DreadedDiscourse

Gamer, Rural living. Contemplating the world we find ourselves in, through writing and music. (Highlights)

[DreadedDiscourse @DreadDiscourse]

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What happened to company suggestion hotlines?

Used to be you could call most big brands with ideas to improve products or service.

Now?

Every contact option funnels you straight into "complaints/issues only".

No real channel for constructive input.

Then they act shocked when products flop or loyalty tanks.

Too much cash dumped into "market research" panels and focus groups, not enough on actual brand stability through direct customer voices.

We're the ones using the stuff daily, why not make it easy to help you get better?

This really goes for all major industries.

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The overall purpose of the heart (pumping blood) is very well established, and you're right that we're still learning new details about it, just like many other parts of the body and the wider world.

Having a good current model doesn't mean we're claiming to be infallible. Science offers the best evidence based map we have, always open to revision with better data.

Gaps in knowledge are invitations for more research, not automatic appeals to the supernatural. That said, they also don't metaphysically rule anything out.

Both standards can coexist.

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Slaughtering animals for food has been necessary for human survival throughout history, without it, billions starve or suffer from malnutrition.

Most livestock today are raised with care and slaughtered as quickly/painlessly as practical (wild nature is far crueler).

We have zero survival need to kill humans for food.

Meanwhile, plummeting birth rates threaten civilization, elderly entitlements collapse without enough young workers/taxpayers.

We need more children, not fewer. Abortion directly works against species and societal continuity.

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@MKFANFOREVER7 I made a post a few min ago that sorta replys to this so. https://t.co/MhitELba6T

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The whole God of War outrage makes sense to me.

I've never played GOW, so I don't really care at the end of the day, to be honest.

But it makes sense, it's the same thing as if they decided to make a new Tomb Raider game and used a man instead of Lara Croft.

Lara Croft is the franchise, the story is about her, just as Kratos is for God of War.

If you want to make a new story within the same universe, give it a new name. Otherwise, all you'll get is pushback from the majority who care about the story of the main character when you try to feed off their success.

The game isn't out yet, they still have time, but will that save them from the negatives they've already suffered due to the perceived removal of fans' investment?

Star Wars is a good example. The world of Star Wars was rich in lore, and the larger universe itself felt like the main character, in my opinion. When Disney came in, they shifted the focus from the entire property to targeted characters. That change removed what drew in the majority of fans. Star Wars has lost a lot of its former cultural dominance as a result, they moved away from what made it special.

This is the same dynamic I see happening with what we know about the new God of War. There's a real risk that the special element that drew people in gets removed.

The culture war angle is part of the current backlash, but I don’t think it’s the biggest issue. People are mostly calling out the perception of a bias we've seen across gaming for over a decade now, and it's echoing here.

No one has a problem playing as a woman in a game. It's the perception that what built God of War is being dismantled that people are mad about.

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The whole God of War outrage makes sense to me.

I've never played GOW, so I don't really care at the end of the day, to be honest.

But it makes sense, it's the same thing as if they decided to make a new Tomb Raider game and used a man instead of Lara Croft.

Lara Croft is the franchise, the story is about her, just as Kratos is for God of War.

If you want to make a new story within the same universe, give it a new name. Otherwise, all you'll get is pushback from the majority who care about the story of the main character when you try to feed off their success.

The game isn't out yet, they still have time, but will that save them from the negatives they've already suffered due to the perceived removal of fans' investment?

Star Wars is a good example. The world of Star Wars was rich in lore, and the larger universe itself felt like the main character, in my opinion. When Disney came in, they shifted the focus from the entire property to targeted characters. That change removed what drew in the majority of fans. Star Wars has lost a lot of its former cultural dominance as a result, they moved away from what made it special.

This is the same dynamic I see happening with what we know about the new God of War. There's a real risk that the special element that drew people in gets removed.

The culture war angle is part of the current backlash, but I don’t think it’s the biggest issue. People are mostly calling out the perception of a bias we've seen across gaming for over a decade now, and it's echoing here.

No one has a problem playing as a woman in a game. It's the perception that what built God of War is being dismantled that people are mad about.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First look at gameplay for ‘GOD OF WAR: LAUFEY’.

Coming soon to PS5.

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@ewarren The key word here is "could".

Betting the future of the young of our nation on Ai, "could" also ruin any slim chances they have left when the bet fails.

