This is a bit of a misconception.

Nietzche opposed a specific political group in Germany at the time called “The Anti-Semites”. So he has a lot of quotes where he complains about The Anti-Semites, but he isn’t really critiquing what we would consider antisemitism, but just this specific group and their ideology.

And this was probably not because he opposed them, but because they were problematic allies. His sister would marry an Anti-Semite, become one herself, and his books would be published by The Anti-Semites after his death.

I don’t have any of them handy at the moment, but Nietzche had many things to say about the Jews that would get him branded an antisemite by modern standards.

A lot of people will speculate and exaggerate and blow little things out of proportion. I don’t like Lemmy.world because they are Anticommunist as a policy. That’s about it.

They’re (albeit Liberal) Zionists, they prosecute stuff like “Uyghur genocide denial” that is like 5-year-old propaganda that should be able to be dismissed with the benefit of hindsight.

Leftist instances have the forthrightness to just say “If you’re a reactionary we’ll ban you”, but Liberals - like the Lemmy.world admins and moderators - have to hide behind a smokescreen of Socialists breaking technical rules - when, say, a Zionist denying the Palestinian genocide wouldn’t get the same reaction.

The colors here made it look like a greentext at first

Reminds me of the Elon Musk quote where he wants to be a brain in a jar with his penis attached to it

I really liked a lot of the mechanics of Starfield. I think some people can get a bit overly-critical and “throw the baby out with the bathwater”, even if the baby is a little ugly too and has 13 toes in this analogy.

Ultimately I think it was a game killed mostly by poor writing and, consequently, a failure to tie that writing into interesting enemy variation.

The different types of human enemies all felt the same, there wasn’t enough variation when it came to robots or aliens, and these were used in uninspired ways pretty much uniform. The randomly generated locations etc. definitely added onto this.

I had a lot of fun with the ship and weapon customization, the core gameplay felt good to me. It is a game primed for a very fun and interesting New Vegas to its FO3, if they chose to go that route (which I doubt they will, alas).

One of my biggest issues is that it feels like a game written entirely by Libertarian Atheist Redditors from 2013. It is so completely out of touch with the current culture and political landscape that I can only assume the issue is that Bethesda, or at least the people responsible for this messat Bethesda, are Libertarian Reddit Atheists who haven’t matured in their understanding of culture and politics for 15 years, like you took Hank Green, Niel deGrasse Tyson, and pre-2020 Elon Musk, threw them in a blender, and asked the resulting mush to write a sci-fi setting.

The joinable factions are obviously supposed to be exaggerated stereotypes of Democrat and Republican politics as conceived by someone with a very shallow view of politics, but the thing about the Democrat and Republican parties is that 90% of the country fucking hates both of them. What’s your other option? Get a job? The pirates could have been fun but I’m not even going to get into how they were butchered. And the snake-worshipping religious zealots are the only major faction you can’t join, despite being the only mildly interesting one.

I remember reading an article about a month ago about how Kenyan writers were getting mad about being mistaken for AI because that’s just how they write, and the Faith emails are all from Kenya.

I’m not saying it’s not AI but that might be the reason why they sound that way.

And enemies clipping through walls and floors!

The last Etho video with the maggot had me laughing with how many times it’s happened to me. “I guess he got away”

Cum

I don’t care if it’s antisemitic to say so, but I will never take someone named “Schlomo Kramer” seriously.

It’s what they’re called in the DnD 3.5e Monster Manual as well

I definitely agree with this - the point of Marxism is that your exact policies should depend on your material conditions. The Bolshevik Party is a good example of this. At some points, they advanced workplace democracy; at others, they returned Bourgeois managers to the factories. At times they supported individually owned farms, and at others forcibly collectivized ones, and at still others allowed for privately owned plantations. Lenin called for the party to participate in Bourgeois elections, but the vast majority of Bolsheviks took the ultra-left position and boycotted them. Sometimes decentralization is preferable - but centralization is often necessary! These are all dialectics that cannot be resolved dogmatically.

