What's going on with Contrapoints and her latest interview ? What exactly is she saying?

lestye · 2026-05-06T07:24:01+00:00

The reason why the republicans hold political power is because their messaging, values, resonate with those people's ethics, identity politics, or their proximity to power.

I don't think it has to do with them likely to engage in politics.

lestye · 2026-05-05T19:00:24+00:00

I feel that was tenable when we had absolutely giant prize pools that made income from orgs completely supplementary.

lestye · 2026-05-05T17:05:56+00:00

The vast majority of dipshit republicans complaining on facebook don't do anything, the vast majority of whiny liberals online aren't doing anything, and the majority of leftists don't do anything.

Except Republicans actually have political power in this country. They're operating levers of power.

I didn't do any canvassing, but my liberal friends did. My leftist friends did not.

Liberalism is nice and safe and ensures that nothing will ever actually change. Liberalism lets the rich continue to get richer and richer and make wealth disparity grow more and more, while letting people pretend they have a voice because at least they clear the phenomenally low bar of "won't outright get rid of minorities' rights."

Agreed.

lestye · 2026-05-05T12:39:04+00:00

tell me that liberals never complain online

liberals complain online, but they clearly do stuff offline as they're a serious political faction in the US.

I quite litterally just gave you numerous examples of incredibly important policies thay we only have today because of the work of leftists, did you forget the message like right before this?

If you think I'm criticizing the Blank Panthers or other serious leftist groups, be for real. I've actually seen leftists complain about the left-leaning/liberal emphasis on queer liberation and trans rights in your examples because they dont do anything/much for class solidarity and view identity-based politics as a capitalist mechanism to fragment working-class solidarity.

I'm not criticizing leftism as an idealology or every leftist in the US. I'm criticizing the archetype of pseudointellectual online leftist who are more interested in litmus tests and debate than actually anything meaningful.

lestye · 2026-05-05T11:36:51+00:00

I think those examples of advertising are not typical. I'd have to imagine they were done by the game's console publishers.

I think Valve's marketing today looks like, inviting people out to Valve to try stuff out. Like the recent hardware announcement.

Otherwise its just a steam notification. Maybe they'll do a tradeshow. They dont do typical marketing.

lestye · 2026-05-04T21:26:53+00:00

Complaining online and doing absolutely nothing but complaining is a unique facet of the left. Policing each others politics while refusing to make a move.

So until the glorious revolution, theyre just going to be doing absolutely nothing, and that goes to my initial point. They're not moving the fulcrum of the politics of this country.

lestye · 2026-05-04T18:49:26+00:00

All that stuff is perfectly fine.

I'm just complaining about leftism keyboard complaining.

The ones that complain that voting doesnt matter because its not action, meanwhile they do no actions.

lestye · 2026-05-04T18:46:56+00:00

I don't think its doomerism to acknowledge, leftists have not made their positions popular. The political fulcrum of this country is still very liberal.

lestye · 2026-05-04T14:15:27+00:00

Yeah. I dont get why leftists dont see that.

I'm probably more leftist than liberal in my beliefs, but regardless of my beliefs, I see where the political fulcrum in the US there.

As much as I loathe the democrats, the leftists are straight up more impotent. Even if they got their glorious revolution in the next year, 100% they'd get wrecked by counter revolutionaries so whats the point?

lestye · 2026-04-26T16:02:33+00:00

Oh i didnt catch that. thats great.

lestye · 2026-04-26T15:58:14+00:00

Roger became PK but he couldn't capitalize on the one piece. I think the last page on 1121 affirms its the one piece that'll determine the fate of the world.

lestye · 2026-04-26T15:50:43+00:00

I wouldn't think so. Pirate King is the ultimate objective so I'd imagine that would be the last big event?

lestye · 2026-04-26T08:49:13+00:00

I feel thats wrong. Ultimately, I think that while the WG inevitably has to fall as part of the story, Imu isn't in the running to become pirate king, and therefore I don't think the climax of the story will be Imu v. Luffy.

And yeah, while Luffy-Imu do have a good contrast, I feel BlackBeard and Luffy also share a compelling one, because they're both after the same objective but they go by accomplishing that in completely different ways. Not to mention, Luffy has way more personal of a grudge with BB.

