Ericthescruffy

joined 5 years ago
[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

I've taken a small break from the sf6 grind. Need to reset myself a bit both to rediscover my drive and also unlearn some bad habits.

-I beat silent Hill remake. I liked it although I'm not quite sure what to make of the whole thing overall. Mainly I do think the whole thing is like 8 hours two long and I would like an abbreviation to match what I hear the original was like. I got the "bad" ending but tbh it seemed like a satisfactory end for Sunderland.

-did the Valhalla dlc for god of war now that its on PC. Good stuff. Shades of Hades. That conclusion and monologue was legit.

-my son and I have been playing little nightmares 2 together. We did part one for Halloween and now we're knew deep in the sequel.

-i feel since silent Hill and outer wilds echoes of the she I can actually kinda do horror finally.

Next on my playlist is probably last of us on PC...but I still need to play disco Elysium.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 45 points 7 months ago

In terms of public sentiment I am pretty positive. Communism is becoming less and less of an effective Boogeyman each cycle and while GenZ does seem like a problem due to its reactionary gender/race identity politics I actually think there's reason to believe class based approach would gain some significant ground.

Here's the problem and why I remain not super enthusiastic and bordering on doomer: The last few election cycles have really showed that there are zero shortcuts here. The democratic party will straight up nuke itself before it allows an economically populist left movement take it over. If they didn't show that in 2016 or 2020 they hella fucking showed that in 2024.

People may broadly be coming around to like the idea of socialism and communism...but I think most of those people probably still in the mindset that we need to run leftwing candidates and vote our way to socialism.

Maybe we'll get there eventually...but I think we are a long way from people being ready to actually do direct action...and it's clear to me that's what its gonna take.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

What the fuck?! I've seen some similar tales from content creators now....is this a "Ok ok, I know we tried to gaslight you and all but we get it, actually the economy isn't great for you!"

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I would challenge you and say that your issues is less being a stereotype and more that you are insecure and feel like your personality or feelings are somehow less valid because you fall into a "type". Do you not like having long hair? Do you not like smoking weed? If you like those things and feel like these are good representations of your truest self...I'd focus on surrounding yourself with people who embrace you for these aspects.

I used to be super insecure when people started labeling me as a "himbo" because I had this idea in my head that cynical snark was a more valid or unique personality type. Trust me: nothing worse or unattractive than being a fake person. Embrace being the quirky long haired pothead child of suburbia if that's who you are. You are valid comrade!

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

Are these people even aware that Biden is still the fucking president right now??? Jesus christ more than racist they are just fucking stupid.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

How about we just execute Biden instead? Same result and way cleaner.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

As much as I fucking love Deus Ex...I think maybe we don't want Spector on the lathe again.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

His ability to so succinctly and perfectly cut through the bullshit and nail it is a legit fucking superpower and I'm jealous.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Omfg!!!!! Incredible. chefs-kiss

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Incredible. I genuinely gave the libs too much credit as I thought they'd at least wait for the transition to start giving a shit.

Everyone should take the opportunity to remind these people that not only is Biden still the president, he is still supporting and funding Israel right now even after his party lost at least in part due to their stand on this.

Palestinian lives are nothing but a prop to these sociopaths.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There's a lot of aspects about it I really like...but as a complete piece...it's just not there for me. Take Luke Skywalker's cynical turn for example. On paper: fucking love it. There's that meme going around showing young and old luke with young college philosophy graduate and jaded Marxist professor.

But like...if you're going to have earnestly eternal optimist Luke turn cynical it has to be from a failure of that optimism to have positive results rather than a failure to follow it. Luke being tempted to kill kylo ren makes sense to me....but I don't get how he concluded his entire philosophy and worldview was wrong when by his own admission it was a "moment of weakness" where he almost did the most contradictory thing to his own philosophy that he's ever done. If anything I think that whole fallout would have made him double down.

So much of the movie is like that. Good pieces in isolation but none of them quite work.

That being said: it's the best by far of the sequel trilogy. Rise of Skywalker is a dumpster fire. Force awakens is a pandering cynical cash grab with nothing worthwhile to say or add that gets progressively worse every year.

Last Jedi feels like it's made by an actual artist with something to say....even if what he's saying just doesn't quite hit.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

Lmao, wut??? Like the old saying goes, you shouldn't call it a comeback when he's been here the whole time.

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