TychoCelchuuu

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  2. Posted

    54 minutes ago, electricblue said:

     

    I think realizing that no policy is perfect and there will always be winners and losers will set your expectations at an appropriate level. There's a wide difference between believing a policy like single payer or all-payer rate setting will be the best thing for the country despite its drawbacks and believing that your panacea would fix everything if only the powerful would listen. Having a humble attitude about how your pet agenda will work with real people is not the same thing as 'having no conviction' it's being realistic about how much change you can (and should) affect on other people's lives.

    I don't think all socialists claim that socialism is perfect or that there won't be winners or losers or that socialism would fix everything if only the powerful would listen. In fact it's hard to imagine how you could even conceivably attribute these sorts of views to socialists in general if you were even slightly informed about socialism, which if nothing is extremely up front about how the bourgeoisie will be the losers and the proletariat will be the winners, to the point where "you'll be up against the wall when the revolution comes" is a common enough joke.

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    29 minutes ago, electricblue said:

    Whenever socialist governments implode its always capitalism's fault somehow

    I think it's worth at least reflecting on the degree to which capitalist countries do actively undermine socialist countries. For instance, the United States fought wars in Korea and Vietnam in an attempt to stop socialism from spreading. It toppled or attempted to topple socialist governments (including democratically elected socialist governments) in places like Guatemala, Brazil, and Chile. And those are just the most egregious examples of a single capitalist country.

     

    33 minutes ago, electricblue said:

    Also constantly talk as if the end of capitalism is superduper nigh, as if the two ideas are compatible in any way.

    I think there's a wide variation in what socialists think and say - it seems a little overhasty to attribute this view to every single socialist or something like that.

     

    33 minutes ago, electricblue said:

    The socialists I read on reddit and tumblr are every bit as fact-averse as the libertopians

    I have bad news for you if you think that you'll find a group of people on reddit or tumblr who are not fact-averse.

     

    34 minutes ago, electricblue said:

    Avoid rigorous ideologues if you want to maintain your sanity.

    I'm pretty certain it is possible to retain one's sanity without losing all conviction whatsoever.

     

     

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    I've been watching this guy stream the game on the highest difficulty + Ironman and it seems exactly like a puzzle. He definitely can't beat it blind wtihout prior knowledge - he's had to restart a few times already. So perhaps the solution is upping the difficulty.

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    Skimming probably doesn't help, because the camera cuts already make it tough to follow. The general idea is that flags spawn around the map, and the teams are trying to capture the flags by standing near them, but also you can win by killing all of the enemy. So basically those are the goals the players have, and they are ordering their troops around to accomplish that. The latest video has lots of skirmishing by horse archers, some charges on infantry by cavalry, and infantry defending flags.

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    I guess I never posted in this thread after I finished it. Anyways this game owns. It's really great. The sci-fi universe is super well realized, the way the sun peeks in through the various rooms as the station rotates is really cool, the story is interesting, the voice acting is tremendous, and the time scrubbing mechanic works extremely well.

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    2 hours ago, mikemariano said:

     

    The flurry of negative reviews for Half-Life 2: Episode 2 all seem pretty honest in their frustration. In some aspects, recommending the Episodes now is like recommending Spacebase DF-9, another game publicly abandoned by its company post-release.

     

    The one negative review added recently to Ricochet is petty, though.

    I mean, Ep 2 is a bit different, in that it's a complete, enjoyable experience all on its own, albeit somewhat of a tease in terms of narrative, whereas DF-9 is missing a lot of stuff that one might've hoped for in the game. Nobody was holding out for more stuff in Ep 2 that is never going to come.

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    2 hours ago, dibs said:

    quietly hides shitty prints of limp's pictures

    quietly conceals lucrative business that exists to sell shitty prints of limp's pictures to doctor's offices and other businesses

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    I bought this in the Humble Bundle. I'm like an hour in. Things I enjoy:

     

    1. The aesthetic.

    2. The aesthetic. Like holy cow I'm walking around inside Alien. It looks and sounds soooo right.

    3. Fixing broken shit with cool 70s sci-fi tools.

    4. The music's good.

     

    Things I don't enjoy:

     

    1. Being scared, so I modded the alien to be non-hostile. That worked fine and the game isn't scary anymore, which makes me happy.

    2. Stealth. Hiding from people with guns is kind of boring. I turned the difficulty way down so maybe I can just shoot everyone from now on.

    3. Scavenging crafting materials.

     

    Basically to sum it up I don't enjoy anything except wandering around the station fixing things. I do enjoy that a lot, though, so I think I'm going to really like the game. I don't think wandering around in Alien is going to get old, at least not soon.

     

    Oh also the checkpoint system blows chunks, quicksave please. Also the in-universe explanation for why Ripley keeps using the checkpoints should be that, each time she uses it, she picks up the phone and tries to call the space police or whatever, but it's always busy. That would be funny.

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    4 hours ago, twmac said:

    Tried the Polygon show and I did not like it at all. I like all of the people's individual work on Polygon, but not them collectively just talking about Zero Calorie Coke for 10 minutes, or obsessing over whether McCree has a belly button or not. The latter was eye-opening as I imagine it is how a lot of women feel when they listen to all-male podcaster groups talk sexually about video game characters - a little bored and a little uncomfortable. 

     

    I'll try and listen to some more before I give up on it but if there is too much Zero Calorie Coke talk I am going to end up zoning out.

    What was the McCree verdict?