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I mean, yea, that's how the economy is kinda designed for most of the world right now.

In the employee-employer relationship, the better you are as an employer at manipulating others into working for you while you retain ownership of the revenue, paying employees out percentage of what they generated as a wage while keeping the excess value as profit, is how you make a successful business.

The business-consumer relationship boils down to a transaction where you want to be the one who has the advantage on the transaction. Sellers want to sell their products for more than they're worth while the consumers want to buy those products at a discount of their perceived value. The seller's entire job is to manipulate the consumer into perceiving more value in their products than the base material value of the product to generate a revenue that exceeds the cost of its production to generate profit. That's like the basis of advertising and marketing.

How has Enshrouded been doing? I haven't been able to get on my PC in almost a year and only got to play it on initial release.

Hey, having access to entertainment is actually pretty damn important. What you gonna do to pass the time?

Though honestly, wasting the limited power someone would have after the grid fails on gaming isn't the brightest of ideas.

Not to mention, after the collapse, free time will basically be a rare luxury. Your entire time would be taken up by surviving and maintaining your ability to continue to survive, especially if you aren't preconfiguring a community support network for when shit hits the fan and just going the "lone prepper" route.

The death of community servers is why I stopped playing multiplayer.

The gaming landscape was just so much better back when communities were able to self-host and moderate before matchmaking and corporate automated moderation became the norm.

BG3 is still from a mid-size studio, Larian is not AAA, they are AA. They are just really fucking good at what they do and are able to pump out AAA quality cause they focus on their strengths, which is making CRPGs, instead of trying to chase trends.

Naive if you think this is only going to stop at pointlessly banning NSFW mods. This is only the beginning of the enshitification.

I don't even use NSFW mods, I'm just not gonna stick around as some soulless corporate entity slowly destroys the site.

Way fucking shittier too. You conveniently left that part out.

Bruh even fucking Kaiserpunk? I was super excited about that game.

Fucking hate this timeline man.

Sounds like an intrinsic flaw of monetary based economics then.

Maybe we should do something about it? It isn't like alternatives don't exist.

Nexus is basically dead to me.

Someone seems to have upset a couple people with the truth.

Except you did when you said that "any engagement, even non-commercial, has the effect of promoting the brand."

That is assigning blame onto the consumer, as you blame them for the effect of their action. Her brand is being promoted regardless, because the industry that is "advertising" exists. Additionally, the effect from people consuming her media is negligible, as even if you boycott and spend that money elsewhere it is still just being funneled to some other bigoted owning class fat-cat doing the same shit because that is how the system is designed. It just means that she, specifically, won't be getting the money, while just denying yourself something that you wanted, assuming you actually liked the franchise to begin with.

So the best thing to do is encourage people to find ways to bypass these systemic barriers without needing to sacrifice their own desires so that the system which enables these bigots loses its power to restrict our access to the things we need and desire unless we enable them.

This is why we should just wholesale abandon the concept of intellectual property, which is simply an extension of the exploitative private property system.

This just ends up with the argument of "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism"

People are gonna do what they can to stay sane and engage with the things they find enjoyable. Unfortunately, literally everything in some way shape or form contributes to the oppression of minorities, LGBT+, workers, etc... through the fact that those producing these things have to engage in an exploitative system in order to maintain any sort of business.

That's just the society we live in. So don't blame people for being human, blame the system for exploiting our humanity and encourage the individual to find ways to bypass it, such as pirating media.

This makes zero sense to me. It's all just cloth. The person in a g-string & harness is, literally, less exposed. You're conflating the context of "being exposed" and "adds to the exposure". Those two phrases mean different things. The first is referencing how much skin is visible while the second is referring to how noticable and attention-grabbing the individual is. You would be arguing an entirely irrelevant point to what was being discussed in your own hypothetical

Clothing being "suggestive" is entirely a subjective concept. What is "suggestive" to you might just be something the other person finds comfortable. It is also the same general logic behind "look at what she is wearing, she was asking for it" and I find that really problematic.

The underwear example is also just dumb to me. It's just cloth. It isn't "meant to not be seen", it's just there to avoid regular clothes chafing sensitive areas of the body. It being seen is irrelevant and simply a coincidence of being worn under other articles of clothing. There are no inherent, underlying implications except for what you put on them through your own bias.

This just reaffirms for me that people like to add arbitrary, subjective aspects to things and then try to assert these as intrinsic facts instead of personal biases.

People really be arguing in favor of bread and circuses without understanding it is the very thing that is keeping them from engaging in political action for change.

Western neoliberal democracy isn't the only option and, depending on perspective, was part of the problem by systemically enabling the rise of fascism.

While at the same time allowing people to be systemically murdered through lack of access to necessities because someone wasn't able to make a profit off of them.

Or are you trying to say those deaths are justified just because the state doesn't label it as "murder"?

Making people angry enough to get up and do something about it, angry enough to disregard the system and start breaking it. Angry enough to disobey.

Instead people are all too happy to remain obedient to the very system that oppresses them as long as they continue to be provided their bread and circuses.