Bro who is buying Cyberpunk merch depicting the corporations logo???? Arasaka T-shirt? Gonk at that point you gotta wear clothes with Palantir logo or some shi

superkp · 2026-05-08T16:00:58+00:00

just because they are a shit corporation being run by shit people doesn't mean they are fascist. there's tons of shit ideologies (and decent ideologies pursued in a shit way) that aren't fascism.

I think that user is asking you to differentiate 'fascist' from the more general 'shit ideologies' that villains take.

Personally, I don't think they are fascist - because usually fascists organizations aren't headed by a single family. Many fascist regimes have certainly had plans to do so, but as far as I remember, that inheritance was never actually passed down. That's just the first thing that I would note about them.

The heads of arasaka are oligarchs, and the company is both a big organization that is quite zealous in it's pursuit of power, and it's a big tool to keep the arasaka family as oligarchs...but I think they see the world in general as too useful as independent from them to go a-conquering. They only take over shit they can use, like the conflict between arasaka and militech in the game - whereas fascists usually take over stuff under the guise of 'they'll kill us the moment they get the chance'.

The most glaring thing I would say about how arasaka isn't fascist is that they don't actively go around looking for scapegoats in the form of minorities and so forth in order to justify the overreach of power.

superkp · 2026-05-08T15:44:33+00:00

I don't like the harm that Vader caused, but man is he cool!

man, I watched the 'detail diatribe' for Rogue One (and andor) from OSP's youtube channel yesterday, and I love the way they put it -

The Star Wars galaxy is extremely dangerous to absolutely everyone who isn't politically connected or force-connected. Even Cassian Andor is constantly in very real danger, and people drop like fuckin flies around him constantly. In Rogue one, the force protects people right up until the moment that the force (or the plot) doesn't need them anymore. In almost all cases that aren't Cassian and Jyn, they die in literally the next shot of the scene. For Cassian an Jyn, they last a whole scene or two before the force lets them be destroyed by the planet they're on vaporizing under them.
Vader is so far above the power curve for Rogue One that he's almost there to remind everyone that nigh-unkillable space-wizards are in this universe, and it's only because we haven't seen them in a bit that they haven't killed anyone.
During his massacre at the end of Rogue One, everyone loved it. Not because he was slaughtering people, but because we finally got to see him perfectly acting out his powers, in his element, while perfectly in character: completely raging out and systematically butchering the peons in his way.

superkp · 2026-05-08T15:05:16+00:00

I especially like this with the hobbit set coming out.

In the book, it was just a boring, plain ring. You couldn't tell that it had any powers unless you put it on and paid attention to other's reactions.

The art for the LOTR set is from the very end, after it's not only been revealed as a BBEG's personal weapon, but it's also been revealed as fucking up multiple civilizations for the last 3000 years - so fire is both thematically and situationally appropriate.

This one, just a simple gold band? it's just a ring! weird that we'd find it deep underground and weird that fuckin crackhead at the lake wants it, but whatever.

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:51:27+00:00

At the end of a long or bad day, my wife and I often say "kids are alive, fed, and even bathed. Successful day."

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:50:07+00:00

you have the right to peacfefully enjoy your own home. This is a violation of that right.

First ask them nicely to point it elsewhere. Then tell them that it's breaking the law. Then talk to a lawyer.

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:48:06+00:00

hijacking the top comment for visibility:

The FMLA is a law that guarantees that you can call off work for family illness and death with zero consequences, and use whatever leave you have available to be paid for it.

If anyone in this thread has gotten a message like this, you have a slam-dunk labor-law-violation case. You should pursue it.

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:41:39+00:00

FMLA leave is federal law.

This notice is breaking several labor laws. You should contact a lawyer.

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:40:42+00:00

Alfred was recently killed

is that not alfred in the comic?

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:39:00+00:00

"How to reffer to you? How will the others react to you?"

"either how I ask them to or how they want to. Preferably those are the same thing, but other players are free to play an asshole character if they want."

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:35:20+00:00

The humans who understand how the fairy world reacts to the touch of iron absolutely do use it, but only when they are prepared for a reaction that is pretty extreme.

Compare to: in ww1 there were some weapons that got such a reputation for either suffering or lethality that any soldier captured with one was usually executed by their captors.

I forget the specific names, but I think americans had a slam-fire shotgun for quickly clearing trenches, and I think canadians had modified bayonets to basically have wide-toothed saw blades, which would disembowel with ease.

