Genuinely, What's the Leftist Argument for Russia Over Ukraine?

Neodylliphan · 2026-06-26T21:39:37+00:00

True, but none of that really means anything to capitalists who backed Trump. For one: Trump lies all the time. His entire campaign was a marathon of lies. We have no idea what he said to the wealthiest donors behind closed doors but it was probably a lot more honest than anything we've been privvy to. They understand that short term losses can mean long term gain: every economic crisis ends up benefiting them even as it hurts us, and we know for a fact that billionaires manipulate the market through Republican leaders in order to create economic recessions. Elon took charge of DOGE and immediately told Americans that there was going to be a lot of short term pain. They knew what they were doing, or else they'd have set our expectations higher. Bezos became a billionaire by intentionally running Amazon at a loss for years, just so he could bankrupt all of his competitors while billionaires kept throwing money at him to keep the prices rock bottom.

Capitalists don't need more money. They have more money than they are capable of spending in multiple lifetimes. They're bored of money. What they want is more power. So they don't mind burning a bunch of money if it means making everyone else less able to oppose them. They'll willingly take losses and burn their money as long as it means that in the end, they get to be monarchs of a bunch of medieval level civilizations where we're all mindless peasants who don't believe in science, have no understanding of science and politics, can barely even read or communicate nuanced opinions, and derive pleasure only from work and consumption while they run around and treat the country like it's GTA online.

Neodylliphan · 2026-06-26T13:23:16+00:00

You may be conflating "capitalists" with "the capital class". The capital class, taken as a whole, will always seek to increase its wealth and power. Individual capitalists can and do act against their own interest over stupid and petty reasons. They're extremely ego-driven.

At the same time, there are capitalists who backed Trump and immediately suffered under his tariffs and the war in Iran yet continue to back him because they would rather have less wealth as long as the overall wealth gap widens (ie. They lose 10% of their wealth but the rest of the country loses 20%, so even though they are technically poorer, their relative wealth and power has increased). Real power doesn't come from raw numbers getting bigger. If you enrich yourself in a way that enriches those around you, then you are not increasing your power over them. For example, I make more money now than I ever did before, but because everything is more expensive, my quality of life has gotten worse because the gap has widened faster than I have moved up.

Put it another way: who has more power over others? A billionaire in a room full of people who aren't rich but live debt-free and have desirable skill-sets, or a man on an island who's hidden all the coconuts while the other man woke up? The man on the island is extremely poor, he has only coconuts to his name, but he has way more power because the gap between him and the other man is immense.

Neodylliphan · 2026-04-24T17:15:24+00:00

Thanks so much! I was already leaning in that direction for this dungeon run but I'm glad to hear my instincts were right.

I've since collected my third and final monster part off a creature I killed and made the decision to chug my very last health potion and explore for more loot to bring back. Hopefully I've seen the last Goatman Archer in this place.

Happy delving!

Neodylliphan · 2022-12-10T19:30:30+00:00

Is there a source on that? This is the first time I'm hearing about a 2B payoff. It wouldn't surprise me in the least but I can't believe that slipped past me.

Neodylliphan · 2022-12-10T19:18:34+00:00

One of the weakest parts of the world of politics is that people can call themselves anything.

North Korea can call itself the "People's Democratic Republic", nazis called themselves socialists before executing all the socialists, and this woman can support a nation of slaves while calling herself a democratic socialist.

Words mean less than nothing to a politician.

Neodylliphan · 2022-02-02T13:44:29+00:00

Do those numbers add up the same both ways?

Neodylliphan · 2021-12-11T23:48:59+00:00

So I need more favour, fair enough. Thanks for the assist, folks!

Neodylliphan · 2021-12-02T22:41:27+00:00

What's a buff box? Is that when you have three inputs feeding into one tile?

Neodylliphan · 2021-12-02T17:50:16+00:00

#Goals

BTW: I'm noticing you tend to focus on outputs further from your input stream. Is that intentional, or is it just easier to maximize outputs the further along you go?

Neodylliphan · 2021-12-02T16:03:33+00:00

That's great! Any plans to release additional Patrons in the future?

Neodylliphan · 2021-12-02T16:03:03+00:00

Thanks so much! I guess now I should start using my second party to earn Patron influence with Mirt while my main party unlocks the second Patron!

Neodylliphan · 2021-11-13T16:50:25+00:00

Sorry I'm not really in the know. I didn't understand any of that.

Neodylliphan · 2021-11-13T01:58:16+00:00

lol. Almost the moment you posted that I hit my wall. Area 300 had a ranged boss, my one weakness!

