Not reading, per se, but the video "I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System" by Philosophy Tube comes to mind. Check out the sources if you're looking specifically for reading

I mean what else is supposed to be the outcome of decades of defunding social services? There is no choice (for you or me)

I'm guessing by "reform" they mean taking the whole thing private? What is it with these ghouls having such a hard on for the us

#Getting less shit at these #921 4/6

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They only took it down in the messy asf mod catalogue from the latest doom re-release; pretty sure it's still playable via any other previously available method. That catalogue is a complete disaster anyway, lots of people's work being uploaded by randos and uncredited, lots of the catalogue entries completely not working, many duplicates, but Bethesda only lifts a finger when Margaret Thatcher's name is on the line lmfao

Guilty of doing this lol

Right? How can anything truly be "apolitical"? Apolitical to me means that it's not ruffling any feathers politically, which would mean it has the politics of hegemony.

Also an apolitical game from a studio who sent out memos to influencers to not talk about "feminist propaganda"? Idek what's going on there exactly, but it sure is political in some way

I mean, just because a game sells well, I'm sure that doesn't stop people from having more nuanced feelings about it than "good game bc big sales"

silence troll

Remind us, o enlightened one - who is the vice president of the current administration?

Death to plausibly deniable lesbians >:(

all I have to say is

Been playing lots of stuff bc covid

Playing quite a bit of Spin Rhythm XD on the steam deck. It works amazingly well with the touchpads, the haptics add a lot and it feels more natural to spin the wheel that way then using the joysticks; great way to play. Very fun game, the background visuals are very neat and react to your spins. The biggest downside is that the music is very hit and miss, and that's coming from someone who is quite immune to monstercat flavoured electronic music cringe. There's some cool stuff in there, but then also just as many tracks with female vocals singing about how fuckable they are (thank you once again, cishet men songwriters). Thankfully you can favourite the tracks you like and filter out the rest, but I don't believe it has a custom song mapping community (maybe I'm wrong on that) like an osu or some such.

Been giving osu!mania a good try over the past few weeks as an alternative to osu!, cos that shit makes my hands hurt. Maybe once I get to a certain level in mania it'll be the same, but for now I'm enjoying it a lot. Even on 4 key mode (it can go up to 10 keys) the rhythms are so much more complex and interesting compared to the 1 key of osu!, and I'm only playing easy and normal levels for now (compared to ins*ne and expert on osu!). I love clacking my keyb, makes me feel like a cool performer. It does make me think about why I'm wasting time learning to play a useless rhythm game over a real instrument...

Giving Cult of the Lamb another go after not finishing it a while back. Last time I basically wasn't enjoying the combat (pretty normal for me, I usually try to avoid combat in games if possible), so spent lots of time in the village until I got it pretty much fully upgraded and to the point where I wasn't managing crises, but instead just chilling with my commune of cuties. This playthrough is pretty much going the same way, although I'm less terrible at the combat this time (probably because I played a bunch of Hades between now and then), so I've gotten a bit further than where I was last time. Right now I'm just beautifying my village after unlocking most of the decorations, but I think this might be my last thing I do with it. Maybe I'll come back to it now and then and chip through the final couple of combat areas. Overall it's very cute, the art is lovely. The cult parody is kinda skin deep, but I do think it works as a basic breakdown of some of the ways cults exploit people, and the cutesy and funny presentation, helps the hard-to-swallow-pill go down for some perhaps (excited to play Indika at some point for a hopefully more fleshed out take on the topic)

Also booting up Space Cadet Pinball every now and then after I found it neatly packaged up in my distro's repos. Used to play it a lot as a kid and it's interesting playing it again now. The sound design is fantastic tbh

Makes you identify with assembly line workers, WOKE

If I wanted to soak in those kinds of narcissistic slapfights I'd call some biological family members

lool, very relatable. It is really tiring.

(not a game (game room))

As Stephanie Sterling keeps pointing out, "generative AI" is a really inaccurate description and is at best a marketing term that is supposed to make it sound like tech bros have automated creativity. In reality it's just an elaborate new way to launder art in a way that isn't recognised as stealing by the current legal system. It's "derivative AI" at best (when not used for stealing) because with no input (training dataset) there is no output (big tiddy vidya gf)

In fact, if you want information to kill the police officers who are going to Haiti, I am sure we can help

My god, this goes so fucking hard

based in other European philosophies

It didn't appear entirely in a European vacuum; there are no "purely European" ideas; Europe is a fake continent. Marx was at least in part inspired (invidious link) by the writings of anthropologists studying the legal systems of the indigenous nations of Turtle Island, who were (and are) being genocided by euros.

None because they all predate dialectical materialist philosophy

Please, this is such a eurocentric perspective