CatoPosting [comrade/them, he/him] @ CatoPosting @hexbear.net

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The original poster clearly is upset that, when playing as a fascist, the game shits upon him.

I do feel Disco Elysium is quite different, as unlike most games it doesn't glorify your choices. Most games aren't like that though, you can play a human-first fascist-lite in Mass Effect and still save the universe and receive oodles of praise, for instance.

urges

Literally what I'm talking about. I don't feel the urge to be a slaver who treats all women as pack animals, but that's what Caesar's Legion does in New Vegas.

Also, whether or not the id is literally real, it's effective communication to refer to the source of the urges you do admit we feel.

If the shit posts on the walls of Pompeii could become history, why not Hexbear?

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)

Close-quarters combat (CQC) or close-quarters battle (CQB) is a close combat situation between multiple combatants involving ranged (typically firearm-based) or melee combat.

FPS games don't cause school shootings, but I'm willing to bet proportionally more chuds play games like Manhunt, Kane & Lynch, the entire war shooter genre, etc. People look for escapism that conforms to their fantasies. So again, FPS games don't cause school shootings, but if a kid has the teachers and classmates turned into enemies in a video game, maybe be worried a little bit.

In Ocarina of Time, walking out into what was a bustling town to find it ruined and filled with zombies was a real 👀 😨 for me as a kid. Instant raising of the stakes.

Idk bud, sounds like you must have some real darkness lurking around in your head unexamined if your id shows itself by wanting to "play as the bad guy".

I hated game day traffic at my high school, no way in hell am I driving out of a professional stadium.

Cars delenda est

soul

Please define this word for me, because I don't think we think it is the same word.

How about this hot take: We are about more than reproduction. Human society is enriched by having both young and old present, and adulthood doesn't kill your soul, capitalism does.

I've only played 1-6 (gba was my life in high school band), is 8 worth emulating? I tried 7 and just found it quite boring, at least on the big screen. My fave was IV with a soft spot for VI

Really? That's fucked.

Here it is.

I felt like the "Let Johnny have the body" felt right. V already should have died, and she was going to die anyway. Johnny had become far less self-centered and could actually become a positive force in the world some day.

It's the only thing about the whole game that really stuck with me, well besides the crucification quest.

Just wanted to say: Great post! I'm glad you linked it to me in the other thread, and I essentially agree with all of this.

Separate reply: Is there a way to post a reddit link without linking to reddit? Like the nitter link thing for twitter? Because I found the reddit post with links of why I am suspicious of Daryl Davis.

I think I am essentially utilitarian about this. I don't think it is, in general, worth an individual's resources (time, effort, chance of being harmed) to try and rehabilitate a random adherent to hateful ideologies. People less beholden to evil are more attractive targets, and a bullet to a fascist head is a lot quicker.

Likewise though, I don't think it is worth a society's resources to mass execute a large subsection of their population, and so rehabilitation schemes are preferable.

To be honest though, I think most people only fall to fascist beliefs because of the appearance of an open community and the sublimation of their feelings of failure into hatred for some other group. If we ever succeed at crafting a more pro-social society where all have a place and there is a real sense of community, I think the majority of the current fash sympathizers would deradicalize themselves.

Also, on a personal note, I too lost a friend to fascism. He had reactionary views when I first met him, but also seemed to be a deep thinker that wanted a better world. Over time, I thought I had softened many of those views, and had even gotten him to accept the necessity of a universal, not-for-profit healthcare system. However, I could never find the ground to get him to deal with the (honestly pathetic) trauma of having been (supposedly) cheated on by his high school girl friend.

Dude just kept dating girls currently in, or fresh out of, high school. The relationships obviously never worked. Then he started dating a church girl (who was 17 while he was ~30) and they got married when she was like 19. He started telling me of the new found importance of god in his life, how our world was removed (this was before trump so that word held much less YIKES), how porn kept us lonely, the need for nuclear families, etc. I pushed back lightly, but he seemed happy for really the first time.

Then, predictably, they got a divorce as you don't marry a child and think it'll work out. His response: go full hate women MGTOW and fast track the alt-right pipeline to fascism. The last time we talked he was telling me about how helpful he'd found this new guy, Jordan Peterson. I cut ties after he said America's downfall began with women getting the right to vote.

I once considered him like a brother. I now sometimes have nightmares about him killing me or his ex-wife.

Edit: Oh, I had a friend that dated him for a while. She confided in me when we reconnected years later that he had stalked her for years and she had gotten a restraining order and a gun because she was so scared of him. I'd already cut contact at this point, but I also never saw this side of him. We were definitely at our closest while he was also stalking her.

I don't know if it is truly a grift, i.e. that he is doing it for money, but I do know that libs have used him to say: look, we don't need to hate racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, etc. the people that they hate just need to sit down with them and have a conversation and they will magically change. I also remember a person saying that one of his supposed converts was now just affiliated with a different hate group than the Klan, but I can't seem to find that source.

Even if Daryl Davis is legitimate, he has certainly only deradicalized people who were there for the community vs. those who actually have deeply held beliefs that black people are deserving of persecution. Otherwise, there wouldn't be parents who disown their own kids for being gay/trans.

"Anything that can go well, will go well." As the popular lib bumper-sticker around here states