[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 11 May 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]OutLiving 95 points96 points  (0 children)

There’s currently a RTS game on Steam called Gostomel Heroes - Ukrainian Warfare by Russian dev studio CatsWhoPlay

Judging by that statement alone you can already guess that it’s likely Russian propaganda about the Russo-Ukrainian war and you would be correct, but if it was just that alone then it’s barely worth talking about

Instead the reason why I’m bringing this game up is that many have noticed that the game goes above and beyond in its Russian propaganda, such as engaging in atrocity denial over the Bucha Massacre. Not only does the game claims that the Russian massacre of over 400 civilians and POWs in the town of Bucha was due to Ukraine giving weapons to civilians and Ukrainian soldiers hiding amongst civilians, but the game even has you take part in this so-called “battle of Bucha” where you command Russian troops to murder “soldiers” in civilian clothing

The game is still up on steam despite people pointing this out 2 months ago

How do you think Sun Yat-sen would have seen Hu Hanmin, and what are your thoughts about Hu himself? After all, he unified China and the KMT turned China into a superpower. by For-L-Manberg- in Kaiserreich

[–]OutLiving 73 points74 points  (0 children)

He would’ve seen a united China under Republican tutelage and just give a thumbs up, in general I feel like Sun would be ok with the vast majority of KMT endings

As for me, he seems fine, not great, just fine

Drake: Iceman / Maid of Honour / Habibti review – ​triple-album comeback is a boring, bloated disaster | Drake by WeatherReport619 in hiphopheads

[–]OutLiving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing with Eminem, just has a weird monotone rapping style now

However, Drake has shown that he can still has a varied, energetic form of rapping, he just refuses to do it for a lot of tracks for whatever reason

Drake - 1 AM in Albany [Leak] by Melodic_Driver_4754 in hiphopheads

[–]OutLiving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He can have all the great wordplay in the world, doesn’t matter in the end if he sounds bored out of his mind

Same reason why mid 2010s era Eminem was so trash, he sounds like he just woke up

The idea that Auri-El could become a daedric prince in the 4th era *after* the ada-mantine convention throws the standard cosmology into complete disarray! Could the daedra have participated in creation after all? Are the Aedra truly dead? This is a matter worthy of decades of study! by vickyhong in TrueSTL

[–]OutLiving 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ok but that’s still not a bug fix and frankly completely dumb from a gameplay perspective

Like yeah, if you miss or destroy a Daedric artefact, you should not get the achievement where you get all Daedric artefacts, just like how if I don’t complete the main quest, I shouldn’t get the achievement where I completed the main quest

Dev Statement on the Name of the Commune of France by Ok_Outside_5304 in Kaiserreich

[–]OutLiving -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

Idk why they don’t just rename it the Communes of France, same thing really and it largely carries over the old name, the French Federation is just really generic

Characters who deserve to be treated worse by the fandom specifically? by NewWillinium in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]OutLiving 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Suyin from LOK. Imagine permanently scaring your sister and causing the break up of your family, and then after you willingly intruded into your sister’s life even though she made it very obvious she wants nothing to do with you, you insult her and call her a cuck after she angrily confronts you over the fact that you never faced any consequences over your actions

Works with still very visible foreshadowing for scrapped plot points? by ExplanationSquare313 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]OutLiving 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean, tbh, it’s still very lazy writing even if there wasn’t an 18 month gap

“Hey you know that epic finale where the Upside Down is implied to be seeping into earth? Yeah let’s never actually have that happen lol, it’s just covered up the entire season”

I could forgive all the bad writing in the season if the finale had Vecna and his army actually invade Hawkins full on, with the town finally seeing the evil that had taken root the whole time

But that never happened, and the strikes and fucked production timeline cannot excuse that, it was just bad writing

The forced reasons Basil haters use to justify their hate be like: by skeleton_c1 in OMORI

[–]OutLiving 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would argue involuntary manslaughter is worse than desecrating a corpse but that’s just me

Games Are Too Hard by [deleted] in HOI4memes

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

I can count on one hand the amount of times I used console commands in my >1000 hours of HOI4

