[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, please!

PSVR2 is a great headset, and I would love to free it from the shackles of PS5 exclusivity. If they officially supported PC, it would easily be the best PCVR headset you can get right now.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Daggerfall remains, to this day, one of the best games ever made. I still have my original boxed copy, and several pre-patched CDs that Bethesda would mail out back in the day. I replay it a few times a year, because it's held up so well and there is nothing else that scratches the same itch.

I frequently wonder what Bethesda would be like today if Peterson, Lakshman, and Lefay had stayed at the company and Todd had been chased out, instead. Those three created The Elder Scrolls from scratch - lore, gameplay concepts, all of it. They had a TES Bible covering the story from Arena to Oblivion... and one by one, Todd excised all their influence from the franchise.

I miss the oppressive, grimdark atmosphere and lore, the complex world simulation, the unprecedented freedom, the unflinching maturity, and the epic, massive dungeon crawls.

I don't see anyone trying to make a game like that again, ever. Certainly not Todd Howard's Bethesda.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

Admitting the genocide part out loud... and there will still be no consequences for Israel's bloodthirsty terrorist government.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago

Monstrous right wing imbecile is right wing monster, imbecile. Full story at 11.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

First off, wealth and power are the same thing and must be dealt with at the same time. So for a start…

  1. Aggressive progressive taxation, up to 100% (billionaires - even 9-figure multimillionaires- must never be allowed to exist).

  2. Abolish stock markets.

  3. All companies must be employee-owned. Employees share equitable ownership of the companies they work within. Profits are shared only among employees.

  4. Criminalize political spending, lobbying (aka bribery), etc. Candidates all draw from a public fund and platforms and that is all they may use.

  5. Aggressive market regulation to protect competition and prevent consolidation. Our failure to protect the market from excess consolidation and integration is the primary reason we’ve reached the late-stage capitalism hellscape we currently exist within.

Again, this is a start… the tip of the iceberg.

There is a massive amount of leftist documentation on economics. We’re not all communists, but we recognize that any system devoid of regulation/oversight/accountability will always quickly travel rightward and become authoritarian. So the question is what systems and policies can be put in place to ensure not only equity for all, but equity that remains stable indefinitely (or as close as is possible).

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

There is definitely a giant radioactive lizard emerging at that location.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a Firefox user I prefer Kagi. Google is the antithesis of everything Firefox is supposed to stand for. That said, Yahoo has always been horrible and, out of the options that ARE available, Yahoo was easily the absolute worst.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actual CSAM, depicting an actual crime against an actual child... or "someone drew dirty cartoons and I'm a moron who thinks dirty drawings are the same as one of the most heinous crimes imaginable - harming a vulnerable child"?

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Political parties exist for the sole purpose of rigging politics by disenfranchising the public. Their entire existence is a kind of corrupt, elitist caste system.

These organizations need to be treated the same way as corporations that get too big: they should forcibly split up. Force parties to form coalitions to get anything done, like in other parliamentary systems. Take away their corrupt levers - like FPTP voting (force RCV instead) and dark money, and return power to the people instead tolerating it in the hands of a couple private, invite-only cabals.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

It's called a PC. All consoles are based on them. Develop for PC first... problem solved.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong. If you do watch the video, the Republicans being talked to are putting The Narcissists Prayer on full display.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Nah. Thanks for trying to help, but personally, I don’t want to have anything to do with Reddit. I won’t even follow Reddit links on Google.

The only way I interacted with Reddit was Apollo. And that’s gone. So Reddit is dead is dead to me.

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