That’s just capitalism

You’re describing capitalism

And pretty much everyone knows that’s how it works, the disagreement is that some (very odd) people think this is a good thing.

The way literature is taught in school is designed deliberately to make people hate reading + studying the subtext and paratext.

By forcing kids to read books that aren’t just old, but were written by 40 year olds for other 40 year olds, and then mandating them write reports about the symbolism of a book they didn’t even want to read in the first place, you ensure that like 80% of people will inherently associate reading and interpreting media with every negative emotion at once.

Meanwhile you look at fandom dorks on every site and you see how invested on themes and subtext they are, and you realise people kinda naturally want to overthink media… Provided they like that media.

But people who can read subtext and understand it are less susceptible to propaganda. So.

Unfinished art of my fursona by my artist friend

I’m going to 1450 and giving the natives guns before the Spaniards and the Portuguese arrive.

Without them, anglos probably won’t bother either.

And I am glad it works for all of you

My eyes just glaze over really fast.

Grand Theft Auto

The whole concept is profoundly uninteresting to me

And I feel there is a fundamental tension between the enjoyable part of the games (Over-the-top city chaos with lots of explosions, often aided by cheats) and what the games WANT to be (serious crime dramas I think?)

How the turntables

Nintendo called the 2d graphics chips on the NES and SNES the “PPU” (picture processing unit)

My knees and back are fine

My wrists and fingers are war veterans

Yeah. I looked down at my wang and there was just a black bar.

I’m old enough to remember when these were called ‘Accelerator Cards’.

I used both for a while there… But ehn, haven’t touched my Reddit account in 3 years.

Too many nazis, and besides, Reddit’s main appeal (mentioned in the thread: Reddit has a more diverse demographic as compared to only nerds here on Lemmy) doesn’t really call to me because I’m Lemmy’s demographic to a T, a Linux-loving left-wing queer nerd.

itautec

reproduto(…)

points Brazilian

I’m more curious which is Stallman’s poison of choice

Some of those that work forces

are…

… not the same that burn crosses this time!!!

Yeah I admire Greta, but anyone who’s been paying attention had to know this would eventually happen.

Punch enough knife-tips and you’ll get cut. Greta wouldn’t shut up and wouldn’t sell out, now she’s going to die a lot.

A pentium 100 shitbox hand built by my ol dad

This was well into the pentium II era of PC mind

Resale. The reason is resale. Between the economy being trashed, planned obsolescence, and cultural shifts. People buy things not really expecting to keep them for very long, and the less individual something is, the easier to sell it on to someone else later.

easier to maintain

The thing is

they’re kinda not?

Grey(“Silver”) on cars kinda is in the sense that it “hides” dirt, but like, that particular shade of landlord beige they use on buildings? That becomes an ugly colour within weeks of exposure to the elements. And would require constant repainting to stay looking good.

It’s all about that resale value and the fact that nowadays no one buys anything expecting to keep it for very long. So the less “personal” things are, the better to pass them along.

The world has less colour.

This isn’t a dramatic “I’m depressed” post, though that is a factor. Nature is still nature-coloured, for one, and it still looks lovely.

I mean that like, you’d go outside and look at the cars and see a rainbow of colours. Now it’s all black, silver, or white. You only see colorful cars if they are really old beat up rustbuckets or if they are brand new luxury vehicles used by super rich people.

Buildings too. Businesses and the buildings they set up shop in would be painted with garish, eye popping colour. Now everything trends towards landlord-beige.

Edit: And it should be noted, this happened for a reason, and I am aware of that reason, and that just makes me crankier.

Yeah. The way bullying happens seems to have changed since my time.