Twitter accounts aren’t really a barometer for success, but they are a good way to fake it.
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Quote from: EightBitNate on October 29, 2019, 10:14:17 PMDo these people have actual alternatives to rent? Or do they just want to bitch?Quote from: EightBitNate on October 29, 2019, 10:17:59 PMLol I bet the answer is something like “the government should pay for it”.I don't think you've really thought about where housing comes from before
Do these people have actual alternatives to rent? Or do they just want to bitch?
Lol I bet the answer is something like “the government should pay for it”.
QuoteMaybe you should direct your anger to the person who owned the land first, and try to convince them they have no right to profit on their purchase.I know more than a few Native Americans that would love to have this chat lol
Maybe you should direct your anger to the person who owned the land first, and try to convince them they have no right to profit on their purchase.
As someone who works for the government
So, wait, you thought I didn't know various taxes lead to the construction of roads? Ontario does it through motorists and other taxes.
I am a landlord and don’t believe I’m doing anything unethical whatsoever.
Quote from: https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-landlords-inherently-unethical.150022/post-25929238I am a landlord and don’t believe I’m doing anything unethical whatsoever. jesus christ this site is full of them, it really is unsafe for minorities and women
What if a landlord is a woman?
How do you get a landlord out of a tree? Cut the rope.
Quote from: benjipwns on October 29, 2019, 11:01:52 PMQuote from: https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-landlords-inherently-unethical.150022/post-25929238I am a landlord and don’t believe I’m doing anything unethical whatsoever. jesus christ this site is full of them, it really is unsafe for minorities and womenWhat if a landlord is a woman?
Quote from: thetylerrob on October 29, 2019, 10:18:32 PMHow do you get a landlord out of a tree? Cut the rope. The rope to a tree house? As that's just about what most people could afford in San Francisco.
https://twitter.com/brainchildlight/status/1188598166444302337
So I'm stuck in a hospital bed for the next few days but is it true that Parvati is asexual homoromantic? Because that would mean a lot to me.Also hey I'm alive y'all. Surgery was a success.
Asexual lesbian representation? That's pretty cool.Welcome back Xaszatm. 🙂
Having a brown lady be the first companion you get, and she's just such a great character too?Feels good.
hmm honestly hope i dont annoy the ace users here cause they are some of my favorite users on this site but id just like to be in the know and understand things better, so when i hear a same sex attracted queer character is gonna be in something idk id like them to actually be with someone ya know?Well i dont play this game how is it? How do they go about this characters aceness but also the fact that they are wlw??I've never been a fan of the split attraction model, cause when i say im bisexual i mean it in the romantic and physical sense, it sucks that my bisexuality is already seen as sexual as it is now "biromantic" must be added to make sure people know what means, it really helps bigoted people to immediatly see same sex attracted indivituals as just in it for sex when we say were 'homosexual' or 'bisexual'. So now i have to ask what they mean when someone says they're 'ace' because the split attraction model is so much more used there :/So like how does it go for the ace users here and honestly in fictional media as a whole?
"ace" is just asexual, while if you see someone use "ace/aro", they explicitly mean asexual/aromatic. Ace can also be an umbrella term and can include ace/aro and other orientations. Here's a little comic about it if you're interested.https://twitter.com/sdamned/status/963837186008215552
I personally have yet to play the game (I don't think the hospital will allow me to set up a PS4 here and my laptop will be hot enough to cook an egg if I ran it) but from what I've seen it does seem to show both. However I'll wait till I have the game in my hands before giving a more detailed opinion.For me I'm Asexual/Aromantic so I usually just say Ace or Aseuxal for myself. For me, and this may be biases showing, when I see bisexual I usually assume biromantic is attached as well unless told otherwise. Some with gay men and lesbian women, I assume they are homoromantic unless told otherwise. (By the way let me know if this isn't right since I want to make sure I'm not causing unnecessary harm in my assumptions). For asexual people I will usually assume aromantic as well unless I'm shown otherwise. However for me I to meet a lot more asexual people than others (I can't say how but it turned out many people I befriended on the internet and irl turn out to be asexual so maybe we all subconsciously attract each other) so I am more aware of asexual nonaromantic people so I tend to be less assumptive as a result. Again let me know if my assumptions on sexuality and romance in other LGBT+ is incorrect.This might be going away from the premise of the thread but for me asexual in media is...annoying. There are a bunch of people who can certainly be ace but usually it's portrayed as that person being chaste rather than actually asexual. It really feels like they just didn't make any reference to the sexuality of a character rather than actually making an asexual character. So I am really excited that they are making someone explicitly ace.
