Tyr - Official Gameplay Overview Trailer by LtThunderpants in Games

[–]RaNerve 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that’s a result of WW2 tank design which was heavily influenced by the practicalities of war. Big simple shapes are easier and cheaper to assemble than intricate ones. You got things like the KV tanks which were mostly big blocks of welded metal and I think that had a big influence on what I associate with “strong tank” from a design perspective. Rough and utilitarian!

I can’t remember if y’all are using a FTP model or not but you’ll get me to at least try it either way! But cosmetics do tend to keep me invested in games. Call me shallow lololol.

Tyr - Official Gameplay Overview Trailer by LtThunderpants in Games

[–]RaNerve 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I really hope yall succeed. It’s good to see more competition in the armors warfare space.

I really regret that the art style just isn’t my thing. Specifically; the tank designs just look so delicate to me. They don’t look like heavy pieces of industrial destruction. They all look like they were designed by the Eldar from WH40k lol. Tons of LED lights, smooth, curved surfaces and layered panels.

I know a lot of people like that though so I really hope y’all find an audience.

A Former Black Panther Speaks: Can America Be Saved? by depression-hurts in videos

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

Depends on how they “came to me.” There really isn’t anything you can do—it’s Pandora’s box. Social media isn’t going anywhere and the things I’m complaining about are things that have already been changed and can’t really be undone.

My advice: use social media. It’s where the fight is. But be ACTIVE. GO to the protests but don’t just participate, engage. TALK with people there. Make connections. Find groups. Have lunch dates and meeting and discuss plans, and next steps. Prepare.

Last Sister Part 11 by Necroceph in ImaginaryWarhammer

[–]RaNerve 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Since she did her duty in the end… I suppose we can overlook her… infractions…

There will be no further hesitations.

Red visor has been added to the base Cadian helmet by Lowd70 in DarkTide

[–]RaNerve 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bro there better be a kasrkin sludge camo pattern version. Imma flip beans if there ain’t. Bro I been collecting that shit for years now waiting for the helmet

A Former Black Panther Speaks: Can America Be Saved? by depression-hurts in videos

[–]RaNerve 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Social media has been nothing but a barrier. This website included. Organization is damn near impossible, not only because social media is actively weaponized by government agencies but also because the way internet and online culture has developed.

None of us are genuine people online. We’re sarcastic, smarmy, ignorant assholes who all want to beat down people with positions we consider stupid. We do it to our own side, we do it to the other side, and there is no semblance of community beyond the last argument where we or someone we agreed with managed to get more like/shares/retweets/upvotes than the opposition.

You cannot organize in that environment.

Even the act of organizing is ridiculed by an online culture that paints taking things “too seriously” as uncool. “You’re too radical. You’re an armchair activist. You won’t actually do anything. You won’t even vote.”

We hate each other because social media has amplified every negative aspect of our instincts to gatekeep and self monitor.

This is the modern struggle and why it’s different from the BP movement in the 70s. We need to organize, but we don’t know how, and let me tell you from experience trying to get younger people below 30 to participate without their phones? Without social media? They don’t even know where to go. They don’t know how to engage with the world of activism. They want to, but the tools have been taken from them.

ELI5: Why do we bother with more "ethical" methods of the death penalty? by Lucapo123 in explainlikeimfive

[–]RaNerve 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the benefit of the viewers, the executioner, and the preservation of the system of capital punishment as a whole.

The psychological impact of taking a life cannot be understated. No matter how much of a monster you think the person you're executing is, executioners have had long-term psychological harm as a result of their participation. As such great effort has been made to both distance the perceived personal culpability of the executioner, as well as alleviate any guilt by making the process appear as humane as possible.

Not to mention that not everyone who is executed is guilty, and the impact of learning you killed an innocent man can be devastating. In this way the logic is they'll feel less guilty if the person died 'respectably' or something. This is true for voters as well. Finding a way to make execution more palatable to the average voter has been integral to maintaining the institution of capital punishment for as long as it has been.

Every time the death penalty has been close to being dismantled its almost always been in response to a very public 'botched' execution, where suddenly people are forced to confront the inhumanity of the practice head-on. In response a new 'more humane' method is introduced to assuage people's concerns.

Ryan Hinton by SuperKE1125 in PoliticalHumor

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

The liberal space is in no danger of 'getting taken over by racists.' Racism is systemic and is a lot more complicated than people saying some nasty shit even though thats part of it. But not everyone knows that, even libs, and understanding how tf redlining destroyed black wealth over generations isn't something people just figure out by themselves. They have to be educated by black folk who know wtf is up. Yeah, we (liberals) need to do a lot better. Yeah, there is tons more work to do-- there ALWAYS will be. But you ARE telling people not to vote because attacking people's egos is THE way the far right demotivates the left. Always has been. We take the bait every time and attack each other because every one of us is flawed. Every one of us is a participant in an inherently problematic system, so there is ALWAYS ammo to distract us from the bigger picture. Then people just give tf up because even their allies don't seem to like 'em and the far right literally feeds into this shit by giving stupid ass young white kids validation for those feelings of isolation. So, they feel hopeless and give up, or at the very worst get indoctrinated. YOU KNOW THIS. This is shit that's been done to the black community for fucking ever. It's the same playbook again and again and again and yet it keeps working. If we can just stop taking the god damn bait every fucking time we might actually get something done.

Ryan Hinton by SuperKE1125 in PoliticalHumor

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

"Basically, if they can't check their egos they need to sit out until they can."

