

That’s true for essentially every state to some degree or another
That’s true for essentially every state to some degree or another
I agree no state has a right to exist
You probably have some views that are repugnent to me, and vice versa. That’s freedom of speech and political pluralism.
being assholes.
This though, I agree just ban that user.
But they’re not wrong
Psyops aren’t targetting Lemmy lol, its too niche
Accessibility is literally how this thread started.
What? Yea? Sorry maybe you mixed me up with someone else I didn’t deny that.
I also disagree that the game requires a high degree of precision. Dark Souls originally came out with only 8-directional rolling, which you could do on a D-Pad, Fight Stick, or any other accessible controller.
Its not just a matter of precision in being able to input a control, its being able to reliably input a control quickly.
you can find challenge runs of people beating the game while wearing oven mitts and other such shenanigans.
Again, someone being able to do something doesn’t mean everyone can.
The series main difficulty is in making the right decisions with the committed attack animations, end lag, and stagger mechanics, not quick reactions or precise inputs
Yea this I wouldn’t agree with, there definitely is a lot of quick inputs needed
Sure, but skills and muscle memory are skills and muscle memory. Unless you’re referring to learning disabilities, people improve at things with practice, and time spent practicing the combat will make you better at the combat.
Look into stuff like dysgraphia and dyspraxia, or even speech impediments. People can practice things repeatedly, but still because of muscle or neurological issues be unable to reliably perform certain actions. Obviously practice can improve, or it might not, or there might be a ceiling much lower than people without those issues- as well as improving much more slowly. What you seem to be misunderstanding is people aren’t saying its impossible for anyone to play the game with differing levels of ability, they are saying it might not be viable- and they won’t necessarily follow the same path of improvement that you did. This could make it way more frustrating or even impossible to finish the game.
I’ve also replied to that in this thread. But I’ll also add that something like a quick save is very different from adding a new scaled difficulty option, and Souls already implements a wealth of options to make the game easier. Adding another option in that same vein is a separate conversation from adding an Easy Mode.
I’m advocating either or/both, an easy mode would be an improvement. But I’ll add more in the comment there.
P.S. I don’t mean to be snarky by linking my own comments. It’s understandable that you wouldn’t constantly be re-reading every comment I’ve made on this thread before replying, but I am getting a bit fatigued after debating this all day with Lemmy, and don’t feel a need to re-hash the same arguments here.
Fair, at least from my perspective it seems like you’re kinda talking past people though of course I would think that.
I’m not sure even 10x damage and health would help you get past the final boss if you don’t know what you’re doing.
No one’s talking about not knowing what they’re doing, they’re talking about physical difficulty performing it unforgivingly
I don’t think Souls requires any amount of skill beyond just… basic understanding of how to control a 3D character.
That’s obviously not true. Try playing an FPS with a mouse and keyboard vs controller and you’ll see understanding how to do something theoretically is less than half the battle. Say someone is missing arms so plays with their feet, it is far far more difficult to get a higher level of precision, and some people just won’t be able to no matter the amount of practice. People have a peak of reaction time no matter the amount of practice, and its different for different people. People have a peak of ability to move with precision no matter the amount of practice(see dyspraxia). People have shakes that cannot be controlled no matter the amount of practice.
I also take issue with the idea that you can consistently take 3-4x longer than most. In reality, you only get seriously walled a handful of times learning the game, and surpassing those tough challenges teaches you how to play. For example, in Sekiro, I got walled for hours on one of the games earliest minibosses, but once I got a solid enough grasp on the game to beat him, I wasn’t seriously walled like that again for several hours of gameplay. Getting stuck just means there are lessons you’re learning, and you tend to remember what you struggled hard to learn.
Ignoring that that experience just isn’t fun for a lot of people, you’re using your own experience of your own ability.
Ultimately, I’m really just tired of being villainized (not that your comment is doing that, to be clear) for wanting some games to pursue a single well-crafted and balanced hard experience that challenges me to push myself,
… It doesn’t detract from your experience at all to add an optional mode for quick save or other similar features.
I don’t want to redo the same thing a dozen times just to experience the story and world
If you care about animal suffering, remember not all animals are the same, there is a continuous line of intelligence between some grass and a dolphin, you have to decide at what point you value. Pig? Chicken? Egg? Insect? Salmon? Sardine? Fungus? Starfish?
From my understanding, cutting out most mammals from your diet would cut out most of the more intelligent animals you eat. (Unless you eat crows or octopus)
This is extremely “wasn’t real capitalism,” and I could use this argument to say that the United States still isn’t capitalist, as slave labor remains a cornerstone of multiple state economies and present in most of them, to say nothing of international trade.