I think for allosexual people it's pretty safe to assume that romantic orientation and sexual orientation align. I refer to myself as a lesbian and I'm okay with people assuming that I'm homoromantic and homosexual. (Though I've pondering if I'm actually gray-ace in terms of my sexual orientation.) Usually people will specify otherwise if they don't want that assumption to be made. Though "lesbian" these days has a broader meaning than it used to, at least in some progressive circles, to include non-binary people that aren't man-aligned. (Which is a whole other can of worms.) A lot of people don't put a lot of thought into the topic. I was just discussing the divide between romantic and sexual orientation with my girlfriend yesterday and opened her eyes on the topic.
It always feels grosser knowing a lot of these older game companies weren't always like this. Like, there was a time when Valkyrie Profile or the Persona series were, in spite of some of their more ridiculous pieces, at least respectful of their characters and arcs. There was technically even a time when some of the porn was at least attempting to fight against censorship and some of the more draconian laws of the time, but now it's all just been twisted up into the same weird fetishes repeated, and disgust simply attempting to one-up some other piece of trash for "worst imagination ever."It's no longer parody when companies become the thing they criticize. Which I guess at this point is most game companies of a certain market share. I'd like to say indies are free of it but most aren't (and the worst of them are far more embedded in their misogyny).
The primary audience are otaku who are willing to burn tons of cash on these games, the merchandise, and DLC outfits. It isn't just a JRPG problem, this happens with a lot of anime and manga franchises. Sex sells, especially among Japanese consumers. Shonen Jump is aimed at 10-16 year old boys and has tons of fanservice, including recently a manga that was controversial called Yuuna And The Haunted Hot Springs, which is basically... well, you can infer what it's about.I think the big shift will be when the population ages up and suddenly the bubble bursts and there are less people under 30 because they aren't having kids. Then who will be left to consume this material? It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The weirdo perv shit increases because the dedicated otaku consumer likes it, but the average consumer is more and more turned away by it the more they put in. I don't know if JRPG fans will "rise up" so much as eventually the otaku market will be whittled down to next to nothing.
Quote from: Boredfrom on October 29, 2019, 10:24:52 PMThen you imagine why I’m pissed off about the idea of “landlords get free money” or RE seriously debating how amoral is private property (I can understand the idea from a intellectual standpoint, but people at RE are talking about it like everything is a housing crisis in the middle of San Francisco).I don't really give a fuck about RE and if you understand it from an intellectual standpoint then I guess I don't have to explain itQuoteProbably because you are making jokes about leeches.ok I guess I do have to explain it.- when a good is scarce, the price is determined by supply demand equilibrium. If there are 5 bananas and 50 people who would pay $1 or more for that banana (and the other 45 people want it for like 50 cents or whatever) then the price of the banana is $1. Thus price solves the question of distribution of scarce goods.- price - cost = profit. Profit margins around 5-10% are normal for competitive markets. The higher the profit margin is, the more likely people are to come into the market and undercut existing suppliers, which will bring the cost down to production. Voila, free market capitalism.- but this is only if the suppliers can increase supply to match the total demand! Some goods will always be scarce, like land, or uranium. These kinds of goods will still be subject to supply demand equilibrium pricing, and thus, well above cost. Great news for the producer, bad news for the consumer.- What's the cost in housing? It's the cost of building the house or apartment building or whatever. That's what rent pays for - development.- But once the cost of building is paid for, the property still continues to generate revenue. And it will always generate revenue as long as someone lives in it that doesn't own it. That's the definition of rent-seeking: continuously extracting money without producing something new.- So what determines the price of rent? The income of the renters living in the area. And that goes for property prices, too - they're determined by the amount of money you can extract from the people living there.- Rent seeking is cost above production and cost above production is wasted money. Rent is a giant tax from the working class (which produces things) to the property owning class (which does not produce anything). It is a 20 - 30% income tax on the productive members of society. In urban centers especially it is an anvil on people's necks. - THAT'S why you're a leech. You're not doing anything for that money. You're not producing a good or a service, money is falling out of the sky for you because you happen to be the property owner. I don't care how much you're personally struggling or if you're losing money or whatever, this is purely about the abstract relationship between consumption, production, and property rights.