What really pisses you off? please no posts about nexus lol

[megamantaray]

17 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

You can read a lot of things on the internet, doesn't mean they're true. Iirc the term gained popularity doing the Reagan/Thatcher era, i.e. late 1970's through the 1980's. It's just about freeing the market from regulation. The idea was that a free market would foster competition and thus deliver the best results, the reality was that as always, power and money accumulated and consolidated at a few select points. Which means that mega corporations like google, facebook, disney and amazon either directly or indirectly control pretty much everything.

 

When big corporations play the progressive card, they're doing it either to pander to a new market or to improve their PR. The Gillette ad from P&G was one such example. Anti-SJWs will tell you all about 'get woke, go broke' but the reality is that Gillette was struggling on the market as is, one of the reasons being very simple: men growing their beards, which is what many men do nowadays since it's en vogue again. They were losing the target audience one way or the other, it was simply an attempt to increase sales by trying to find a new market, in this case progressive people who might not even want or need a razor, but wanted to support the message or whatever. Heck, the sales probably skyrocketed even amongst anti-SJWs simply because they went out of their way to buy a Gillette razor to throw it in the toilet and post pictures of it on social media for those precious likes.

Well, no one's debating that. The point was that every word or term is bound to have multiple meanings and accrue more as time goes on, whether it's official or not, this term is now used this way by at least some people. It probably sounds pretty good and buzzwords are hot. 

Neofeminism is another such term. You put Neo in front of anything and you can get at least some traction on Twitter it seems.

[Mr. Otaku]

1 hour ago, megamantaray said:

Well, no one's debating that. The point was that every word or term is bound to have multiple meanings and accrue more as time goes on, whether it's official or not, this term is now used this way by at least some people. It probably sounds pretty good and buzzwords are hot. 

Neofeminism is another such term. You put Neo in front of anything and you can get at least some traction on Twitter it seems.

I feel like people have some form of misunderstanding regarding current era and the "political/situational worsening". Words have always been used as weapons, this isn't just a modern concept, the only difference now is that the internet gives everything a lot of exposure so people are simply noticing the process more. In ancient times word politics were even more effective since information traveled far slower and fact checking was a 100x slower than that. The existence of organized religions is proof of just how well it has worked.

 

Neoliberalism is the kind of liberalism that goes against liberalism (wow!). Everything liberalism is supposed to stand for, neoliberalism takes a massive shit on, far leftism if you will. These human wastes are in a constant push to establish far leftism as basic leftism, only to use that and go even further left. The flip side of neoliberalism would be neoconservatism, or simply referred to as "neocons" (cons, rightfully so even). These are the fags who take conservatism, butcher it and amplify their distorted versions in an attempt to establish it as basic conservatism.

 

With neoliberals you get communists, socialists, anarchofascists, racebaiters, propagandists, authoritarians, fear mongers, war mongers, third wave feminists. You get freaks like pelosi, clintons, aoc, obama and so on.

With neloconservatives you get war mongers, fear mongers, chauvinists, moral panic freaks, propagandists, hyper religious, fascists and tribalists. You get john mccain, ben shapiro, bush and so on.

 

There are a lot of overlaps between the two which goes way beyond just this, but this is just the general idea of it. It's important to not let the braindead mob muddy the terms and their meanings in order to further their disgusting causes.

[27X]

4 hours ago, MrEsturk said:

It gets dusted off and repurposed periodically. In the 90s it was used to describe the modern, Clinton era liberals of the time.

Neo liberals and neoliberalism aren't the same thing.

[Grey Cloud]

3 hours ago, 27X said:

Neo liberals and neoliberalism aren't the same thing.

Pretty much correct. As has been pointed out Neoliberalism is an economic theory which is recognised globally. Neo liberals is a term used virually exclusively by Americans and has little or no meaning outside the USA.

[megamantaray]

50 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Pretty much correct. As has been pointed out Neoliberalism is an economic theory which is recognised globally. Neo liberals is a term used virually exclusively by Americans and has little or no meaning outside the USA.

I'm just thoroughly unconvinced The Matrix Revolutions' finale wasn't conclusive enough and Morpheus was a ghost.

[GrimReaper]

7 hours ago, Mr.Otaku said:

With neoliberals you get communists, socialists, anarchofascists, racebaiters, propagandists, authoritarians, fear mongers, war mongers, third wave feminists. You get freaks like pelosi, clintons, aoc, obama and so on.

