• merc@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    6 hours ago

    From the Newsweek article:

    Civilization VI, or ‘Civ IV,’

    Sophie! Don’t you know your Roman Numerals?

  • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    471·
    9 hours ago

    okay see I was in favor of what he did but his politics were kind of incoherent so I couldn’t jump on the ‘idolize this man’ train.

    I guess now I gotta.

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
    84·
    16 hours ago

    Remember then the media was calling him a Techbro instead of a tech worker? Yeah, he was never a Techbro.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      413·
      15 hours ago

      They tried everything… It didn’t work

      Bootlickers eventually fell inline but anyone paying attention saw right through the bullshit.

      Anyone with basic vidya game exp knows that you re going the right way when you get this many enemies having a melt down on teevee and socials

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      41·
      12 hours ago

      Maybe I misunderstand the context of the term but I never viewed them as mutually exclusive. There are toxic “bro” type devs who are still actually good devs (doesn’t excuse being an ass though). I never viewed it as meaning someone who doesn’t code “for real” but maybe I’m misusing it.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
        16·
        11 hours ago

        For me, “Techbro” exclusively refers to people who repackage existing ideas and sell them as an innovation to VC investors. Think of how many techbros keep reinventing trains and boats, but worse.

        • MathiasTCK@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 hours ago

          I picture those who didn’t embrace geek culture or esthetics, leaning more towards jock and fraternity culture instead, but who saw money in computers.

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            That’s how I’ve always interpreted it. Specifically about toxic jocks though, nothing inherently wrong with enjoying sports.

            • MathiasTCK@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              I felt the same, and I want sports to be a vehicle for teaching people about fitness, and teamwork. I am not sure I still do, it so often dissolves into toxic competition, self harm, injury, violence, riots and a general us against them attitude.

              I hope people get good things from sports and avoid the bad things.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        tech bros are people like musk, zuckerberg, a little bezos, altman,etc. same goes for cryptobros, people that peddle the actual crypto, but are very bad at it or they arnt even investing in it themselves. i know someone who was peddling obscure one as actual success.

        gates, and Jobs is another.

      • gamer@lemm.ee
        5·
        11 hours ago

        I’ve always seen it as meaning the type of douche who would pitch anything to YC

    • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      771·
      16 hours ago

      The best outcome of this situation is jury nullification. If the jury nullifies, we’ll have proven the law does not prosecute heroic deeds of this caliber. It would be the biggest blow to capitalism in generations.

      • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        13 hours ago

        “he who saves his country has committed no crimes”

        i threw up in my mouth a bit quoting trump, but throwing their words back at them is always satisfying.

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            5·
            8 hours ago

            The guy who tried to take over Europe was arrested and banished (to run a tropical island, so like most rich and powerful was given a super kushy “punishment” that’s more like a forced retirement), returned and tried to take over Europe a second time and was banished again (this time to an actually unpleasant island off the coast of Africa under active guard) might not be the best person for trump to be quoting in this context…

        • Lukas Murch@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          5·
          13 hours ago

          Trump stole it from a quote by Napoleon, allegedly, so… Not sure if that’s better or worse, but at least it’s not a Trump original.

          • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            13 hours ago

            of course he’s not smart enough to come up with a good quote himself, i should have known better

      • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
        24·
        16 hours ago

        i love that too, but they will be anticipating jury nullification, and they have stopped people from doing it before.

        i just don’t trust anything abut the american justice system any more.

        • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          16·
          16 hours ago

          Once the jurors are selected, we need to start a social media blitz in New York around jury nullification. Signs on street corners. Murals. Chanting crowds outside the courthouse on the court dates.

          We can do this 💪

          • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
            12·
            15 hours ago

            i agree, but keep in mind that if the DOJ knows what they’re up against, they will pull some underhanded shit to make a conviction unavoidable. don’t doubt them for a second.

            i honestly have no faith and would rather see us organizing the things that don’t interact with the gears of government at all.

          • vvilld@lemmy.world
            7·
            15 hours ago

            Aren’t jurors for high profile cases typically secluded during the trial? Would they even be on social media or in a position to be out in public much?

            • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
              9·
              14 hours ago

              They still have to enter the building, and the courts have specifically found that holding signs signs and handing out pamphlets about jury nullification in public space outside of courthouse are 100% protected speech.

            • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
              7·
              15 hours ago

              You’re right there’s no chance they won’t be secluded on a case like this.

