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    • crawl stone soup. A classic rogue like.
    • elden ring + dlc. Big masterpiece of the genre.
    • the binding of Isaac (+ all the dlc). Huge rogue lite. Lots of stuff I haven’t unlocked yet.
    • monster hunter (maybe world? I liked rise too though).
    • if I could have online, guild wars 2. Otherwise, maybe the original doom. Especially if it comes with a map editor, fan made maps, or Oblige to randomly make maps.

  • Democrats need to get more radical. The current system isn’t working for most people, and it’s certainly not working for the environment. Nationalized health care. Public housing. Basic income.

    Conservatives will lose their mind, but some of them are assholes that want fascism, so fuck them. And a funny thing about some conservatives is they’ll defend whatever the current state is. They just don’t like change. Once you get something like nationalized health care in, some of the people who are screaming about how it’s the worst idea will scream at anyone trying to change it.

    Many people have said they voted for trump because he’s “a change” or "something different’. Yes, it’s a little stupid to be like “i’m tired of eating gruel, i’m going to change it up by eating rusty nails”, but that’s people. Offer a change and get them.

    But I think there’s too much rich people influence in our politics and media for that to easily get off the ground.







  • At the very least form unions. That will help with stuff like wage theft, some people getting underpaid, BS firings, etc.

    More aggressively, maybe some sort of collective ownership. Not this “options” bullshit where they never even vest for most people. The whole thing where management pays you $100 and sells what you made for $3000 needs to go. That $3000 needs to be more fairly shared among the people that made it happen.

    But I don’t really know. I’m just some guy with entry level knowledge and a sense that the current system is wrong.


  • They could live more modest lives in more rural areas

    Living in a rural area for many people is literal hell, on top of having an array of less obvious costs. The big one is going from not needing a car to needing one. Your rent might drop $500 but you need to spend a lot on gas, insurance, maintenance, etc.

    Also the social options might fall off a cliff. Humans are social creatures. I live in a city and I can walk to dozens of social activities, many of them free. Board game meetups, free music in the park, free museums with tours, free sport leagues, etc. Out in the countryside there just aren’t as many options.

    If you’re queer or another minority, you might also have a worse time in the countryside. Maybe even fatally. A city is going to have a queer scene.

    Also, there are likely more jobs in the city. Remote work and economic upheaval have changed things, but even so, most of those offices in Manhattan are full of jobs. There’s just more stuff where there’s more people.

    Now, to your point, some people are certainly living in a $5900/mo apartment with a doorman and in-building gym that they can’t afford. They could move to a less “nice” place in south Brooklyn or Queens for less than half that, likely at the cost of a longer commute, and losing easy access to a neighborhood they feel a part of. There is a housing crisis though, and people are getting priced further away. That’s probably not going to be solved any time soon because capitalism doesn’t care and will happily eat itself.

    Anyway. Long tangent but I’m extremely pro city so I spoke up.



  • This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people’s lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.

    There’s a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there’d be less, probably.

    Also, what do you even consider “political”? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn’t political, but a story about two men getting married is. That’s a really low quality analysis there.





  • On the one hand, yes. But also, it’s mostly capitalism.

    I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with “I’m starting a frisbee club for fun. We’re going to meet saturdays in the park. I’m going to put up some flyers and tell my friends about it”.

    But at some point that can mutate into “i put a 30 second unskippable ad for FrisbeeFranchise on youtube, and a giant billboard over the subway stop that implies if you don’t play frisbee you’ll never be happy”. That’s bad.

    I think targeted ads should be illegal as a first step. I don’t think anyone except the worst sort of advertisers would go to bat for those. Old fashioned static ads where they put an ad for bike stuff by the bike lane in town is annoying, but somehow we’ve invented things so much worse than that.





  • There are a small subset of people who legitimately just don’t understand game development fundamentals though, and they actually believe that things would just be fully interchangeable. As in, you buy a skin in Fortnite, and you can then open up Roblox and set it as your player model.

    Those ones are especially not the brightest.

    The people who are like “you can just take your skin from Skyrim and put it in gta5 and it’ll just work!!” people really are baffling. The hubris and ignorance is so much