Yep, the US isn’t purely capitalist, its a mixed economy, from the logic of Milton Friedman its fair to say its nearing 50% capitalist. There have been times where its been nearing 70% but never much more than that. But the same is true the other way, to my understanding there have essentially never been purely socialist economies. Furthermore, the US has individual fields within its economy where how capitalist it is differs- like I would say the internet is generally a bit more capitalist.
maximalist libertarian fantasy land (check the company towns of the Gilded Age for something closer to that)
Far from it. Company towns were often Neo-fuedal state-like entities where they held an illegitimate claim to the land oftentimes and would legal use violence to enforce their rules.
for a slew of reasons not the least of which being that capitalism is not a philosophical framework, it’s an objective mode of production,
Capitalism is an economic system requires private control of the means of production, for real private control that requires a free and fair market. I could go into that more if you want, but I think I’ll address it somewhat later.
capitalism is what invented and executed the establishment of chattel slavery to begin with!
That’s not true. Capitalism is not “earning a profit and people being greedy”. Capitalism is private control of the means of production, as said in another comment private != state, and when you have authority to regulate people(as in legislate and dictate to them) you are a state-like entity. If I decide to point a gun at you and force you to work for me so I can then barter with others from the profits of your labor, that is not capitalism.
Again, you’re appealing to a maximalist libertarian fantasy, not looking at it from the standpoint of private ownership and commodity production.
Capitalism does not require commodity production. And it is not solely private ownership, it is private ownership and control. De facto and de jure. “You own the factory but the government tells you what to produce” is not capitalism, you don’t truly own it from my perspective, and you definitely don’t control it.
“They killed people, which isn’t part of capitalism” and “They destroyed other people’s stuff, which isn’t part of capitalism” are just silly statements.
Silly yet true.
The KKK weren’t trying to go back to feudalism, to classical slavery, to ancient agrarianism, or to hunter-gatherer society, and they weren’t trying to invent some new mode of production like, say, utopian socialists liked to write about. They were quite happy with the existing mode of production and (as you narrated) smashed labor organization against the capitalists. The fact that that they didn’t follow John Locke’s writings like the Holy Bible and indeed the fact that they insisted on the domination of white capitalists do not contradict that.
Yep, they may be the least anti-capitalist of these three groups, but they still did not care about attacking capitalism if(and it does) contradict the goal of white supremacy.
Then capitalism has never existed.
Yep, not as a sole economic system of economy, as talked about previously.
From a Marxist perspective (if you’ll allow me), a capitalist society is a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie, that is to say the capitalist class collectively steers the state, which means outliers even among the capitalist class can be punished if the majority want that to pass. That doesn’t change the essential nature of society as operating practically along the lines of private ownership – even if capitalists are not individually gods of their domain – and commodity production.
That’s more of political system of corporatocracy, and y’know, isn’t actually the definition of capitalism. But yes, if that is how you define capitalism, I oppose that.
what actually transpires in a union is collective bargaining.
But this I disagree with, there was organized individual bargaining- because I don’t believe collectives exist.
You might be surprised to find that the Marxist position is one of supporting what some people refer to as “enlightened self-interest,”
Eh, Marx was not the most collectivist.
rather than psychically subsuming yourself to the collective at your own expense and with no benefit.
I’m glad we agree, but this is what some real people actually advocate.
That’s part of why I think the “individualist/collectivist” framework is silly
To me it is less about beliefs on individual matters, and instead about priorities. The most extreme individualist believes that only individual people exist and they’re the only thing that matters, the most extreme collectivist believes that there is no such thing as an individual person outside a collective- and only collectives or a specific collective matters. I agree there are very few people of that extreme a collectivist stance, but they do exist, a lot of chronically online “race realists” are like that.
You know that capitalism is named after capital, right? Yeoman subsistence is not capitalism, there is no commodity production, no vector for capital.
Capital can be anything that is used for labor of a good, even if the good and the capital are both produced by an individual themselves. Though I do disagree with the classical definition where “means of production” and “capital” are the same thing, because I would say the modern definition of capitalism requires private control of the means of production- and would include labor in the means of production.
what capitalism has actually done all over the world is create those classes and make production increasingly centralized and socialized
Already discussed our different definition of capitalism so I won’t repeat it here.
We might imagine it otherwise, but we have no reason to believe that it is particularly capable of behaving differently, much less ever will.
This is where I will disagree, the internet being the closest to a capitalist economy out of to my knowledge anything that’s ever existed- though still far from being entirely capitalist- is one of the most fractured and easily “disrupt-able”(I hate techbro words) markets- and that’s despite the excessive state intervention fighting to build monopolies through intellectual property law and massive contract awards.
is some bizarre joke invented by economists and their ilk.
I support your animosity towards economists(at least most of them).