              I don’t know the extent of that though. They probably don’t sleep in the same building so they need to transit between places. Do they use no windows so they can’t see signs? What about hoods, just as effective as no glass!

          • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            14 hours ago

            I am in Canada. I would go, but I don’t want CBP to be asking me any questions. Last time I visited the US they searched my car for no reason. I have been interrogated by them before (you can probably tell by my username I am of Lebanese descent), but I have a feeling that the Trumpian bullshit might empower them to detain me for no fucking reason.

        • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          14 hours ago

          The have been arrested white Canadians for improper documentation and holding them for months with no charge or even telling them why they have been arrested and detained.

      • Necroscope0@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        14 hours ago

        I have been shouting this from the rooftops since I heard what happened. So many people think you have to punish someone if they are proven guilty… not true in the USA. The jury can decide he is not guilty for whatever reason they want. They can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he did it and the jury can still let him go. So many people don’t know this.

        Also a great way to get out of jury duty is to mention this during the selection process, they will boot you 100% of the time if you know this.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          5·
          12 hours ago

          The problem is that if you try to get on a jury to do this then you’re usually probably committing perjury. They typically ask questions somewhat related to it without outright using the phrase.

          • Necroscope0@lemm.eeEnglish
            41·
            9 hours ago

            Definitely true. I would perjure myself to get Luigi off the hook though. He is a hero not a criminal. He had the balls to kill that piece of shit, I can have the balls to tell a white lie to get him out.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          thats why MSMs are so tight lipped about the case, even if nothings going on right now, they arnt say sht in order to “bias” people into believing otherwise.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        13·
        14 hours ago

        There is no such thing as jury nullification as a court decision though. Jury nullification is the Jury agreeing that they didn’t see nothing. If they say he did it but they aren’t convicting that may very well be grounds for a mistrial. I suspect that the prosecution will argue that it was a mistrial regardless of whether the Jury nullifies or genuinely is unconvinced beyond a reasonable doubt.

  • arotrios@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4310·
    18 hours ago

    This actually makes an incredible amount of sense. Anyone who has played any of the Civs for long enough knows that taking out the right unit at the right time can change the entire face of the map. Imagine having that kind of tactical gameplay drilled into your head every day for 8-10 hours a day as a developer.

    At some point, the lines between the game, the job, and real life must have become blurred. Civ is a virtual abstraction of real life. The healthcare industry is a bureaucratic one, twisted from being a service that cares for people to one that only keeps you alive as long as you can pay.

    The goal in every video game is to kill the boss. The sad fallacy of this approach to political action is that there’s always another boss waiting in line to take his place, and the machinery of evil barely blinks an eye at the average murderous vigilante. If Luigi hadn’t have been caught, and just disappeared into the night, we wouldn’t be talking about him now - the murder would have faded from our awareness with the news cycle’s constant obsession over Trump.

    Instead, the police did the worst thing they could have done.

    They caught him.

    And this meant that the faceless masked murderer became a cute rich Italian guy who had a fire in his eyes and the name of one of the most beloved video game characters of all time. By dragging him out in chains in a performative perp-walk, the cops were demonstrating their loyalty to the oligarchy who run the country (and the Healthcare chuds are a big part of that machine), and at the same time, managed to make him into a living martyr.

    Because everyone, everywhere, who has ever played a Super Mario Brothers game in their life, has been Luigi at one time or another.

    Now there’s no chance at even a semblance of a fair trial, and they’ve guaranteed that the mere mention of his name will draw eyeballs and has the potential to start a riot, or inspire more gunmen.

    All because of video games…

    Guess they weren’t a waste of time after all, Mom…

      • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        91·
        15 hours ago

        if he were and americans werent completely self obsessed and convinced that their shit way of running a country is functional, Luigi would be free under 2nd amendment protection. As healthcare should be provided by the state and at an affordable cost. And it is in every country that isn’t shit and in many countries that are shit.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        7·
        15 hours ago

        That’s for the state to prove and so far they have showed that they are got a lot of propaganda but it is not very convincing

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    1471·
    22 hours ago

    So “Fix Civ Bugs” is new code for “Eat the rich” and it’s not even doublespeak.

    Civilization has these bugs where some people can get ultra wealthy and ruin it for everyone. As Devs, we need to fix that.

    Taking bets on how long before discussing fixing Civ bugs gets you banned on r*ddit