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Cake day: June 10th, 2024

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  • So, you’re new to the Internet, welcome, don’t look up blue waffle, lemon party or one guy one jar. This is something called a shit post, where the humor of it is that it is, as you succinctly put it, strange and dumb. That is why I put it here, in a community for shit posts.

    Don’t worry, you’ll get it soon enough and I’m sure you’ll have maybe adventures surfing the information superhighway!






  • Ok, but compare that to breath of the wild. The game really is an open world. And you can go right up to the boss and kill him with a stick of you know what you’re doing. You, as a player, decide to go get stronger first. You don’t have characters specifically telling you to avoid an area, and a quest line that specifically takes you down a specific path that gives you a specific narrative.

    Plus it’s got all sorts of logic puzzles like, all over the place.

    Hell in fo3 you don’t get railroaded until the final mission, first time I played it I didn’t even go to megaton until way later. Fonv starts you off with it. For a game that is supposed to encourage exploration to start off saying not to? C’mon.


  • Ok look, you got a good heart and you know that dairy isn’t good for the environment or cows and so on. Cool.

    But perfect is the enemy of action. You know how there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism? So there’s always going to be some way to nitpick about any action. For example, that tomato shake was made with migrant or prisoner or slave labor and mass farming is also terrible for the environment and water consumption.

    One of the biggest strategic flaws we have on the left is that we care a lot about all sorts of stuff and want to do right by the world, which leads us to sometimes criticizing our own methods and people over what could be better and what is worse, and we lose sight of the bigger picture. Sometimes this is from genuinely wanting things to be better and sometimes it’s from trying to show how much better and more woke we are. It almost always comes off as flexing, a holier-than-thou attitude.

    Functionally it causes division and inaction.

    Sure, sometimes we need to adjust a strategy and try to make things better, but we need to look at the bigger picture and not get lost in the weeds.

    An imperfect ally is still an ally and should be accepted, as it’s better than no ally. An imperfect tactic should be accepted, because that’s better than inaction.

    So if you want to throw your tomato drink at someone go for it, but don’t discourage people from actively fighting Nazis, ok? Maybe next time say “I don’t like using milk I’m going for v8”, it’s more proactive and less critical.


  • I get that people like the story and feel like they have an influence on it, but for me it felt railroaded even from the start. “Oh yeah it’s open world but if you go anywhere other than the path we laid out for you you’ll die by deathclaws” is what it’s known for.

    My biggest gripe is that when I play fallout I want post apocalyptic retro futurism. 50s vision of the future gone wrong. I feel like I don’t get that with NV and that’s the whole theme of the franchise. It’s the pizza at the Chinese buffet, like, I’m not here for that, why are you here? This is just Nevada but slightly shittier.