No, its just that this was clearly a bullshit case.

Disney and Nintendo are usually the ones with a bullshit or evil legal action. Valve is usually the target of because they’re very pro-consumer and thus hard to compete with.

The exception of this is the whole gambling bullshit with CS2 skins, which Valve deserves to be legally scrutinized for. But as far as evil corporate bullshit, Valve is extremely tame.

Ooooh. Fair.

I used to care about causal relationships but now my brain has been damaged by the 2024 US election and I just can’t mentally produce the energy to thrust myself out of the black hole of disgust and resentment, yeah.

The thing is I kind of want to go back to caring I was happier then but I’d have to somehow rewrite reality to not be surrounded by worthless sociopaths and anti-intellectuals. If you can’t beat them, join them. I’m going to try and destroy my brain further with alcohol and ruthlessly make money now.

I’m not misunderstanding. The meaning is explicitly laid out in the phrase itself. Its a memetic phrase and repeated as a point of propaganda, as your previous post alludes to. People who spot memes in the wild are going to interpret them at face value and the person posting the meme knows this. Neither party is going going to reflect on its historical meaning, they’ll just think “oh libs are fash”.

I also don’t think refusing to resist makes someone equivalent to fascist if they did everything they could to prevent a fascist take over already. If you think the blame lies at least partially on people refusing to vote or you think they are people purposefully hoping to drag you into violent conflict when this was all avoidable you don’t owe those people shit.

In fact, it just means you are surrounded by pieces of shit. Bad people OK with throwing countless others under the bus for a chance for their own well being or gain. Am I wrong?

There are very few US citizens who made it out morally clean from the 2024 US election. Efforts to help them means helping bad people get what they wanted. Its rewarding them for making everything worse through their horrifically selfish gambit.

Make no mistake, I do not like liberals or their worship of private property. Liberals vary from awful people to at best morally flawed people. However, I think if they voted against Trump or canvassed for Harris, etc they’re better people than protesting vote-abstaining lefties.

On lemmy? No. I’m not here to make friends. I’m here to scream into the void.

IRL, I have to hold in my thoughts usually unless I want to endanger my well being in multiple ways because pissing almost everyone you know off is a fast way to end up a homeless pariah.

See, I need to know then how serious that perspective is because for me, blurring the lines between ideologies (even bad ones) is largely just an emotional manipulation tactic.

You call a neo-liberal a fascist and they’ll get really upset. You call a fascist a liberal of any kind… they’ll also get really upset. So if that’s the goal that makes sense. But then leftists will say it to other leftists like its actually true, particularly campists, auth-left, and marxist-leninists will do this and this just seems dumb to me. They are different threats and should be treated differently.

I’ve always wondered what’s specifically going on their minds when that happens. I remember getting into shooters and pretty much immediately understanding the two separate axes in Duke Nukem 3D at like age 7-8 (yeah I played violent games when I was young my parents only restricted movies). Maybe that’s why? My brain was just better able to learn at that age? Or is it that I am autistic? Is neurology a factor?

Are you wearily representing yourself in Bart or mocking people like Bart?

Although I do miss interesting control schemes, everything is almost homogenous now and quite boring.

I don’t at all. And I cherish the fact that I can rebind old inputs at will with Steam Input + emulators.

I rebinded the controls of Armored Core 1 so it played with modern shooter controls. Made it so much better and intuitive and now I wonder if the only reason I sucked at the game back in the day was because of its archaic control scheme.

If I am not mistaken, you have to shoot tannerite to cause it to go off. So unless the owner in this case is shooting guns in their house it seems pretty likely this wont go off and harm them, but someone who’s likely to shoot an armed civilian for not putting their gun down.

I’ll probably still vote for dems for logical self preservation and personal gain if you must know. IDK. We’ll see. My sense of self preservation is in a fight with my resentment and its basically a stalemate.

I see those stupid fucking “earth destroying comet for president” bumper stickers and think “Yeah sure that’d be unironically good.” now instead of just rolling my eyes.