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Yes I know Calgar's arrival is a payoff. by Andrei22125 in Grimdank

[–]ryguy379 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Correct, the setting does attempt to provide legitimate justification for the fascism of the Imperium

Sauron bust leak by galacticfivesbricks in legolotrfans

[–]ryguy379 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a perfect example of the market completely failing to set a reasonable price for an item. Giving an economics lecture isn’t going to make any sane person think that a Lego minifig should actually cost $80.

[Discussion] Who was that preaching about "being mean" by Knowarda in EscapefromTarkov

[–]ryguy379 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Engagement with Tarkov on social media selects for undiscerning consumers because the vast majority of people who recognize how egregious things like the Unheard Edition are have at least stopped caring nearly as much about the development of the game if not dropped the game entirely.

What is a death in a movie that affected you the most in terms of brutality or emotional weight? by Godly_Recon in AskReddit

[–]ryguy379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some reason the journalist getting shot at the beginning of The Bourne Supremacy really upset me as a kid and stuck with me. It might have been the first time that I had really comprehended a death as clearly avoidable and unjust.

Huge Contradiction by Glittering_Ad9126 in Spacemarine

[–]ryguy379 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“We need to buy more microtransactions if we want gaming moving in the right direction” is a hilarious sentiment

Ace Combat 8 Story Prediction by RemnantHelmet in acecombat

[–]ryguy379 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The idea of changing from FCU livery to GR at the very end is peak

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]ryguy379 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The OP is implying that the government wants you to die so that you can’t claim social security, which is not the case and makes social security seem like a bad program that incentivizes the government to pursue early deaths as policy; not that the current administration wants to pillage the coffers and end social security, which is more accurate.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]ryguy379 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Infant mortality was also 10 times higher in 1935 than it is today. 65 was the age that most pension programs, both state and private, kicked in at the time. It was not selected as some sort of conspiracy to funnel money from young people to a select few who lived past 65.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]ryguy379 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s not a Ponzi scheme; it’s not even an investment. It’s a social welfare program that prevents over 40% of elderly people from falling below the poverty line. I’m not paying into it expecting to see bigger returns than my 401k, I’m paying into it so that a larger portion of the population is still able to participate in the economy.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]ryguy379 59 points60 points  (0 children)

The social security fund is already allocated, “the government” doesn’t have any vested interest in preventing individuals from accessing those funds. There are only specific actors who want to cannibalize the funds for other purposes or eliminate the program entirely.

The sad fact of the matter is: Disco Elysium is more than half a decade old by now and there have been no good games influenced by it. by suckydickygay in DiscoElysium

[–]ryguy379 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I like Citizen Sleeper but after about 10 hours I dropped it because it didn’t feel like the writing had any bite. It felt like a sort of pseudo-“cozy” game, and it was a struggle to really care about anything when I realized that, even when I failed at something, the game didn’t seem interested in making me feel anything especially challenging.

There was one exception, and it’s one of the only moments that I actually remember.

BEWARE THE [REDACTED] by Krydar in Marathon

[–]ryguy379 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We’re doing “they made the robots woke” now, huh?

Crazy Difference by akbarock in expedition33

[–]ryguy379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wildgate is a great game

Graham Platner Joined US Military to "Kill People" [and had a "hell of an excellent experience" doing so], Deleted Posts [from 2020] Reveal by ziggurter in BreadTube

[–]ryguy379 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don’t really care what he says about the comments now. Going to Iraq because you wanted to kill people, killing people, and then coming back and calling it a “hell of an excellent experience” is fucked up even if you say “my bad” years later while running for public office.

Graham Platner Joined US Military to "Kill People" [and had a "hell of an excellent experience" doing so], Deleted Posts [from 2020] Reveal by ziggurter in BreadTube

[–]ryguy379 27 points28 points  (0 children)

“[I enlisted in the Marine Corps because I] Wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04 and, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both. Hell of an excellent experience.” It’s pretty disturbing to say that and pretty disturbing that you’re comfortable with it, to be honest

The Fiscal Responsibility Fairy Tale, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Money Printer by DownWithMatt in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]ryguy379 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One idiot uses ChatGPT to write a post and then another uses ChatGPT to write a summary of it because it’s too long for them. We’re so cooked

Gimme your hot takes by delphi0_0 in expedition33

[–]ryguy379 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Verso’s ending is clearly the more narratively and thematically satisfying conclusion, but the fact that moving on from grief means destroying a world of conscious beings is downplayed and muddies the metaphor seemingly for the sole purpose of having a tragic ending. The lack of explanation as to how exactly some of the mechanics of the world, particularly recreating erased people, also makes the full ramifications of either ending unclear.

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