- If housing was socially owned then housing would only cost society whatever it costs to build the housing, plus maintenance.- Housing would still be scarce, but society could choose to use a different distribution mechanism. It could tie this to employment ("you're allowed to move here if you have a job offer") and build new housing through the issuance of bonds (because why would you build new housing if you didn't expect growth?). You could also auction apartments based on a monthly "rent", so the most sought after housing is still allocated to the most productive people, but they wouldn't actually have to lose this money. Maybe it goes into a sovereign wealth fund, or a public bank that funds loans for local projects, and when you leave you can get all your money back (people don't frequently move out of the city they live in). Bonus: if rents are high because people want to live there, there's a lot more money laying around in the fund for new housing. There is a lot of room for experimentation.- You'd also solve involuntary homeless.The long term goal of socialism is the total elimination of private property and meeting everyone's needs. But long before that you could totally socialize housing alongside a free market capitalist society and meet everyone's housing needs based on proportionate contribution... just like how in most developed countries we've already socialized primary/secondary education, healthcare, utilities, and even higher education. It's not about free shit for lazy people, it's about 1) society only paying for goods at cost, not at cost + profit and 2) achieving abundance wherever it is possible.
Then you imagine why I’m pissed off about the idea of “landlords get free money” or RE seriously debating how amoral is private property (I can understand the idea from a intellectual standpoint, but people at RE are talking about it like everything is a housing crisis in the middle of San Francisco).
Probably because you are making jokes about leeches.
- THAT'S why you're a leech. You're not doing anything for that money. You're not producing a good or a service, money is falling out of the sky for you because you happen to be the property owner. I don't care how much you're personally struggling or if you're losing money or whatever, this is purely about the abstract relationship between consumption, production, and property rights.
It's not about free shit for lazy people,
Comrade Benji, can you point me to brainchilds last stand?
User banned (1 week): inappropriate commentI personally think both Kotaku and Polygon are shit, so I'm not sad about this news...
User banned (2 weeks): inappropriate comment, history of similarI don't like the site and not a fan of Jason. Wouldn't mind not seeing his name again.
You're right, they aren't. They're Kotaku. They have their own voice and have done incredible things with it. New Yorker has posted some dumb shit too, like Jon Franzen's trash climate change take.But you're right. Totally valueless site.
I'm tired of this dumbass hot take narrative that Kotaku is worthless rubbish and hasn't done anything of value. It's bullshit. Kotaku has done far more in the space of investigative journalism than ANY OTHER gaming focused website.Come the fuck on.
Boom. When you dis Kotaku you dis yourself, folks. Schreier is one of the only people in the gaming press doing any kind of worthwhile investigative journalism and Tim Rogers is on fire all day every day.
https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1189331276190363649
It's okay, they're unionized.
If the Gawker writers are such talented journalists couldn't they just branch off and go independent like gaming journalist and human icon Jeff Gerstmann did after kanenlynchgate? I don't get the big deal. If anything they've been freed from their corporate shackles
https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1189332977416900611
I don't know what these journos (i.e. bloggers) expect. This brand of reporting they operate under where they wax poetic on nonsensical tangents, shit on their readership on Twitter and in their reporting, and are overly hostile to anyone outside their personal and/or ideological sphere isn't conducive to maintaining a large, loyal following that can sustain a business. And look at that? When you act like that, people cheer at the thought of you losing your job. People like to see those they perceive as smug assholes get thrown off their pedestal.
Quotethis thread is gonna be something.QuoteLooking forward to this threadYou're not helping.Let's avoid metacommentary and discuss the substance of Obama's words, shall we?
this thread is gonna be something.
Looking forward to this thread
QuoteThis shit should be ban-worthy. It’s lazy and counterproductiveYou're not helping either. Stop.
This shit should be ban-worthy. It’s lazy and counterproductive
Quote from: Averon on October 30, 2019, 01:04:52 AMhttps://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-on-call-out-culture-the-world-is-messy-there-are-ambiguities-people-who-do-really-good-stuff-have-flaws.150090/Oh boy. Let's see how this will go.Fuck off, boomer!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-on-call-out-culture-the-world-is-messy-there-are-ambiguities-people-who-do-really-good-stuff-have-flaws.150090/Oh boy. Let's see how this will go.
this is always the exact same tired boomer argument. literally what does it even mean?
