socialjusticewizard

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[–] socialjusticewizard 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Asteroids was my dad's boomer shooter.

It's a great game though. Can't blame him at all

[–] socialjusticewizard 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There's an element of that to it. The overarching villain represents a hostile monopolistic corpo in the analogy, and a continent-spanning emperor in the text, and "socialism" is going to be needed to defeat him.

[–] socialjusticewizard 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good to hear thanks! I'm taking a breather from fast paced fps to get into a hoity toity puzzler now (outer wilds is awesome) but I have reminded myself how nice it is to take a mindless break and destroy Nazis and demons so I'll be back to the dizzingly fast violence trough soon enough

[–] socialjusticewizard 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (24 children)

These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom. Gen X at most.

More seriously though I just replayed the OG doom and it still slaps, nice to see some folks are trying to recapture that. I should check these out.

[–] socialjusticewizard 1 points 2 years ago

Cataclysm dda is my main one but I also love Wesnoth. I also can't resist dumping a few hours into frozen bubble every few years

[–] socialjusticewizard 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, absolutely not the first thing I'd choose as a target.

[–] socialjusticewizard 2 points 2 years ago

This still adds another moving part to duping people. It's much, much easier to independently verify the software if it's open source.

[–] socialjusticewizard 5 points 2 years ago

I know they're the worst of capitalism and break any law or agreement they can possibly get away with and many they cannot, but shouldn't we at least give them a chance

Fucking rubes.

[–] socialjusticewizard 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I haven't got a great elevator pitch for it yet but essentially there are a number of different ways to do magic, split by culture. I've passed it through a number of filters to keep it from being too much of an anvil, but several of the forms of magic are stands-in for the labour theory of value. Magicians can become very powerful by effectively stealing and monopolizing magic from a larger group of people, or they can be individually quite weak but collectively strong. The 'socialist' magicians have learned that they can compete a bit with the stronger magicians by collectively agreeing on someone to share their magic with, but it's hard to keep a power structure like that when all around them are people trying to steal all their magic.

This stuff is all a backdrop to a story that's a more standard adventure journey, but those themes do recurrently crop up and will eventually be core to some of the conflict

[–] socialjusticewizard 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, and that doesn't fit well with 'omg must preorder this game'

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[–] socialjusticewizard 3 points 2 years ago

Glad to help! Chickpea water (aquafaba) can also do most of what egg whites can do.

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