Val

An awkard being with bizarre interests.

You will be confused by my nonsense

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

The contradiction is that they reject the labels while embracing the principles.

"No kings" but they support politicians exercising powers kings could only dream of.

"No oligarchs" but they support bureaucracies and party elites controlling entire industries.

"No Nazis" but they often defend censorship, collective guilt, and punishment based on group identity.

They oppose the names associated with power and domination while advocating many of the mechanisms that create them.

The problem isn't kings, oligarchs, or dictators as labels. The problem is concentrated power. And concentrated power doesn't become freedom just because it's exercised by people you agree with.

[Coren ✒🎨 @CorenLaVolpe]

You should be able to 100% a game completely on your own and not be forced to play the multi-player mode to get certain things

[TECTONE 🇺🇸 @Tectone]

Right now we are saying one of the largest cover ups in Twitch history:

Hasan is actively abusing his dog infront of everyone’s eyes on stream.

And streamer after streamer are denying it, they’re denying something

That. We. Can. All. See.

And the worst thing is, it’s working.

People are starting to second guess their own eyes because their parasocial relationships are so strong.

Hasan has stopped mentioning it, he paid moderators on LSF to remove as much mention of it as possible, his mods will ban you in his or any of his orbiters chat for bringing it up.

His orbiters going live attempting to cover it up but some didn’t have their stories straight and skipped up (Thanks QT)

Streamers like Train and XQC were treated like delusional schizos, when they were some of the main streamers explaining what was happening that everyone else was denying it.

If we let them move on, this is how this continues.

I want to remind you, Hasan on stream in front of everyone has:

- abused and endangered his dogs life
- called for the death of a senator
- falsely slandered other streamers with career ending allegations
- used his enormous audience to brigade and scare people into silence
- supported terrorism
- threatened viewers life with a gun and doxxed them
- attended a diddy party
- went and had sex at a brothel that was confirmed to have at least 1 minor as well as sex traffic’d workers
- encouraged his audience to actively kill innocent people in the streets

These are things that he knows, we knows and Twitch knows

And still, nothing has happened because he’s the golden boy.

Twitch still keep him, because they want the money and exposure he brings to the platform and far worse,

They agree with him.

The streamers that defend him are doing so because they either

- want his clout
- they agree with him
- or they’re afraid of what his audience might do if they speak out

This is a very unsettling event we are all witnessing in real time.

Pathetic.

[DOA Momiji @momiji_doa]

Even women prefer the male gaze. Don't let anyone gaslight you into believing otherwise.

[DOA Momiji @momiji_doa]

This was more accurate than the soulless remake games. That's the only credit these films will get from me.

[Val @AerialUnit229]

They should make a yaoi that has both dudes fall for the same girl making a straight rom com

Screw it I could make it myself, adding it to the pile

[Marshal Bohemond ⚔️⛨ | Space Crusader Vtuber @HMBohemond]

Fun fact: Both Yaoi and Yuri are women's genres. Yaoi is not meant for men. It's made by women and marketed towards women.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

I loved playing Samus in Metroid Prime and Aqua in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Everyone universally loves Lara Croft.

We don't hate female protagonists. We hate poorly written, girl boss, androgynous uglified female protagonists.

We have been clear about this for years, yet the "misogyny" gaslighting continues. It's truly amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.

[Val @AerialUnit229]

@CorenLaVolpe Those people are the same ones who just recently cheered steam censorship of material that "hurts women"

[The Afterthought @TemporaryStay]

The obvious monsters/demons are an allegory for minorities and/or good guys and the humans are the real bad guys.

[UNBOUNDCONMAN🇺🇸 @UnboundConman]

A corporation shouldn't be allowed to take away your property after you've bought it, actually.

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

“abolish capitalism!”

cool. who grows the food???

no seriously—who’s out there at dawn breaking their back in the dirt, fixing broken irrigation lines, replacing a tractor axle in 110° heat—for free? because you think profit is mean?

who mines the lithium for your laptop, the cobalt for your EV battery, the iron for your train rails? who refines it? who ships it? who builds the ships? who insures them when they catch fire in the middle of the ocean?

who unloads the containers at the port? who drives the truck across 4 states? who services the diesel engine at the roadside stop in Nebraska when it breaks at 3am?

who keeps track of inventory, repairs the refrigeration system, updates the software, cleans the floors, builds the shelves, trains the workers, manages the risk, pays the legal fees, replaces the lightbulbs, handles the theft, the overtime, the breakdowns, the lawsuits?

who coordinates all of this across time zones and continents without profit?

you think the whole supply chain is just gonna keep running because everyone suddenly caught a case of the warm fuzzies???

you think people are going to wake up and go do hard, thankless, physical labor for vibes?

capitalism doesn’t work because people are good. it works because people are selfish and it figured out how to harness that into infrastructure. it’s the only system that survives human nature without needing to rewrite it

you kill profit, you kill production. you kill production, you kill logistics. you kill logistics, and suddenly it’s day four of your anti-capitalist utopia and the shelves are empty, the power’s out, the pharmacy’s closed, and nobody knows how to fix a fucking thing

anti-capitalism isn’t a philosophy. it’s a death wish dressed up as a virtue signal

it’s the aesthetic of rebellion powered by an iPhone, subsidized by Uber Eats, and resting on 400 years of industrial infrastructure you take for granted because you’ve never built a single useful thing in your life

you’re not oppressed. you’re just ungrateful

and the second you get your little no-profit revolution, you’ll find out exactly how long society runs on vibes: about three days, give or take—then the generators fail and you’re boiling rainwater so you can heat up your shitty powdered food

[St1ka @St1ka]

Nintendo fans rejoicing that you'll be banned if you make legal backups of games you legally own

[Coren ✒🎨 @CorenLaVolpe]

Piracy is going up because the legal options are colossal dogshit.