 

Idpol is very en vogue with neoliberalism right now, however at the end of the day, it still follows the capitalist economic theory, which is exactly the opposite of what communists, anarchists and socialists want.

 

For example, let's take lootboxes and microtransactions: A neoliberalist perspective would be to let the market decide. After all, if people don't want them, they won't buy them. If they do buy them, it must mean people want them. No regulations whatsoever. If you want the government to step in and ban or regulate lootboxes, well, that's neither a capitalist nor a liberal stance. If you were to argue that lootboxes and such exploit the customer on a psychological basis, a liberal of any kind would argue that it's your personal responsibility to either get rid of addictive behavior or not developing it in the first place.

 

There's also a lot of people who simply parrot what their favorite youtuber has to say and aren't able to articulate their stance whatsoever if challenged, which is why they resort to blocking people on social media. It's more personality and dogma driven than anything, sadly.

[Mr. Otaku]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

Idpol is very en vogue with neoliberalism right now, however at the end of the day, it still follows the capitalist economic theory, which is exactly the opposite of what communists, anarchists and socialists want.

Communism is riddled with problems, one such problem is the delusion of it being out of bounds from capitalism. The main difference, and the biggest one is that communism employs a very centralized form of hyper capitalism, i.e capitalizing on tax reforms that desecrate the economy proportionate to how centralized things are. This also happens in hyper capitalism with oligarchy which isn't virtually any different from communism in practice. Centralization, lockdown of economic expansions, tax skyrocketing pushing the job economy to it's absolute lowest. The overlaps in political ideologies is very important to keep an eye on.

Mix in communism lite i.e socialism and you get Venezuela's economy structure of hybrid communism, centralized with a shrinking job economy, meaning dictatorial madness. Anarchy is just a tool for communism to use in order to bypass the existing order. Once the overthrow is complete and they have the power, it's back to hyper centralized fascism.

 

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

For example, let's take lootboxes and microtransactions: A neoliberalist perspective would be to let the market decide. After all, if people don't want them, they won't buy them. If they do buy them, it must mean people want them. No regulations whatsoever. If you want the government to step in and ban or regulate lootboxes, well, that's neither a capitalist nor a liberal stance. If you were to argue that lootboxes and such exploit the customer on a psychological basis, a liberal of any kind would argue that it's your personal responsibility to either get rid of addictive behavior or not developing it in the first place.

I would see that as more of an oligarchy hyper capitalist perspective instead of neoliberalist perspective. Neoliberalism is not known (at least as far as i know) to adhere to free market, there is no ideological gain in that for them to attack and make an issue out of. Though i can see that greed is a paramount sentiment in it so using microtrasactions to push their own moral superiority is always a tempting option. Asking the government to regulate it is not the best idea, though a strong case for promotion of gambling can be made within it which is under the government's territory. Consumer awareness is the opposite of what neoliberalism wants anyway. No better than blaming video games for some shooting somewhere by the neocons and neocons lite i.e tradcons. Quite the neo-overlap in these things if you notice (lol).

 

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

There's also a lot of people who simply parrot what their favorite youtuber has to say and aren't able to articulate their stance whatsoever if challenged, which is why they resort to blocking people on social media. It's more personality and dogma driven than anything, sadly.

Yeah, that's just how the mass functions. When somebody soaks in the narrative without putting much thoughts into it you get cultists, political or religious it makes no difference. Lack of reflection and thinking is the cause of it all. Something the neos are always ready to take advantage of.

[megamantaray]

Nintendo's always 17 generations behind everyone else.

They finally decided to finish Pokemon SnS with DLC. Good job guys!

Looking at their fanbase is like watching an abuse victim with Stockholm's syndrome.

Spoiler

On the bright side I made $20 off a bet that they'd do this.

The Call of Duty of RPGs finally gets paid DLC.

[2dk2c.2]

On 1/7/2020 at 10:51 AM, megamantaray said:

This upsets me greatly.

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I don't give a shit about it having a rainbow on it, that's hilariously irrelevant.

I hate that cities contract people specifically to inconvenience homeless people this way and other really dumb ways.

 

 

It's a fucking odd thing what people will rally around.

20 posts...and no one asked the rock-owner a damned thing, it's a viral meme with no clue.

THAT'S what pisses me off.

That we presume to know what others are thinking and base policy on it.

