Some people need an out-group to hate. That’s it. Everything else is a justification for the good chemical feels they get for subjugating the outsiders.

I memorized my friend’s phone number. It’s because she’s a lawyer, and that seems like a good number to have memorized.

YouTube’s leadership is complicit. Fuck them and their blood soaked hands.

Poor emotional regulation. Poor long term planning. Disregarding facts for emotions.

Conservatives would hate it so it’s probably a good idea

Sometimes.

There’s also digressive victimhood. That’s where someone in a dominant group is accused of wrongdoing, and they claim victimhood on some other axis.

When dominant groups are accused of discrimination against non-dominant groups, they often seek to portray themselves as the victims of discrimination instead. Sometimes, however, members of dominant groups counter accusations of discrimination by invoking victimhood on a new dimension of harm, changing the topic being discussed. Across three studies (N = 3081), we examine two examples of this digressive victimhood – Christian Americans responding to accusations of homophobia by claiming threatened religious liberty, and White Americans responding to accusations of racism by claiming threatened free speech.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103121001360

Wait, what’s the difference between a Nazi and a conservative? That’s a change in degree not in kind.

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A worker is getting out of his car at the company parking lot when the company owner pulls up in a new sports car.

“Wow,” says the worker. “How did you afford that beauty?”

“I’ll tell you what,” says the owner. “If you work hard, put in some extra hours, hit all our numbers, I can buy another one this quarter.”

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Wage theft is bigger than all other theft. Some people are happy to be a cog in the machine.

Remove as many nazis and nazi sympathizers as I can, probably.

Depends how you define “evil”. And if I was hungry or tired when I got this power.

There’s good odds like every Republican official and donor would go directly into a bad time. Some would say that’s evil.

Other people have more detailed and factual answers, but a good heuristic is “there must be outgroups for the law to bind but not protect, and in groups for the law to protect but not bind”. That’s what they want. They want to do what they want while women and queers and non-whites are subjugated. They want to say something inappropriate and touch their women coworkers without consent, and know if she raises her voice she’ll be fired.

They are scum.

Maybe? Conservatives are mostly about feelings. The “fuck your feelings” thing was a confession and projection, as most conservative accusations are.

Heh. Maybe “the trump line” should become slang, like the mendoza line

Seems like rich territory for jokes about saint Luigi

Do tacky people generally know that they’re tacky, or is part of tackiness being unaware?

My ‘needs’ include what makes me want to continue living, regardless of what it looks like from your perspective

My parents would fight about this sometimes. They would blur “need” and “want” together, and that caused difficulties. It’s imprecise and, in my opinion, immature, to conflate the two categories. If you’re looking at a budget and you smush everything into “needs”, how are you going to know what to cut? The electric bill by any reasonable metric is more important than another lego death star, assuming you plan to continue living in society.

Furthermore, “I can’t quit my job at [evil megacorp], because then I might not be able to do luxury dining experiences as often” is laughable. Like, sure, there’s no way to live pure in our capitalist hellscape. We all have bills to pay. But highlighting “I like broadway” as the justification for “I help build AI used by ICE to deport people”? Come on. I’d respect it more if they just said out right that they don’t give a shit about other people. At least that’d be honest.

I don’t think most people could live on 65% of their current income. Many people are poor and can’t handle a surprise $500 expense.

I could live happily on the median income of my area (NYC) - $113,400. Even if I got a more expensive apartment, I could make that work.

I do wonder about people’s budgets sometimes. One of my friends has crushing medical, student, and credit card debt so they’re always struggling. But another friend was like “I can’t leave my job at [evil megacorp]! I need the money!” But when pressed slightly, their “needs” included broadway plays, fine dining, and every hot new game on steam (that they don’t even play). Most people are probably between those two extremes.

How many of the bosses can you walk in and just wipe the floor with on the first try

A pretty good amount, though that’s confounded by playing lots of similar games over the years. But, like, I see the boss lift his weapon way up and I go “I bet he’s going to swing. I should get out of the way.” Sure, there is an element to “I’ve seen this before - I know if I run behind him after the big butt stomp I can hit him easily”, but that’s hardly unique to fromsoft.

What sort of games don’t have enemies that you learn their moves? Like, you play Baldur’s Gate 3 and you learn “ok, that wizard has Sleep prepared, I should keep my HP up.” Or you play Hades and learn “ok, these guys like to charge but then take a second to recover”. This complaint is not unique to souls-likes but I don’t know if I’ve heard it brought against any other game.

“Souls-like” games - memorise attack patterns, the game. Not hard, just tedious.

Are people memorizing attack patterns? This one comes up a lot and I don’t really get it. The boss does a thing and I react, which is how most real time combat games are, I think?

I guess something like Skyrim you mostly just stand there and trade blows.

I know I’m biting bait but I rarely got jumped by the “guy around the corner” traps because I looked before walking in. Counter intuitively, running in will also often avoid the worst of it.

I remember people complaining about the floor traps in the first game and I was like “you mean the raised tiles that are a different color? Yeah I was careful around those”. Player messages also help.

It’s okay the game isn’t for you - but “literally can’t win on the first try” is hyperbole.