MasterBlaster

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Revolutionary optimism and trying to keep my life in order so that I can say I'm contributing as much to communism as I possibly can be has done orders more for my mental health and lifestyle than anything else. Years in therapy as a teenager gave me nothing but therapyspeak and self loathing; having a strong basis in theory and striving towards political actualization has made me friends, drawn me to fulfilling work and given me passion for learning skills and hobbies.

So I do absolutely agree, and have had similar thoughts to you. You can't say you truly want everyone else's lives to be better if you won't even do the work on your own.

(Note for above, I'm not dismissing therapy as generally beneficial, just that my experience was subpar and was not as helpful as empowering myself with theory/learning the true roots of my struggles)

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago

This game has stayed with me in a really annoying way, wherein there's truly no way for me to replay it or get the same experience again. Pls comrades play big walk if you can, entirely unique experience, pure art.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I bring a 'kill the empire by playing youtube poops on a network of 27 bluetooth speakers set up around the sleeping quarters of the military occupying an urban center' energy that the libs really don't like

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I so badly want to hear trump say the word 'bourgeois'

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

tbf I think some people are attracted to zombie apocalypse settings because most of these stories depict small communities providing for each other and having their basic needs met just by participating in survival labor

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

Don't listen too much to other peoples experiences. So many people have the 20s built up as the most important years of your life. Truth be told they can go either way. Mine were pretty boring and harsh but my 30s have been deeply satisfying in comparison.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 2 weeks ago

carl is out here with banger ideas for no damn reason, damn. get this written as a chuck tingle inspired absurdist book, or genuine kink writing. whatever sells better

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

People don't give enough credit to the fact that incel chuddy types genuinely want something like this, or, at least, feel it's a moral violation that things aren't like this.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

strong institutions

what institutions should be strong I wonder

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago

Ms Rachel is by far the most based person imaginable who can also drop a million for a donation.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

That the dude who burned himself was an individual action and not a collective one

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

its just that the crime of all crimes is occurring

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Sourcevoid Online (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@hexbear.net
 

Incredibly cool concept. Put in a seed (or roll randomly) and fall into an old sourcemod community map. You can come across other people on the same seed as yourself. High chance to spawn into the void, you have to keep rerolling.

Make sure HL2 and CS:S are installed. TF2 as well if you can help it

 

my son

 

uh bros? on amazon prime no less?? tankees stay winning

 
 
 

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?

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