Luddites were not anti-technology. They saw the progress of technology IN a primitive capitalist system and understood that technology would never benefit them, and always be used to subjugate them more.
If technology only benefits 0.1% of the world, and leads to the world dying, does it benefit humanity at all?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What Iām reading is that itās a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investorsā pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
Like the literal law. In most places itās a much more involved and expensive process to even open a coop compared to a traditional private company. It takes more paperwork, more fees, more capital funds etc. Also, getting investors in (when they canāt own the coop, as they are not workers) or even loans from private or state banks/institutions is much harder. There are several programs incentivising people to open private companies, giving them tax credits, making the application and approval process easier, giving access to funds and education etc. How many there are for coops? In most places around the world there are 0. In what ways does it appear the opposite to youā¦? Like this all seems very self-evident to me.
For my city, just for a very specific example, it takes less than one afternoon and 80 bucks total (no fees and almost no capital fund requirements) to open a corporation. It takes weeks if not months to open a coop and it costs 2500 bucks PER member.
I donāt know the specifics of all cities and states everywhere in the world. But the system is built to benefit private corporations much more, as itās a capitalist system where owning capital equals power, and workers are a commodity.
One MAJOR reason most people seem to be missing for the October the 7th attack was indeed religious. But maybe not in the way youād expectā¦
Religious Jews and Evangelical Christians are trying to bring about the apocalypse, from the bible. They believe they must rebuild the Temple. Issue is, al-aqsa is in the temple mound and itās one of the most sacred places for Muslims. Destroying it would start a major war.
And they started moving to have the third temple rebuilt. There are plans to demolish al-aqsa and start the works. The three red heifers to be sacrificed, turned into ash and used to purify the priests who will start the building work are the first step.
If you read Hamasā explanations for the October 7th attack, al-aqsa is a central part of it. It was called al-aqsa flood after all.
edit: to clarify, there is real material danger to the al-aqsa mosque
For all saying the content pack is scummy, first the devs that work on things like this are not the same fixing bugs and issues, working on mod tools etc. Second, this pack is part of the Ultimate Edition, which plenty of people paid for already. Itād be really scummy to NOT release this in a timely fashion for the people who already spent their money expecting it.
I honestly donāt get the outrage at a freaking content pack that doesnāt affect anything at allā¦
Games like Cities donāt need that much dev work for assets to be placed in game. Iām sure the game was built with that in mind. Thatās how there are so many assets and content to be downloaded in the steam workshop for Cities 1ā¦
Itās basically the same as modding assets into the game. The game surely is built around being easy to put in new assets, itās one of the main cornerstones of what made cities 1 popular in the first place.
The state is a tool, and currently in most of the world itās a tool of the 1%ā¦ people really forget about the French, American, Dutch etc. revolutions? Where the capitalist class violently overtook the state from the aristocracy and rebuilt it to serve them?
Thatās true, Kojima was just supervising director on that game. But I feel the politics of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are very typical for the series and Kojimaās games.
Metal Gear in general is very much about American Imperialism.
Wtf does that have to do with anything? You think Putin and the current Russian government, who are staunch anti-communist and have repeatedly disavowed the USSR areā¦? Like what is the MATERIAL analysis here? You are just talking about your vibes and ideology!
There are no āgoodā brands under capitalism. The issue is not of the moral failing of individual companies. We canāt solve the issues of capitalism by āconsumingā right.
You think fairphone have no slave-labour rare-earth metals in them?
It doesnāt matter if they are ābadā or not bro. The issue is the system. And itās not a matter of morality. I donāt give a fuck if itās āevilā or āgoodā. Even in a perfect capitalist world where all companies were āfairāsomething, we would still be destroying the planet with climate change and exploiting the labour of people in the third-world.
And who cares about āperfectā? I only care about meaningful change that helps not destroy the planet. Buying a fairphone is not it.
The only thing that will help is a fucking revolution. So the BEST thing any of us can do is to radicalise those around us and organize.
You are very naive if you think fairphone is trying to ādo goodā. They are, like every single corporation under capitalism, trying to make a profit. They found a niche and are carving their market share within it. If they could, they would become Apple. If you donāt think so, again, youāre being naive.
I donāt think you understood me. What I mean is āwhich product do I consume under capitalismā is a useless question. No consumption under capitalism will lead to a better world. Buying from fairphone or apple will make 0 difference to what actually matters.
Revolution is not a state of consumption. And surviving under capitalism wonāt make revolution less likely either. So itās a false dichotomy. Buying apple instead of fairphone wonāt make a revolution less likely.
Christianity was actually extremely progressive for the time. Women and men were seen as equals spiritually, and had equal political power for a long time. Only when Christianity morphed into Catholicism and was adopted by the Roman Empire that patriarchal political power became the norm. But still, women are seen as equals spiritually, and can be saved just like men.
