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Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us

He/him or they/them, doesn’t matter too much

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You can be class-aware while taking pride in the work you do.

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Happens every time, especially if it has been years since the last update.

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This is one of the dumbest moves I have ever seen a dev make.

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The issue with the NCR is that they are repeating Pre-War America’s descent into fascism and Imperialism. Them losing the Dam is better for them.

That leaves House and Independent. Between the two, House is a competent dictator, and Yes Man is an unstable gamble on a much better future. Neither are perfect, but seem better than NCR, and of course all 3 are better than Legion.

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The game isn’t saying the Legion is justified, but is believable as a savage force.

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How could they? The Legion is a fascist slave army, and Caesar misunderstands Hegel and misues the Dialectic. The entire nation is built on a sham, which is obvious to the player, but systemically reinforced upon the NPCs. Thus, it is believable while being undoubtedly wrong.

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From a writing perspective, the NCR serves as a reflection of Pre-War America’s failings. They are rapidly expanding against the wishes of the Mojave. To the survivors in the Mojave, they are invasive and stealing domestic resources.

I understand respecting the NCR’s ideal, but the people of the Mojave don’t want it.

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Turtles are GOATed and chill as fuck

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May not be chill, but still GOATed.

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I mean, it’s an FPS as well as an RPG. Unless you’re going for a melee build, a Mouse is still going to be more comfortable for Guns or Energy Weapons builds.

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It’s basically blackjack, but 21-26, and must be higher than your opponent’s “caravan.” Kings double values, jacks remove cards, and queens and jokers are less relevant.

Plus, you have to only increase or decrease unless special conditions are met, like having the same suit or a queen.

It’s actually really easy to get the hang of and make a ton of caps before you hit New Vegas, even without a Luck build.

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Tale of Two Wastelands gang rise up

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…how? It’s a game, that you play, with a first person perspective, and shoot guns. Unless you only use VATS, a mouse is going to be more comfortable for most people, myself definitely included.

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Nobody hates Fallout more than Fallout fans, haha.

The biggest thing for me is that New Vegas is both a rushed mess and the highest peak the series had reached, meaning a better Fallout game is both possible and yet will probably never happen.

Here’s to hoping Fallout: London is good!

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Same, I like to ignore VATS. Gunplay is much nicer with kNVSE and other fun mods anyways.

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Not everyone considers controllers to be more comfortable for shooters than Mouse and Keyboard. New Vegas is a fantastic RPG, but the combat is that of an FPS. Maybe if I was doing a bunch of non-combat quests I would agree, but as someone who has played thousands of hours both ways, I prefer mouse and keyboard pretty greatly.

You can have your own preference, I think it’s a bit strange to call mine “wrong.”

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Use Viva New Vegas for a perfectly modded game!

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Should just be temporary, not a huge deal hopefully. It’s so close to being here that I am fine waiting that bit longer.

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Nintendo - where tradition, stagnation, and ruthlessness meet.

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Definitely not equally. Responsibility scales with power.

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IP is bullshit that hurts workers.

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That’s pretty much it. Bethesda hand-of-gods Fallout to never develop too far, for an eternal shantytown aesthetic with super mutant orcs and Brotherhood everywhere.

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Survivorship bias. Logic ain’t your strongest suit, is it transphobe?

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The US did it not because they hate brown people, but because they value profit over brown people. The racism was profit-driven, out of pure greed for the military industrial complex, not because old neighbor Jim hates Muslims.

The sheer scale of war crimes the US has committed worldwide is purely out of desire for ever-increasing profits at the cost of unimagimable cruelty to human beings it considers unworthy of sympathy.

In 1991, for example, the US bombed an Iraqi air raid shelter housing women and children, murdering 408 people. On the lower floor, there was a liquified 1 inch layer of human fat, and multiple bodies fused together.

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Tale of Two Wastelands! Fallout 3 and New Vegas in the same game.

