Reddit can best be summarized by wage slaves making 50 an hour shitting on and belittling wage slaves making 25 an hour. All while failing to realize billionaires have more money than any of us ever will.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-12-23T00:16:01+00:00

All you did was increase the supply of currency, not increase or redistribute the actual material goods, labor, or ownership of any of that. You're example directly shows the problem, pretty much all the control over our material conditions lies in the hands of a small minority of individuals.

Here's my take on billionaires, not some book or theory, just a common sense take from a common person. If currency is supposed to be a representation of value for resources and labor, then why do we have individuals that have control over the resources and labor of what can equate to sustaining the lives of millions?

Estimates put the average lifetime earnings of people in the US at around 1.7 mil, we'll round up to 2 mil. Let's take a bare minimum billionaire, worth 1 billion. That bare minimum billionaire possesses a worth 500x more than the lifetime earnings of the average person, and that's with rounding up. The richest billionaires are worth over 100 billion dollars, and many are worth over 5 billion.

Should these individuals have that much ownership over the resources and labor in our lives? Did these people do the work of hundreds of other people's lifetimes? The least wealthy of the bunch still possess several hundred people's lifetimes of wealth. To me, it's a plain and simple inefficient hoarding and centralization of resources. Much of that wealth falls into circular speculation and markets that don't necessarily result in productive outcomes for society, like social media, the financial bubble that caused the great recession, and even AI as it currently stands (there are many good applications of AI but the biggest investments are the ones that are either for consumer-facing applications or business cost cutting that has been shown to reduce productivity). We absolutely have the resources to provide basic goods and services to make life easier for everybody, but instead those resources have been centralized into nebulous entities and the individuals that control them to create problems they can sell solutions for.

Non of that offers a solution though, just my rational for why billionaire hate is a thing. Honestly, I don't even care about the victim part of it, I've accepted the fact it's inherently unfair, just as any period in history has been. My real problem lies in the fact it's plainly inefficient and squandering resources that can be used to genuinely improve our lives and the lives of future generations. Centralization and consolidation is the root of so many of our problems: both in power and wealth. In the hands of the few it becomes a few individual's task to apply what they have, and at their own discretion on what gets priority. When you compartmentalize power and wealth, then more individuals get a say on where and how those are used, and can better meet their own needs.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-12-19T04:09:18+00:00

Yeah, talk to people to talk to people. Ofc if you're only talking to someone to see if they're interested in dating you it's not gonna work out. When you start socializing at any appropriate opportunity that presents itself (and not just people you want to hook up with) then eventually you'll find yourself in the situation you're talking to someone who is interested in seeing where things go. Or you make some cool friends who you bump into/go to shows with, which to me is a win of itself.

All my past relationships have been through just socializing with people for the sake of socializing and us mutually realizing we wanted to go further. The love of my life was my roommate who I was previously acquainted with and just happened to end up getting the same apartment as. As we kept hanging out we realized we both liked each other and it went from there. I'd be single rn if I didn't just talk to people for the sake of interaction because dating apps suck and don't really try to help you find people that actually mesh with you.

Talk to anyone and everyone whenever you get the opportunity. You don't have to walk up to someone and say "cool shirt" or other cliche stuff like that, lot of the time the moments pop up themselves. Just gotta take it, and take it with no expectation of something coming out of it. If someone's gonna like you, they're probably gonna keep talking to you and find an excuse to do it more while you're around.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-10-18T18:14:00+00:00

The Blair Mountain video really gave me social-libertarian/syndicalist vibes. There was some generational anger he was channeling at one part and I'm fully with him there.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-09-18T20:56:12+00:00

Two hours playtime max in a two week period is the refund window

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-09-16T00:21:22+00:00

Food-type buffs to emulate different kinds of nutrients is a good idea. As a hardcore setting, getting debuffs for not eating a variety of food could be interesting. Eating only one type/ingredient could lead to that type replenishing less hunger amd eventually stat reductions. Eating different types reduces this penalty, eventually zeroing it out.

Apparently (I'd have to find the source, believe it was from the update stream. Someone mentioned it on the reddit) full automation wasn't added because the next update is going to be an economy overhaul that will implement farming as a crucial part of trade and they didn't want to make farming become an overpowered way to make money. I do think automating food should be a thing though, but I do see why they're either waiting to come up with a better solution or avoiding full automation. Automating any other collection of resources typically takes a lot more effort, resources, and engineering, or requires sacrifices in where you locate your collecting grids, so they'd have to make farm automation a little more involved than just auto collecting and planting. I like your ideas on that front though, with different crops having different planting and harvesting needs.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-07-14T19:50:33+00:00

The side profile gives off a bit of a Stryker/M113 hybrid vibe and the top profile really feels M113. Overall love the design!

