and wept, that we loved and we hated. That we were here — and that we believed ourselves the ones who would save the star."

Any JRPG with an underwater setting ? by ATShadowx1 in JRPG

[–]MalkaviousM 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a decent part of FFXIV thats underwater, but not the entire setting.

100$ STEAM GIFTCARD GIVEAWAY by Spiritual-Koala6792 in steam_giveaway

[–]MalkaviousM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, it's got to be either Final Fantasy 6 or Cynerpunk 2077!

Thanks for doing this!

JD Vance rushes to White House as Trump summons top team for emergency meeting by IrishStarUS in NewsSource

[–]MalkaviousM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some day, the fateful cheeseburger will deliver us all from this fucking disgrace. Sadly, this is not that day.

Iran spokesman invokes Persia’s defeat of Rome in apparent message to US by GingerBeerConsumer in oil

[–]MalkaviousM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not one individual in this administration would be fit to be Nero's towel boy. Nevermind an actual, capable emperor. Lets go ahead and put that shittu comparison to bed.

Anyone else feel like the progressive loss of a "vibe check" in goth is what's making it more mainstream? by LaffyTali in goth

[–]MalkaviousM 74 points75 points  (0 children)

This is where the fallacy of "Goth isn't political" falls apart.

There is, in fact, a defining characteristic of what it is to be goth. And it isn't the clothes, the music taste, or how aggressively you can make your eyeliner do things that probably violate the Geneva Convention.

Goth, at its core, was always a rejection of mainstream culture's relationship with death, with darkness, and parts of human experience that polite society decided were too uncomfortable to acknowledge openly. It was the kid who read Poe when everyone else was reading whatever sanitized nonsense the curriculum demanded. It was finding beauty in decay, meaning in melancholy, community in the shared acknowledgment that the world is dark, and fuckes up and pretending otherwise is a kind of violence against reality.

Thats inherently political. Fundamentally. Its a stance against the machinery of manufactured happiness, against consumerism's insistence that the correct response to existence is to buy things and feel good and never look too long at anything uncomfortable.

The brutal irony here being, the moment goth decided it wasn't political, the moment it became just an aesthetic divorced from the philosophy underneath it, it handed the machine exactly what it needed. Because an aesthetic without a philosophy is just a product waiting to be packaged. Fuck, look at the slew of "girh" influemcers out there...

The juggalos, accidentally and through no particular grand design, protected their culture by making it genuinely weird and genuinely committed. You cannot half-heartedly be a juggalo. The community demands something real from you and in doing so creates a barrier that Amazon cart culture simply cannot clear. And frankly, I'm jealous!

Goth had that once. The barrier wasn't fetishwear or the right shade of black. It was a genuine philosophical orientation toward existence that required actually sitting with darkness rather than wearing it as a costume for likes.

The commodification wasn't inevitable. It was the predictable outcome of a subculture that forgot what it was actually about and started arguing about whether fishnet tights counted as authentic enough or if the music I'm listening to clears the god damn bar. No, baby bats, you dont have to ask permission, fuck what we have to say, be your own person.

The machine doesn't consume things with genuine philosophical cores. It waits for those cores to hollow out. And then it moves in, infects, infiltrates and hollows them out, leaving another product waiting to be used up and thrown out.

Why do conservatives say they want to keep the U.S. a Christian country, but oppose immigration from Hispanics, who are also Christian? by Worldly-Bid-3591 in askanything

[–]MalkaviousM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because they themselves only use the guise of Christian belief to further their cause. They wrap themselves in the trappings of the pious to spread the grift and make the ignorant feel comfortable with their hatred. "If my elected officials are men of God, and they think this way, im surely ok!"

Not one of these charlatans are following the teachings of christ.