That and the psychology behind a fucking *rock*

Maybe it's a statement after someone put a plain rock where someone could sleep, maybe it was a sale on something, maybe it's …?

I'm editing this badly, but don't dare to know why

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Castro-restaurant-rainbow-rock-anti-homeless-pride-14026652.php

 

[megamantaray]

47 minutes ago, 2dk2c.2 said:

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That's what I get for posting shit at 1PM after not sleeping for 2 days.

I'd read a different article talking about it and just decided to post the tweet and then forgot about it, my bad on the whole gays did it thing.

The article has mysteriously gone missing, as have some of the tweets regarding this rock since then. Hmmmmm~

Anyway, it's San Fran, it's 90% chance it's still gonna be anti-homeless construction and painted rainbow cos SuPoRT ThE GaYs.

A Zen garden isn't just one big obstructive rock on top of tiny rocks.

7 minutes ago, Alkpaz said:

I'm actually looking forward to the Switch Pro, hopefully it fixes the whole failure rate of their joycons, since I've heard that drift happens even on the Switch Light. I've been itching to get one (a Switch), I haven't bought a Nintendo console since the Gamecube released, although I've loved their handhelds, and the Pro may satisfy both. I may pick up a PS5, as well, considering how well the graphical presentation of the PS4 has been. XBox Series X maybe, depends if Microsoft has more exclusives besides Halo. 

I'm just waiting for paid gacha on Nintendo games, they have microtransactions already I just watch from a distance as they pick up bad habits.

Every model and most animations in SnS that isn't new Pokemon is reused assets so they're already doing a good job there.

[stingray1995]

The short and simplified version of all that "neo" this and "neo" that:  People are pretty pathetic; they always have been, and they always will be.

 

If anyone out there is thinking they're going to be the one to "change" all of this, then this person is a fool - blinded by the delusion of optimism.  We're going to war again - this's normal.  The earth has been at war with each other far longer than it hasn't.  Everything we know is built on "people killing each other."  Try to twist this all you want - it's the truth.

 

It's said that "pessimism is the new realism."  Pessimism has always been realism.

[megamantaray]

1 minute ago, Alkpaz said:

Micro-transactions don't bother me unless they are needed to further the single player game progression, since I can simply ignore them. What does tend to bother me is having to open products up to fix defects. This presents a problem for me since micro-technology (I've seen videos of DIY fixes to Joycons) is not easy for me to "fix" given my essential tremor (Thanks Spanish genes). 

Microtransactions bother me when it's predatory stuff in a game I already paid for so I can continue playing.

It's mostly a mobile thing but I've seen a few shovelware games on consoles and PC do it too.

 

My dad had those. He had issues drinking out of bottles and writing.

How bad are they right now? Do you have treatment for them?

I might end up getting it at some point since my dad's side has had them for a few generations after 30.

[megamantaray]

35 minutes ago, Alkpaz said:

It isn't too bad, but the treatment is to use anti-seizure medications, which have nice side effects, so I rather go untreated.  I usually tremble when I'm nervous/stressed, or doing things that require fine motor skills. Caffeine aggravates it, so I tend to not drink anything with caffeine in it. The bottles and writing will come later, it gets worse as you age. 

Hmm.. I see. I don't have it yet, dunno if I'll get it but it's very common if your parents had it.

I'm probably fucked though I drink a lotta coffee. Got more coffee in me than blood.

[ToJKa]

Huh, caffeine is actually a poison that some plants evolved to kill insects that would eat them.

Then come in the humans...

 

On topic, nothing special really. It helps that i have given up. I'm just relaxing on my couch, laughing and watching as the world goes to hell 

 

Otherwise i might be a bit worried that in my country the local equivalent of the "attorney general" ordered the police to investigate a "hate speech" "crime" based on text's of the bible that the police had already investigated and deemed not worth further investigation. Text that was originally published before said law was in effect.

Oh well, at least sentences are light on this country. An assault that cripples someone for life or a rape results in "suspended sentence". Which means the criminal does not go to prison tomorrow. Like me. Because i didn't do anything.

[27X]

28 minutes ago, ToJKa said:

Huh, caffeine is actually a poison that some plants evolved to kill insects that would eat them.

Then come in the humans...

 

On topic, nothing special really. It helps that i have given up. I'm just relaxing on my couch, laughing and watching as the world goes to hell 

 

Otherwise i might be a bit worried that in my country the local equivalent of the "attorney general" ordered the police to investigate a "hate speech" "crime" based on text's of the bible that the police had already investigated and deemed not worth further investigation. Text that was originally published before said law was in effect.