I personally think that has about as much of a claim to the title of “ideological capitalist” too, as compared to someone who just wants the world to run on private ownership, because we call those “libertarians” already (or, if you insist, “ancaps”).
Fair, actually my favorite terms are privatist, or voluntarist- they’re the most explicit.
When I look at Hitler running on a platform of eradicating the Jews and the Bolsheviks and capitalists give him money, and then he does what he said he would, how should I interpret that? Should I say those companies were anything less than deliberate benefactors to what he perpetrated?
No my point isn’t that they didn’t work to support it, its that they weren’t the core motivators behind it. Hitler wasn’t fighting to help the companies, the companies just saw that if they were cozy to him he probably would.
If I tell you to get the fuck out of my way I also regulate population but I’m not the state.
Regulate would mean a legal basis to dictate/legislate to.
Note that even your definition says ‘a’, not ‘the’.
You’re going to have to be a bit more specific than that, there are a lot of "a"s
Also, and more importantly, enslaved people are seen as property (and thus also as means of production) instead of population.
Yes, that is how they were seen by some people. And those people were wrong. If I become a tyrant and declare I’m the only real person and everyone else is my property, then seize all their property- is that capitalism? Because 1 person just owns all the property? No, its because the definition of person is wrong. Enslaved people were still people, so they could not be property, even though the law claimed they could be.
The KKK aren’t anti-capitalist. The Nazis aren’t anti-capitalist. The Confederates weren’t anti-capitalist.
Except all of these groups were, although the Nazis were much more explicit about it- that is indisputable so I’ll focus on the others. The Confederacy was simply a plantocracy near oligarchy, not to mention slavery which is incompatible with capitalism(already explained in another comment, but a brief breeze over it- slave masters act as entities of the state by the very nature of them having a monopoly on regulation of other humans). As for the KKK, much of what it and other racist organizations of its era did was try to “protect white jobs”, and lobbied heavily for state intervention to that effect- such as targeting immigrant and black “scabs” and pushing for minimum wages aimed at driving them out- though the KKK also explicitly opposed a lot of unions and other organized labor activities(often because they weren’t white enough or included Catholics). Fundamentally though, the KKK viewed their goals of white-protestant supremacy as greater than an economic system, and were more than happy to destroy private property and private individuals- or use private property when it benefited them. Similar to what the Nazi’s believed- its private profits are okay as long as they are working in the interest of the greater goal, but the second its not they’re more than happy to steal it and kill you. Capitalism doesn’t require private profit from the means of production, it requires private control of it- and if it can be seized if not following exactly what the state wants, that’s not private control.
it is a coherent idea to create collectives within a system that is philosophically oriented around the individual power of property-owners, that’s what labor unions are.
That’s what unions are to some people. To other people unions are a convenient organization of people with similar and/or parallel goals on a specific matter(and not necessarily others) so that by collaborating they can achieve their individual goals.
The unavoidable fact of capitalism is that it relies on pushing most of society into the same general social class (workers, as contrasted with owners; employees vs employers)
No, that’s not true. Capitalism doesn’t ascribe the distribution or organization of labor, just that it is privately controlled. A society of independent agrarian farmers could still be capitalist, or a commune of people who voluntarily donate their labor to each other.
but it’s no less coherent to draw lines of common interest between them, most often something like race or religion that is convenient to capitalists, because the capitalists can say “look, I’m white (or whatever) too, I’m on your side!” even if they truly aren’t because they are only seeking their own profits.
Yeah no doubt, though I think it is a little perverse to use “capitalist” to refer to owners/employers when they themselves are often not ideological capitalists, although it is still a correct use of the word I think it leads to intentional confusion(though not by you, just in general).
The reason, the real motivation, for the racial terrorism I described above despite merely deflecting worker ire, is that by “clear cutting” more space open for your market share by slaughtering competitors, people sitting on land you want, etc., you can gain more room to grow, although this too only lets you grow temporarily until you bump into your new limits, so you need to keep killing inconvenient people to keep growing, and that’s more or less how the Nazis worked, both internally by picking out minority after minority, and externally with their continuous invasions and “lebensraum” and so on.
I don’t think business owners are that generally competent to have orchestrated the total destruction of black and jewish owned businesses, I think the Nazis and KKK were both more than motivated enough to do that themselves, but I agree there definitely were some to supported it when they saw it happening and benefited from it.
It is not sarcastic
Probably forgot an ‘anti’ in there
Yep
but your typo is very right.
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Dumb joke because I was just responding to an insult
Controlling yourself means you have monopoly on force on yourself, meaning you are a state consisting of just yourself? Sounds like a pretty chill state.
It is funny being one of the few somewhat rightwing people on here and getting called a tankie