BeamBrain

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 53 minutes ago

Nearly 25 years alter, I can hear the title theme in my head just as clearly as when I first booted it up. Sometimes the game was cozy, sometimes silly, sometimes exciting, sometimes creepy, sometimes sad, but it always nailed the atmosphere it was going for at any given moment.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago

The American dream is alive and well (the real American dream, that being enriching yourself through agricultural slave labor on stolen land)

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago

I like to have it with a nice tofu sandwich to dunk.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 27 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

I feel this weird mix of pity and disgust every time I see Indians kiss the boot that stomped them for centuries. There's nothing else quite like it.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For real though, why do people keep falling for this shit

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 38 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Capitalists constantly fear-mongered about how this was the dystopian endgame of communism but will immediately turn around and present this as the market solution to homelessness under capitalism

There is no contradiction there. The dystopian part, to them, is that such conditions would be inflicted on people who don't "deserve" it (PMC ghouls, small business tyrants, rich failchildren, &c.) If the poor and working class get crammed into human warehouses under capitalism, well, that's just an objective and uncontestable assessment of their worth by the free market.

Never forget that liberals are idealists: they care about procedure, not results. It's how they can say "you should support Israel because it's the only democracy in the Middle East" while Israel is actively committing a genocide.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 19 hours ago

That's the nano-retirement!

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 57 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nano-retirements involve taking a one to two day break from work every week.

Pico-retirements involve taking a sixteen hour break from work every day.

Femto-retirements involve taking a thirty to sixty minute break for lunch every day.

Atto-retirements involve taking a five minute break from work to use the restroom every few hours.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Some level of oil extraction is still going to be unfortunately necessary until we get the infrastructure in place to fully convert to renewables and biodiesel.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

How long should someone with no physical or mental disabilities be allowed to remain on benefits?

What is the industrial reserve army

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Definitely ask yourself whether they really need to be, but using a global variable makes sense if it's something that's going to be used by a large number of different parts of the program.

For example, the game I'm developing uses a variable called control_mode to determine how to handle the player's button presses. Anything that can be affected by those button presses (the player avatar, the menus, etc.) needs to be able to know the game's current control mode to be able to handle user input, so e.g. the player character shouldn't be able to move during cutscenes or when the game is paused. Since so many different parts of the program need to read control_mode, I made it global, but I only change it from a dedicated control manager.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I did public outreach for my party today and even though we recently had a discussion about how you shouldn't use overly academic language when having a street conversation, my brain crapped out and when I was trying to explain socialism and the phrase "means of production" came out

 
 

This randomly popped into my head from my childhood, I searched for it online, and apparently it's not even that uncommon of a Christian take today.

 

Toxic masculinity is a fuck, the standard of fearlessness and dominance that patriarchy demands you uphold is unattainable, accept and embrace your fear as part of yourself.

 
 
  • Weapons that keep killing long after the war they were used for is over (the Space Jockey isn't just dead, they're mummified, and there's no indication that there are any others of their kind around)
  • Lay hidden and dormant, leading to innocent people stumbling on them by accident and getting killed (Nostromo crew finds the eggs and doesn't know what the fuck 'til it's too late, colony LV-426 gets wiped out because it was unknowingly built on top of a nest)
  • They render entire areas unsafe to inhabit
  • Aliens has often been considered an allegory for the Vietnam War, and that left enormous amounts of UXO across Southeast Asia that still persists today.
  • The Weyland-Yutani and corporate profiteering aspect is a bit fuzzier, but I think there's a case to be made that their attempts to weaponize xenomorphs and the catastrophes this causes mirror the real-world military-industrial complex.
 

I recognize that it's speaking to an underlying emotional truth - something I've known on a gut level for a while now but can't quite put my finger on. I know it's not, as I've seen liberals argue, that it's an excuse to legitimize violence against them (their own violence is all the justification one needs) or some kind of "No True Scotsman" argument. There's something deeper and more fundamental, something to do with how the nature of their class position causes them to set themselves apart from and above the vast majority of humanity. Anyone who can help me put this into words?

 

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Incidentally, I stumbled on this while looking for a Marx quote about how representatives of the old feudal order falsely positioned themselves as allies to the lower classes by attacking the excesses of industrial capitalism. If anyone has that quote, please let me know.

 
 

Book is Lightbringer, from the Red Rising series

 
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