Oh well, at least sentences are light on this country. An assault that cripples someone for life or a rape results in "suspended sentence". Which means the criminal does not go to prison tomorrow. Like me. Because i didn't do anything.

Most flavanoids and other colored stuff in plants is actually mildly poisonous and that's actually why it's healthy for you.

 

[Darkpig]

7 hours ago, megamantaray said:

That's what I get for posting shit at 1PM after not sleeping for 2 days.

I'd read a different article talking about it and just decided to post the tweet and then forgot about it, my bad on the whole gays did it thing.

The article has mysteriously gone missing, as have some of the tweets regarding this rock since then. Hmmmmm~

Anyway, it's San Fran, it's 90% chance it's still gonna be anti-homeless construction and painted rainbow cos SuPoRT ThE GaYs.

A Zen garden isn't just one big obstructive rock on top of tiny rocks.

You better support the gays or else you are an awful fucking person and people will treat you like the piece of shit you are not to mention the business you'll lose. Of course nobody cares about the homeless gays because they aren't paying customers and they scare your precious little snowfl- I mean children. Also while people find homeless people uncouth, these same people will soon run out of places to store these homeless and eventually themselves. If only there was a way to snap half the world's population away or create new worlds. Too bad I have the only Infinity Gauntlet. Remember you fuckers did this to yourselves so you fix it. Meanwhile *snap* I'm going to enjoy this donut I just snapped into existence.

[AKM]

3 hours ago, Darkpig said:

Of course nobody cares about the homeless gays because they aren't paying customers and they scare your precious little snowfl- I mean children.

Yeah, I'm remembering that documentary on Seattle, Washington, USA.  They talk and talk about the homelessness problem, but completely ignore the base issue: DRUGS.  Sigh.  They do love playing "ostrich" (stick you head in the sand, and since you can't see the problem, the problem went away).  Rather than address the issue, FIX it, they ignore it, and expect it to go away.

[Darkpig]

54 minutes ago, AKM said:

Yeah, I'm remembering that documentary on Seattle, Washington, USA.  They talk and talk about the homelessness problem, but completely ignore the base issue: DRUGS.  Sigh.  They do love playing "ostrich" (stick you head in the sand, and since you can't see the problem, the problem went away).  Rather than address the issue, FIX it, they ignore it, and expect it to go away.

Trust me they do. If only they would stop arresting the victims.

[Mr. Otaku]

1 hour ago, Alkpaz said:

That is the main reason why I disagree with the attack on the Iranian general. It makes everyone focus on that (and a possible war) than the problems we have here at home. Heck, even Tucker Carlson disagrees with it, and launched a whole week of coverage of the homeless crisis. This is what our government should be focusing on, but no it is impeachment and now Iran. Awesome, Trump just proved he is no different than Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, etc, all of them started wars or used military might. Somehow, I think there is something more here than just a president in power, but the underlying cause being the generals pushing our leaders to enter conflicts we shouldn't be in. If only we could elect the generals out of the military. 

 

There is little to no possibility of war. If anything killing solemini (or however it's supposed to be spelled, i can't be bothered lol) has laid out the perfect groundwork for him to pull out of the middle east entirely, which was one of Trump's campaign promises. He still hasn't acted on it completely, but he's well aware of the fact that starting a war will cost him the election. USA does need to pull out of the world police fuckery the previous war mongers have pushed us into, saves money and helps the foreign affairs anyway. Iran just bombed empty US bases and hilariously shot down one of it's own passenger planes because their anti-aircraft defenses caught a false flag or something, killing mostly iranians. It's a desperate attempt to save face and not appear totally pathetic. All that needs to be done is ensure that the shipping lanes are not throttled by them in an attempt to act tough and that'll be it. No more bullshit.

