Our capacity for complex goal directed behavior is impressive.

But our empathy never extends far enough, whether we have power over others or vice versa. It’s fuck you I got mine and fuck you to get mine. Or, we collectively keep our heads down and go Better them than us, when standing up in solidarity against oppression is called for.

And regardless which side of of the power gradient any one of us finds ourselves on, we are collectively unified in aggressively powerfucking the planet and our future generations by our actions and complacency.

We’re impressive cognitively, but we’re socially primitive and need to evolve by an order of magnitude.

No problem.

Strap a gun to the drone, use your 2A freedoms.

I would include my antics in [Gestures broadly].

Humans. Why? [Gestures broadly]

This is easily in the top ten opening themes of all time.

Tell me more, Slop Boy.

Yea, not gonna read all of that.

In this community, you have a lot of lattitude. I support your decision to not read all that, and will defend your right to do so.

Thanks for posting this update, I completely agree with the mods over ml,

See my previous comment regarding lattitude

I’m sure you do too.

No you’re not.

🫶 death to amerikkka

You’d be surprised how attractive this sentiment is outside of your particular ingroup.

That being said, I’d have thought that Trump’s usage of Stalinist tactics would have tankies absolutely turgid.

I’m just trying to explain to you that YOU might do your thing, but YOU do not sway the industry.I’ve known and understood the dangers of dark practices, yet those companies were rewarded regardless of me not buying into them and warning others.All I’m saying is that you and I represent an insignificant minority of money in gaming, and if the majority won’t shop for PC hardware, that will cease to be sold. Completely. You and I will not change that.

Like I said, I understand your Resistance is Futile story. As a separate topic for self-exploration, you might want to reflect on the outcome you’re actually trying to achieve, and why you’re going all-out to explain that being defiant in the face of the unacceptable is pointless.

Anyhow, since all of that nonsense sucks ass, I will continue contributing zero dollars, and zero cents to non-essential industries that sell shit that i don’t want, at price points and with subscription schemes that I didn’t ask for.

The other example that I set, is not striving to be the bucket of ice water dumped on other people’s refusal to bend the knee.

In the simplest of terms, I’m advocating for fighting for your life when attacked, and you’re suggesting that you may as well do nothing when attacked, unless you know you will win.

I’m telling you that we are in a minority.And that unless we can convince at least 50% of gamers to not buy into that, we lost.EA should have been bankrupt twenty times over, but people keep buying their games.Same as with everything.I keep fighting, but this fight has been lost since the start.

I understand your thesis, but am offering mine as a wholesale replacement instead of a rebuttal:

1. The entire gaming industry produces non-essential goods.

2. No one video game, nor the entire industry, have a monopoly on entertainment.

3. I dictate what products and services I want, the video game industry does not.

4. If the industry doesn’t produce products that I want, the industry gets zero of my entertainment dollars, or attention.

5. I can and will spend my entertainment dollars elsewhere, and have experienced zero stress as a result.

Why “fight” an industry that needs you more than you need it? They cannot stop me from disregarding them, which certainly makes getting money out of me a challenge.

I cannot stress enough how much of a Them problem this actually is.

Do you play Call of Duty every release?No? Because millions of people do.Do you think your actions are offsetting that?Because they are not. Nobody is going to sell hardware to a couple thousand folk who won’t get in with the times.

Based on your tone, you come from the Randy Pitchford school of public relations.

If you’re uncertain about what I’m getting at, my recent spending on Borderlands, and Borderlands related goods, averages out to zero dollars and zero cents.

I admire your optimism, but I think this will get used as leverage for a push to cloud gaming. The end goal is for is to own nothing.

They’re certainly welcome to attempt selling that to me.

They won’t like the outcome, but that’s more of a them problem.

Well the pop would only cause more issues like lack of funds for anyone to even afford one of those things.

Possibly, but this doesn’t diminish my desire for that bubble to pop sooner rather than later.

What im hearing is that if we want those things sooner and at a reasonable price, we should do anything and everything possible to pop the AI bubble.

Nookie.

(Hey) Like a chump (Hey) Like a chump (Hey)

Shall We Dance?

That’s such an Enron thing to say.

Sad that MotG is active and popular?

That’s like a republican being upset that Leopards Ate My Face is too busy.

Do they not understand how the material is generated?

That’s some magical thinking.

it’s fine when you and yours do it, but when it happens to you it’s tyranny!

Alternately, sometimes it’s a clear cut, objectively correct decision, that is one hundred percent whataboutism-proof.

I am cognizant of the argument that you’re trying to make; I just don’t care, because it’s stupid.

Also, I think I’m going to look into this whole PieFed thing. My interest in it was fairly low, to be honest, until I saw the standard issue, obtuse angled attack from one of lemmy.ml’s finest.

Now that I understand that lemmy.ml doesn’t like it (TIL), I’m highly likely to start promoting PieFed. Kinda like an ongoing Christmas present, from me to you.

Are you 12?

Oh no, a lemmy.ml user doesn’t approve of my conduct.

LMAO