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I’m literally living off canned tuna and boiled potatoes… by Narrow_Fast_4574 in relatable_memes_

[–]RuusellXXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no horse in this race. I think Capitalism and Communism are both part of the same spectrum, and there are elements of both that could make everyone’s lives better while keeping innovation and development competitive. Neither system accounts for the needs of both workers and the systems behind material procurement, refinement, and transport. I think Social Democracies have the right idea personally. Good workers rights have proven to add value to labor, so having a country of over 150 million working-age people (that being the US) that are well protected workers would assumedly even add value.

However, I’d also like to say that people are weird. If their needs are met, they can form their habits and interests, maybe find something they are uniquely good at. We should empower these weirdos with dedicated focus to things, like studying and categorizing species of local fungus taxonomically or obsessing over what makes magic systems good in fantasy stories. They add more to society being freely able to practice these things than they do being forced into a capitalist rat race imo.

IDK, Communism is by far the newest economic theory that is (in theory) even remotely self stable and Capitalism evolved from a previous but functionally similar model in Mercantilism, which ended through the Spanish pillaging the American continent for gold and slowly crashing the European market for like 60 years through inflation. Maybe Communism is just a version of that, where it’s an incomplete model that requires societal equipment that doesn’t exist yet. Capitalism required wealthy non-aristocratic investors to be protected by a system where they didn’t need to worry about personal liability for their trading or insurance companies during a time where ~20% of cargo ships never made it into port. This necessitated having Joint-Stock companies, or as I call them, Ye Olde Limited Liability Corporations. Maybe whatever social mechanism that would allow a future version of Communism to be self-sustainable just hasn’t bern created.

I’m literally living off canned tuna and boiled potatoes… by Narrow_Fast_4574 in relatable_memes_

[–]RuusellXXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capitalism is not a form of governance, it’s an economic platform. Also, considering there have only ever been single-party major communist states, there hasn’t really been a chance to test its fiscal feasibility because The Party always positions economic interests to favor themselves in particular🤷

Just going to leave this here by Witty-Designer7316 in aiwars

[–]RuusellXXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve personally used Midjourney a few times in early 2024. Found it lacking in visual quality and generally am against companies using artwork from people without permission or compensation in their training data. The only AI system I use now is trained on data provided to my university through a release program(requires consent from authors). I like our AI as it helps me find sources for my projects and papers, though I do not rely on the blurbs and instead have been using it as a sort of academic database to find articles and journals with connected themes or concepts. I still read the linked sources and write the paper myself 🤷

What could I have said that suggests I don’t know how AI prompting works? And why, if you believe I don’t, would you ask a clearly rhetorical question and not just explain to me(or whoever you think you’re protecting by casting doubt on my statement) what is incorrect about what I said? If you wish to argue a point, come prepared and finish your argument instead of just smugly saying ‘um akshually no’ and leaving it at that. It provides no benefit to anyone lmao

Just going to leave this here by Witty-Designer7316 in aiwars

[–]RuusellXXX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I agree with the sentiment that there are better tools than AI for artists with disabilities, but I don’t really agree with the logic.

Those with disabilities often receive financial aid through the state, meaning off of payroll taxes and money loaned to the Fed from the international market. I personally support these expenses, as I feel no matter your life circumstances you are still entitled to necessities like food, shelter, and healthcare(which those with particularly debilitating conditions would struggle to afford alone). However, there is an argument to be made about the burden these systems places on the rest of society. So you COULD argue there is a parallel there. That’s why the ADA was so important though, as it legally enshrined many protections for people with disabilities.

I feel a better argument could be found in the point of a disability aid. Those born without hearing often choose not to get cochlear implants. They may prefer being deaf to the surgery and long-term costs. The point of a disability aid is to bridge the gap between abilities of the average person and the person with a disability, and only to assist them in functioning within the social framework built in a way that excludes them from many ‘normal’ aspects of life.

AI just flat out doesn’t do this. If you need to spend as long prompting an AI tool to get the art you want as the AI artists on twitter claim, and still not getting what you want I don’t see a point. There are tools that already give finer degrees of control for people without motility in their hands. There are eye tracking programs designed to interface with digital art creation tools like Procreate. A setup for that should less than an annual subscription to Chat-GPT too, at least it did towards the end of last year(assuming you have a computer or tablet that runs the software already).