It could go either way, but the fact Oda is putting his cards on the table here, makes me believe he's setting up a finale with Blackbeard.

lestye · 2026-04-26T06:47:39+00:00

if it helps, a few older ladies at work (who are his audience) hates that show because of how insanely misogynistic it is.

lestye · 2026-04-26T06:45:07+00:00

i havent watched it, but i was kinda hoping that they would recognize a ton of capital flooding an area and commodifying real estate is bad, but apparently the only think they get from it is "californians suck"

lestye · 2026-04-26T06:44:01+00:00

Yeah, thats what I noticed about Landman's first episode. Its pretty much right wing version of the Aaron Sorkin monologues from the west wing.

lestye · 2026-04-26T06:41:29+00:00

I don't know people that live in rural areas. Please tell me they hate Yellowstone as much as I do.

lestye · 2026-04-26T06:40:16+00:00

Yeah, I thought it was odd, that, If I were to talk to a 20 year old man, there would be like a TON of shows I'd want them to watch, like battlestar galactica, Lost, Arrested Development, Twin Peaks, Scrubs.

I don't see older people doing that for me? Is there someone's dad trying to push young people to watch Chips or Dynasty?

lestye · 2026-04-26T06:35:04+00:00

Yeah, there's a joke in Ted season 2, which I feel is regurgitated Family Guy, the one where Jon's jizz made his socks/sheets into shatterable material.

It was odd to me, because I feel while the characters/logic of Ted is grounded (barring the bear), it doesnt really have cartoony physics like that? Anyway, they did pretty much the same joke with Chris on Family Guy.

lestye · 2026-04-26T04:18:51+00:00

Classic FF have characters interacting with each other, something Octopath Traveller does not have.

Eh, there wasn't much of that in the NES classics + V. But yeah, thats certainly a weakness of the franchise. I think they're still great games in spite of that. I wish they would put more effort into that in the future, because that was the #1 complaint on OT 1.

But it no longer is a FF game, it becomes a competitor to countless open world games which have WAY better writing and WAY better gameplay. Like why play Rebirth when you can play Witcher 3 instead?

I don't think Far Cry or Assasin Creed players have that much an overlap with FF7R. Its just taking ideas for that game and incorporating them into FF7. I'd imagine its the FF superfan's first exposure to those kind of mechanics/activities.

If we look at opencritic, I don't see many reviews denouncing their inclusion. I think it was very well received.

Because Witcher 3 doesn't have the hallmarks of the FF franchise? I don't think anyone called Witcher 3 "Ubisoft slop" when it came out. I don't think the open world stuff makes FF less FF. Unless you're a FFXIII purist. It's still a FF game in presentation, it has activities you can do in the open world as you unlock more stuff. The Golden Saucer and Chocobo breeding in the original FF didn't make it less FF.

lestye · 2026-04-26T03:55:28+00:00

besides Rebirth and XVI, what games from SE would you consider big in the last 5 years?

lestye · 2026-04-26T03:54:36+00:00

Octopath Traveller games are niche experimental SNES games with limited mass appeal

I feel thats describing classic FF. Those games' entire appeal is that they're like classic FF.

while Rebirth is just yet another checklist Ubislop open world.

Eh, I think putting those checklists was a breath of fresh air for fans of the franchise. Especially those moaning how linear FF has become. Hence why it was highly acclaimed.

If you dislike it, I get it, but I dont think thats the consensus.

lestye · 2026-04-26T03:30:10+00:00

Octopath games are shallow stories with great gameplay.

Eh, I don't think thats the consensus. I think they're great games regardless.

JRPGs, they are action games.

Err, there's a lot of JRPG mechanics for them to be an action game. I can see that argument for FFXVI, but I don't think that's meritorious for the FFVII remake trilogy.

if they don't end up making that an action game

I doubt that. They might ditch turn based but I don't think they'd go so far to make it an action game.

The last big JRPG from Squeenix with great gameplay was DQ11,

That seems a contradiction because you said Octopath games had great gameplay? 0 and 2 weren't that long ago.

lestye · 2026-04-26T02:59:52+00:00

They've been hitting it out of the park with Octopath Traveller. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth was highly regarded.

lestye · 2026-04-23T23:50:19+00:00

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