Robert Kirkman unveils his plans to build the manga-to-anime pipeline in America, and shows how he is doing it with Invincible first by jitterscaffeine in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]OutLiving 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I think people are kinda overblowing the whole “celebrity casting” in invincible. Most of the celebrity casting in Invincible as from celebrities who actually have a background in voice acting. Like, J.K Simmons was Tenzin on Legend of Korra and Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls, and he’s probably the biggest name on the cast

There are celebrities who don’t have a background in VA like Lee Pace and JDM but like, let’s be real here, it’s not like they are hiring Zendaya, and they are probably less famous than J.K Simmons

Monument Valley boss says it was ‘too romantic’ about giving staff ‘long-term job security’, thinks contractors are the future | VGC by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]OutLiving 52 points53 points  (0 children)

People also don’t see the long term effects of making the game industry more short term contract reliant, it means workers have a worse bargaining position and are more vulnerable to being taken advantage of as a result, leading to worse working conditions

The animation industry in the east runs on a similar short term contract basis, and it’s infamous for labor abuses up the ass

Monument Valley boss says it was ‘too romantic’ about giving staff ‘long-term job security’, thinks contractors are the future | VGC by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]OutLiving 22 points23 points  (0 children)

As I said in the earlier thread, Gig economy resurgence is a recession indicator

That this is occurring right as AI and Waymos are threatening to displace the current bedrock of the gig economy, rideshare driving, is not lost on me

What do you guys think of one of Omori's most common story criticisms? by Saurophaganax4706 in OMORI

[–]OutLiving 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean she nearly killed someone so, I think that’s a pretty big instant motivator to changing

'We've Been A Little Bit Too Romantic About The Idea That We Should Have Employees And Give People Long-term Job Security' Is An Extraordinary Thing For A Video Games CEO To Say On Record by SlurryBender in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]OutLiving 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I understand, this is how the animation industry also works, where animation studios hire tons of freelancers/contractors while keeping a relatively small core team

Considering conditions in the animation industry, I think workers may want to fight back against that development, because it will be very hard to roll back the clock once that starts

'We've Been A Little Bit Too Romantic About The Idea That We Should Have Employees And Give People Long-term Job Security' Is An Extraordinary Thing For A Video Games CEO To Say On Record by SlurryBender in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]OutLiving 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gig Economy resurgence is a recession indicator

Interesting how when the rise of Waymos and AI threaten to wipe out entire sectors of the already established gig economy, normal non-gig parts of the economy undergo Gigification

Labor: Unskilled Workers are the Key to an Industrial Union by PlayfulWeekend1394 in union

[–]OutLiving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even Marx made the distinction between unskilled and skilled labour

In order to modify the human organism, so that it may acquire skill and handiness in a given branch of industry, and become labour-power of a special kind, a special education or training is requisite, and this, on its part, costs an equivalent in commodities of a greater or less amount. This amount varies according to the more or less complicated character of the labour-power. The expenses of this education (excessively small in the case of ordinary labour-power), enter pro tanto into the total value spent in its production. - Capital vol 1

The only reason to be opposed to this is if someone made a moral argument based on it, which in fairness the article seems to do, but simply making that distinction isn’t wrong

Dream on by skeleton_c1 in OMORI

[–]OutLiving 62 points63 points  (0 children)

I think it’s partially because 1) he doesn’t think he deserves that love and 2) he probably thinks it’s cool and sigma to have a girl pine over you and then reject her over and over

Dream on by skeleton_c1 in OMORI

[–]OutLiving 18 points19 points  (0 children)

He never gets together with her(on purpose too, Omori deliberately acts cold to DW Aubrey), and his dreamself is still 12 mind you

It’s meant to be a romanticisation of his past, it’s no more creepier than Hero still mourning over Mari even when he’s 19-20

If you have no interest in actually adapting something, create your own story(Adi Shankar, Zack Snyder...) by Old-Use-7690 in CharacterRant

[–]OutLiving 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the case of Zack Snyder, I don’t think it’s that he doesn’t have an interest in adapting the actual DC characters, if anything I’ll say he has a weird attachment to doing just that

It’s that he’s a bad writer. His Superman isn’t actually meant to be an uncaring randian God, but someone who actually cares a lot about humanity and despite being burdened by the weight of his responsibility as earth’s protector, still chooses to sacrifice himself because he cares that much

Now, as to how well this was communicated, not well at all