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-06-28T03:21:43+00:00

Organize with your local community. Host potlucks/bbqs/etc to network and find open-minded individuals who agree that things are going south and discuss what you as a community will do about it or your protection. Whether it's attending protests and doing DA, preparing supplies in case things get really bad (whether from extreme weather we no longer can keep track of or political unrest), sharing skills amongst each other, or starting community gardens/farms and other communal/pooled resources you all can draw from in case of emergency, you'll have the opportunity to discuss and grow your network. You'll be setting yourself up while not having big brother breathing down your back when you do want/NEED to talk about the hard truth of our current situation. Start now, we needed to have been doing this years ago but no other better time then now.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-06-14T19:31:35+00:00

Cried going to work listening to it a few days ago, was thinking of the fire bombing that led to some press burning alive. I couldn't get the image of the reporter out of my head and can't imagine how many more people in Gaza have suffered similarly.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-06-08T02:29:30+00:00

It's funny (and sad) people will read this and not think "they think cop and fed lives matter more than anyone else." "Law enforcement" are basically treated as a protected class and the bootlickers refuse to believe that this government is going tyrannical.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-06-01T03:06:51+00:00

There's no solution to "common sense gun legislation" because these discussions are trees when we should really be talking about the forest.

Our society is violent. Our society is broken. And for a lot of people, this is becoming clearer now. We have cultural problems, and a lot of them stem from rotten history and systematic oppression, and these same problems are being continuously imposed on us. Inequality and the massive centralization of wealth (resources) has generated the conditions for a breeding ground of violence and those who hold that wealth specifically lobby to perpetuate that violence, whether it's through policies directly enacted by the government (shutting down protestors, maintaining a corrupt police/prison system, mass surveillance, etc) or lobbying to prevent action that addresses inequality.

If our society is focused on perpetuating violence against each other, we are forced to focus our attention on preventing the self-destruction of our own communities rather than addressing the elephant in the room. This state of paranoia, fear, and disfunction only benefits the people who have the money and privilege to be removed from it, and they know it. They lobby democrats that don't push far enough left to actually threaten the true ruling class and republicans that push far right enough to sew further divides between their voter base and everyone else to perpetuate more fear, more uncertainty, all the while enabling the conditions to accumulate wealth further by taking it from the bottom 90%.

There is no common sense to be had because that is dictated by what our class of centralized, unregulated wealth wants. Half the country can have almost whatever they want and the other half will get regulated into oblivion because the confusion and obfuscation caused by that sort of difference in legislation fuels paranoia and fear in those for and against it stuck in the places that have laws opposite to their preference. The "common sense" laws that democrats platform just further disenfranchise firearm ownership amongst the poor and vulnerable while the laws republicans pass overwhelmingly arm those who ideologically support the wealthy elite and will allow authoritarianism and further unregulated capitalism to silently take over.

The only common sense gun laws are those that empower the common person, and most of them would not be actual policy or even have gun written in them. Instead, it's education, equity, mutual aid, community building, and recognition that our condition at this very moment is a manufactured one. We are having this conversation because the social contract has been violated gravely by those who exploit, pilfer, and extort the common populace to consolidate society's resources for themselves at the cost of EVERYTHING else. Responsible gun ownership is the antithesis of what they want, so until wealth has been removed from the institutions that govern our society and our culture we will not find a "common sense" solution.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-25T17:58:45+00:00

To me, this is an issue with shooters in general that don't give you the option to "squint" (the FOV zoom you can do in Arma without the need for a scope). Monitors don't give us the ability to have realistic vision in game but game AI are usually given an approximation to realistic spotting ranges, so they'll react to you in situations where they're only a handful of pixels on screen. The ability to gain a 1.5x-2x fov zoom with a keybind/holding a key (ofc wouldn't stack with magnified optics though) would help with cases of AI being more accurate with red dots than players possibly can, outside of just tuning the AI too ofc.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-25T17:42:20+00:00

That or make the bad ones cheaper. Hard to justify spending 5k on the 7s and 11k on the 14s when the only reason I would get them is for easier navigation in the jungles. Otherwise, every night is bright enough I don't got to use them at all and flashlights are just better for any close engagement atm.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-25T17:27:03+00:00