To explain my positions:

While sometimes reform can make advancements, the important part is that a Marxist must advocate for Revolution. Participation in Bourgeois elections is necessary to build a mass movement, but Marxists should never give them the legitimacy of claiming that their power will come from winning those elections.

Utopian Socialism is infantile. Socialism must be based in scientific, Marxist principles or you are at best a progressive Liberal. When your ideology is based in utopian ideals instead of scientific processes, you will make yourself unable to take the necessary steps to shepherd a Socialist society when it sometimes requires concessions.

Centralism is necessary, at least in the developing stage of Socialism, in order to combat reaction and quickly advance productive forces. Similarly to the Utopian vs. Scientific debate, perhaps decentralized authority would be preferable in a perfect world, and may be pursued in the latter stateless stages of Communism, but spells death and inefficiency in the short term. The failure of the Spanish Republicans to effectively ensure their mutual defense is the chief historical example

I don’t believe that Nationalism or Patriotism are inherently un-Marxist concepts, and can be encouraged among the masses to increase loyalty to the Socialist state. But Communists, especially those within the imperial core, must always remember that Imperialist oppression inevitably turns inward - and that when you preserve those Imperialistic policies under a Socialist state, you are preserving systems of oppression that will eventually demand expansion back into the motherland. In other words: flags and military parades are fine, but you must also support your international brethren, at least within the imperial core.

Under Socialism there should be a dialectic struggle between trade unions and the Party. Trade Unions, being non-ideological entities, will inevitably become a reactionary force under a Socialist government. In the stage of international struggle, the needs of the party must come first. But after, they must settle into a dialectic struggle - the Party ensuring the health of society as a whole with the Unions ensuring the rights and happiness of the workers.

I do not believe in silly notions about the value of the natural world beyond what is supported by scientific principles. So long as we have parks for the people to enjoy, the climate is stabilized, and the trees are producing enough oxygen for our breath and industry, the natural world has no inherent utility. Believing that the natural world is more important than building the productive forces necessary for the victory of Socialism and the happiness of the people is Eco-Fascism, even if those who believe in it paint themselves with an Anarchist or Socialist veneer.

I won’t spend too long on this point. Social progress is good and I do not need to explain why. But, especially in the early stages, Socialists must not turn too hard against traditional ways of life that practiced by the majority of people or cultural minorities. Crush the power of religious institutions, but do not demolish the churches. Encourage secular cohabitation, but do not outlaw marriage. Create public cafeterias to end kitchen slavery, but do not ban the sale of cookbooks.

Octopodeez nuts

I honestly felt that the weapon degradation was freeing in a way - that every item in the same was a consumable to be used and not an item to be collected and stashed away forever while you just use the Zweihander from the graveyard for 90% of the game. Even the unique quest items broke, but you could do another quest to unlock the ability to buy infinite versions! I thought that was great game design.

You say this ironically, but there are several relatively recent U.S. presidents or people in their administration who have said things that would get them branded tankies today.

I’m thinking specifically of a speech Jimmy Carter gave where he said it’s no wonder North Korea ended up the way it had, considering we bombed every building over two stories into the ground.

Kissinger is also obviously evil but only because of his realpolitik - by modern ideological standards where any anti-Western power is treated as worse than Hitler by even social Democrats, his dispassionate readings would get him labeled a Marxist.

Marxism is the only valid framework to analyze the world.

Physical, human-legible media, like punch cards

They’re answering like that because they’re trying to be kind and give you the benefit of the doubt - but no, lol, no one here over the age of ten believes in magic anymore lmao. If that’s the straight answer you want

No lol. Belief in the supernatural in any form is un-Marxist.

Whether that’s angels and demons and deities, witches and ghosts, or astrology and healing crystals. It is a virtue to have a completely Materialist worldview.

Never admit your mistakes. Always commit.