axont

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

This was built on top of a bulldozed immigrant community

[–] axont@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I very much want Jim Caviezel doing speeches from a teleprompter. The hollywood rumor about him is that he's nearly illiterate and messes up his lines constantly. There's an old story of him from when he was shooting Person of Interest. He had one line, "No" that he kept forgetting even if there was a cue card with just that one word.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think Barron would be permitted to be VP because he's not 35 years old.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

toads frantically scouring the kingdom for cushions big enough to support her royal cheeks

[–] axont@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

what is with chuds claiming to be the biggest weenies on planet Earth. Do they think it makes them sound sympathetic? It just makes them sound like complete nerds who lack conviction.

"the dastardly libs shoved me in a locker and stole my lunch money." powercry-2

Like I've been at protests and had glass bottles thrown at me, guns pointed at me, had my life threatened and I've been called slurs I hadn't ever heard before. I'm estranged from half of my family due to my communist proclivities and non-binaryness. Just get over it, this is part of having an outward political identity, you dorkwad. Also maybe if normal everyday people are booing and kicking sand on you, you should probably stop to realize maybe you're a piece of shit and you deserve it. The people who've threatened me at protests have all been resounding pieces of shit and I welcome their inept fascist hatred. I don't want to be liked by fascists.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Liberals think anyone disagreeing with them anywhere in the world generates Evil Points and if enough points are generated then Putin is appointed King of America

[–] axont@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Getting shuffled single file into my local Buc-ee's ©️ relief center

[–] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That could be, hadn't considered it. I've thought about her for a long time though.

The two towns are very interconnected although now that you say that, little pockets or families tended to stay in one place or another. The place she moved from is a dead lumber mill town that once threw a parade because a Chili's opened up. She moved to a white flight town made up of former residents of the nearby larger (and more black) city.

She also moved to the white flight town right as the housing market collapsed in 2008/09, where America was starting to build its current, even more predatory real estate system. She could have been talking about that, she could have been talking about the lack of churches in town, or the fact there are traffic lights.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I also worked grocery for a long time and this is true. They also really hate being told they parked wrong, or they parked their stupid car in front of the shipping area, or they're triple parked.

They hate reading too. It doesn't matter if a giant sign indicates something, they're still going to ask or get mad.

One time we had to rearrange some shelves to make room for a bakery expansion, so that involved changing where stuff was located. There was a ton of confusion at first, but most people acclimated. One very obese elderly woman apparently was unable to find anything so she had to do several laps around the store finding stuff. At the register she was clearly exhausted, but had enough energy to scream at us, getting more belligerent until she made the claim we were attempting to kill our elderly customers (even though 99% of them were elderly). We tried calming her down but she demanded to use the phone to call the cops on us. We refused, but she came back the next day with a cop who interrogated us. America

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I worked at a grocery store for about 5 years in a completely white southern town with an average age of 68 years old. I don't even know where to start.

Nearly every day I'd hear the n-word get spoken casually. Often it was in the context of something like "why'd this price go up? It's all that n-word's fault" (they meant Obama). Why did they think this was ok to say to the 22 year old shelf stocker? We didn't take orders from Obama himself. "Uhh lemme be clear. Twinkies are going up 30 cents."

We also repeatedly got requests to see the manager, even if he wasn't there and maybe I was the acting manager (since sometimes only two people would be working). Just endless complaints about the most minor things. The store's AC is too cold, the aisles are too narrow, we should take expired coupons, there are too many Latinos working that day. Just endless parade of white goofy ass problems from people who could barely walk. Like literally barely walk, and then they'd get into their cars to drive home at 70 mph. More than once we had customers who'd shit themselves in the bathrooms and leave piles of feces everywhere.

I got so many pamphlets and DVDs too of insane conspiracy theories. I used to have a stack of the Loose Change movie, the one about 9/11 being a hologram or whatever. A bunch of them were very odd Christian evangelical home movies or church movies or something. Like there was one centered entirely around how thirsty people are in hell, a bunch of short vingettes about what led people to go to hell. Including:

  • a woman who goes to college and becomes a liberal

  • a man who wears an earring

  • A woman who gets an abortion

They're all shown being tortured in hell by demons with pitchforks. It's nuts. And it's terrible production quality, like they were filmed in the back room of a church or something.

I had a giant stack of Chick Tracts too, the pamphlets about how Muslims worship the moon and Family Guy makes you gay.

My favorite customer ever though was a lady who came to the register crying. I felt kinda bad so I asked her if she was ok. She said it's fine, but she was experiencing culture shock. She had just moved for the first time and didn't understand our culture or how to do anything. "Everything's so different here" were her words. And so I did feel really sympathetic, thinking she had just made a huge change to her life at an elderly age. So I ask her where she moved from. Turns out she moved 9 miles, from the neighboring town, and within the same county. She didn't even change zip code.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

If shitting your pants is cool, then I'm ~~Miles Davis~~ Whoopi Goldberg

[–] axont@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

"sorry, we only hire desperate people for this position. Go become more desperate."

 

A bunch of restaurants around me shut down recently and everyone blames the greedy servers for demanding more tips and wages. They're blaming shoplifting too, claiming petty crime simply isn't punished enough. Someone I know claims shoplifting is legal in California.