Just create a good product and piracy will go back down. It will always exist, but trying to eradicate it completely is like trying to draw blood from a stone.

[Coren ✒🎨 @CorenLaVolpe]

"view our very existence as political"

Only because YOU guys made your existence political. We were fine with a live and let live ethic, but you all act like totalitarians. Anything outside of your control needs to be appropriated or destroyed. You refuse to leave us alone.

[CTMT @CTMT03K64]

Even when it's set in college you all still virtue signal anyway.

There's no winning when it comes to moral guardians when it comes to fiction. You all always move the goal post.

It's about control with you. Not about helping people.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

There's speculation that China will ban American movies in retaliation against Trump's tariffs.

This is be a good thing.

One of the reasons movies are so shitty now is they have to avoid cultural barriers and get past Chinese censors. This requires them to be dumb on purpose.

[Val @AerialUnit229]

@CorenLaVolpe Eh, fair enough

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This argument is a speedrun of how the right lost the culture war for three decades and almost destroyed western civilization by so doing.

The right became infected with two terrible assumptions.

1. That childishness is bad.

2. That play is for children.

Both of these assumptions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature, how humans work, and why humans are the dominant species on Earth.

The difference between a human and a great ape is a special kind of genetic adaptation called neoteny.

It means the retention of juvenile traits into adulthood.

To a large degree, humans became humans by retaining the traits of baby apes in adult apes. Not just the facial physiology, but the curiosity, neural plasticity, and, yes, the tendency to play.

To understand why this helped humans, you have to understand what play IS, beyond the knee-jerk common-sense reaction of "frivolous things children do to entertain themselves".

But that's not an explanation of what play is. Because why does play entertain children? Why are they evolved to like it?

Because play, games, and stories are training for adult responsibilities.

Kittens pounce on string, chase each other, and wrestle because pouncing, chasing, and wrestling are the responsibilities of an adult cat.

If two little boys find two sticks, they will sword fight with them. Hell, if give a little boy a fucking pop-tart, he will bite it into the shape of a pistol, and run around yelling "bang".

But what about adults?

Most adult animals don't play much compared to when they were kids, and don't learn much, either, because there isn't a whole left to learn that they are actually capable of learning... at least not compared to the volume and rate of learning that they experienced as children.

But humans, the galaxy-brained geniuses of the animal kingdom, have the capacity to learn at a high rate throughout life.

And neotenously retaining childhood traits equips us with the urges to match that capability.

Human beings not only can and do play throughout life, they must, or their learning abilities stagnate and atrophy, and their emotional health suffers.

If you teach an adult that play, fun, games, and stories are childish things that he should "put away" when he becomes a man, after a decade or so you have a dullard, fit only for manual labor or routine and repeated application of rote processes.

Is @ItIsHoeMath such a person?

Of course not. He has risen to internet fame by playing... by drawing anime and telling stories. His actions demonstrate an innate understanding that cartoons and stories and simple things that explain by removing complexity are not frivolous activities at all... they are vital.

But his contempt for leftists, their arrested development, and the way they hide from responsibility, has caused him to fall into the same error that came within a hair's breadth of destroying Western civilization.

The right abandoned culture. Conservatives stopped making stories and games that expressed their worldview, because they decided games were for nerds, and stories were for manchildren who were too lazy to spend their evenings reading car repair manuals and the Wall Street Journal.

By deciding that play was for queers and commies, the right ceded the creation of art, of stories, of games entirely to, well... commies and queers.

Of course you lose the culture war if you don't show up and fight it, genius. Fiction and games are the DNA of civilization, and thus they are the battleground on which the culture war is fought.

If you don't make games, toys, and stories that express your worldview, people (both children and adults) are going to play with toys created to express other worldviews.

And play is learning.

So what do you think they are going to learn?

You cannot hunt, fish, and baseball your way to cultural relevance. Because anyone with a brain that isn't half-dead from underuse is going to read fiction, play games, or watch cartoons, and maybe all of these things.

Why you think the entire tech industry became left-coded?

Leftism has no nothing to do with tech, but video games, legos, and science fiction do. Engineers couldn't give less of a shit about baseball.

Active, curious, playful minds design the future, whether you like that or not. The Wright brothers played with bicycles and kites, and now you can fly to Paris overnight. Elon Musk read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress with a flashlight under the covers, and now we can catch returning rocket boosters with giant mecha-chopsticks.

Unless your cultural faction participates in what these people are interested in, you will not recruit them, and they will design a future that doesn't include you.

Frankly, sometimes I think the conservatives are still taking their cultural marching orders from a pack of humorless, soulless dullards who would still be losing as hard as ever if the theater kids hadn't pissed off Elon Musk.