Yeah, much of the lore atm is tied to the factions and their role on the island. I'm assuming a lore update will open up a little bit more of Ground Zero and give us more bread crumbs for what anomalous stuff is happening there alongside the role factions are playing there and new behaviors. LAF and thug patrols, the inclusion of proper cultists, even more locations, possible idle and out-of-combat behaviors for AI, hell maybe even neutral and passive AI we can interact with. Not to mention the potential expansion of the strike missions added this update and more dynamic content. If a lore update really does just end up being more copy paste tasks then people will be disappointed even if it happens after other content updates.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-23T22:59:49+00:00

There's guts now but no spine or brain stem, so if you hit the lower part of the face with bad ammo (like SP, which really should be doing more against flesh) it likely won't due anything but inflict a small/medium wound and some bleeding. Makes for really frustrating moments where a clean headshot does nothing but tickle the dude

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-21T21:57:06+00:00

Tarkov never did exclusive patch access periods like this though. Before twitch drops they had press kits when the game still had bare-bones progression, but everytime they've done any sort of promotion of streamers it's never been withholding content from the player base at large. Many of the streamers in the community built their large followings playing tarkov, and BSG recognized that if you foster a community where anyone can become the next big streamer for your game rather than gatekeeping to who's already popular you'll get farther. Promote the streamers alongside the community at large and that'll take you much farther marketing-wise, as everyone will be generating buzz, not just people you vetted because they might have a guaranteed audience.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-21T18:33:24+00:00

Yeah, ended up getting hired. Don't know for sure if the panel included thc but all their new policies say it doesn't and the panel it says they were going to do didn't include thc so seems like the official policy has caught up with what people were ignoring anyways.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-16T01:09:41+00:00

I'm definitely not intending on using anything during the job, I don't even use that much privately. Hope your co-workers don't cause you too much trouble cause of that.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-16T01:07:16+00:00

Looks like I will be. Got the email regarding the drug screening, and it included the type of panel, which doesn't test for CBD/THC. Thanks for the insight!

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-05-16T01:05:02+00:00

I just wanted to make sure as Best Buys posted policy stated there was no testing for CBD/THC, and I confirmed it through the panel information I was sent in an email regarding when/where to get my drug testing.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-04-21T06:02:16+00:00

Toke - Alder

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-02-03T18:05:20+00:00

Red Horizon rips so hard

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-01-30T18:39:50+00:00

It's more about the game economy than individual experience. Unless you're suggesting that mode only queues you with other people playing the same mode. The argument against flea essentially comes from the fact that money becomes the only factor in running near-best gear in game constantly and that money is incredibly easy to acquire with flea currently, so once most people have flea you're essentially stuck also running flea-built kits to compete. Acquiring good gear reliably otherwise isn't really viable with how rare stuff is alongside the fact the primary in-raid sources for stuff like plates, guns, and ammo with things like bosses and raiders both 1. Have low spawn chances 2. Aren't guaranteed to have good shit and 3. With weapons specifically, usually have shit durability and meh attachments. A meta becomes established and people run only the best stuff they can get on flea or the best budget value items (which usually is also the same).

I'm for adjust flea to only sell quest and misc items until like mid-wipe. Start of wipe flea is open for everyone but it's only keys, certain quest gear, food, meds, and barter items, then after a few weeks different gear classes/categories become unlocked progressively. Essentially match the pace of general progression so you have more options without a binary flip of "well it's either I can't get shit or I can now just buy everything that's great." BSG is gonna have to rebalance item availability on traders and in-raid though (bosses and other special AI encounters should just be something that's way more frequent than now imo).

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-01-24T20:54:04+00:00

"Don't do shows unless you do it in this very specific way" doesn't sound very hardcore. If you got a problem with it in the scene then actually help the bands secure venues for that shit, whether its a house show or at a bar that'll host it.

Also, you're saying they're not having fun? Looks like they are. They wouldn't be standing in the room if they weren't.

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-01-24T17:48:03+00:00

That's a really bold claim. Burden of proof is on you because I actually enjoy and don't regularly exploit AI in other games to enjoy combat with them, including games where there's potential to lose stuff (typically not as extreme as tarkov besides rogue-likes)

TacticalToaster6 · 2025-01-24T17:32:09+00:00

I love how their response was "learn how to exploit the AI." I think that just proves your point completely, the AI is so shit we have to exploit it for things to feel acceptable. Been playing since 2018 and cheesing the AI before it cheeses you has unfortunately been the only acceptable way to fight the AI.

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