Nothing gets me more 'oh great commie forefathers we have failed you' than seeing old soviet propaganda about uplifting and empowering women. I geniuenly believe we still need that to this day and absolutely loathe the placification of feminism under liberal ideologies

Something something you have to fix the system from the inside! Something something change is slow and can only and should only happen incrementally, after 4 years! Something something you guys are just violent LARPers fuck you >:(

yes, for sure. I think we all do.

I think it requires a reframing of the mind. The 'smart-dumb' scale is an oversimplification of human intellect. It was never entirely accurate. Ignoring intellectual disabilities, every human is equally as capable as being as smart as any other human. We're the same kind of animal.

The true factor in intellect is your curiosity. Some people are naturally curious of different subjects and will learn more about those subjects. Some people are incurious about most subjects and won't learn much at all. Most of the traditionally 'smart' people you think of were just sufficiently curious in whatever field they're qualified in. None of the traditionally 'smart' people you think of were born smart.

Foster your curiosity. If you know what excites you, you're already half way to intelligence.

N-noo!!! Government housing is depressing! I only want private landlords neglecting my concrete box.

We have this whole culture around consuming simulated CSA material and we aren't supposed to talk about it because 'its just a drawing bro'

I am genuinely repulsed by the prevalence of Loli in anime. Every anime show someone tries to get me into has a little girl character. Even if she's not overly sexualised it skeeves me out.

Ah yes, in-game currency is fiction. That's why it costs real money, and publishers mandate developers lock down the game as much as possible to ensure no one circumvents the 'fiction.' The mind boggling profits they bring must also be fictional.

Fuck, I hate GaaS.

Haha, online games licensing sucks. It's almost as if, when we discovered we could distribute media freely and infinitely by digital means, we should have restructured how media and licensing works for these products. but we didn't, and now we have bizarre situations where publishers try to delete their own games from existence rather than spend some upkeep for music licensing

HogLeg's success is pretty crazy if you think about it. Ignoring the sales we've looking at today, take yourself back to the launch of HogLeg. It kept up pace with Fallout 4 in terms of active players and achievement completion rates. This is huge to me. They're both singleplayer RPGs, so they're both vying for the same type of audience.

But.

Fallout 4 was a hugely anticipated sequel to one of the most renowned series in all of gaming. Harry Potter had almost no presence in gaming beyond nostalgic shovel ware titles.

Fallout 4 was developed by gaming darlings, a company known for producing huge open worlds with strong volumes of content. HogLeg was developed by shovelware developers with no major releases in their history.

Fallout 4 is a first person looter shooter, one of the most ubiquitous and successful genres out there. HogLeg is an action roleplaying game, still admittedly a safe genre but doesn't have the genre conventions that makes it possible for anyone with FPS experience to pick up a Fallout.

And finally, Fallout 4 targeted gamers. It's a gamer's game, you know? It's for lore nerds and RPG fans and tacticool nuts and all the rest. HogLeg was for Harry Potter fans. It needed to drag fans across media types to secure a big enough audience.

I truly, truly did not expect HogLeg to find the success it has. And to be honest, it's quite a mid game! It's a visual accomplishment and adherence to the universe means that it's a treat for any Harry Potter nerds, but the rest of the game is as close as generic as it could get.

I never really 'clicked' with working until I worked from home. Like, this entire huge part of me, my connection to my labor, was just not present. When I started working from home I got it. Like yeah, I'm still doing mindless corpo shit tasks and I'm completely alienated from the results of my labor, but I at least know how it feels to sit down, work hard, and feel satisfied after.

In the office, I was just coping with too much anxiety, dread, and frustration.

We put ourselves down the path of endless speculation and jumping at shadows if we just automatically assume any and all data provided by China is outright falsehoods. There are people in China employed to track these statistics and there is material benefits to having these statistics available to the public. There's even incentive for this information to be true.

If the information simply coming from China is enough to dismiss them as China spreading their agenda, then the same could earnestly be argued for any other country on Earth. This kind of logic is the same logic QAnon types use to immediately dismiss evidence.

"The vaccine is causing people to die in huge numbers. What do you mean you disagree? I've seen it, and my family has seen it. Those statistics saying otherwise? Let me guess, they're provided by the vaccine companies?"

oh boy the twitch streamers sure are getting cocky with the boasting of their personal wealth these days huh

how hard is it to just shut up and be the brand you so desperately want to be

I'm building up to doing the same. Already using Protonmail and Kagi. Looking for a less Google-dependent phone to switch over to and then I might pull the plug myself.