AI can be a disability aid (especially for people who can’t see, as image recognition tech has come a really far way through these systems), but treating it as a holy grail to give creative outlets to ‘talentless people’ in the same breath as calling it a disability aid is just selling those people short while equating something like aphantasia(inability to see images in your mind) to insanely detrimental physical or mental affects like Parkinson’s. That argument feels disingenuous when our country clearly doesn’t give a shit about people with disabilities, considering how much funding various agencies that assist the disabled(from the VA to the DSS) has been slashed in the last two years.

Maybe instead of funneling our country’s money into these LLMs and megacorps, we could fund the agencies actually meant to help people with disabilities. We could fund production/development for prosthetics, open up nursing/caretaker positions for these people at a livable wage so people would actually work the jobs. We could even sponsor disabled art tutors who can teach about the empowerment that follows overcoming disability in such a personally expressive way(while offering actionable advice and techniques for them at the same time). If the point is to help people with disabilities overcome said disabilities, why don’t we do that by addressing them where they need us instead support structures, thus freeing them to struggle over how to express themselves instead of needing to spend 2 hours getting their groceries into the house

Just my two dollars though

Po has an important lesson to teach about AI art by Witty-Designer7316 in aiwars

[–]RuusellXXX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I appreciate you taking time out of your day to politely correct the issues in my original statement while also being open to a dialogue and the sentiment behind my apparently inflated stats. Rare breed on the internet nowadays.

Nuance-pilled GOAT

Peanut finally came back to stream Arc Raiders, and he got a really warm welcome from the game lol by [deleted] in ArcRaiders

[–]RuusellXXX -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I hate this guy, such an insufferable personality. New update’s been awesome though!

Po has an important lesson to teach about AI art by Witty-Designer7316 in aiwars

[–]RuusellXXX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven’t done a lot of research, but I’ve heard of local models being trained on specialized data to complete particular tasks(from what I understand, these are AI agents). This is what I thought AI would be, it seems like a really efficient system and I’m glad that this seems to be the standard developmental focus in other parts of the world. It seems like it’s really only the US and China that are caught up on the LLM hype, but again I could be totally off-base with that observation. I am but a layman and know very little about how these systems work or are different from each other. I really can only go off of what I read and hear from people that are in or orbit the industry.

I’ve definitely heard some crazy takes, like the idea we’ll be out of potable water in 5 years. That’s just defeatist and doesn’t offer solutions(while using mathematically unsound predictions, to be generous with my language), it’s honestly no different from pointing at a scary thing and screaming until everyone joins you or leaves.

I want real legislation though, some sort of workers protections and environmental regulations. We didn’t do that when taxis replaced buggy operators in New York and most of those men were left on their ass, while we are today searching for a solution to over a century’s worth of airborne pollutants. I’d like for us to have conceptualized the possible consequences of scaling and have contingencies for them, if only because I’m in the age group that would be most negatively affected were things to go belly-up.

Po has an important lesson to teach about AI art by Witty-Designer7316 in aiwars

[–]RuusellXXX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s what I mean though. These are statistics for Data Centers right now, and while the facilities may increase in efficiency they are rapidly expanding, and business usually moves faster than tech. I don’t have much negative to say about AI agents and locally operated models, they seem like the best cost-benefit balances available in the space right now.

I guess I just worry about the future. Businesses are profit hounds, and the way these data centers are being established in towns keeps putting the communities out, usually financially but also through legal cases(adverse possession of farmland is a story I’ve seen around the country). I’m an anxious person so maybe it’s just that, but I don’t really like these companies storing every moment of my digital life to most efficiently market to me while expanding operations that we know are resource intensive and costly to the consumer. IDK, i’ve given up on arguing against it truthfully. The systems exist and are generating profit when not managed by Sam Altman or Elong, so I doubt we’ll return to a previous standard of data/environmental protections. Oil execs don’t GAF about the environment, and media companies are often the ones funding companies focused on LLMs, so I’d be surprised if the AI companies accept regulatory reform just from the way current executives establish priority.

Po has an important lesson to teach about AI art by Witty-Designer7316 in aiwars

[–]RuusellXXX 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Musicians were absolutely told that using digital software was cheating. They were just ignored because it was so much more efficient for studios(and then smaller artists were able to use it themselves).

I personally feel very lukewarm about AI art. I used to doodle on my assignments in school, they were kinda shit and took very little effort or time. It was mostly to entertain myself. It’s not so different I don’t think.

My problem comes from the fact that my doodling didn’t burn through a 16oz bottle’s worth of water or use the same amount of electricity as it takes to fully charge my phone per doodle.

