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The real answer is that university administrators don't have to be bribed because they are already part of the same financial machine that silicon valley billionaires own and operate. Universities haven't been focused on education since the 70's

The entire utilitarianism vs deontology argument of whether the ends justify the means is a phantom. The ends *determine* the means. If you desire an end, you rarely have the luxury of much choice in how to accomplish it.

But the notion that you can separate an end from the means to achieve it is clearly artificial nonsense, not even worth spending time on. That comes from liberal transactional thinking that has no application outside of the extremely specific realm of economic value

The entire utilitarianism vs deontology argument of whether the ends justify the means is a phantom. The ends *determine* the means. If you desire an end, you rarely have the luxury of much choice in how to accomplish it.

Seeing art of modern tiefling characters is wild because back in AD&D you had to pay real close attention to distinguish them from their mortal race; like, their "demonic trait" would be "red irises" or "a faint brimstone smell" or "subcutaneous horn nubs on the forehead"

Actually, now that I've verbalized it I feel like this should probably be talked about more? The game industry's problems with capital and the culture of layoffs are related, but not the same thing, and interpreting the latter as a mere symptom of the former is naive

Oh well, too late now, it'll have to wait until we overthrow the dictatorship of capital ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Actually, now that I've verbalized it I feel like this should probably be talked about more? The game industry's problems with capital and the culture of layoffs are related, but not the same thing, and interpreting the latter as a mere symptom of the former is naive

Layoffs will always be a part of the corporate game industry from now on, because they save money and they've become established as the normal. Corporations have no reason to stop no matter how much profits recover

lmfao get owned

to be excruciatingly clear: I do not care about the plight of US soldiers, who are the enemies of humanity. You can have the most disadvantaged background and the biggest sob story in the world, but once you sign up to murder brown people overseas for money, you lose the right to complain, full stop

I think I just raised that a reason I've always kind of rankled against western style CRPGs that emphasize role playing is that I during games (or really anything else for that matter) with arbitrary rules and outcomes, and that's really the only way game-ified roleplay can be

I think I just raised that a reason I've always kind of rankled against western style CRPGs that emphasize role playing is that I during games (or really anything else for that matter) with arbitrary rules and outcomes, and that's really the only way game-ified roleplay can be

"Yes but that's how games model the essentially arbitrary nature of human interaction" look, I know, and there's a reason why I limit my interaction with people I can't read to the point that I can mostly predict their reaction to whatever I might say or do - see the first post re: arbitrary stuff

I think I just raised that a reason I've always kind of rankled against western style CRPGs that emphasize role playing is that I during games (or really anything else for that matter) with arbitrary rules and outcomes, and that's really the only way game-ified roleplay can be

Death is an ever-present threat in the US, and human life is cheap. We are all expendable and replaceable and our value to society is measured out to the fraction of a penny by the companies one of whose executive Luigi Mangione shot.

And if you want to start changing that, the correct path forward is not hand-wringing and nervous chatter, but disciplined political activism. Join a communist party or, frankly, stop complaining.

Death is an ever-present threat in the US, and human life is cheap. We are all expendable and replaceable and our value to society is measured out to the fraction of a penny by the companies one of whose executive Luigi Mangione shot.

Acting as if that one death is somehow shocking and repugnant in a society where preventable death is so commonplace as to elicit actual boredom is beyond childish. You don't have to be some kind of bloodthirsty monster not to care about Luigi's victim (I can't even be bothered to remember his name)

I don't have a hot take on [recent topic], but I do have one about something else: if you post a hot take and turn off comments and quote posts you should probably have considered just not posting it on social media. That's not what social media is for or how it works. I unfollow for that behavior.

He didn't kill someone random, but the person he killed had in fact killed thousands of random people, no less because he didn't personally pull the trigger. We are conditioned only to care about exceptional violence, and ignore the far greater amount of commonplace violence that surrounds us

Mind you, I'm not in support of this kind of adventurism; but that's from a utilitarian standpoint, not a moral one. We have one dead executive and one potential activitist going to prison, probably for life, and the trade-off is simply not worth it.

I have mixed feelings about Lies of P as a whole but I don't have mixed feelings about this:

Waiting with a big :( face for someone to blame millennials

I don't even know what "indies will save us" is supposed to mean; save us from the video game market crash? Lol, not likely, they'll just still be there *after* the crash, because they were never predicated on a corporate industry and market in the first place