Contrast with the Silksong release where everyone was suddenly like “you know what, our game needs at 3 more months of development even though we’ve been at 1.0 grade for months.”

I’ve called the cops, they’re on their way.

I want this to the tune of “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die”

If you’ve ever been desperately poor and lived at the whims of your vices it’s very relatable. I feel like the social commentary is actually extremely heavy handed and not really that deep. I need to finish but it exists as kind of an artistic capture of a type of life we try to ignore but very much exists all around you, and maybe it’s privledge and a cerrain amount of arrogance that lets you think you can just ignore it because of ‘taste’.

Although yeah it’s a bit of a gross out show and I find it hard to get through. It’s not the slapstick kind of gross like, say, Ping Pong Club (look it up), but definitely more leans on the shock value when it can.

People do live like this though it’s upsettingly accurate. Don’t ask how I know.

Yeah I guess there’s no accounting for the power of neophobia.

Yeah I was thinking about that. Like, these companies probably have some number of government contracts and those contracts give latitude to make some interesting demands.

I don’t actually know but I imagine it’s all voluntary. It seems like kind of an endless tail chase to constantly limit anything that could feasible be used to commit a crime. Actual counterfeiting with any success requires some pretty specialized shit. Honestly if this printer could be configured to meet those specifics them more power to them. End of the day though I wouldn’t imagine this being the gateway to massive expansions in the counterfeit market.

“You are what you eat That makes me eagle meat” -Knower, “do hot girls like chords”

I didn’t know it was called Corporate Memphis! I actually prefer it to endless dead-eyed stock photos, personally. At least someone was experimenting or focused on a goal when making it.

The ‘functional unemployment rate’ that reaches 24% includes ‘those involuntarily working part time for povery wages less than $26,000 annually before taxes’ according to CBS news

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/functional-unemployment-us-labor-market-analysis/

The disability rate and disenfranchisement rates are different statistics. Just straight unemployment period amongst those who can work and/or are lloking is the lower single digit figure, generally around 4-7%

It’s the pre-pre-pre-defeatism here that’s the problem. Please go outside.

People still have to survive. We still have to shop. Sorry I can’t grow a food forest in my 800 sq. Ft. Apartment and live off composting my own shit to grow heirloom tomatos.

You got somewhere I can find food for cheap that at least gives the thinnest veneer of not trying to be as awful as possible? Do you? No, you’re a shitstain hatemongrel who offers nothing but kicking people who don’t have the priveledge of options in a capitalist hellscape.

Assuming you aren’t one of those hate bots mentioned in a previous post then please quickly and permanently go fuck yourself.

I’ve been an incredibly tolerable drunk. I’ve never been angry, I keep it light, and as far as I know people kept hanging out with me because I was actually funny.

Still your whole world kinda hits the brakes and balances on the two front wheels when you see the term ‘echogenic liver tissue’.

It’s not liver disease -yet- and I had already been curbing it for a while, but after Covid and my Dad dying(he sucled too for the record, totally not worth the excess) I didn’t really keep track of the fact that I was ‘refilling’ any time I had less than a whole 6 pack at home ‘just in case I want more tonight’ for about 2 years.

Alcoholics can be shitty people for sure but now I’m just mad at myself because I’m fat and have poor coping skills.

Hey cool. You make all the calculations you want. As long as you’re supporting creators then that’s all that matters. I reiterate, there are people who take great personal offense to having to pay money for anything and you don’t appear to be one of them.

That doesn’t change the fact that artists and creatives have no other outlet than to be beholden by their platform. Unless you’re going and buying hatsune miku fanart prints at your farmers market, unethucal consumption under captitalism also means trying to find out how to provide for the staff who still contribute to meaningful art, even if that is the set designer for an Avengers slop movie.

I had this sort of sympathy until I saw how openly hostile people were in their open jealousy over talented people. I kept running into these people for years who were just so angry at the fact that they had to pay someone for their time and talent.

This gets to be a little offshooty for other things I tend to have less popular opinions on, but it’s the same people who feel that piracy should be the norm. No art, performance, or entertainment should be allowed to compel payment and it should all be free. This includes people who absolutely froth about advertisments on their Youtube videos. Granted 5 ads in a row is ridiculous but peraonally I want my artists and performers to be paid egregiously and I will suffer some small inconveniences to make sure they ateast get something from me.

But I think the venn diagram of people who are obsessed with AI and the people who just take offense to having to spend money on anything is a pretty tight one.

I think the most upsetting part of AI is discovering how many people were so ready for it, like they were just waiting for something to show up that they could offload their lack of creativity or responsibility onto.

I instantly lost friends because the first thing out of their mouth was ‘thank God I never have to pay anyone to commission art ever again and the little guy has access to good OC art.’

These people were not functioning before AI.

Mmhmm

Lmao. I stopped watching their game content after the whole first episode of Skyward Sword debacle where Arin just invented reasons to hate the game that clearly didn’t exist.

However I came back to their 10mph content after Covid because I think they started to really catch their stride once tgey got proper producers to guardrail the forced failure part of their comedy.

I think he’s very smart in that way. He’s also a retired cop so I think he knows if he wants to keep a Youtube channel well into retirement he shouldn’t do anything to alienate anyone and stays way off that line.