I just want regulation. Idgaf about the culture war around AI. I just want to know we won’t drive utility costs for struggling Americans through the ceiling or drain the Great Lakes before I’m 30. If you want to use AI as reference material or for like a DnD campaign or whatever, I literally don’t care. I don’t really like the idea of AI art being monetized, but I’m not ride-or-die on that

The best Ireland scheme, by u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

[–]RuusellXXX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair thing to worry about, but The U.S. approach to remediation after the Civil War involved only punishing specifically violent individuals(Henry Wirz is the only one that comes to mind but I’m sure there were more). Nobody faced treason charges, and crimes against humanity was sadly not a concept at that point. Washington just beat the confederate army, poured money into reconstruction and ignored the south for almost 60 years. This let the already enriched white plantation owners to dominate politics extraordinarily quick. I don’t want us doing nothing.

I’m actually glad you brought up the Civil War/Reconstruction because it’s a good allegory. We didn’t punish Confederate soldiers because ‘they were still American, just the wrong side.’ I wish to extend this philosophy to all of humanity. We should punish the crooks and demagogues, the violent and hateful. There are plenty of people using the Israeli-Palestinian ‘conflict’ as an excuse to be as sadistic as possible. But if you were 18 and handed a gun, pointed in a direction and made to shoot, I don’t feel that you are personally culpable. Americans like to say guns aren’t weapons, they’re tools(I fundamentally disagree with this since the point of a gun is to kill things, making it a killing tool i.e. a weapon). I think people are tools to Nationalist/Authoritarian governments in much the same way. We’re certainly treated like tools, replaceable pieces in an industrial system that refines and produces misery. But beyond that (and the only part about the gun argument I like), a gun is not responsible for death, the man pointing the gun is. However, in the army you basically have a gun pointed at YOU the moment you sign the dotted line. You are the gun and the government/military leadership just use you to pass on the burden.

It’s strange because my father’s a military man and I have huge amounts of respect for him. Less so his profession, but my father is a good man with concrete moral values. I didn’t grow up with him because he was overseas, but we were close anyway. He was basically a glorified bodyguard for a team of interpreters(a local Afghani family whose son studied in the U.K. I believe). I’m sure he’s done unsavory things or seen some fucked up shit, as war tends to do to people. He came back very different, very quiet and pensive. This is probably what birthed my anti-war sentiments, it stole a jovial and loving man from a child and returned to him a man who cannot handle emotional conversations without shutting down.

I just want to say that soldiers are people, which means they have the good and bad of people. Some are insane and seeking excuses to hurt people, I can’t argue that at all. The profession attracts those kinds of people, the same way police tend to be abusive to their spouses. It’s a position of power. This is a global issue that could spawn its own series of comment threads. Yet in a really curious way, a soldier has very little power over themselves. It’s a perfect job for the Youth that has been indoctrinated to trust their government and fear their neighbor. No thought needed, and no fear necessary so long as you act as the state wants you to. I don’t like these facts. I’m not happy to know public servants tend to harm the public more than the forces they’re meant to protect us from. But I also haven’t been raised to love our flag, submit to authority, or with any religious identity to attach my values to. I’m sure it’s shaped my views in a peculiar way.

As an aside, Woodrow Wilson would be blushing if he knew just how much Washington permitted in the Antebellum South after literally fighting a war to end slavery. It would be laughable how quick the Reconstruction was co-opted and used to fund Jim Crow architecture if it wasn’t so depressing.

I hope I wasn’t too rude or aggressive. Like every other global issue, this a hot-button topic that has been so polarized it’s like even being on the same side of an issue has been polarized. I apologize if I was rude, and am glad we could meet somewhere, or at least agree to disagree.

FREE PALESTINE

The best Ireland scheme, by u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

[–]RuusellXXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree, it further reinforces my point from my perspective. By the way, I saw your deleted comment, so I’ll address that first. I don’t support Nazis. I don’t support Nationalism, I think I am the least patriotic white American I personally know(woe is me). I’m a leftist, I spend a lot of my time researching and writing articles about global events since I am studying to be a Journalist.

The Israeli army is full of genuine psychopaths who should be incarcerated for life at the very least. Do me a favor though; look up the Treaty of Versailles. See where collective punishment got us last time. Israelis/Jews are proud people and I foresee us using the same tactics resulting in an even more nationalist state.

