Cowbee

Cowbee, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

That’s a hot take I 100% agree with. Fallout 1 nailed the vibe and was perfect from start to finish. While 2 has a ton of great moments (Frank Horrigan is amazing), it isn’t as totally consistent.

New Vegas married the two quite nicely.

Cowbee, 3 months ago

With mods, it’s pretty much bug free now, and crashless. Follow Viva New Vegas!

Cowbee, 3 months ago

Did you mod your game? Modded should have no crashes anymore.

Cowbee, 3 months ago

New Vegas feels far more like Fallout, and nailed the tone, though.

3 has more oppressive atmospheres, but the actual writing, story, and world building of New Vegas is a perfect evolution of 1 and 2.

Cowbee, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

For anyone thinking about playing New Vegas again, check out Viva New Vegas! Fixes the gunplay, bugs, lighting, crashes, balance, and adds new important features like expanded consequences for your actions, cut content, a post-game where you can see the consequences of your choices, and better visuals!

Cowbee, 3 months ago

The Wasteland Survival Guide expands on TBoT and balances the games far better, adds in need content, tons more bug fixes, and generally improves on the games.

Cowbee, 3 months ago

Even if you didn’t notice them, they’re there! For example, the iron sights are almost all misaligned, but this mod pack fixes that.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

No, they aren’t. You must be disruptive, which isn’t peaceful.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Protests only work because they carry an unstated show of force.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Disruptive doesn’t mean violent, but it isn’t peaceful.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

They do not.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

They do not.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

That’s interesting, because All Coppers are Bastards was first used in the 1920s, and abbreviated in the 1940s to ACAB by striking workers.

Could it be, perhaps, that you’re just attempting to slander perfectly valid critique of brutal, draconian systems to fascism itself as a form of fascist apologia? Why else would you be lying about valid critique, if not to undermine it?

Cowbee, 4 months ago

What about this implies it’s a protest against anything else?

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Like your lie about ACAB originating with skinheads in the 70s? Nah, I’ll let history be factual. Historical fiction is great, but you can’t pretend your fascist fanfiction is reality, bud

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Anyone who has access to the internet can tell you’re full of shit: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB

You’re claiming an antifascist term has fascist origins, because you want to tie antifascism to fascism. This is fascist apologia, making fascism not seem as bad and making the left seem bad.

I’m not trying to “embolden laziness among the angry” or whatever the fuck you think I’m doing, I’m calling out misinformation presented by someone trying to paint the left as fascist so as to take away from the ACAB movement. That makes you, at best, an extreme reactionary, and at worst, a fascist.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

There’s also more chances of FOSS being developed for Linux if more people use it. FOSS is better the more popular it gets.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

I’m not sure you need data to understand that if more people use a product, there’s a greater chance someone will develop FOSS for it, as FOSS developers tend to also be users.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Fuck fascism, fuck the monstrous IDF, fuck Netanyahu.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Who says Socialism isn’t Socialism?

Cowbee, 4 months ago

No.

Basic and simplified class analysis is about shared interests based on similar social relations to Production.

The Workers do not own Capital, at least not in significant amounts.

Capitalists own Capital. They pay Workers wage labor to create commodities for sale.

There are other classes, but that’s the long and short of it.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Profit motive still forces enshittification, unfortunately.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

I doubt the existence of people who deny every Socialist state as Socialist. I agree with people who say the Nazis weren’t Socialist despite calling themselves as such, because they were fascists that relied on privitization and Capitalism, but I’m sure that wasn’t your point.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Why? You just trying to pick a fight? Kinda cringe. No matter what I’d answer you’d start shit.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Nah. Just state what you actually mean by your first comment, and we are good to go.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

If it only took you a few years of saving, you make enough and spend little enough as a proportion of that that you’re outside the average.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Great, thanks for actually answering. You’re wrong, of course, but thanks for actually answering, again. Good on you.

1. Socialism, ie worker ownership of the Means of Production, has had massive success in stability and worker satisfaction for Worker Co-operatives when compared to their Capitalist competitors.
2. Libertarian style Socialism has been successful in areas like the Chiapas region.
3. Even Marxism-Leninism has drastically improved metrics such as literacy and life expectancy in the major areas it was applied, such as the USSR and Maoist China, Cuba, etc. despite issues with how democracy was handled with upper Soviets having immense power.

I’m more of an Anarchist, personally, but the statement that “Socialism has always ended poorly” is just wrong. The most major example of a Socialist state falling is of course the USSR, which had a number of internal issues that ultimately didn’t arise because workers owned the Means of production, but because as a developing country, they wanted access to global trade for luxury commodities from western countries, which led to liberalization and now the current fascism in the Russian Federation is a direct result of these Capitalists swooping in and purchasing everything they could, leading to what liberals call “Oligarchy.”

