MasterBlaster

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

Ms Rachel is pretty much a gold standard imo. I'm a parent who is very anal about screen time, don't forbid it but it's extremely curated and controlled, and because I enjoy researching I've consumed a lot of toddler content.

She comes to play, dawg. She beats out all the other toddler slop (even sesame street) because the vast majority of her catalogue is shit you should be doing, just recorded on a screen. She's educated and employing methods that, if you pay attention and pick up, will genuinely help your kid along. There's a dozen 'Ms X' channels out there and if they're worth anything at all it's because they're almost a 1:1 copy of Ms Rachel's content. The rest are slop. Cocomelon is slop. Paw Patrol is slop. Seriously, none of them compare to the actual value of an hour of Ms Rachel.

I say all this because my read of her has been that she's an extremely professional and ethical person. I was watching her with my kid before she came out about Gaza and while I was chuffed in a very parasocial way, I wasn't surprised at all. Dedicated children's educators always carry a huge amount of empathy as they must teach it.

She's filling a niche in the new media toddler landscape that almost everyone else has decided to exploit with pure brainrotting slop. Got me typing up paragraphs with no point just because I want to express her sheer basedness. If Ms Rachel has no fans then I'm dead.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yes this is a strong point I don't disagree with either. I look at it like this: Yes, parents should have an inherent, natural right to access to their children. No, parents should not have medical, total financial, or personal control over their kids until an arbitrary age. The secret sauce imo is properly socialized childcare; parents could be granted the benefit of the doubt that they'll do right because there's so many resources available to them to make it manageable, this also ensures a social standard of education & healthcare applied at the youngest possible age.

At that stage you could severely increase the legal penalties for neglecting your child and introduce more safety nets in way of developmental check-ins and home visits. I would support an outright 'parenting license' in a hypothetical society where childcare was completely socialized.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 hours ago

You can see car door handles in china - but at what cost?

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 7 hours ago

as long as no one is telling them what to do, that is the most morally important aspect i've come to find

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

Indeed, the angry parades shall not be infringed upon

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just like how social production is distinct to regular production I think the hierarchy between parent and child is also unique and incomparable to more material connections like 'slave/master.' Parents have some inherent justification to the life experience they lord over their literal immobile infant; how this changes over time and between individuals, and with intent, is a conversation to have, but in general a well-intentioned parent deserves to inhabit the position in the hierarchy.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The richest guy around wastes his time by getting into pointless online arguments like the rest of us peasants. Except he also does it the most, his sleep is fucked up because he argues with people online so much. That heatmap of his twitter activity is crazy.

aspects of reality stop us from losing ourselves too deep in the rage algo. you can't really stay up all night rage tweeting if you have to go to work. so the urge gets the better of all of us but most of us are saved from the worst of it.

musk has no such material obligation to maintain his body so he can stay up all night rage tweeting, and there's a delicious, palpable irony that he himself is partially responsible for the incessant urge to engage that he feels

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Seeing wider internet groups implode over the revelation the internet has had massive perverse pedophilic influence since the earliest days of their favourite internet forums (basically 4chan.)

Essessentially, mad that the Marxists were right again.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 3 days ago (9 children)

It's also worth noting Epstein hotlinked the /gif/ board and shared FNAF SFM pornography.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 3 days ago

OPs images are just about all that I've seen regarding this, but, yeah, the Epstein documents released today absolutely contain references to Moot and Epstein meeting, and that meeting happened around the time of /pol/'s reopening.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 73 points 3 days ago (10 children)

the moot-/pol/-epstein conspiracy finna make me disassociate

 
 
 

Developer ZA/UM says it’s actually for TikTok users.

“We intend to captivate the TikTok user with quick hits of compelling story, art, and audio, ultimately creating an all new, deeply engaging form of entertainment,” ZA/UM head Denis Havel said in a news release (via IGN).

let's gooooo I can't wait for the subway surfer in-app purchase DLC. no i'm not kidding, the store page marks it as having in-app purchases. something something capital subsuming something.

 

I love Telltale and Telltale-adjacent games. Those narrative games where you sit back and choose dialogue options and action choices instead of actively playing.

I think a lot of those types of games miss that you have to tell a really good story for any of that to work.

Star Trek: Resurgence looks pretty good, but did anyone here play it? Is it actually good? Or is it Star Trek-flavored slop?

 

I just finished the Jakarta Method and it left me genuinely dismayed. Not like, astounded with how horrible it all was (I knew it was going to be horrible), but more, it made me put the book down and sit with my feelings of dismay. A little bit nauseous, unsettled, feeling a loss of hope for a lot of ideals I hold.

What a horrible period of history, in a century absolutely full of horrible periods.

 
 

That's all. Played Civ since IV and the boardgame-like nature of it meant that I've gotten a lot of friends and family into it as a means to experience video games in general.

Civ VII looks really bad, even if I haven't played it myself. Systems upon systems that aren't properly explained, that somehow feel both cluttered and less in-depth than previous entries. Three truncated games making up the segments of one larger game is lame, too. A bad solution to the problem of people burning out in the later eras.

Most of all, though, is the business model of it all. Civ already leaned into 4X DLC conventions which meant getting the whole package was an expensive endeavor, but at least, for example, Civ VI had just two major expansion packs. Civ VII is already drowning into microtransaction leader purchases.

And then there's, just, the price. It's obscene. Denuvo is devastating to see as it creates a lot of barriers to giving the thing a try. I don't get excited for games any more, but Civ VII would have been one of them.

Anyone try it themselves? Anyone in love? Anyone feel like me?

 

Anyone watch the game awards? That one show where they play a bunch of trailers for new games in between awkward awards and musical performances?

watching it is a tradition of mine. brings me back to being a kid watching E3 and occasionally being happy.

i want balatro sweep and death stranding 2 trailer

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