Quote from: remy on October 30, 2019, 12:29:38 AMIf the Gawker writers are such talented journalists couldn't they just branch off and go independent like gaming journalist and human icon Jeff Gerstmann did after kanenlynchgate? I don't get the big deal. If anything they've been freed from their corporate shackles Do you think these writers have the talent to build a loyal fanbase large enough to sustain a viable, profitable business? These people can whine about capitalism all they want, but you need an actual userbase that want to read/watch your shit on a regular basis to remain a viable business. Having you userbase limited to ResetERA and and WayPoint forums is super niche.
I think these threads are great to show that ERA isn't some kind of radical leftist SJW den on the Internet like the alt-right chuds make it out to be.
QuoteIt kind of feels like it's showing exactly that? Being told you're unethical for not letting people live on your property for free is .. something. I can't imagine many other social circles anyone would say that with a straight face.I have seen this take a lot in leftist circles, people in here shocked at the notion are proving my point.
It kind of feels like it's showing exactly that? Being told you're unethical for not letting people live on your property for free is .. something. I can't imagine many other social circles anyone would say that with a straight face.
QuoteIt's just such an absurd notion. There are totally unethical and shitty landlords, no one is disputing that, but to say that being a landlord as a whole is unethical? Absolute nonsense.Like, the critique is deeper than any of your anecdotes and #notalllandlords, this critique goes hand in hand with a critique of capitalism as we know it, and how shelter should be a human right not a priviledge. How most landlords get their properties through inheritance, and that capital is used to further accrue capital on the back of people with less social mobility.
It's just such an absurd notion. There are totally unethical and shitty landlords, no one is disputing that, but to say that being a landlord as a whole is unethical? Absolute nonsense.
QuoteGood lord. TIL my local grocer is holding my life ransom because they have the audacity to charge me for foodThe capitalists who own the Grocery store are in fact doing that yes.
Good lord. TIL my local grocer is holding my life ransom because they have the audacity to charge me for food
Quote from: Averon on October 30, 2019, 12:59:55 AMQuote from: remy on October 30, 2019, 12:29:38 AMIf the Gawker writers are such talented journalists couldn't they just branch off and go independent like gaming journalist and human icon Jeff Gerstmann did after kanenlynchgate? I don't get the big deal. If anything they've been freed from their corporate shackles Do you think these writers have the talent to build a loyal fanbase large enough to sustain a viable, profitable business? These people can whine about capitalism all they want, but you need an actual userbase that want to read/watch your shit on a regular basis to remain a viable business. Having you userbase limited to ResetERA and and WayPoint forums is super niche.Absolutely not lmao. I fucking hate reading Kotaku as a rule and the only thing salvageable from it was Tim Rogers, who it seems everyone but me hates. Kotaku had a bizarre effect on me that the more I scrolled the page down the further my eyes rolled into my head, as if connected by a string But I also think it's not like Gerstmann was super duper popular before giant bomb
"Nobody's perfect" says man responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killings
Quote"Nobody's perfect" says man responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killingsSo the go-to deflect about Obama bemoaning the lack of nuance and context in callout culture is..."but he used drones attacks so fuck off, boomer!"
Fuck off, bunjie.
I’ve done some stupid shit - I’m 35, it’s almost impossible for me to have not done something stupid by this point.(Fair warning, I’m going to bed at this moment, I’ll deal with the fallout tomorrow)Look, there has to be a middle ground - people can love Bernie or Warren, but the position against the Republican size is dependent on realizing that the majority had a common ground.I like Bernie.I like Warren.I like someone that can magically address my concerns.I also know what makes sense realistically.said, so what you can, but don’t be an asshole.Holy fuck I drank a bit - short version fuck DJT
Also I hate all of you that can’t just exist without hating the “other”unless it is trump - fuck those idiots lol
QuoteI'm not sure I understand who is meant to be the "other" in this context. You mean like racism?i mean the quote/unquote those use when referencing their “targets.” To me, it’s the right-wing targets referencing the self-imposed targetsSchool targets imposed, I’ll allow it. But my class only needed targets for now.