Even then, the USSR doubled life expectancy, and the majority of Russians want it back, when compared to modern fascism in Russia.

On Lemmy, you’ll find that most people generally accept that Marxism-Leninism is Socialism, even if they firmly disagree with it. You’ll also find Marxist-Leninists on other instances like lemmygrad or hexbear, but you’ll find it’s usually Anarchists outside of that.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Market Socialism is a great common sense first step, but it leaves enshittification because it keeps the profit motive. Ideally the profit motive should be phased out.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Market Socialism would be a great improvement in stability and quality of life, but it wouldn’t solve enshittification outright, because the profit motive is still there. Ideally that would be phased out.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

I feel like that’s just a less efficient non-market form of Socialism, at that point it might make more sense to just fully socialize.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

To be fair, Communism doesn’t assume everyone gets the same. In fact, that’s a big part of why Marx doesn’t say “Communism is when everyone is the same and gets the same forever.”

From Critique of the Gotha Programme:

“But one man is superior to another physically, or mentally, and supplies more labor in the same time, or can labor for a longer time; and labor, to serve as a measure, must be defined by its duration or intensity, otherwise it ceases to be a standard of measurement. This equal right is an unequal right for unequal labor. It recognizes no class differences, because everyone is only a worker like everyone else; but it tacitly recognizes unequal individual endowment, and thus productive capacity, as a natural privilege. It is, therefore, a right of inequality, in its content, like every right. Right, by its very nature, can consist only in the application of an equal standard; but unequal individuals (and they would not be different individuals if they were not unequal) are measurable only by an equal standard insofar as they are brought under an equal point of view, are taken from one definite side only – for instance, in the present case, are regarded only as workers and nothing more is seen in them, everything else being ignored. Further, one worker is married, another is not; one has more children than another, and so on and so forth. Thus, with an equal performance of labor, and hence an equal in the social consumption fund, one will in fact receive more than another, one will be richer than another, and so on. To avoid all these defects, right, instead of being equal, would have to be unequal.

But these defects are inevitable in the first phase of communist society as it is when it has just emerged after prolonged birth pangs from capitalist society. Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and its cultural development conditioned thereby.

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly – only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”

Essentially, Communism is a goal to work towards, a final step for humanity to cross over. It isn’t when everyone gets exactly the same for unequal work, it’s when everyone can give what they can and get what they need. If someone wants more, they can get more.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

I’m aware that it’s fully anticapitalist, but full Socialism would imply collective ownership of the Means of Production, not just ownership at an entity level.

Communism would also get rid of the state, so I’m not quite referring to Communism in this instance.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

I’m not, and I understand. I think you’re confusing my point, I think having unequal ownership among a collective of people is less efficient for Socialism.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

You can have equal ownership without requiring everyone to give input, and this prevents someone from gaining more ownership and thus more power.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Then you keep enshittification as coops monopolize, which you said you’d allow the government and customers to also have ownership, by which point I’d say it would be more efficient to just share equal ownership to begin with.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

I really wish I didn’t have eyes right now

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Thank you Jaden, very cool

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Cute art

Cowbee, 4 months ago

If your coffee tastes burnt, then whoever roasted it burned it. Simple.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

There’s over-roasted coffee made to be mixed, and there’s properly roasted coffee made to be consumed straight.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

I generally agree, but the amount of people that prefer darkly roasted coffee straight is relatively small, which is more my point. Darkly roasted coffee fits better with milk, generally, which is why it’s so prevalent and why people are confused when they hear people say coffee tastes good black.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Fallout: New Vegas, with mods, is one game I always return to. Same with Borderlands 2. They never get old, for me!

For general games with very happy and uplifting messages, Outer Wilds, In Stars and Time and Celeste are wonderful experiences.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Libertarianism has roots in leftism, actually, the Capitalists appropriated the word.

Either way, Anarcho-Capitalism is an ideology surrounding the magical idea that Capitalism can exist without a state. The delusional people that follow such an ideology like to imagine that security forces would be paid for, and somehow be better than public forces, in order to uphold the legitimacy of Private Property. They also foolishly believe that monopoly wouldn’t happen because there isn’t a state to prop them up.

AnCaps are just edgier libertarian Capitalists with even less common sense, surprisingly.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Red would be closest for me. Syndicalism is pretty based, as well as Anarcho-Communism.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Green is typically eco-anarchism, which can align with solar punk but not necessarily.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Gross, anarcho-capitalism

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Somehow it always gets worse with them.

Cowbee, 4 months ago

Not personally! I turn em off so I’m not addicted to my phone as much, haha.