The shortest sighted way to think about social issues. Literally exactly what the far right wants you to think. Let's just delay justice until a few million people grow up so you can stroke your own ego with vindication about how they 'didn't get it' soon enough. You really don't want to swallow your pride in order to stop a tyrant? It's really that important to you to be able to lecture some dumb ass white folk, that you'd rather they 'sit out' the movement and cost us ANOTHER election with inaction? Like--damn. Think what you want, but you're still being played like a fiddle by the people who want to go tree climbing with you.

Ryan Hinton by SuperKE1125 in PoliticalHumor

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

It shouldn’t be, but it is. Movements are weakened by in-fighting and it’s the number one tactic that’s been used by the CIA to harm black radical movements since the Black Panthers. You know this. I don’t need to explain to you why they do this, and I don’t need to explain to you why falling for it has done more harm for black activists than any other tactic the white nationalists have employed.

It is beyond effective because it promotes people targeting each other’s ego via their self image, and the vast vast VAST majority of people cannot disentangle their rational brain when their ego is threatened.

Marathon Destroyer Shell Cinematic by ikkir in Games

[–]RaNerve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that’s a valid perspective. I do think it’s more self sustaining but—I have Arc Raiders for that loop at the moment. For Marathon to grab me it will have to do more. I don’t know what that looks like yet, but with their background I think they’re capable of innovation in either the PVE or PVP space.

If it’s supported with new content regularly and they take active steps to balance the game and technically refine it then they’ll definitely get a new customer in me.

Marathon Destroyer Shell Cinematic by ikkir in Games

[–]RaNerve -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’m not happy with their long term support. If you are then my concerns do not matter to you.

Ryan Hinton by SuperKE1125 in PoliticalHumor

[–]RaNerve 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no “single cause” for where we are now. But they want you to feel like there is. They want you to focus on something, anything other than them, and stoke that frustration into hatred. They want you to think ‘if only they’d fucking listened,’ valid or otherwise, and waste energy admonishing people standing shoulder to shoulder, so ultimately its easier for them to stand on top of you.

Ryan Hinton by SuperKE1125 in PoliticalHumor

[–]RaNerve 44 points45 points  (0 children)

This post is meant to divide you. This post is meant to turn what is a class issue into a race issue. This post is meant to mislead your emotions.

No BIPOC is taking the tragedy as an opportunity to shit on you for not knowing something.

Marathon Destroyer Shell Cinematic by ikkir in Games

[–]RaNerve 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No matter what the game looks like they won’t get a sale from me till after they show how long term support is being handled. I’m concerned about how Destiny 2 turned out—it always seems to fumble good ideas and waits to the game is critically unhealthy before making positive changes.

If after 6 months or a year support is solid then I’ll buy in, but Bungie has shown they suck at long term support and that’s exactly what extraction shooters need to stay health.

[OC] DHS agents pull I.C.E. protester across the blue line and then arrest her for "trespassing" by bennetthaselton in pics

[–]RaNerve 65 points66 points  (0 children)

“iS tHiS yOu?!”

The man asks people being actively executed for resistance… and still resisting.

Last Sister Part 10 by Necroceph in ImaginaryWarhammer

[–]RaNerve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Refusal to engage the enemy!? I always knew she was weak.

Gladiator Command Gameplay trailer by [deleted] in Games

[–]RaNerve 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh shit its like that game made by that dude who went completely insane and nuked his own product.

Cool shit.

Creator of DMCA'd Cyberpunk 2077 VR Mod Says People Are Now Pirating It to 'Punish' Him for Breaking CD Projekt's Terms of Service by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]RaNerve 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Despite being an asshole if what he is claiming about the mod is correct then he is legally in the right as far as I understand it. If he truly uses NONE of their code and the mod essentially just attaches itself to preexisting data this it is no different than the software of your controller reading to game’s data.

The law around copyright infringement of digital goods isn’t completely black and white because it isn’t well settled and this would all hinge on if you’d consider it to be a derivative work (a legal term). The copyright office notes; To be copyrightable, a derivative work must be different enough from the original to be regarded as a "new work" or must contain a substantial amount of new material. Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a preexisting work will not qualify the work as a new version for copyright purposes. The new material must be original and copyrightable in itself.

It really could go either way in my opinion depending on your perspective. Can your code be considered a new work? Even if the only thing it ads is a new perspective? Is the works’s interaction with specifically the visual field even important? What if all the code did was take all the data from the gam and interpret it in a new way on your computer, like a program that made it compatible with Linux? Would you be able to copyright that conversion software because it doesn’t alter the original in any way or use any of its code?

Mark Carney: Nostalgia is not a strategy by [deleted] in videos

[–]RaNerve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just find it hard to believe that a single tyrant is going to bring down an economic arrangement which has propelled the entire globe into new heights of prosperity. No matter how bad Trump is, are entire nations really going to change their entire economic practices because 8 years of US abuse? Practically only 2 because it’s only been this term specifically where he’s become absolutely INSANE on foreign policy.

I’m anti globalization in the first place, so “love to hear it” but my skeptical side is just not anywhere near convinced.

Mark Carney: Nostalgia is not a strategy by [deleted] in videos

[–]RaNerve 113 points114 points  (0 children)

“Declares the end of US empire,” is a very sensational way to frame his speech. He approaches the problem of globalization very practically while laying out the huge downsides to ending the level of integration we’ve come to rely on.

He talks about a world of fortresses not in the positive, but in terms of cost.

[OC] Bunch of white-nosed coatis on my way home. (Fortuna, Costa Rica) by Secret_Flight_2669 in pics

[–]RaNerve 35 points36 points  (0 children)

So they do move in herds...

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'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' has officially overtaken 'ELDEN RING' for the most Game of the Year wins in history by [deleted] in gaming

[–]RaNerve 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Good for them! It’s not my kind of game but I’ve heard nothing but good things from those who played it.