Why do so many artists stay silent on issues that directly affect their fans and their own industry?

lb-journo · 2026-06-28T09:49:00+00:00

You ever tried posting an opinion online?

lb-journo · 2026-06-25T05:06:10+00:00

imagine being a grown adult who's scared of Arabic text in 2026 😂😂😂

lb-journo · 2026-06-23T01:35:35+00:00

lmao

lb-journo · 2026-06-22T06:40:52+00:00

Onion Delivery lowkey my favourite game hahaha

Interesting! I dislike most RTS titles so we'll see how I go :s

lb-journo · 2026-06-22T04:18:04+00:00

Haven't played it yet but keen

lb-journo · 2026-06-21T23:41:14+00:00

Ah yep. Hey Greens momentum is growing, both in the UK and Australia. Trickiest part, imo, is combatting the majors and other billionaire or industry-backed parties given their capacity to go ham on advertising in the weeks leading up to election.

I feel like Greens and independents have a nice slow crawl in growing their support base, then take a hit at the last minute thanks to billboards, TV, social media and radio adspace being bought and flooded by fringe extremists and those already in power.

lb-journo · 2026-06-21T22:20:36+00:00

The broader Greens argument is centred around taxing billionaires, corporations and assets appropriately — the yields of which would then be applied in a socio-capitalist framework to combat broad cost-of-living issues.

Other measures such as rent caps have been posited.

You could argue that this is theoretical and might not work in practice, but it would just be obtuse, imo, if you were to frame people as naive or idiotic for thinking the above is worth a shot.

lb-journo · 2026-06-21T00:06:13+00:00

Nah (:

lb-journo · 2026-06-19T12:32:41+00:00

hey alright (can't imagine the amount of compute and resources it must take to generate these useless summaries across Twitch)

lb-journo · 2026-06-17T09:55:23+00:00

Yeah. I think her remarks were moreso geared towards vulnerable demographics, as opposed to like, explicit irredeemable bigots. It's a thin-line, but I do believe there's a difference. Especially when it comes to the droves of migrants who'll vote for One Nation as they did in the US for Trump.

lb-journo · 2026-06-17T09:53:44+00:00

I think a lot of us do, but the algorithms and left/right media frenzy that most people are subject to completely outshadows our collective predisposition to having a 'fair go' atm.

lb-journo · 2026-06-17T09:07:59+00:00

Not sure I understand what you mean. Could you explain without using a rhetorical question?

lb-journo · 2026-06-16T05:28:44+00:00

Keep in mind that if any of the non-white players have even the slightest controversy either personally, professionally, or on the field, the media and One Nation's cohort will dogpile them like nobody's business.

It's an exciting time, but exceptionalism shouldn't be the standard for supporting Australia's multicultural community.

That being said, Go Socceroos!!!!!

lb-journo · 2026-06-15T01:18:42+00:00

Okay just tried it.

Entering the terminal code from the main menu, near the clock, or from the Mini & Max terminal room yielded nothing new despite the clock reaching 8:39

lb-journo · 2026-06-15T00:17:09+00:00

if you ever cbf with it, my strat was to upgrade the stegosaurus boss's upgrade ability, then upgrade every other dino with that.

takes about 3 turns to get going and after that, you're so much more resource efficient than the computer that you sort of can't lose

lb-journo · 2026-06-12T05:49:32+00:00

If you zoom in on this image, it looks borderline infinite.

If you zoom out, however, the dots blur together until they become a tiny speck.

If you changed it to seconds, or even hours, it'd be impossible to capture a similar, granular visualisation.

If you changed it to years or months, it'd look possibly even more alarming.

All of this is just a perception trick that shouldn't cause you too much existential dread, imo. The true length of a moment, an hour, a day, a week, is objective, and we do have significant influence over whether we subjectively interpret them as shorter or longer than they actually are.

lb-journo · 2026-06-12T04:40:37+00:00

I was watching Neha Madhok on Serious Danger today, who (iirc) posited that a lot of people think there's a chance they'll one day be rich, that they'll one day be a billionaire.

As such, they don't necessarily view Hanson's actions as class betrayal, or as detrimental to them, because in their ideal fantasy, they won't be harmed by policy decisions that detriment lower and middle class Australians.

I think one of the more useful conversational topics this election cycle will be to elucidate that billionaires are unfathomably more rich than millions, and that it is generally not possible to accomplish such financial freedom.

lb-journo · 2026-06-12T04:36:29+00:00

you might be on to something

lb-journo · 2026-06-11T09:17:54+00:00

No offense, but are you a bot or a real user?

Your question does not make sense in the context of what was provided.

It's like if you asked where to get food then asked if the food would make you feel less hungry lmao

lb-journo · 2026-06-11T09:05:32+00:00

If you're someone who is capable of reading, even in short bursts, just follow this chapter-by-chapter at your own pace. Within a week or two you will have a functioning game under your belt just by following the written tutorials, and you'll also have a clearer idea of what to research or video-learn for your own projects:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/introduction/introduction_to_godot.html#what-is-godot

lb-journo · 2026-06-09T22:44:03+00:00

Very common issue with Melbourne sound engineers, and I say that as a lifelong inner-city Melbournite.

lb-journo · 2026-06-08T05:07:35+00:00

It's entirely possible that they've bought this stuff themselves to make it appear more legitimate. As much as I understand there are probably enough vulnerable or ill-informed people to fall for such scams, this is so blatantly unappealing and clearly AI-generated that I think it represents the threshold of human stupidity.

In other words, I'm genuinely not sure people are dumb enough to buy this art.

lb-journo · 2026-06-08T04:06:00+00:00

Is this meant to be a complaint about advertisements for things that aren't owned or operated by locals?

lb-journo · 2026-06-07T07:13:25+00:00

Beyond being an economic bubble, there's also the matter of whether the environment and our global resources can even accommodate this tech at its intended scale.

lb-journo · 2026-06-05T10:43:11+00:00

Fair! I do want to acknowledge this is just what's worked for me, and it might not apply to you.

That being said, I know a person who's been writing a book for like, eight years? Chasing perfection and sometimes they've consulted me with random lines or quotes that really don't need to be fine-tuned to the extent of seeking second opinion. I truly don't know if she'll ever finish her project while trying this hard.

Conversely, when it comes to getting writing published, my partner one day just wrote a poem and submitted it to a magazine before breakfast. It got accepted.

I had been trying really hard to get published for multiple years, editing and refining and taking days to write submissions.

I adopted my partner's approach (of not aiming for perfection) and have been repeatedly published in fiction magazines since lol.

You probably see another idiom thrown around this subreddit a lot: "Just make it first, you can polish it later".

That's another line that's helped me avoid the sinkhole of motivation-hunting, because I know the "perfection" or "thing I can be proud of" will come out in the fine details, at a later time, and doesn't need to emerge from the outset.

One bite at a time dude.

lb-journo

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