It's ok to be angry about capitalism

[BrawlMan]

To an extent, I don't entirely blame Pepsi. After all, it is just a low-quality Coca-Cola knock-off, and no wonder it would need to cheat for sales.

I do entirely blame them, and they can fuck off. RC Cola is better than Pepsi anyway.

 

[BrawlMan]

This is something I can definitely agree with. Especially when is something rock star and take two have become when you mocking all that stuff in their previous games. Satire is pretty much dead. Heavy talks about Rockstar trying to dismantle the union employees are involved. So it relates.

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[BrawlMan]

Larian Studios are the bad guys now.

‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’

‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says

www.bloomberg.com

Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social)

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple...

bsky.app

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn (@unburntwitch.com)

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Because it failed.

What do you think the alternate universe where Jan 6 succeeded at causing enough chaos in the proceedings to allow the fake electors plot to succeed would look like? Or hell, one where Mike Pence was on board with the fake electors plot?

Hell, if it had merely been successful enough to prevent the count from occurring on Jan 6, it could have set off a legal crisis as the date for the count my only be changed by law (and it not happening Jan 6 would require such a law to be passed), and the GOP including Trump (who could simply let it sit on his desk without signing) are nothing if not good at obstruction could simply not allow that to happen until after noon on Jan 20. At which point you have a full blown constitutional crisis in which no one is legally president and it would be up to SCOTUS to figure out what to do, 3 of them put there by Trump and another 2 serving Heritage above the law or Constitution, meaning a likely 5/4 split on the side of something like leaving Trump in power until a new date for certifying the 2020 election could be passed into law in the usual fashion, which the GOP could prevent from happening until at least midterms.

The bill that made the Jan 6 count essentially entirely ceremonial rather than a required part of the process was passed during the Biden admin, specifically to prevent another coup attempt by that vector.

The Left's 2020 ‘Fake Electors’ Narrative Is Fake News

The 2020 Georgia situation mirrors events of 60 years ago in Hawaii, revealing everything the media have said about 'fake electors' is wrong.

thefederalist.com

 

[Silvanus]

The Left's 2020 ‘Fake Electors’ Narrative Is Fake News

The 2020 Georgia situation mirrors events of 60 years ago in Hawaii, revealing everything the media have said about 'fake electors' is wrong.

thefederalist.com

Ah, The Federalist, the right-wing conspiracy rag that propagated its own election misinformation in 2020. A very trustworthy source.

 

[thebobmaster]

Larian Studios are the bad guys now.

‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’

‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says

www.bloomberg.com

Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social)

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple...

bsky.app

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn (@unburntwitch.com)

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app

Don't worry. They're only using generative AI for pre-writing and stuff. They aren't using it on artists.

Oh Well Well That'S Alright Then GIF - Oh well Well that's alright then Toymaker - Discover & Share GIFs

Click to view the GIF

tenor.com

Can't figure out how to embed GIFs directly, sorry.

 

[BrawlMan]

Don't worry. They're only using generative AI for pre-writing and stuff. They aren't using it on artists.

Oh Well Well That'S Alright Then GIF - Oh well Well that's alright then Toymaker - Discover & Share GIFs

Click to view the GIF

tenor.com

Can't figure out how to embed GIFs directly, sorry.

I still don't trust any of then on this, and for all we know, they are lying, or will change their mind when it suits them.

 

[thebobmaster]

I still don't trust any of then on this, and for all we know, they are lying, or will change their mind when it suits them.

There's a reason I used that GIF. Even if they aren't lying, they're still using generative AI, which is not a good look.

 

[Satinavian]

I still don't trust any of then on this, and for all we know, they are lying, or will change their mind when it suits them.

I trust them.

So far they have not been caught in lies and they are independend and have the monetary leeway to follow their vision.

 

[BrawlMan]

I trust them.

So far they have not been caught in lies and they are independend and have the monetary leeway to follow their vision.

You have fun with that. They ain't worth shit because it won't take that long to.change their minds at any excuses or conveniences. Don't come to me when they eventually screw up.

There's a reason I used that GIF. Even if they aren't lying, they're still using generative AI, which is not a good look.

Ok.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Don't worry. They're only using generative AI for pre-writing and stuff. They aren't using it on artists.

Oh Well Well That'S Alright Then GIF - Oh well Well that's alright then Toymaker - Discover & Share GIFs

Click to view the GIF

tenor.com

Can't figure out how to embed GIFs directly, sorry.