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I recently got a Sony prs 600 e reader from 2009. The battery is at the end of its life (It lasts about 3 days with heavy reading, and a couple weeks without reading). No backlight, no Wi-Fi, just an SD card that I can load epub files and small PDFs. The screen is slow and the contrast isn’t the best. The “touch screen” is...

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I get the spirit, but OP has already stated that they are a Communist. They are very much reading this to understand Marxism as a Marxist.

Plus, trying to “beat” Marxists on a site developed by Marxist-Leninists along Communist principles is pretty funny.

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It’s almost comforting seeing CableMonster around, like that one uncle. Consistently wrong and yet so tied to their own manufactured worldview.

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Dessalines is the lead dev. It isn’t a secret, Lemmy was made along Communist principles.

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Not open source, but I use a Kobo Libra 2 with KoReader installed, and use Calibre to manage my library.

Though if waste is your concern, I would see about replacing the battery.

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To be technical, Lemmy.World is run by Liberals, which is why they are trying to build their own site called Sublinks, rather than remain on Lemmy. Your instance isn’t run by Marxists, Lemmy as a whole is developed by them.

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Workers of the world, unite in dance! It’s the real Dance Dance Revolution.

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To be fair, Reddit is regularly shedding liberals. Lemmy takes some and radicalizes some of those.

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No, it’s pretty definitively Marx. Plus, this post specifically calls out Karl Marx by name, not Goldman.

I fail to see what Emma Goldman has to do with this post at all.

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Oh, I see it now! Haha, fair point!

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Yep, the liberalism rate lowers but never reaches 0. Lemmy.world is basically Reddit 2.

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Use Tale of Two Wastelands! Much better experience.

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Yes, run the companies democratically instead of individually.

The post office and fire department are great.

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Worker coops aren’t perfect, but they are more stable and provide better jobs than Capitalist businesses. You’re essentially saying you want to live in a dictatorship at work because having a voice is too complicated, and pretend the dictator isn’t going to make terrible decisions.

Additionally, you seem to believe you would make less money in a worker co-op, despite the fact that in a Capitalist business, you must give up a larger portion of that which you create to the owner, who holds all the power.

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There are exceptions, of course, but America is a bourgeois dictatorship. Some form of democratic organization would not face the same issues.

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Unions and Regulations are a force against the dictatorial control of Capitalists, but do not make the playing field equal. Capitalists still retain ownership, and thus power.

Leaving one dictator for another dictator willing to employ you is not freedom enough to justify the existence of the dictator.

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I wasn’t complaining about them, I was being genuine. I agree with what you’re saying, and am pointing out that a democratically accountable government run Amazon would indeed be better than its current iteration.

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Yep, I agree! They are a great example of a publicly funded service that largely provides good jobs and good results, even with under-funding.

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You’re selling your labor power for less than it is worth, even the nicest Capitalist steals from you and leaves you with no control over at least 40 hours per week.

All labor is labor, skilled labor is just compressed unskilled labor represented by the training required to recreate it expressed over the expected working lifetime of a worker.

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Reactionaries are gonna keep peddling fascist rhetoric as long as it benefits them.

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I will almost certainly be voting for Biden, but why on Earth do you think we can push the DNC to the left? “Stop fascism now, then right after the vote is won, start pushing the party Left” has been the calling action for progressives and leftists for decades and the US has gotten more right-wing with time.

Why is this time any different? Is it finally time to realize that you cannot vote the DNC to the left at the scale required to make actual change?

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That’s not the question I asked, haha. Voting reform would be nice, of course, but that doesn’t mean it will happen. That’s pure idealism. Voting reform has been pushed for for decades, how do you plan on actually getting voting reform through? Waiting for candidates to magically appear in the DNC and not just third party, and vote for them?

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I asked how you’re getting it through, are you just saying the answer is to wait for the DNC to get around to it? Because I really hope that isn’t what you’re saying.

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I don’t believe you can, which is why I support grassroots organizing. Strike funds, mutual aid, that kinda stuff. The state will not be reformed in a manner that gives workers a meaninful voice, only mild concessions, unless there is massive outside pressure.

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