Deep Dive Devin

It turns out Hades is kind of a grindy game, and wears on me in a way that other rougelikes like Binding of Isaac didn't? It's way shorter, but I keep finding myself happy to die in this game, because the stuff happening in the House of Hades is way more interesting than the actual gameplay.

I think the burden of proof is on you to prove that forcing the population to 'compete' creates any sort of responsibility at all, rather than absolving the people who have already relied on stealing the autonomy and work of others for centuries of any real labor. Otherwise, you're just lying about whatever beliefs you need to to get to your foregone conclusion of "must be their fault the world they live in sucks".

EDIT: nevermind, I should be above this, it's off-topic and will go nowhere. Remember kids, bad arguments are bait for liberals to dig into and platform the bad philosophy behind them.

Finally started Hades, put in three hours tonight. I see the appeal. I mean, it's kind of the same appeal as Bastion, which is already one of my favorite games ever, so it's not really a surprise, but still, it's really good.

Hey, people who care about whether they look like an asshole are the ones we should be lifting up. God knows the rest of the internet won't.

You can just edit your comment?

Amen, fuck call centers. Only job I've ever had that made me collapse in a nervous breakdown.

Massive, largely incorrect oversimplification, but you'd just refuse to accept any case I made for it, so whatever. If you find it baffling, it is within neither my responsibility nor my capability to fix you. Sorry for exposing you to the horror of other opinions. If you have a problem with a member of the world thinking different, maybe do some soul-searching and change yourself into someone who can understand that person. Well you shouldn't. If you think anything about the life so graciously gifted to you by daddy capital is less than the greatest it could possibly be, you're basically asking to be a naked child stranded in the woods sucking the moisture out of moss. This is the logic you are displaying here.

Oh yeah, I forgot that better things are always impossible and one form of slave labor or the other is the only option that exists, so complaining about the status quo in any way is tantamount to demanding worse from the world. Thank you for reminding me. I am very certain this is how you go about any complaints you have about anything in your life and that you're totally consistent in your beliefs.

There needs to be some criteria for letting kids and parents know how well a given kid is doing, but it's hard to determine exactly what that is, even harder to determine why. Consistent solutions are a pipe dream. Even if you did determine it, you'd still be making the assumption that schools are teaching kids the right skills for a life they'll be comfortable with, which...that hasn't been my experience. They tend to throw them on the boomer/gen-x "work a boring desk job for 40 years, retire and die" career track, which is increasingly ill-suited for the gen-z crowd who aren't sure the world as we know it will even last forty years.

OP is a great case study into why good forums have validation subforums. Not because he's a reactionary conservative necessarily (though that is a great reason to ban someone), but because he is utterly incapable of discussing in any kind of good faith. That's not a dig, it's a statement of observation. It's just not worth anyone's time to meaningfully pretend they can debate someone who will very explicitly state that they are not going to consider viewpoints other than their own, and then demand you consider theirs. Like, even if your points are good, which this guy's aren't, demanding that your feelings be enforced as dogma across an internet forum for one dude's youtube show because you're angry that you have to see those differing opinions is ridiculous. Even I don't do that, I only want the fash to get banned because of the actual tangible threats that platforming hate speech poses. Speaking of threats: This is definitely a guy threatening to commit a crime if some forum doesn't ban anyone he calls a liberal, isn't it? I'm not exactly sure if that violates the rules, but I just wanted to type that sentence out and make you all read it just to appreciate how ridiculous this situation is. I also think it's funny that he often tries to take the moral high ground over liberals, while unambiguously saying "I'm going to pollute a river on purpose if you don't conform to my beliefs". Love of Christ showing real strongly right there. It's insulting to threaten criminal action if a forum doesn't enforce your dogma, it's insulting to threaten to leave or pull a donation for the same reason, but it's even more insulting to treat Ross or the mods as so utterly spineless as for there to be any chance your bluff would work. You might just as well demand absolute control over all the Accursed Farms' sites and twitter accounts be handed over to you personally, and everyone needs to send you money.

That sure isn't the way you react when someone identifies one of your posts as worthy of mockery or simply being ignored. You tend to get really upset, which is why it's hilarious that you then write this: Which is just obviously untrue for anyone that has ever seen a single one of your posts. You can't handle information that contradicts your propagandist opinions, much less a criticism of you personally.

Literally nobody said that. I said the exact opposite at the very beginning of my previous post. Do you see why people might think y'all are a bit disingenuous when they're trying to argue with you? And even if you were right, do you not see yet another contradiction there? Do you think I would say a white supremacist with no political or economic power wasn't a racist? Why would I be calling casual racism a problem if it's just coming from random people at CIA's barbecue? They're not the bourgeoisie. (i mean, i assume.)