From the link you had before, click on the image and copy image link, (or open it in a new tab and copy the address), and then in the forum, use the "inset image" button (in the middle, the square with a triangular mountain looking thing next to a dot, it's between the pic of a chain and the smiley face)

 

[thebobmaster]

Ah, it is insert image. Wasn't sure if it would play the full gif if I did that or just a still image, and using the insert media just told me it was invalid. Thanks.

 

[Schadrach]

The Left's 2020 ‘Fake Electors’ Narrative Is Fake News

The 2020 Georgia situation mirrors events of 60 years ago in Hawaii, revealing everything the media have said about 'fake electors' is wrong.

thefederalist.com

Ah, The Federalist, the right-wing conspiracy rag that propagated its own election misinformation in 2020. A very trustworthy source.

Even then, it carefully avoids the important bits by focusing on the Georgia GOP elector slate being created at all as a just in case Trump won his lawsuit and pretending that's the entire thing from start to finish, and ignoring the 6 other states where the GOP created an alternate slate of electors, or anything regarding what plans had been brought up regarding how those alternate slates might be used. There's a reason "Hang Mike Pence" was a J6 motto, and it was because he refused to try the "Pence Card" (i.e. simply substituting the GOP slates for the real ones when crtifying the count). Hence the chaos - the goal was to disrupt the count and create a legal crisis if substituting the slates wasn't an option.

There's a reason I used that GIF. Even if they aren't lying, they're still using generative AI, which is not a good look.

It's not a good look for now. It's too useful a tool to be seen that way forever. And it's far from the first time technology has been "ruining art". See photoshop, photography, etc, probably all the way back to the beginning.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Ah, The Federalist, the right-wing conspiracy rag that propagated its own election misinformation in 2020. A very trustworthy source.

Even then, it carefully avoids the important bits by focusing on the Georgia GOP elector slate being created at all as a just in case Trump won his lawsuit and pretending that's the entire thing from start to finish, and ignoring the 6 other states where the GOP created an alternate slate of electors, or anything regarding what plans had been brought up regarding how those alternate slates might be used. There's a reason "Hang Mike Pence" was a J6 motto, and it was because he refused to try the "Pence Card" (i.e. simply substituting the GOP slates for the real ones when crtifying the count). Hence the chaos - the goal was to disrupt the count and create a legal crisis if substituting the slates wasn't an option.

Surely if an attempted coup took place, people would be criminally charged and convicted. The only person I could find that was ever "convicted" was an elderly woman that plead guilty because she couldn't fight the case and take care of her ill husband at the same time, she is already released from probation 2 years early. Just like you know Trump's election claims don't hold water is because judges threw out all those cases. Same thing is happening here.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/09/nx-s1-5535584/michigan-fake-electors-trump-charges-dropped

 

[Silvanus]

Surely if an attempted coup took place, people would be criminally charged and convicted.

Why?

Crimes go unpunished all the time, especially political crimes. This is because the law enforcement agencies and judiciary are beholden to the parties, and the parties-- both of them, Dems too-- are full of people who would prefer transgressions get swept under the rug.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Surely if an attempted coup took place, people would be criminally charged and convicted.

Yes, you'd think so, wouldn't you?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Surely if an attempted coup took place, people would be criminally charged and convicted.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Stop blindly accepting what zero-expertise nobodies on Twitter say.

Some of these are outright lies ("FBI admits plainclothes officers in the crowd") and others are just irrelevances ("some guy claims it was a setup") or political claims ("Patel says Pelosi to blame"). There's nothing substantial here.

Because mainstream is so trustworthy these days? They have regular people’s best interests at heart, sure. Follow the money. Pelosi’s a piece of work.



They leave office with extra zeros at the voting base’s expense.

 

[BrawlMan]

Because mainstream is so trustworthy these days? They have regular people’s best interests at heart, sure. Follow the money. Pelosi’s a piece of work.

So a dumb idea to actually believe the republicans' lies on what actually happened on January 6th. Maga tried to perform a coup because they didn't like the election results. And yet you're gonna to believe them 100% or act as if they brought new "evidence" to light. You're playing yourself.

 

[Hades]

Because mainstream is so trustworthy these days?

Of course they aren't. They tried to white wash Trump despite knowing he's a disgusting piece of filth who rapes people and does coup. But even they are more trustworthy than the vermin that makes up the MAGA inner circle.