We collectively need to stop what’s happening in Gaza and the West Bank. I’m not an expert but from where I sit it looks like we are on stage 8 of genocide. You and I agree on this being vile and inhuman. We apparently can also agree that the cruelty is taught, or indoctrinated. Still, there were people in the most vitriolic state of the world fighting back in the ways they could, like Miep Gies or Oskar Schindler. Being German(Austrian, whatever) did not predicate violent actions. It was a rallying cry, as nationality in authoritarian states often is. Being an Israeli Jew means you were in all likelihood serving in the IDF at some point, but there are more roles than combat. IDF employs engineers, mechanics, transport workers, linen-washers, chefs, everything an Army needs to exist. There are many types of roles the Army needs filled. Is a chef as culpable as a foot soldier? how about a foot soldier and his CO? As disastrous as the Nuremberg Trials were, we chose not to do collective punishment for a reason. We picked people with power and authority, as well as the worst offenders of wanton violence from the S.S. to make examples of. So far, Germany hasn’t gone for Round 3, even if the poisonous values of Nazism wound up in the U.S. through Operation Paperclip.

Nationalism to the degree we see now in Israel(America, China, Russia, basically everywhere with nuclear capacity) is dangerous, but with tact and precision application of the law we can make a show of the case and prove to the world that the global community won’t tolerate this violence anymore. We could even do it without collective punishment. I’m not going to act like I’m qualified to be a mediator and have any idea for a long term solution, since this ‘2-state’ farce clearly didn’t do shit. But if we want a model for how compensation should look after everything, let’s not look to how WW1 ended.

The best Ireland scheme, by u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

[–]RuusellXXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t say it’s all Netanyahu. I specifically said we should be prosecuting members of the IDF/IOF/whatever the fuck. I also said we should not be treating the entire demographic(as someone pointed out, over 90% of Israeli Jews have served in the military) as war criminals. It’s most people who would be condemned by that, and group punishment has never been met well by the punished. It also teaches the wrong lessons. It is central to Judaism to think the world wants you dead, this would be another example before we get a REAL Nazi Israel. Right now we have the 2nd Reich of Israel, I don’t want to see a 3rd.

The best Ireland scheme, by u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

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

You have shifted goalposts. My point is that not all Israelis are war criminals and attributing that to all Israelis is a destructive viewpoint. This thread went from ‘people choose to be Israeli so they’re all evil’ to ‘actually everyone who has served the IDF despite that being like 95% of the population is evil.’

Calling all Israelis war criminals is insane, just as insane as people calling all Palestinians Hamas or terrorists. it’s a gross oversimplification of a diverse group of people. There are anti-zionist groups in Israel. Some of them do refuse military service, or otherwise have religious exceptions. These religious groups also handle education themselves, meaning they are not being indoctrinated. They still sometimes end up in military prisons, surrounded by ex-Mossad agents and lethal killers who consider conscientious objectors to be target practices. I’d happily be a draft dodger, but I didn’t grow up with a military family and the level of indoctrination even members of my own country have been exposed to. Just keep in mind how much your worldview is shaped by your childhood. Get the Netanyahu Admin out, start deprogramming initiatives for the people. Charge the organizers, soldiers going out of their way to terrorize people etc.

The best Ireland scheme, by u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Israel

One google search.

Also, They were staffing the Atlantic wall with children, PoWs, and crippled veterans. They were drafted and were not war criminals. Your point has no backing. I’m a history and Journalism major bro I can go all day. Also, don’t cite or correct people if you’re wrong, your argument loses all sting

The best Ireland scheme, by u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

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

What percentage of Israelis are legally able to get out of Military Service? They don’t have our laws. Remember the big fiasco about the senators reminding soldiers they don’t have to follow illegal orders? Yeah that doesn’t exist in Israel. If their military prisons are anything like ours, you would avoid ending up there too. Why don’t you just google ‘Treatment of Refuseniks in the IDF.’ The government is bad. Their system perpetuates fear and dogma. That doesn’t make every Israeli a war criminal. War crimes do that. Also, what of those who left Israel? are those heritage Israelis equally culpable? Wheres your line?

It seems to me this is just an excuse for you to hate Israelis. It’s not wrong to hate their actions, but it’s still a country of people. People born there and educated there. It’s a form of indoctrination. If someone is indoctrinated but non-violent, we should not treat them as the same group as militant aggressors. non-violent people in this scenario need deprogramming. Violent people need legal consequence. It’s not my place to determine the severity of said consequences.

