peppersky [he/him, any] @ peppersky @hexbear.net

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When you're completely disrupting the global order, but also need to make like a few thousand bucks

This except with tears 😭😭😭😭😭

If we all take enough acid we might be able to time travel back to the 60s just saying

end of history etc. etc.

maybe try growing larger hands?

every single thing he describes in this video is why this game sucks. there's no cohesion to any of it. ok so there's like insect farms on the edge of the city to produce protein. thats cool. and there's like no npcs there, no workers, no signs of any sort of labor or anything. not even the deafening sound of millions of crickets being bred and ground into protein powder? no quests to go there, nothing to find, to interact with? i know its a meme, but the "what do these people eat" bit about videogame worlds does actually have a point. what that question is is a beginning of a materialist analysis. if the game devs do not answer this question, that means the devs also do not ask themselves that question in the real world that they inhabit. "food comes from the store". cyberpunk 2077 is a game thats solely interested in being "punk" and what cdpr thinks is "punk" is beating the capitalists at their own game, being the most capitalist guy around, being a rockstar, making billions of dollars, all while staying "punk". they don't care about labor, about poor people, about the people making their game, the actual world they inhabit or anything else. all they care about is them being the "punk ass" polish devs who will show the world that they are the coolest most "punk" devs around and make the biggest most expensive game ever.

terrible garbage ass game, they couldn't patch the capitalist fake ass stink out of it if they had patched it a million times.

i hate life. i go home im alone, i sleep im alone, i go to university im alone, i sit a seminar im alone. how the fuck am i supposed to find new friends, no one has any time, no one likes me enough to invite me to anything, no one wants to hang out with me, sure you can try to organize something but even if you manage to do so it never becomes anything more than a one time thing. i try to do shit, it never happens. there are no chill parties, no one wants to socialize at bars, no one wants to be friends at clubs or hobby meetups. there are no connections between anything, people go to meetups like they go to doctors appointments. i dont want to have friends, i want to have a community. i dont want to do thing a with friend a on monday, thing b with friend b on tuesday, thing c with friend c on wednesday, thing d with friend d on thursday, thing e with friend e on friday. i want to have a friend group whom i can just hang out with. and when you try to find friends you need to pretend like you don't really need them, go like "oh yeah ill add you to my long list of friends lets see where i can fit you in oh im so busy im certainly not sitting home alone crying because i feel so fucking heartbroken and lonely all the time". im thirty, still a complete loser in university. how the fuck is this supposed to work when im working 40 hours a week. and then my therapist has the gall to tell me i've got a "fear of growing up". if growing up means living like this i'd rather fucking die. i don't find it hard to empathize with incels, loneliness is the worst pain in the world, loneliness makes you go crazy. its much easier to believe a romantic relationship is going to fix your loneliness than it is to believe there's any chance of living in a community of friends. you only need one person to be in a relationship, to not be alone when you go home, to at least have someone to hold you when you are crying.

There's such a perverse logic to the whole thing, that making friends and human connections becomes work and you just accumulate names and numbers and faces just so you can profit off of them later. There's no distinction between your professional and private life.

Under capitalism life turns into work.

I don't think that stories need twists at all. Don't try to be clever.

I'd watch that

Man FUUUUUUCK networking

I feel you. I don't know when this mood swings shit started but I sure hope it's going away sooner rather than later

That's a stupid ass take. the capitalists states education systems sole goal is to produce ideologically aligned workers. Like sure, they can go to a lot of school, but you don't become a communist by reading whatever the state wants you to read.

Climate change

lmao fucking 2009 is now the mythical conservative golden age?

Even if you're a reactionary fuckhead, it's much easier to believe we can go back to 2009 than 1949 (or whatever other year). And considering capitalisms has not stopped for a single second in it's quest to vaporize everything that is, I'd mich prefer to live in 2009 too compared to today.

Social conservatism always results in a hollowed out, soulless culture in which the fun, unique, and superfluous aspects of existence are steamrolled in favor of bland conformism? And it always applies to everything?

Lib ass take, this is just capitalism. Even capitalism in its most "progressive" version does this and it does nothing but this.

No idea what outside you people have but the outside where I am at does anything other than make me sane

I try to be a normal well adjusted human being so why is there something just so completely deeply wrong with me that I just cannot function at all in any way in this society.

miss those times back when I had a friend group and a group chat that would always reply within half an hour.

i really need to get on some antidepressants or some shit because godfuckingdamnit its like theres absolutely no connection between what's going on in my life and what im feeling like, like things are actually kinda going ok right now but i still feel like complete garbage like more than half the time. but if all antidepressants make my dick not work (i might find some use for that thing at some point in my life) or if they just make me not feel stuff in general (goddamnit i want to fall in love) i don't want them