We can credit most of modern humanist and egalitarian ideals to Christianity, and the folk ways it was practiced and understood (against the top-down hierarchical theology spoused by the Catholic Church).
After all, the enlightenment was a direct descendant of Christianity and so on and so forth.
Edit: I think people donāt really understand how shittily women were treated and seen in the deeper pastā¦ like the Classical Greek barely saw women as human beings.
Me saying Christianity was very progressive for the time is not me pulling it out of my ass. Scholars think that, researchers, historians etc.
The games that have impacted me the most I guess have been Fallout New Vegas (RIP Bennyā¦), Mass Effect (the whole trilogy, but the first one in particular), and Bioshock. I guess this likely really shows my age lmao. As in they all came out at the same time, not that Iām particularly old.
Only dumbasses and entitled people would expect a brand new game to have total feature and asset parity to a game that had 10 years of updates, DLC and freaking mods.
I honestly feel confident CS2 will become a much more complete and better city builder than CS1. And from everything Iāve seen (havenāt played it yet), itās already better in many ways. Like MIXED ZONING. Thatās so major I barely care for anything else tbh.
Itās not the āfaultā of amoral individuals, no. This is simply the system working as intended. A system where capital translates to political power will inevitably lead to capital accumulation. Corporations are only for generating more capital and more profits to their owners. Profits they can turn into more capital elsewhere.
Itās silly to expect a āgoodā version of this where the people at the topā¦ donāt put their interests first? Like why would they ever do that? If someone at the top doesnāt fight for profit like a shark, they will lose their spot and risk becoming a worker, or dooming their family and future generations to become workers.
These people are just doing whatās best for them. And everybody around says āhey! thatās bad, you should put aside your self interest for our self interest!ā.
Bro the problem is THE SYSTEM. As long as we have this system, we will always have the same people in power, the same problems, and the planet will die in 50 years. You can fight reality all you want, but thatās where weāre at.
Ideology. The reason why people keep thinking the issue is āindividualsā, or ācroneyismā, or that small moral based reforms will fix thingsā¦ itās ideology.
People donāt look at reality in a materialistic way. They have ideas of how things should be and shape reality to fit that. If it doesnāt, the issue is reality and not the idea. So the fix is to āchange realityā (through only propaganda, media and more ideology, reframing etc.) so it looks more like your idea.
I donāt even know where to begin with all thisā¦ Itās like insane and ameribrained in a way I havenāt seen in a whileā¦
Our current systems of law and government are an intrinsic part of capitalism. The modern state, with the separation of powers, representative democracy etc. literally was born, as in was created, by the bourgeoisie after their capitalist revolutions that overthrew the monarchies in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Capitalism canāt āhijackā the state or whatever. The state is an intrinsic tool of the capitalist system and of the capitalist class to be able to enforce capitalism in the first place.
Then, outside of the US, literally no one would ever say Sweden is socialist. That is completely absurd. Sweden is a capitalist country with a welfare state. Remember that the state is just a tool of the bourgeoisie to maintain control and enforce capitalism. A welfare state is just an idea of using the state to āameliorateā (or some would say bribe) the working class in the capitalist core to support imperialism abroad and the exploitation of peoples in the global south.
Public healthcare and social security are not socialist or capitalist. But they usually exist in capitalist systems.
What I meant by socialism is China, the former USSR, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and the DPRK.
Socialism is when the means of production are collectively owned by the workers. Production is slowly directed towards use-value, eliminating commodity production.
Capitalism is when the means of production are privately owned by individuals and corporations. Production is directed towards trade-value, turning everything into a commodity.
I wonāt go on because you wrote a huge wall of crazy bullshit. I just wanted to try to provide some clarity on the beginning of it at least.
I love Dragon Age: Origins. One of the best āmodernā RPGs for sure. Great replayability. Great characters. Great ārpgnessā.
I also love Dragon Age 2. Itās not a great gameā¦ but I actually like the story more. I like how more āfocusedā it feels narrative-wise. The characters are also great. The ārpgnessā is less goodā¦ and development issues makes for a lot of reused assets.
I kinda like Dragon Age: Inquisition. Iāve been replaying it recently. The story is decent. The characters are also good. Maybe even better tbh. I like the main plot points and the ideas etc. But the game mechanics kinda suckā¦ I hate the pointless missions that take time like mobile games. The way the story progresses, with meta-points blocking things also sucks. But itās okā¦
All in all, I would recommend playing them all. But kinda like watching all the Godfather movies. One is great, another is pretty good, and one kinda sucks but itās ok. But if you just watch the one thatās great, you kinda miss the whole thing.
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