• QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    For some reason I keep thinking of a scene in the last episode of Ted Lasso. The “diamond dogs” have gathered and Roy asks if people can change. They just stand there in silence for seemingly a long time. I cringe the whole time I watch it. I’m just thinking “obviously people can change. Change is one of the most certain thing in the universe. You are not the same person you were a millisecond ago. Why is everyone so doubtful about the concept of change?” Edit: here’s the scene

    • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Is this show worth watching ? I’m a religiously devout football supporter/watcher and have had it recommended to me often but it’s always looked… kinda stupid ? I guess scenes like that is the sorta writing I’m concerned about lol

      • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        It’s funny at times, but your time is probably spent better elsewhere. The show seems to go to great lengths to humanize rich people. No one faces non-interpersonal problems because they’re all too rich. In other words it’s bourgeois propaganda. The only person who is unequivocally bad is some African billionaire who acts like a spoiled child, but luckily the billionaire protagonist gives a rousing speech reminding a bunch of rich old white guys that they like football and not him. They sort of try to touch politics, but the extent to that goes is “don’t mess with fascists online or they’ll send their goons on your petty booj ass.” The problem with the person someone is newly dating throwing money at them is not that children are starving and that money should go to something that actually matters (you can’t become a billionaire ethically), it’s because it will make your relationship artificial. The show is needlessly long with too many plot points. I could go on in my rant, but I think I’ve made my point.

        • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          in other words it’s bourgeois propaganda

          Oh so that’s why my family likes it and keeps recommending it

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Currently I am replaying Deus Ex, a cyberpunk first‐person shooter highly influenced by classic conspiracy theories. I can really appreciate the story as a grown‐up, and there is one particular scene that I had always glossed over until replaying it now…

    Mid‐story spoilers for Deus Ex

    There is one particular character, Walton Simons, who is remarkably two‐faced. When you read the lore (newspapers, e‐mails and such), Simons, being the supposed director of FEMA, comes across as a caring, concerned, and responsible individual who (falsely) reassures the public that scientists are hard at work developing a cure for the latest pandemic, and that while he doesn’t know what is going on he is doing everything that he can to help stop the virus that is taking countless lives.

    The reality is something else…

    In case you are having trouble reading the text:

    Walton Simons: ‘Captain Zhao. The helicopters will be there shortly. They are to be loaded for spraying of the virus. No delays. I want the helicopters operating before sunrise.’

    This scene was where I could actually feel my stomach churn, not necessarily due to the character himself, but because I feel like I know individuals who are exactly like this: the unidentified perpetrators of the very atrocities that they publicly declare to be at work reducing.

    It’s possible that this is simply a coincidence (even though the writers of Deus Ex clearly did their homework), but we do have nonfictional examples of U.S. authorities spraying a virus on cities, to which I’ll link outside of this spoiler.


    On a more serious note, how many of us are aware that U.S. authorities tested biological weapons on thousands of unwitting citizens?

  • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    So apparently while this Prigozhin soap opera was going on, the Ukrainians: lost 800 men, had another ammunition depot destroyed by Russian airstrikes, and brought the total number of tanks lost during the counteroffensive up to a whopping 246 (Russian MOD statistics, supposedly taken from intercepted Ukrainian transmissions).

  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Nothing like accidentally destroying a highly valuable and potentially irreplaceable piece of work equipment and getting shat on for your professional performance in the span of an hour

  • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Someone needs to physically go to Blizzard headquarters, gain access to their account system and remove my license for Diablo 4. I have lost far too much time to this game in the past couple of weeks shit is too addicting. Fantastic game though I’d say, already better in every way compared to D3.

    • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      My problem is I need someone who isn’t Blizzard to make a Diablo-clone that doesn’t try to stick its hands in my wallet every half an act. Kotick’s still there, and I will not have that bloated parasite getting even a buck richer off me.

      • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        That’s more than reasonable, completely agree. I wasn’t intending to buy the game either but a friend got it for me as a surprise birthday gift so figured I had no choice but to enjoy it.

        Would love more Diablo clones in general, not even sure I’ve played one other than the first Torchlight. Something more linear and co-op focused would be ideal if anyone is listening.