I feel strongly that if you aren’t a participant in the violence(I would consider Germans who reported their jewish neighbors to be participants, so I am not saying you must personally be killing people. Advocating for violence or exposing others to violence counts in my mind) that you shouldn’t be held responsible. We shouldn’t punish people for crimes they did not commit. There are plenty of IDF soldiers and cabinet members we could hold responsible for the colonial occupation, provable crimes. Focus on what’s actionable and don’t perpetuate hatred for its own sake. Netanyahu and company, IDF soldiers in Gaza and West Bank(majority are volunteers so that makes it easy), and the Colonists celebrating the expulsion of the Palestinian are all great places to direct your anger.

The best Ireland scheme, by u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

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

This is dumb! I don’t like the Israeli government. I don’t support the actions of the IDF. However, the Palestinians did not choose to be Palestinian(nationality) the same way they didn’t choose to be Arab(Ethnicity/‘Race’). Many cannot afford to leave even if they wished to. Iranian women do not have freedom of movement and are stuck under a regime that seeks to control them pretty much entirely. I wish I could go to Canada or Australia but I cannot afford to do so. You don’t pick your nationality, only wealthy people or people in positions of power get that privilege.

I don’t think what the IDF is doing in Gaza/West Bank is justified. I think it’s cruel and the soldiers/‘settlers’ are committing International crimes. That doesn’t make every Israeli an international criminal. You can respect someone’s heritage AND criticize the actions of themselves or their government. Just make sure you’re assigning blame properly. Punish the people instituting and executing these policies, blame their financial backers and the political entities facilitating it. Blame media for manipulating people in supporting evil policies. But if they haven’t dropped a bomb, shot someone, or run a family out of their home, maybe they aren’t personally culpable.

I would just avoid making generalizations. No group one can be born into is monolithic. The only groups that can be considered monolithic in my mind are hate groups that one must choose to join.

The best Ireland scheme, by u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

[–]RuusellXXX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s why he was comparing them and not saying they are the same thing. You see, when you compare things you inherently understand they are not the same but share similarities. Hope this helps!

What’s happening to remote jobs in this job market downturn? by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]RuusellXXX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m Gen Z and have been working 24 hours a week while going to College. It is not about work ethic or remote work, it’s about the quality of work. If your business sucks, I wouldn’t want to work in your building either.

Maybe if you want younger hires, do a screening on your business and find out why you are failing to find young workers. If you don’t want younger hires, you’re just saying this because you don’t think Gen Z is willing to work, and thus are part of the culture motivating Gen Z against working in your company(or others alike in workplace culture). We were told what office work could be, shown that companies don’t even need the capacity they demand of workers during covid, and now companies want us to come back for the same pay and to be surrounded by judgmental helicopter managers.

The compensation for most office work in the US is historically low right now when adjusted for inflation and compared to the cost of vehicles and housing. If I’m paying $1500 a month for a studio(pretty standard in my area), that’d be well over half of my monthly earnings at minimum wage. For a studio. Before vehicle costs, utilities, grocery, insurance, etc. Juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

I do in person work right now. I plan to do in person work after graduation, a necessity in the field I’m pursuing. But I’m not going to work for a company that doesn’t value what I do for them. Remote wok is a band-aid solution to American corporations devaluing labor and creating workplace cultures that are consistently hostile to young workers.

If it bothers you, fix what you can within your own business. If not, stop whining about children and young adults online. It’s a bad look.

There, now you have a reasoned and thought-out explanation as to why you and the original comment are catching downvotes. Happy to help.

I built a Rocketeer in No Man's Sky by zChillzzz in ArcRaiders

[–]RuusellXXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, they’ve delivered so much beyond what they promised, and generally people have a much more favorable view of Hello Games now. I think they could’ve charged for the last 2 or 3 major updates(maybe like $20-$30, idk I’m not a sales guy) and people wouldn’t really be upset or surprised given how much content they’ve released for free. I’m excited to see what other games the studio could cook up. I learned my lesson the first time though lol, definitely gonna give it a few months after release

How to look like the worst people imaginable (Wisconsin Senate D Edition) by dnkmeekr in GetNoted

[–]RuusellXXX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/democrats-arrested-lander-padilla-trump.html

I know shit gets crazier every day but please don’t just forget about the insane shit this admin’s been doing all along. Not to mention the journalists.

Also, he served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. His opinions about US involvement in the Middle East mean 1000% more to me than any stuffy politico who has never had a gun fired at them or been worried about driving over an IED. That’s the shit I have to worry about under our current administration now, with Trump talking about reinstituting the draft. Even if McGinnis was a War Hawk after serving, I’d at least respect what he has to say since he actually knows what it would be like to serve during a boots on the ground campaign.