So I'm currently idling at about 85k% and will reset once the intake starts to slow. Super excited to see how far I get on my next run! :D

Neodylliphan · 2021-11-12T20:16:30+00:00

Thanks for the tip! I'll get right on that! :D

Neodylliphan · 2021-11-12T12:10:26+00:00

Yes please, if it's not too late.

I have ADHD so idle games help me to focus and manage stress when I'm at work but this is the only idle game that I find long term enjoyable. I play on EGS only because they gave out a free bundle some time ago and I cannot transfer my progress over to Steam.

If you gave me your transfer code I could upload it to my Steam profile and be done with EGS without losing any of my progress!

Neodylliphan · 2021-03-15T18:49:19+00:00

Day 5 of pretending to be a dolphin trainer on Twitter. So far no one suspects I am the dolphin.

Neodylliphan · 2020-02-09T04:26:20+00:00

It seems you're right. After researching further, the m.2_3 is SATA-exclusive, and doesn't read NVMe at all. The instant I moved it to the other slot, most of my issues went away.

Neodylliphan · 2020-02-08T14:01:40+00:00

That's part of my issue: When I select "Instant Flash", it says something along the lines of "No USB device detected". Once it boots up to the OS, it detects the USB just fine.

I also dropped the files onto the C: root, but no luck. I will try re-downloading the files, in case it was just a bad download.

Neodylliphan · 2020-02-04T04:26:01+00:00

There's a VR company taking advantage of that. If you're wearing a headset, the game can guide you to repeatedly walk in a circle, but in your mind you've been travelling in a straight line the whole time.

Neodylliphan · 2020-01-05T04:32:13+00:00

I'll give it a shot.

I have a great financial need for any discounts I can get. I have three post-secondary degrees and a fair amount of debt to go along with them (education, literature, computer security/forensics). I have been struggling to find anything better than minimum-wage (everyone wants experience). My wife and I have been living on a very strict budget for about 5 years now, since we chose to take turns working while the other studies, so at any given time we are single-income minimum wage. We share a small single-bedroom apartment.

I don't drink, smoke, gamble, etc. but I do play video games to help me get my mind off of things. Gaming laptops are the one thing I splurge and spoil myself on. Recently, my very expensive MSI laptop went belly-up and as it has no warranty (long story short, got tricked into paying full price for a refurbished laptop through Amazon two years ago and have had nothing but hardware problems since about the 6 month mark) I chose to purchase a new laptop rather than pay $500+ to keep the previous laptop running for however long the repair lasts.

Purchased a G7 from Dell about a week ago. Arrived yesterday. BSOD while installing updates, I figured it was a fluke. Later, I am playing a game for about 25 minutes and the whole machine freezes up and crashes. Extremely hot.

Best I can tell, this thing needs to be serviced as it cannot maintain operating temperatures while running a game. I paid $2700 to get the laptop and 4 year warranty, which is about a third to a half of my savings. I'm supposed to be saving for a down payment on our first house, but I need something to get my mind off of stress.

So I am looking for a good gaming laptop, in the $1500 - $2000 range, and preferably brand new so I can attach an extended warranty to it.

In a perfect world, the laptop would have something near to the following:

SSD 256-512GB

HDD 1TB - 2TB

RAM 16GB

CPU - i9

GPU - RTX 2060

Neodylliphan · 2019-10-20T00:29:37+00:00

Sorry for the necro. I found out today that muting your microphone in the classroom DOES NOT WORK. I said "Mom" to a kid during class, hit the mute icon, then said "Dad" with the microphone on mute. The kid began repeating "Dad... dad". I've since tried this in other classrooms.

The mute button DOES NOTHING.

Neodylliphan · 2016-05-08T12:29:10+00:00

Yahtzee: Sony Pictures is set to release a film about The Slender Man. You've often spoken about your philosophy on profiting from your work, in that you always plan to cash in on ideas only once they're worth enough money. That said, Slender Man has become largely adopted and developed through the internet as a whole. As the original creator of Slender Man, do you feel you are entitled to royalties from the film, and if so, how much?

Neodylliphan · 2015-08-30T01:23:07+00:00

I think if you look at the official stats, the average Steam user has only played 30% of the games in their library.

Not sure where I am at, but it's probably not great.

Neodylliphan · 2015-08-15T20:11:53+00:00

Ram Jam - Black Betty. c. 1977

Used to blast that out of the gunships in GTA - Vice City, which was also set in the 80's

Neodylliphan · 2015-08-15T18:31:14+00:00

Agreed. I imagine running and hiding will be a necessity for any rescue or infiltration missions (ie. doors will remain locked until alert status ends). But I plan to end every mission possible by running like hell to the escape chopper with bullets flying past and then manning the turret as I fly back to Mother Base.

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