I'm not sure I understand who is meant to be the "other" in this context. You mean like racism?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-on-call-out-culture-the-world-is-messy-there-are-ambiguities-people-who-do-really-good-stuff-have-flaws.150090/post-25931984Quote from: Hecht, administratorI’ve done some stupid shit - I’m 35, it’s almost impossible for me to have not done something stupid by this point.(Fair warning, I’m going to bed at this moment, I’ll deal with the fallout tomorrow)Look, there has to be a middle ground - people can love Bernie or Warren, but the position against the Republican size is dependent on realizing that the majority had a common ground.I like Bernie.I like Warren.I like someone that can magically address my concerns.I also know what makes sense realistically.said, so what you can, but don’t be an asshole.Holy fuck I drank a bit - short version fuck DJTQuote from: Hecht, administratorAlso I hate all of you that can’t just exist without hating the “other”unless it is trump - fuck those idiots lolQuote from: Hecht, administratorQuoteI'm not sure I understand who is meant to be the "other" in this context. You mean like racism?i mean the quote/unquote those use when referencing their “targets.” To me, it’s the right-wing targets referencing the self-imposed targetsSchool targets imposed, I’ll allow it. But my class only needed targets for now.
Schreierhttps://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1189310327760080898The corporation that bought Kotaku:(Image removed from quote.)
"So many of those properties — it’s a childhood dream to be able to essentially see what you saw in your imagination as a child, watching or reading or whatever you were doing with that stuff,” he shared when discussing the prospects of directing a comic book film. “It’s a filmmaker’s dream. But you know, I feel like I only have so much time. I have a lot of stories to tell, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
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Back in 2012, he was on the short list to direct what would become Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And he took himself out of contention to instead direct the N.W.A. biopic that everyone is raving about.
Quote from: Kirblar, post: 25918586, member: 1080If "party membership" booms and your poll numbers crash, you have a massive issue. A very enthusiastic minority can't win an election all by itself. You call it a fracturing when you're seeing Labour's poll numbers crash at the same time the Lib Dems are getting resurrected. There is clearly a schism in the party electorate that hasn't been able to be resolved internally, explaining half of the crazy 4-way polling. If by "Corbyn's a symptom of a generation who doesn't want politics to run by the same old rules" you mean Corbyn's a baby boomer interested in blowing up all of the infrastructure and pulling up the ladder that allowed them success over the past few decades, then yes, I agree.Labour's gains in urban upper income but socially liberal ancestral Tory areas at the same time they were losing seats in rural socially conservative ancestral Labour areas mirrored the exact same trends you're seeing across western democracies like the US and Germany as social/cultural factors become the biggest dividing line over economic ones as part of a broad political realignment no one's really able to avoid. In 2017 Labour did better than expected, but attributing that to Corbyn was always ridiculous given that May's unpopularity and the structural realignment pretty much explained it, especially since Corbyn was unpopular prior to the election, and hasn't gotten any more popular since.Oh god, we're in for 6 weeks of interminable uninformed pseudo-analysis from Americans pretending to understand the first thing about British politics aren't we.
If "party membership" booms and your poll numbers crash, you have a massive issue. A very enthusiastic minority can't win an election all by itself. You call it a fracturing when you're seeing Labour's poll numbers crash at the same time the Lib Dems are getting resurrected. There is clearly a schism in the party electorate that hasn't been able to be resolved internally, explaining half of the crazy 4-way polling. If by "Corbyn's a symptom of a generation who doesn't want politics to run by the same old rules" you mean Corbyn's a baby boomer interested in blowing up all of the infrastructure and pulling up the ladder that allowed them success over the past few decades, then yes, I agree.Labour's gains in urban upper income but socially liberal ancestral Tory areas at the same time they were losing seats in rural socially conservative ancestral Labour areas mirrored the exact same trends you're seeing across western democracies like the US and Germany as social/cultural factors become the biggest dividing line over economic ones as part of a broad political realignment no one's really able to avoid. In 2017 Labour did better than expected, but attributing that to Corbyn was always ridiculous given that May's unpopularity and the structural realignment pretty much explained it, especially since Corbyn was unpopular prior to the election, and hasn't gotten any more popular since.
No, Kirblar just hates the left
