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Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

This might just be me being ace, I don't want to be telling other people how to live their lives. That said I find it extremely difficult to want spend time around people in polycules, I don't see the appeal and I really don't get the dynamic.

[–] Dyskolos 1 points 19 minutes ago

My English seems to be lacking here...what is a polycule?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago (2 children)

Music is getting worse and anyone with a certain degree of historical knowledge would agree with me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago (1 children)

I wanna hear more about this one. What historical knowledge?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

Search for Dave goodins deep soul treasures, dozens upon dozens of artists and singers who were absolutely world class talents, none of them ever got more than a demo or maybe a singular album released because the record labels quickly realized that there wasn't a market for that music in the 70s. This has happened hundreds of times all over the world, and the talent and knowledge of those musicians died with them

[–] Dyskolos 1 points 22 minutes ago

That's very agreeable, even without the certain degree of historical knowledge

[–] [email protected] 5 points 50 minutes ago

One ply toilet paper is fine. There does exist super terrible one ply that is cheap and scratchy and rough, but #notalloneply

[–] [email protected] 3 points 59 minutes ago (2 children)

I hate public transport. It's always noisy and stinky and overcrowded and contains people.

Wanna be cramped in this shaking prison for 2 hours a day that will most likely make you sick? Yeah, sounds great, m8

I just wanna be able walk places, I hate driving and taxis too. Bikes and scooters are the devil's work and UNNATURAL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

Bikes and scooters are the devil's work and UNNATURAL

de-physical-instrument

[–] Dyskolos 1 points 17 minutes ago

Not just the stinky social aspect, it's way overpriced here too. Last time I user public transport was decades ago, but even then it sucked hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Scholar of The First Sin is better than OG Dark Souls 2.

Sure they doubled down on the swarms of enemies in places where people had been complaining about them, but they did it in an interesting way where enemy composition forces the player to be way more aware of their own position and spacing.

The new mechanics they added to various creatures and boss fights fixed the coupla fights I found boring.

I feel the lighting changes bring it closer in line with how Dark Souls 2 is supposed to be based on the old trailers.

As someone who does a lot of jolly co-oping in souls games, I felt the increased summon cap was a huge boost to the multiplayer.

Also the hitboxes feel tighter.

Best version of best Souls game.

bonus opinion that's unpopular IRL but common on Lemmy.

Winston Churchill was a monster, and the good opinion people have of him now is the byproduct of one of the most extensive propaganda pushes ever conceived.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I've essentially never seen anything from the sphere of "parapolitics" that actually appears to impart any useful practical knowledge for understanding the past or predicting the future, at best it appears to be a masturbatory hobby that lets you be smug about JFK for 50+ years straight, at worst it makes you some annoying asshole who goes around saying shit like "denying the existence of snuff films is leftist flat earth" for attention.

Also Programmed To Kill is a very stupid book.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago

I actually don't respect religion at all and could never be 100% compatible with a religious person

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Open source pushed me toward ml theory. In a bad way.

Like since log4j, a lot of foss can’t be relied on without significant public investment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Ansel Adams' photos are glorified tech demos of the zone system. They have little artistic merit on their own. Adams should have stayed in the darkroom.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago

We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.

I'M IN POLAND, IT'S DEFINITELY COMMUNISM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

“Enlightenment” is a real physical human possibility (but not necessarily how religious people describe it) that is compatible with dialectical materialism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 30 minutes ago

We talking ego death? Because that was a big inflection point in my journey leftwards. Parenti may have been bigger though.😅

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't think there are any good Sonic games and I'm convinced that a lot of people only like the series because of nostalgia. I feel the same way about Harry Potter but that's not an unpopular opinion here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

IMO the thing is that Sonic at its best only appeals to a small slice of gamers. Like if you talk to speedrunners about it they'll have nothing but good things to say about it, and in general Sonic games get more cathartic to play the better you get as a player. The less time you spend bumping into things and the more confidently you can navigate the precision platforming segments the more you can just zone out and enjoy the flow state and the music and stuff.

