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Cake day: December 1st, 2025
  • Obama's Perfidy@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Yanis Varoufakis: "Big Tech are the new Soviets. We’re in a planned economy now"
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    19 days ago

    Okay, actually, at the risk of coming across somewhat paranoid, this is exactly how CIA people talk. And you can see how the reasoning works. Anne Pettifor made a similar kind of comparison when she was talking about the Green Belt Project in the Sahel (this was pre-coup (🫡), mind you) which would have been funded with Western retirement funds and state budgets.

    The MMT wonks are convinced that they can use American policy debate to backdoor self-preservation into the psychotic, baby-defiling, cocaine inhaling cosmopolitan bourgeoisie. In their minds, all it will take is clever rhetoric about climate change, pollution, nuclear war, & how the economic ideology of fascism is internally inconsistent (by fucking design) + prone to risk Just like the international relations wonks think they can reposition national interest as the guiding economic logic like it’s WWI and everyone is an imperialist. Hold on, the KKE literally thinks that… In any case, the western left parties and the academics will have to direct all this criticism at each other because they’re certainly not interested in dealing with the elephant in the room (otherwise they wouldn’t entertain people who treat the enormous hoard of settler asset wealth as unimpeachable & to be protected from Klaus Schwab neo-Bolshevism. Anyone else remember when all these people were using the pandemic to scaremonger about the fourth industrial revolution and gassing up Meta’s claims of making everybody do their shopping in virtual Walmart? Anyone remember when this guy was using his comments on Team Fortress 2’s hat market to game credibility? It’s all so tiresome) & they won’t ever, ever, ever be heard out by the institutions they dream of fixing.

  • Obama's Perfidy@lemmygrad.mltoGames@hexbear.net•the Prime 4 discourse is fucking exhausting and I fucking hate itEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Well, I haven’t played the game. I actually did just after reading your post look up this Miles NPC, which people are calling Reddit, as my first foray into the game after having the original series be quite a childhood memory for me. So I apologize if that biases me a bit, versus your gamergate centric aggravations. In Prime 3, you did have a couple nods towards a wider universe of hunters. Other exceptional individuals (you could call them future petit boug hah hah) like Samus, who of course has a very unique backstory as a human enhanced by the Chozo and whatnot, I’m not a lore fiend. The last time we saw somebody act like Miles, I believe it was the Sub Zero type guy, Rundas, of I’m not really sure what type of alien he is. He just sort of goes, wow, when he sees you, and then the next time he gets possessed by evil ghost version of you empowered by phazon, you know the deal. The shapeshifter lady does the same thing, and even when I was like 5 years old I was going what the hell, that’s it? You don’t even need to have actual words exchanged between you and the hunters because you can use them to provide surprise environmental changes by blowing something up or destroying an obstacle you thought was impassable. They didn’t even really do that though. There’s only like four or five moments where you even remember they exist. Now there are myriad development reasons why whatever concept version of the hunters’ storylines never came to fruition, but it’s been many years since then. We’ve had plenty of time for people to literally grow up thinking about this universe and come up with lots of ideas. What has Nintendo done with that? It’s Cape shit. People were pretty pissed off at other M because the narrative elements were placed directly between them and the gameplay logic saying you can’t use this item you already acquired yet because daddy won’t allow you to.