Americans can't conceive of real estate capitalists squeezing other, smaller capitalists. It's always gotta be taxes or baristas asking for higher wages.

Every restaurant that shuts down around here is 100% the fault of landlords. No restaurant has ever folded because the servers got paid $10 per hour instead of $8 per hour

 

I got told today I shouldn't raise kids because I'd purposefully raise them in a vegan household, without animal products of any sort. I was told this would be dangerous and unfair to the kids.

It was a weirdly direct thing for this person to say to me (one of my coworkers). It's stuck in my head. I was told I should let my potential children choose what sort of morals they have, even though this person is raising their kids Catholic. Their advice to me was to allow my potential kids to choose every night between a meat-based meal and a vegan meal (???). And several other coworkers agreed. Where do they come up with this? No carnist raises their kids like this.

So is anyone raising vegan kids or does anyone know about what it's like? Or was anyone here raised in a vegan household?

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I never got into it and I feel like I'm missing a huge social part of my life. I've tried alcohol and it just tastes bad. Maybe if I had enough to get inebriated I'd feel different, but so far nothing about the experience of drinking has been good. Also I grew up around Baptists who don't have drinking in the culture, so maybe that's part of it? My parents never had alcohol in the house and there was never beer/wine at family gatherings. I never even saw a full glass of beer in person until I was like 23.

Bars are too loud and there's too much expectation to drink, parties have the same problem, drinking at home alone sounds sad. I go to concerts and I'm the only person without a huge glass of beer. People hand me drinks and I'm like "nah" and they get mega confused.

What do I do

Is this the opposite of a problem?

 

I just realized I have no idea why this happened. Does anyone have a good dialectical materialist explanation?

 

In the interests of leftist unity I'll also accept a soirée

 

Every chud in my life is obsessed with someone breaking into their house and the situation being resolved with the discharge of a firearm. And these are people living in low crime areas out in the suburbs, with no pedestrians. It's frustrating to talk with these people since their whole worldview is a racist panic over some imagined brown interloper invading their white fortresses.

One of my coworkers tells me he always pulls out his Glock to check the corners when he comes home in the evening. Another has a CCTV system and an AR15 by his bed. I personally don't own a gun anymore because I don't trust myself with one, and chuds will ask me what I'll do if some mentally unwell person high on amphetamines decided to enter my apartment. I guess I'd leave or call an ambulance? It seems so unlikely of a scenario that even if I had a firearm I probably wouldn't use it right, or even register this person as a threat quickly enough to do a John Wick style takedown.

How many home invasions are actually stopped this way? Do chuds all think they're Robocop?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by axont@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net
 

It looks a little different than it did a few years ago? There's been radio silence since Paradox started over with the new devs. This game has had a really troubled production, I think Paradox has been trying to get it off the ground since 2015. Now it's being done by The Chinese Room, most known for Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.

Bloodlines is one of my favorite games of all time, so I'm trying to stay optimistic that the devs also hold it in high regard and will try to make a worthwhile sequel. The gameplay from this new trailer looks a little clunky and weird, but maybe that's ok. VTMB never had great combat in the first place. The dialogue, writing, and vibes are where it's at. Looks like there will be gliding around and parkour stuff? Might be cool.

Anyone looking forward to this game? There's even a release window, Fall of 2024, but this game was supposed to originally release in March of 2020, so don't hold your breath.

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I just got around to checking out Psychonauts 2. The first one was always a favorite of mine, really clever platforming and cute story. The second game starts out with a disclaimer that it does portray real mental illnesses, but it's supposed to be playful and humorous. I thought that was kinda neat.

I'm amazed at how much the sequel feels like the previous game too. It came out 16 years later and it still feels fresh and good. Seamless transition, picks up almost immediately after the previous game. Platforming feels smooth and tight. Gameplay is actually the same, which is good to me.

I went into this game thinking it'd just be some nostalgia pandering repeat of the first game, or some kind of hollow cash grab, but nope. Genuine extension of the first game. Worst you could say about it is that it's too similar to the first one, but...that's what I wanted. Good times. Feels like Double Fine at their best, like a culmination of all the stuff they've done in previous games. Jack Black is even in it.

No spoilers please

 

I suppose it makes sense. I have no close friends and I completely avoid social situations unless I have to be in them. It would explain why I always feel like the center of (negative) attention in any given room, or why I always feel like I'm annoying people or that I sound smug.

The doctor told me people with AVPD often have trouble understanding who they are as a person, and can't latch onto specific identities, but I haven't thought about that much. The pamphlet and stuff I'm reading online also seems to suggest AVPD has such overlap with social/general anxiety they're almost the same thing.

Anyone else have experience with this?

 

It's literally like this:

Materialists/Physicalists: "The thoughts in your head come from your conditions and are ultimately the result of your organs and nervous system. Your consciousness is linked to your brain activity and other parts of your body interacting with the physical real world."

Dualists: "Ok but what if there were an imaginary zombie that has the same organs and molecular structure as a living person but somehow isn't alive on some metaphysical level. If this zombie is conceivable, that means it must be metaphysically true somehow."

Materialists: "That's circular and imaginary, isn't it?"

Other dualists: "Ok but what if I were in a swamp and lightning strikes a tree and magically creates a copy of me but it's not actually me because it doesn't have my soul."

Am I reading this stuff wrong or are these actually the best arguments for mind-body dualism

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