ssjmarx [he/him]
So I’ve been watching through Metalocalypse lately, I love this show but god damn does the writing drop off a cliff in season four. It does the thing that some shows do that absolutely drives me crazy where they’ve sped up all of the dialogue slightly and edited out the air in between sentences - it feels like watching a youtube video at double speed and it sucks. Until this point the show knew how to use a bit of silence to build tension, help a joke land, or establish a scene, but it seems that when they got squished back into the 12 minute format they had forgotten how to pace an episode of that length.
The economic mobility thing is just meritocracy BS. They imagine that smart poor people will get rich, dumb rich kids will lose their money, and eventually everyone will settle into the class that they “deserve” to be in. It’s why libs are so two-faced when trying to help disadvantaged groups - only socialists explicitly reject the logic that social and economic classes should exist at all, libs and conservatives both believe that their own group should be on top.
It’s better than its been, but it still lags behind Windows. It’s like 80% plug and play, 15% can-work-if-you-fiddle-with-it, and 5% doesn’t work. That’s the real reason it hasn’t taken off, IMO - people won’t switch devices unless you give them a compelling reason, and all of the compelling reasons to switch to Linux are things the average user really doesn’t care about.
Oh, this game is just indie early access Far Cry.
On the other hand, I think a larger proportion of people would refuse to believe it purely on partisan lines. So if Biden tried to sell the world on Iraqi WMDs, the Republicans would all refuse to believe it and younger right wingers would call Saddam based for fighting Iran that one time - and if Trump did it then the libs would take the position that he was obviously lying. In neither case would the opinion of the American people affect the actions of the government.
You know, I recognize that these things are technically superior controllers for fighting games, but you’ll never convert me to using them because they’re so unaesthetic.
I remember once a few years ago I told one of my mom’s lib friends I was a communist after talking to her about recent events for over an hour. She literally froze, mouth agape, at me, for about five seconds - and then started trying to tell me I couldn’t actually be a commie because Trump was the most communist candidate and I had been bashing on him. Further proof that for a lot of American normies “communism” and “dictatorship” are basically synonyms.
The more I’ve learned about it, the more I’ve been convinced that China’s Whole Process People’s Democracy is the current world benchmark for democratic control of a state. Voting in candidates should just be one action in a constant process of polling the people for what they want or need and implementing those things, and if that system is comprehensive enough then the specific voting system you use for representatives is almost an irrelevant detail.
The real reason libs don’t like us is that we get into dungeons instantly and they have to wait even during peak hours.
