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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It can be both.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There's no "sanity" system in Look Outside. The closest thing is a hidden "stress" stat which, last I checked, is literally just combat problems when it gets low.

That said, Look Outside is a fantastic game, and the Dev is super down to earth and active with his players. Highly recommend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Bless.

"No stupid questions" should only apply to questions, not thinly veiled attempts at polarizing conversations.

I fucking hate the rise of the alt-right more than most, but one of the reasons for that hate is the bad faith bullshit they get up to in pushing their agenda. I have no interest in combating them with bad faith bullshit of our own.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

See, comments like this...

Yes, because having a visible sexual fetish deviating from normalcy makes them a child predator. Fuck off with these chud talking points.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'd argue that sexual expression is insanely repressed, and that celebrating it openly is more in line with the LGBTQ+ movement than you realize.

I mean, look at this thread. We have a majority upvoted comment calling this person mentally ill. Another insinuating that they're a child predator. Just for being willing to express a non-normative opinion on sexuality. That's not that different from the right-wing chuds calling trans people mentally ill as the modern stand-in for the r-slur, which in turn is a modern stand-in for "doing a socially unacceptable thing that I don't like and should be ashamed."

Personally, I think this person's choices are in poor taste. But I get it. I get why someone would want to do this in a world where they're constantly told they're strange and wrong for the way they're wired, so long as that wiring doesn't cause harm to others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then why did you describe the US and China?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Only one.

Describes both.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We look down on all autocratic imperialist regimes equally around here. Fuck the USA, and fuck China.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't inherit the sins of my father solely because of my skin color.

Correct. We inherit the responsibility to do what we can to make those wrongs right because of the advantages we are afforded by our historical background.

Because of the family I was born into, I was afforded easy access to food, shelter, and education, and easily able to find success and prosperity. This allows my children the same, and that's, in large part, a result of history. Those coming from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds do so because, again at least in part, my distant relatives stole from them to my benefit.

When these issues are divided by skin color, then yes, it is racist to ignore them in their entirety over the argument that we had no direct control over the actions of our forefathers, as we continue to benefit from them today. It's really some trolley problem stuff: we are advantaged by being the ones hanging out around the lever, not tied to the tracks. When we are asked to switch the tracks, or heaven forbid stop the trolley, we should not respond, "it's racist to tell me I should be doing something about this! I didn't build the tracks! I don't own the trolley!" Okay, cool. But they're down there, on the tracks, and we're up here, next to the lever. Call it luck, but by the nature of our birth, we have an advantage that minorities do not. It is not racist to identify that.

You want genuine people, friend, taking the time to try and discuss these perspectives to someone is about as genuine as it gets. It's not easy to accept that, despite massive personal struggles and relative low wealth and prosperity in a world owned by billionaires, I've been at an advantage just because I was born European descendant Caucasian. Don't mistake disagreement for a lack of authenticity, or being poor of character.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

And yet we benefit from it every single day all the same, while throwing out hands up and screaming "that isn't on me!"

We're not responsible for what happened to them then, but we are responsible in what we do about it now. Turning away that responsibility while continuing to reap the benefits is racism.

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