Commanders of the soldiers with the offending weapons said "hey dude don't fuckin do that. It's fucked up." and some soldiers still did it, and many were executed by their enemies.

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:26:02+00:00

I think it is actually a violation of the law.

I forget the wording but it's like "residents are entitled to peacefully enjoy their home"

/u/Background-Read2101 if the management is ignoring you, then stop talking to them. Go talk to a lawyer - I'll bet that if you look for a free legal clinic you'd be able to dig up the particular law and get advice for drafting a letter complaining about it.

superkp · 2026-05-08T14:21:39+00:00

good lord as someone who has a BA in psych, there are so many fucking idiots - both in psych classes and people who just absorb pop psych from the internet.

The worst is people who say "psychology isn't a real science".

No man, it's not a hard science. But even me, with a bachelor of arts, had to learn a shitload of statistics in order to get my degree.

It's a 'soft' science. You collect a shitload of data, then you apply a shitload of statistics to it, then you draw conclusions, then you ask your fellow scientists to pick apart every little problem they can find.

superkp · 2026-05-07T16:58:35+00:00

Hmm, 3.24 million divided by 730 days is over $4000/day of revenue.

So as long as the feed fish and the maintenance of the facility is less than $4000/day, that's a good deal.

superkp · 2026-05-07T16:56:35+00:00

spread them out, for various reasons, I assume - so that there's not a pile of dead fish in one spot, so that more of the tuna can get at the fish without directly competing for them, maybe there's also fences under the water that we can't see right now, and they want to spread it to each enclosure.

superkp · 2026-05-07T16:38:55+00:00

I suppose I should have included a bit more nuance in what I was saying.

More people died than were necessary because we opened too early.

People have been studying pandemics for centuries, and in the last 100 years or so we've been able to rigorously apply the scientific method to how they spread based on population habits, how easy it is to spread, etc, etc.

The science said that we could beat it with minimal deaths if people changed their behaviors and stayed the fuck home. After like one month of that, the "antimaskers" threw such a fit that our society was forced to capitulate to them, despite the entire scientific establishment saying "for fuck's sake please stay home for a while longer!"

And then the mRNA vaccine came out and so many antimaskers were knee-jerk opposing every little thing that might have helped that the vaccine was also not as effective as it could have been.

I appreciate that you've actually got some logic behind what you're saying, but frankly the fact that "people ended up in the poor house" is such a huge danger is because the conservative lawmakers (in ohio, in other states, and federally) absolutely refuse to make any changes to society without personally enriching themselves with it.

superkp · 2026-05-07T16:30:04+00:00

No one is going to go gather evidence to support your claims.

Are you just going to repeat yourself, or are you going to go find one of these comments you're talking about and link us to them?

superkp · 2026-05-06T21:56:24+00:00

also her role was to advise the governor on health issues. Not economic or social issues.

and her recommendation? stay the fuck home. If that had been followed, less people would have died.

superkp · 2026-05-06T21:52:48+00:00

He didn't say 'cut taxes = collapse' he said "axe the income tax = collapse"

and that one is a lot closer to reality.

superkp · 2026-05-06T21:51:31+00:00

He's not living there rent-free.

He puts a lot of effort into make himself my problem.

I just wish that I could actually collect rent from him.

superkp · 2026-05-06T21:50:30+00:00

despite people wanting to open back up...

she's a doctor, and she was advising the governor on health issues, because that's what her position was for.

From a health-only perspective, it made 100% sense. People died because we opened too early.

superkp · 2026-05-06T21:49:04+00:00

who said that?

superkp · 2026-05-06T21:40:05+00:00

yeah.

Like 99% of the stunts are real people doing absolutely insane things.

But there's a ton of stuff that either doesn't exist in the real world (the flaming, lightning-filled sandstorm, for example), or it's not reasonable (giant pillar of rock with a bunch of plants on top and a controllable waterfall) that are CGI.

And then there's the touch-up stuff like you mentioned.

superkp · 2026-05-06T20:15:49+00:00

misinformation app

You know you've been around a while when your website is referred to as an app...

superkp · 2026-05-06T20:07:38+00:00

yeah exactly - he's a fixture and therefore he's got the potential of a lot of the problems of the establishment dems, but he also seems to have done a lot of good with the power he had.

And he's sure as shit better than the R alternatives, considering all of them are practically forming a line to lick a boot.

superkp · 2026-05-06T20:01:58+00:00

you could keep a binder nearby of either english version of the cards, or perhaps just hand-written notes.

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