Jerkface (any/all)

Show this post to your therapist.

Dig 2 didn’t really develop things like I hoped but they’re both fun little games

It was cheap so I bought it on the basis of this thread and it’s a fun little game but the “programming” elements are vastly overstated. Compares with Noita, not with Desynced, or a Zachlike

It’s not enough to simply not purchase EA product. One should actively oppose theme. ALESSANDRO.

why? what’s the commonality?

It’s fucking my shit right up that AW apparently ran on SCUMM??? That can’t be right!!

Ran an ISP on a Pentium 90 and a few 486s. Linux and FreeBSD!

Yes, and? That’s exactly why mods exist. The base game continues to improve and to add critical features designed and fleshed out by mod authors. Are you consarned that they haven’t all been rolled into the base game?

Good games allow thousands, tens of thousands, limitless investment in skills and mechanics. They are simple and don’t depend on plot or lore. That other stuff? That isn’t “game.” It’s literature.

“I want people to accept a bogus solution so this will all just go away.” Okay? But surely you can appreciate that people are not likely to be moved by your bad faith suggestions.

That’s exactly a security concern from a design point of view. Your desire to trivialize it doesn’t change its nature, access control is access control. That’s not what DNS is for and making it do that is going to cause everyone regret.

DNS for security? What could possibly go wrong…

Get it?? IN MIND?!?!?!

It is much better for the working class to weild its authority than the Capitalist class.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe that. Humans don’t come in two flavours.

I think unfettered capitalism and the systems of power that you propose are both hostile, inhuman systems. I think that meaningful voluntary social systems have to be able exist within that context, and cannot replace it. I don’t believe that eight billion humans can form a single community; our capacity to be social breaks down, and we collectively become something else that we don’t really have a lot of power or comprehension over. I suspect that attempting to work on that superhuman scale can only bring greater conflict and chaos. I think that the enlightened human has to disengage from it, stop identifying with it, and instead find human-scale social constructs that we are capable of existing socially within, that are voluntary and free of coercion, and that seeks to address the social deficiencies of the ambient environment, whether that’s an empty wasteland, or a metropolis.

Jesus, it was your word. If you didn’t want to be pinned down to it, why apply it to yourself in the first place. Feel free to pick a better one, I’ll wait.

You know what the single most powerful force in human history is?

Organization.

This is a subjective statement.

Organization. Which is always hierarchal.

This is an untrue statement.

You know what the most common attribute of Anarchist revolutions is? They all failed. Every single one of them. That is what you want. Failure.

Save this one until you are crowing at me from the parapets of your Utopia. Oh wait, it has to be global, so I guess I’m the one inside the walls.

All states are authoritarian

It is not a binary distinction. It is also not something all ideologies seek to use as a tool. Rather, some seek to minimize it. I think you are telling me Marxism is an ideology that seeks to fully utilize authoritarianism, almost as though it WERE a binary distinction, and there is no point in going half way.

Overall I take your response in support of authoritarianism to mean you would have found that a less objectionable definition.

Would you have quibbled less if I had said “authoritarianism” instead of “violence”? I wasn’t trying to be slanted, that was genuinely my impression of what the term meant.

You cannot have Marxist views if you are not in favor of using violence to impose Marxist ideals?

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