The legacy of the 2015-era socialist podcasters will be the Roganization leftist media. Hope it was worth it just to dunk on Johnathan Chait with the r-slur or give the deeply materialist, dialectic commentary of Trump being gay. Still wondering where these noble normies that amassed around our normal podcasters are. Seems like after a decade of normalizing the left for normal sensibilities there should be something to show for it besides the personal wealth of the hosts. Maybe subscriber count is its own victory. Hey I went to a party of lefists and they knew what a podcast was, I guess we won in the end.
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This gets on my nerves because literally everyone gets this wrong as nobody really knows or cares about the history of McDonald's architecture. Yet the argument relies on a historical narrative. This is not new. In the 70s they did this exact same thing. They got rid of the bright and flashy style they had used throughout the 50s and 60s. They used more earth tones and natural materials. Their goal was to make it feel more homey rather than oriented at kids/young people. Imagine going from white, red, yellow with space-age curves, almost Googie architecture, to beige and brown.
There is no woke architecture crisis. The difference is how we react to any change. It's all driven by social media outrage and flat-out manufactured bait. Every minor change anyone makes is amplified and blown up and added to some kind of culture war narrative instantly. Then it's repeated so much that even leftists will be like "this is true but because of dialectical materialism." It's not even true. Your 80s/90s McDonald's that you totally remember accurately was colorful because some franchises reverted back to white/yellow/red for the same reasons. People thought the 70s retool was too drab. Some were repainted. It's not a linear decline in aesthetics it, get this, changes over time. Something you like may come into style but then it will go out of style. It may come back into style again.
I know we are desperately grasping at any canary in a coal mine for the fall of capitalism, but I don't think it's correlated to the appearance of McDonald's.
-- The prison camp guard asked before mag-dumping into my brainpan.
Probably not the greatest time to have "Dick Epstein" write an article for your paper.
That was a Star Trek reference/easter egg in a random encounter which is officially non-canon.
Oh so they're finally doing a real Overwatch 2 after 3 years of battlepass money but ironically removing the 2.
You could probably get a private chef for that much. Not a celebrity private chef, but just someone who can cook good food and doesn't want to make min wage working in a kitchen. If you do 20 hours a week prepping and cooking for them, that's $35 an hour. You could probably average the hours down once you get to know their likes and dislikes. Not many part-time jobs pay that much. Get two clients and you make $70 an hour for 40 hours. No kitchen manager, no 16 hour shifts back to back, only a few customers.
Then again I think part of it is that they just like pushing a button and receiving food. The prospect of fielding candidates and actually dealing with another human directly is off-putting. Plus these kinds of people tend to pretend that they don't like spending money. They'll pay $700 for frozen Sysco food but scoff at paying even $200 a week for a private chef. They'll try to haggle an employee down to crumbs but have no problem paying a robot.
The mayor of Portland is on the list.
Maybe it was this I saw (thanks to astronot)
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1quqk6q/this_is_where_all_those_equals_signs_in_the/
Really easy to confuse hexbear with r/trueanon since everyone just reposts from there all the time.
I do not. I just spent about 10 mins trying to find it. It's not in c/technology or c/chapotraphouse, that I can see. Searching "=" or any other relevant key words for posts or comments doesn't bring it up. IDK.
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What if they were awake this whole time but couldn't tell the difference? I think mods should sell their father's modding fortune to a Japanese business man. Or, more accurately, they think they should do that.
I'm building a portfolio so I can try to get a job doing environment art. I have a little bit of an idea how the art-end of game dev works. However I can't help but to think about what games I would make if I was a project director or lead designer. What are your game ideas? They can be as unrealistic or realistic as you like. Big or small.
Mine:
I want to do an immersive sim with retro graphics and homage Deus Ex, Systemshock, and even VTMB (in terms of atmosphere). A grungy cyberpunk game where it's night all the time. I want to bring in TrueAnon type conspiracy stuff to replace the more reactionary elements of DE. Large semi-open world environments set in various locations. The PNW or NoCal for rural forested areas inhabited by militias. Suburban areas with a retrofuturistic 90s vibe. Large high-tech dirty cities. The good gameplay qualites of Deus Ex but updated and with QoL improvements. Though I would probably get rid of the squeenix quest marker and hand-holdy stuff. Make the player have to talk to NPCs and look around to figure things out. I would keep the graphical fidelity comparable, but ramp up the size and amount of stuff in the game. Environments would be full of vignettes and minigames. Make it so that not playing the story is rewarding and fulfilling too.
Another one is a spiritual sequel to San Andreas. Set it in CA, NV, OR, and WA. Set in the mid 90s instead of early 90s. A single open-world. Absolute tons of mini games and side-shit to do. Bring in skateboarding and the real BMX gameplay that never made it into SA. Improve the gang recruitment and territory system. Create real factions between the police, gangs, and feds. Increase dating mechanics. Tons of weapons. More B&E mini-games. Drug selling sim that you can actually scale up and make a business out of. Probably simulate some kind of economy in the game. Deep character customization. Tons of vehicles. Heists. Casinos. Casino management. Street racing. Car customization. Improved tagging. Just tons of content. Again, I would keep the graphics roughly the same, just include more stuff.
I need a city sim/logistics sim game but set in world with a centrally planned economy. The city sim stuff would focus on urbanization and good city planning. The logistics stuff would supplement that and lend restrictions to what you can or can't do. Like cash would in a traditional city sim. Not only would you be responsible for your sims and their city, but you need to create and operate supply lines as well. Like a mix of Factorio, Skylines, and Railway Empire. I have more specific ideas on how this would work, but I've already wrote enough for one post.
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Hey someone taking the discussion more seriously than you or caring about it more than you isn't a defect. We covered this during our revision of the CoC.
If you don't have anything constructive to contribute other than "people who reply to me are hyper online weirdos" then you should follow your own advice and log off.