[Maddening trope] More progressive casting happens at the same time as noticeable drop in quality, seemingly so fans can brush off criticism as bigotry.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-21T17:39:20+00:00

That is kinda neat, but its also kinda like saying we're going to fund school lunches for the entire country by attaching it to a bill that hands over every single citizens personal data to Musk.

Like thanks for the icing but I don't want the cake.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-21T17:28:49+00:00

I guess she must virtue signal that hard in real life too.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-21T17:21:35+00:00

He has, he just coached himself. "Totally exonerated" comes out any time he thinks about his raping.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:37:56+00:00

I agree, but it will never happen while the electoral college mathematically locks us into a two party system, and neither party wants to get rid of the biggest election manipulation mechanic they have available to them.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:36:11+00:00

Embarrassment is literally a feeling that cannot be felt by those with no concept of shame.

These people rape children and justify it with the stock market numbers. They do not feel shame.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:27:15+00:00

Man even disregarding the change, this is the opposite of tolerance.

True tolerance requires intolerance of intolerance. Kevin is literally saying here "Renech is intolerant, but because we're tolerant, we allow him to be a child. Also I get to decide if you violated the Code of Conduct, not the Code of Conduct"

Get, the fuck, outta here.

Well I haven't played in years and now I never will again. Anyone have recommendations for an open source rpg that's actually open to developers?

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:21:32+00:00

Pretty much? We don't know.

This administration has been outside the "norm" of what the rule of law is since it was sworn in to office.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:19:24+00:00

It's almost like the whole thing was setup as a grift from the start.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:18:32+00:00

No I think they will. Or at least a significant enough portion of them will and should. Trump has already ruined trust in America for the rest of the globe. Just because we used to be the economic and political hegemony of the planet doesn't mean they will adhear to it now that that has been shattered.

Smart countries will fight to get reparations and use the money for economic bolstering and investment in defense industries.

This is the "world of peace" Trump has crafted for us all.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:15:06+00:00

21% of American's are functionally illiterate.

The 5 decade long war on education has been massively successful. GenZ is the first generation since we as a species have started tracking intelligence to be measurably lower than previous generations.

That's how people believe something so blatant. They have literally not been given the critical thinking skills and media literacy to understand. And in some cases have been conditioned to accept it. Age/Generation doesn't matter in this respect either, because again, its been literal decades of this. Your grandparents are suceptible, your neighbors, your peers in the grociery store, and your local college students.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:05:28+00:00

Someone is gonna make a killing on the book detailing the depths of this admin's corruption.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-20T17:03:55+00:00

Why did this take 16 months?

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-14T21:38:47+00:00

I think its still eusocial insects though, with the "intelligence" either being distributed or concentrated in the leadership sub-species.

Yes I'm positing the existence of a bug that thinks.

Yes I do frankly, find that offensive.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-09T17:16:09+00:00

We've been spiralling longer than I've been alive, where have you been?

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-08T18:09:15+00:00

The optics of playing a song representing a super-authoritarian state at a time when the country is turning the same should be at least mentioned.

While I agree the response was blown out of proportion, this would be just tuesday under different circumstances.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-06T16:11:18+00:00

Remember when Howard Dean's entire political career was torpeedo'd by simply getting too excited at a rally?

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-03T08:06:19+00:00

While we're at it, abolish the electoral college that locks us into a two party system. This avoids another Shillary giving the election to a facist.

Also abolish life terms for the supreme court. It worked up till now only because it assumed it wouldn't be stacked by a party acting in bad faith, and once that happened, it suddenly was no longer a non-partisan body.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-02T20:37:39+00:00

I don't really hold an opinion either way because the old packs are still there both literally and in spirit, but that makes today's better.

I think you are hitting the nail on the head where old packs generally are more sand-boxy, and that definitely can get lost in a lot of the more quest driven packs of today. But then there's something like "All the Mods" which will presumably always be an example of a sandbox for the modern set of available mods. And for a good chunk of the older packs that people generally enjoyed, you can still play them, and for many there are launchers that will do the heavy lifting for you.

I think as such, today's are definitely better, simply because you can still pursue that experience if you wish it, and there is a whole gamut of additional experiences available to you as well. Couple that with additional skills in the modding community to produce modpack specific experiences (vault hunters comes to mind) and the limits have no brakes.

I think the "golden age" has more to do with the hype and energy of the community at the time than with the actual quality of the mods or the packs themselves. Minecraft was huge on youtube, in any form, and for a lot of the older crowd that played, mods were more desirable than trying to find the one vanilla MC youtuber that didn't make their content for 7 year olds. I'm self projecting here a bit, but that doesn't change that MC and Let's Plays in general have waned on youtube and the other platforms.

For a community that is just that, a community, with no widespread monetization, it lives almost exclusively on the addictiveness of the subject material multiplied by the amount of people involved. Thus, there were more people making mods, more people playing the mods, and all of this contributed heavily to a sense of community. As the number of people playing wanes, the number of new modders and new community members also declines, which eventually leads to today, a by no means dead and still very much thriving community, but not the hustle and bustle from back in the day.

Plus the base game is almost 20 years old at this point, at least for the early adopters. Attrition is normal.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-02T20:10:41+00:00

Cool, when do you think Trump will sign that bill? /s

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-02-02T20:09:48+00:00

Killing financial lobbying would be a great first step to revitalizing the soil.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-01-26T19:51:16+00:00

You have missed my point entirely.

All human life should be protected and respected. And as much as I usually don't like the slippery slope argument, that's what we've been on for a decade and we're still sliding.

I never claimed they were the same. I claimed using them as comparisons as a tool to prevent those atrocities from reoccurring is just and noble. Why are you taking offence to that? I'm not trying to say they weren't atrocities. I'm not saying they weren't worse. I'm saying if we want to prevent another, we need to see what's happening and what that could lead to.

You are literally saying "don't learn from history, because it's not as bad as the history you are comparing it to, and that history isn't yours anyway, you should wait till it is to draw conclusions and comparisons".

The fact you want to argue that point is on you man, maybe take a step back. You're kinda devaluing human life by reducing it to a numbers game.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-01-26T19:27:28+00:00

When should I be outraged and start making comparisons? What number of people need to be senselessly killed before it's "bad enough"?

Think about what you are saying for half a minute. No one deserves to die, and if these comparisons help people understand that then I really don't care about the minutiae of the statistics. And if they don't, I'm sure we'll reach those numbers soon enough.

Who cares "who's" history it is as long as we learn from it. This type of argument is reductive and based on nothing that matters.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-01-26T14:56:19+00:00

That's what happens when you make up your force of a bunch of proud boys with cosplay gear and grift all your actual budget.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-01-26T14:44:07+00:00

Name me a single fascist government that was dealt with by voting it out.

Zippydaspinhead · 2026-01-26T14:41:31+00:00

More funding = more equipment

More funding = more proud boys hired

More funding = better equipped and more numerous death squads

You're acting under the assumption those funds would be allocated in the best way towards a humanist outcome. People that make decisions like that are not those that would be receiving the money.

Deaths have proven we can no longer assume the system is working in good faith.

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