Because that is what this is, a bet that our A.I. companies will win the AGI race, and become profitable.

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Depending on the time sure, BUT there has been tens of thousands of Kings throughout human history, with only around 265 of them with evidence they died on the battlefield globally.

From 600-1800 only there were around 1500 rulers alone in just modern day Europe.

A few thousand have royal propaganda about their battlefield heroics, but actual evidence of them dying there? Still a tiny fraction overall. If they led an army, they were largely in the back, protected with little real risk.

We’re talking the big picture here, not just the 1400-1500s when warrior kings were more common (and even then, not the majority of that time).

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While there were many, exceptions are not the rule this is why we only really remember these sorts of kings they were different. On average they didn't. And leading an army, is not the same thing as actually fighting on the front lines. This extends to even the nobles, many of them would fight, but they had class protections, through ransoms. They were not at the same risk as normal people.

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I attribute this to the same "nickelodeon" (Dan Schneider) effect that hit the younger population of men with the feet fixations.

More goths in children shows (Sam-Danny Phantom, Hex Girls-Scooby Doo, Raven-Teen Titans, Gaz-Invader Zim. etc. ) and in general media, you see subsects who were exposed to these things when young drawn to them when older.

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The water thing is a bit overblown, everything is still closed loop for the most part, its not like they have constantly flowing water running from outside in.

The copyrighted work part is a big sticker for many.

But I think there is a deeper fear, and it has to do with the "Slop" at one point the slop will become indistinguishable from real art or writings.

This will effectively remove a large part of creators from the industry overall, only those truly different and skilled enough will rise to be seen, and that will take a lot more effort than it ever has.

As no offense to anyone, but most of us lacked the things needed to be seen before, when the ecosystem is flooded with things far greater than the majority on average, you may never get seen again.

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@hthieblot Im going with app.

@ParallelKingdom by @perblue Made by a group of HS kids released in 2008, real world map gps based game, that was completely player driven. 1 million players, sadly they took the game down a decade ago, and no one really has made anything close sense.

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I agree with pretty much everything you said.

But I also understand the misplaced anger from men online, especially the younger guys.

There's been a massive disconnect on men's issues for decades, while female issues have been championed across every form of media and every level of government.

That symmetry deficit leads men who grew up in this system to hate the system itself.

The easiest target becomes the movement that coincided with dropping wages and lowered worker power overall.

We doubled the workforce and got lowered wages, automation, outsourcing, and mass immigration in return.

Workers were no longer unified. There was this massive new group with heavy funding (Rockefellers, Ford Foundation, etc.) that was laser focused on benefiting women.

That split distracted from the real underlying economic issues, things men had been complaining and striking over for years.

But because the feminist movement received that level of institutional backing, those concerns got ignored.

Men end up blaming women for it, when in reality women are being used by corporations as a tool to slowly consolidate power and juice returns.

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This is like saying we should cripple the healthy because their blood work looks better than the sick patients in the ward.

We're all dealing with the same economic disorder. Punishing the few who managed to rise above it doesn't make the rest of us more likely to succeed, it just makes everyone worse off.

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@dystopiangf Those who championed the sexual revolution never envisioned the self fragilizing world that would result from capitalism's dopamine economy, the endless hits and crashes served up by Instagram and its ilk.
We are all the product now.

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That... isn't really a solution, is it?

This just props up welfare programs so they don't collapse.

It's the entire nation taking a massive bet, forcing 50% equity from a few AI companies and hoping they win the AGI race. What if the bubble bursts or someone else does?

Why bet the future of the young on this again?

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@MattWalshBlog I suggest @Fat_Electrician be the producer of said shows and movies.

There is enough content and ideas on his channel already for a 10 season run that matches this vibe.

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@Grummz Linux really is our only hope, but one day, even most of that will be coded by AI at the very least.

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There's a subset of Gen Z who do this, but plenty are switching to cooking at home or grabbing prepared meals when they can.

That said, DoorDash delivery culture feels like a modern "luxuries of despair", the same way drugs of despair hit earlier generations.

Instead of opioids, it’s small daily comforts to cope with the fear that the economy’s broken and personal futures feel out of reach. (Gen Z's already wrestling with record mental health and overdose struggles.)

Spending for a moment of comfort when long term hope is hard to come by.

Just a symptom of a greater rot in society.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z needs to stop spending $28 on lunch when they only make $70,000—that is why they stay poor.