[Clea Strange]

I hate microtransactions even in one of my favorite games that I return to from time to time "Path of Exile" has them, though admittedly its only for changing the looks of your character and the looks of the portals and hideouts. I was looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077 cause my favorite video game company CDPR who did the witcher video game series did an amazing job on them imo, and they said that there will be no microtransactions on Cyberpunk 2077. Yet now apparently they are saying there is going to be microtransactions for Cyberpunk 2077 and I just lost interest, I know that I could just ignore it and not buy microtransactions. Too me its just they have always said "there will never be any microtransactions" in Cyberpunk 2077 or in any future game. I feel like that since they say now there will be microtransactions that they are breaking a promise they always said of no microtransactions

 

 

 

[megamantaray]

10 hours ago, Darkpig said:

You better support the gays or else you are an awful fucking person and people will treat you like the piece of shit you are not to mention the business you'll lose. Of course nobody cares about the homeless gays because they aren't paying customers and they scare your precious little snowfl- I mean children. Also while people find homeless people uncouth, these same people will soon run out of places to store these homeless and eventually themselves. If only there was a way to snap half the world's population away or create new worlds. Too bad I have the only Infinity Gauntlet. Remember you fuckers did this to yourselves so you fix it. Meanwhile *snap* I'm going to enjoy this donut I just snapped into existence.

Best part is it doesn't matter if you're gay, openly married to a woman, are trans and going through transition, or any other thing you can't just show immediately on a passing glance. It's all superficial right? You gotta have a rainbow somewhere on you, you gotta dye your hair some colour, you gotta actively sneer at men as they cross nearby you. If you're not outspoken on twitter, loud or obnoxious you're just another asshole regardless of your reasonable disdain for virtue signalling or actively being an ally to these causes where possible.*

 

*- where it's not retarded children yelling without reason and it's actually trying to make something happen.

[2dk2c.2]

58 minutes ago, megamantaray said:

Best part is it doesn't matter if you're gay, openly married to a woman, are trans and going through transition, or any other thing you can't just show immediately on a passing glance. It's all superficial right? You gotta have a rainbow somewhere on you, you gotta dye your hair some colour, you gotta actively sneer at men as they cross nearby you. If you're not outspoken on twitter, loud or obnoxious you're just another asshole regardless of your reasonable disdain for virtue signalling or actively being an ally to these causes where possible.*

 

*- where it's not retarded children yelling without reason and it's actually trying to make something happen.

My mind dreamt up a factoid (IOW it might be true, might not) 

that the more things talked about are spoken of, the less things change.

 

And 17-24 year olds, contrary in their ways, will be here 100+ years from now, if the world is still around.

"retarded children" started a biggie train-of-thought I did not really wanna research, cuz it's 2am and I'm full of beans.

But they could have picked a more attractive high school cheerleader,

or maybe an overweight lesbian of color.

But, Why *did* they pick her, or is it that "the other side" just kept digging til they found out all her secrets?

In other words, if The Biggie Holy man (whose name will not be mentioned) were here, he'd be labeled a long-hair, a gay, too fru-fru.

And who does all the labeling?

Twitter.

But I already said my wandering manifesto....Here, pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's all relevant, I'm not actually pissed ,just nihilistic

[megamantaray]

Nintendo really selling the other half of Sword and Shielf as a Pass for $30.

This shouldn't go in this thread because it makes me happy, but whatever~

[FauxFurry]

20 hours ago, ToJKa said:

Huh, caffeine is actually a poison that some plants evolved to kill insects that would eat them.

Then come in the humans...

All medicine is poison. To paraphrase Paracelsus "The the difference between medicine or poison is in the dosage."

[srayesmanll]

7 hours ago, Hiderius said:

I hate microtransactions even in one of my favorite games that I return to from time to time "Path of Exile" has them, though admittedly its only for changing the looks of your character and the looks of the portals and hideouts. I was looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077 cause my favorite video game company CDPR who did the witcher video game series did an amazing job on them imo, and they said that there will be no microtransactions on Cyberpunk 2077. Yet now apparently they are saying there is going to be microtransactions for Cyberpunk 2077 and I just lost interest, I know that I could just ignore it and not buy microtransactions. Too me its just they have always said "there will never be any microtransactions" in Cyberpunk 2077 or in any future game. I feel like that since they say now there will be microtransactions that they are breaking a promise they always said of no microtransactions

 

 

 

Nowhere did they say there would be microtransactions in CP2077.  What they said was that were not sure how they would monetize the multiplayer portion of CP2077.  "Monetize" has multiple meanings, and add to mistranslations, led to people thinking they said the dreaded "m" word.  In this case, monetize could mean anything from "charge for it as a full price separate game" to "paid dlc for CP2077" to "free", and to possibly the "m" word.  However, judging by their professed stance against mircotransactions and pro-gamer mentality, it more than likely means that they are swinging between paid-dlc or releasing as a separate game from CP2077.