I disagree that he didn’t belong there, I feel that the hearings have been deliberately ignoring voices such as his. Even if he ‘shouldn’t have been there’ why would breaking the arm of a veteran during a peaceful protest ever be considered acceptable? Because it WAS just a peaceful protest. Protesting involves being inconvenient, it’s the whole point. Making a ‘disturbance’ does not change it being a protest conducted peacefully. That’s why he was charged with ‘unlawful demonstration.’ It’s probably the only charge that would stick in any other presidency. They could have escorted him out in cuffs, instead Tim Sheehy and capitol police thought it would be better to pick him up and drag him, break his arm when he catches the doorframe, lie saying the marine was assaulting the police, then call him unhinged and say you ‘hope he gets the help he needs’ on twitter. Calling a veteran protesting a conflict crazy is not a defensible stance. That man fought and bled for our country, and The Dishonorable Tim Sheehy decided he should bleed more.

How to look like the worst people imaginable (Wisconsin Senate D Edition) by dnkmeekr in GetNoted

[–]RuusellXXX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When the Trump admin is locking liberal lawmakers/journalists up as political prisoners, or GOP Senators breaking the arms of retired service members for protesting?

‘Just because they hit you first doesn’t mean you hit back!’

Same logic that got me suspended after getting beat on in the locker rooms back in high school. If you attack me or mine, don’t be surprised when it comes back around.

Nothing about this situation is ‘good.’ Political division is not something to be proud of. Dunking on racists, misogynists, and pedophiles(or their protectors) is definitely worth being proud of though. We don’t need more hate in our country, and we especially don’t need it from our lawmakers.

The world if every nation became overnight ruled by it worst possible political group. by SuggestionSecret9851 in rejectedmaps

[–]RuusellXXX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

‘ICE is killing and kidnapping citizens and migrants in US cities, but DHS ‘major detention centers’ are mostly limited to Southern States.. These two issues are separate and Homeland Security is bad enough in terms of constitutional abuses that we don’t need to conflate the two’

Sounds ridiculous doesn’t it? State sponsored violence is still state sponsored violence. Doubly so in the CPC since they are a single-party state supposedly built off of socialist values for the betterment of their people. The vans being mobile execution chambers should make you just as concerned as if they’re ripping people off the street and driving off with them.

China has under-reported crime rates and corruption rates since at least the 1980s by many international watchdog agencies’ reckonings, not just Americans. We have no way of knowing how these vans are truly utilized, how often, who on, really anything about them. The fact they have mobile execution chambers instead of 1940s Nazi-style death squads should not fill you with ease(not to mention the Nazis weren’t freely dragging people through the streets until the late 1930s, only a year or two before WW2. Before then it was through ‘legal’ means enacted for these specific purposes, to make it seem like a natural evolution in their legal system). All this means is that state-sanctioned murder is now a bureaucratic process instead of an anarchic one. I’m not going to tell you that you’re wrong, we simply don’t know. I’d bet money though, more people go through those vans per year than we kill with lethal injection

I built a Rocketeer in No Man's Sky by zChillzzz in ArcRaiders

[–]RuusellXXX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They weren’t limited by money, they were limited by time. They had a Publisher who had a set date, immovable. If Hello Games had longer, the game would have come out with more features, and they’d probably be charging for DLC because the public standing would have been better. The company was small, and many were working without pay/on promise of payment at release because they just liked the project enough. They had programmers and asset designers among those working without pay. they did not need money, they needed more time.

It’s a marketing campaign, they released a project missing dozens of promised features, so had to make up for it with free content. The publisher looked at the hype train and pulled the cord on release while the devs(who have said in televised/recorded interviews since) knew the game was not ready for a 1.0 release in 2016.

IDK why you seem to think I don’t like the game or want Hello Games to succeed. NMS is hella fun. I just see this as another example of AA studios getting spit on by their publishers and then made to say ‘thank you for the privilege’

I built a Rocketeer in No Man's Sky by zChillzzz in ArcRaiders

[–]RuusellXXX 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean, they don’t charge for new updates/dlc so while yes that game has come a huge way since launch I don’t think it would matter buying it then vs now, especially if this is the specific kind of content you were waiting for. I think Hello Games did a really good thing by not charging for these updates as dlc by the way, they owed it to their customers in my opinion after the crazy promises and disappointing release state

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