That's not actually answering what I'm asking, though. You may notice literally nobody said that racial supremacy movements don't exist outside of white people. I should know, I listened to a black woman rant about Mexicans being literal vermin a few years ago when I was working in LA. But you may notice that the groups you've placed here almost universally hate LGBT people, Jewish people, and religions other than their own. And oops, guess that doesn't really place them in-line with the "SJW" menace, does it? Even if you disingenuously pretend that "white people bad" is what any meaningful part of your opposition believes, I sure am not seeing a lot of consistency between that ideology and the one you're claiming is calling you racist. Same deal here, basically. The Yale one is a little more legitimate, so I'll give you that. But besides that, we have one school listing ways to be less shitty, and because anti-racism itself can't be critiqued, everyone focuses on the (admittedly poor) language. The second one is literally just agenda-pushing using what is clearly a mentally-ill person as a prop. Even if these weren't cherry-picked, they're not in any way damning of anti-racist rhetoric, just assigning a "believes what my opposition believes" role to whatever person is most convenient for you to attack. See how this rhetoric fails? All of this is to say, this is a question of degree, not of kind. You could find a group of fascists who want to enforce beehive haircuts on everyone, but they're not gonna have the kind of clout or be the kind of threat that can be equated with white supremacy. And even if you did that, your so-called essjaydabyews would be against them anyway, which you only don't believe because "SJW" is a label invented so you don't have to listen to any opinions but your own. The pendulum hasn't swung. It's debatably not even moved. If it had, wealth, governments and military power would be more equally distributed in...literally any way whatsoever. Also, if it's "too far the other way", then you absolutely are claiming that they're the "real" racists when compared to white racism, because you're saying one is a "real" problem and the other isn't. So, leaving aside "believing white supremacy still exists institutionally = religious fanaticism" as the rock fucking stupid take that it is, you know that most racial supremacy groups already are religious fanatics, right? How does that make people you accuse of religious fanaticism (and that, shocker, the other group calls atheist supremacists attacking their religion, but I'm sure you're just extra right about all this) a bigger threat? You're the one getting angry at people for pointing out racism, but you're still here saying that actually, racism DOES matter, but only when it's against white people. Also, what do you think "critical race theory" actually is without looking it up? Bonus points if you don't regurgitate fascist talking points when describing it.

Well no, that would actually be more evenly distributed, since racism against brown and black people actually hasn't gone anywhere either. The change I'm talking about has only been anticipated by the reactionary net. They're genuinely scared of being less-racist. Also, assuming it's not something you pulled out of your ass (which you did, but let's ignore that for now) who are the people you're claiming are actually racist against white people? Does it just so conveniently happen to be these "SJW"s, and do you not see the contradiction in saying "you're too sensitive about racism" and "you're the REAL racist" at the same time?

Do you think doing that sort of thing unironically has no effect, even subtly, on the biases you are reinforcing in yourself or others? I'm not going to have the "language has no effect" argument here. Okay, and who gets to decide where that line falls? You? Because it sure seems like the zeitgeist has moved away from casual racism, otherwise scaremongering about the cancel-goblins coming for your free speech would be a lot less popular (and let's not forget, profitable). So "SJW" is just a random point that happens to traffic between whatever loosely-related groups you feel like? Gee, that seems convenient.

It's actually really easy to not get called racist by a fake caricature created by reactionary grifters for youtube clicks like the mythical "SJW" cryptid. Why should you demonize the rest of the world for not treating your personal incompetence with kid gloves?

Yeah, I can agree with that. A good Lovecraft-inspired work is generally greater than the sum of its parts.

The person is not wholly separate from the idea. You can't have a meaningful discussion with someone vocally admitting to arguing in bad faith. When he says "I am not going to read anything you put in front of me", how are you supposed to attack that? So long as we're taking the values-neutral approach, this is just going to happen over and over until someone gives up the war of attrition, and it's not fun for anybody.

People are inherently prejudiced toward or against every superficial trait you can find on someone, that doesn't mean putting stock in them is desirable or that the playing field is in any way level. Saying "well we're all a little racist" is just a personal convenience to excuse whatever you feel like. Everyone's a little bit bisexual too, but that doesn't mean every supposed heterosexual will feel attracted to the same sex in their life. Do they deserve to be called liars just because the theoretical possibility of that exists?

I mean...yeah there is. "The other guy" is not an entire ethnic group(s). Humans are also naturally cooperative and social. Every time someone isn't is a choice they make.

Damn, sorry about the people you hang out with on nationalism day.

I think that's pretty subjective. If his themes, elements, characters and general plotlines were good...then by quite a number of respects, his writing was good. I guess you're saying his prose was bad? I agree, in that case. It's not fun to read, even if cosmic monstrosities are cool. But also, a lot of the themes were just thinly-veiled "person of other ethnicity causes me great existential terror" (which I'm guessing is why OP wants to get into it), so I'd wait a second before calling it good across the board ?

Closeted?

Does that mean you'll stop dumping them on the forum?