But you've got to have a personality that leads you to playing levels multiple times to get into that flow state, and a lot of people who don't have that will play a Sonic game, struggle through every level exactly once, and then put it away and declare that it sucked.

So this niche interest game got put up against Mario, which is superficially similar but much, much better at appealing to a mass audience, and the comparison has stuck in the culture ever since. People who like it continue to like it but because of its high profile and nostalgia factor lots and lots of people play it who don't like it and that infects the discourse for it in a way that it doesn't for other games.

...and of course lots of the games really do suck because SEGA and Sonic Team have had a bad habit of rushing games out the door before they were finished that goes back to the Mega Drive days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

As an unreformed sonic enjoyer I think this is the case. The abstract concept of a sonic game is so much more enjoyable than the material reality of a sonic game

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

People here should read more right wing theory. I think its very easy to get the impression that the only right wingers that exist are Shapiro or Alex Jones types and so when people on the left encounter a right winger who isn't a total moron/grifter they can be overly impressed and more easily swayed by them.

Case in point being Aleksandr Dugin. While he's not as influential since the ACP was founded, I used to hear some his talking points on here a whole lot. He explicitly talks about using internet marxists as a 5th column to push right wing ideas. So inoculate yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I think also whispers Hayek did actually have some valid critiques of managed economies. I believe there are solutions to these problems tbc, but you can't just hand-wave the critique, even if he was an evil pos.

I don't think I've ever personally conversed with a right winger who has actually engaged with 'the good stuff' from the Right tradition however, so it's important to understand that the cultural impact of this stuff is negligible compared to e.g. Rand

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

There is a podcast that tackles this very subject.

The Black and Red Book Review

Highly recommend, though production quality is not exactly great.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (5 children)

Im not doing all that work just to get linux going

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

I must have just lucked out with my hardware or something. I’ve never had a problem and everything just works. Much better experience than installing and running Windows. I also run a Mac with OSX too though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I'll tell you a little secret: desktop linux is not very good and it's not getting better. Don't believe anyone who tells you they found a perfect operating system

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

that work being run installer and then click the install software button and install steam/libreoffice/firefox.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Nah, I'm very computer literate, built my own PC, can troubleshoot most software and hardware on Windows and sometimes Mac... I'm not a genius but my family and friends consider me the 'computer fixer guy' of the group.

I've got Linux on my little laptop - constant troubleshooting. I want a specific program? Ah, well here's this knock-off version that is almost totally functional but pretty inaccessible and the only tutorials for it are buried deep in some random forum, if at all. Oh, and you have to install these other versions and plugins, and it must be done via this specific command line. It's just not accessible for easy use yet. Gaming? Oh, just use proton, except for this particular game, where you have to... go to some niche forum and follow a 25 step guide, and then it might work, depending on your graphics card. Come on, try it, don't you have a spare 4 hours to set aside?

It's almost inevitable given that the computing monopolies don't optimise for Linux at all. It's a hostile environment, and to me it's still more hassle than it's worth.

I think if I had a day or so to set it all up with a Linux expert they'd have me on the right course, but as far as plug and load goes, in a time when I don't have any time at all, Windows just works.

Maybe I just haven't found the right Linux version for me yet.

Of course, it's being enshittified faster and faster. I'd like to jump to Linux some day properly.

You might say: 'MaoTheLawn', you're a stupid moron, its totally easy!

If it was, I would be saying it was! It just isn't a simple enough switch for someone who has a million and one other things going on in their life.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Deceiver. If Linux was so simple Linux users wouldn't constantly be posting for help to get shit running

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

windows users do this too people are just totally desensitized to it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

Newbies would post about Windows and Mac if they didn't come pre-installed. :beanis:

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I agree. I've fully been on Linux for almost a year now. Anyone who portrays Linux as being that straightforward and uncomplicated is being misleading and inaccurate. Linux is difficult. Getting it to do things you want is difficult. It takes time and energy and interest.

I'd still advocate to use it. Linux gets easier every year and long may that simplification continue. But don't jump into using Linux if you're not ready to.

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