Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Potato]

Capitalism is shit and we fast approaching the end of it thank god, but inequality and hyerarchization of society didn't start with capitalism and the end of capitalism won't bring and end to it.

Correct, it was the degeneracy of the west that started it much like how Weimar gave birth to the Nazis 
 

Inequality and hyerarchization started with the agricultural revolution +10000 years ago, an really consolidated during the Bronze Age.

There's been much talk about the Vinĉa and the Cucuteni/Trypillia cultures, both considered among the first if not the first european civilizations , dating to 5500 BC, one in present day Serbia and the other in present day Moldova. They have a low level of social stratification and no sign of armed conflicts.

You are correct, there is no sign of armed conflict in Serbia or Transdniestria even though NATO warmongers are trying to create conflict by occupying Moldova and Kosovo
 

Thiese societies have been considered the first communist utopias amongst some authors, the most famous of which was Maria Gimbutas, but lately this interpretation have been falling out of favor. Although nothing is settled in archeology and things are still up for debate, we can consider those civilizations transitional ones.

Only societies were we find true redistribution of wealth is in hunter-gatherer societies, and even i those we can find example of dual models, in which they would switch from a hierarchical to a non-hierarchical form of society depending on food scarcity, weather patterns etc.

So the thing is, how do we evolve towards a more fair societal model in a post agriculture revolution, post-capitalism, globalized world? Noone has the answer to that, and much less economic models from 150y ago.

We know what must be done, we must remove the American imperialists from Europe and Denazify their sattelite states 
 

I'm a proponent of the de-growth movement, but I have zero faith that it will be implemented in the way it should be implemented. Yeah, we will reach the limit of growth, but it's going to.be a rude awakening for all involved, specially and unfortunately for those in developing countries.

So post-capitalism, end of growth world, how it will look like? It will be the end of globalization, much more local economies, local energy sources, end of waste as well and probably less inequality, but not an end of inequality and things can also end up being much worse, all depending in how we handled the transition.

Thats right we will all have our sovereignty back in this new multilateral global order. Everyone will have to rely on their local energy sources and of their historic homeland
   

Noone really knows how things will turn out to be and noone has the answer to capitalism (a realistic answer) for more books that they've read about it.

I don't have any faith in the right (obviously) but I also have little in the left, because I've been part of leftist movements for +30y and I've seen how the destroy themselves from inside, and how they fight each other more than the fight the right. Every. Single. Time.

We know how we'd like things to be, how things should be, but people would be lying if they tell you they know the answer of how to (realistically) get there.

I only tell you the truth and the results are already there. While the west has no growth our economy is steadily growing, providing many well paid jobs to factory workers and trench diggers alike. Our prisons are empty and our people are happy. No left or right wing divide, everyone is working towards a common goal one trench at at time.
  

We have some good theories, yes, goverments in the world should come out and say let's start by growing a bit less every year, going from growth to no-growth to de-growth in a transitional period and do a soft landing of the global economies, which in turn would solve the climate change issues...but how likely is that to happen?

You don't think they don't know that's what should be done, yet there's zero chance of that happening? And what are the chances of a societal revolution forcing them to adopt those changes? Also zero.

Such revolutions have to be forced at times with the steady hand of a great leader like Alexander the Great, Peter the Great or Catharina the Great 
 

So yeah, we're probably going to crash, let's hope we don't crash and burn like so many civilizations before us, maybe with enough proselytizing we can crash-land into safety and a better world all around.

We're certainly better prepared and more aware of the issues than ever before, so let's try to finish in a positive note.

Yes you will crash but to end on a positive note our friendly Little Green Men will be there to help you pick up the pieces please do not disturb them while they carry out this important work for our mutual interests.

These fucking idiots really believe this shit, don't they?

[Snoopy]

Nep can posture as much as she likes but we all know not a day goes past when she doesn't think about Cerium's millions. Rent free in her head for the rest of her life.

[Nintex]

We don't know what a revolutionary post-capitalist world looks like but what we do know from history is that folks like Thorrgal won't be there to see it. 

Well maybe behind a big beautiful fence or dangling from a rope if they are lucky. Such is the price of progress.

[cRumB]

I'm not wasting my holidays on this shit.

[Propagandhim]

Why doesn't Nepenthe start by socializing the decision-making and moderation on Resetera?  Why not allow a collective moderation system?  Why go straight to "degrowth" for world markets?  Start small, and test out your theories on the elements you can control and practice what you preach in your own little ecosystem - This seems like a no-brainer?

[Propagandhim]

I'm a proponent of the de-growth movement, but I have zero faith that it will be implemented in the way it should be implemented. Yeah, we will reach the limit of growth, but it's going to.be a rude awakening for all involved, specially and unfortunately for those in developing countries.

We know how we'd like things to be, how things should be, but people would be lying if they tell you they know the answer of how to (realistically) get there.

We have some good theories, yes, goverments in the world should come out and say let's start by growing a bit less every year, going from growth to no-growth to de-growth in a transitional period and do a soft landing of the global economies, which in turn would solve the climate change issues...but how likely is that to happen?

You don't think they don't know that's what should be done, yet there's zero chance of that happening? And what are the chances of a societal revolution forcing them to adopt those changes? Also zero.

You people work in grocery stores.  What is this "should" business?  I have a 7 year old nephew that wouldn't ask for your opinion on how to accomplish anything or any normative oughts about a world model.  Get fucking real.


 

Inequality and hyerarchization started with the agricultural revolution +10000 years ago, an really consolidated during the Bronze Age.

There's been much talk about the Vinĉa and the Cucuteni/Trypillia cultures, both considered among the first if not the first european civilizations , dating to 5500 BC, one in present day Serbia and the other in present day Moldova. They have a low level of social stratification and no sign of armed conflicts.

And yet the Bronze Age of Mycenaean Greece was more a functioning and productive society than any communist shithole in the past 100 years.

[Propagandhim]

im pretty sure that pre-capitalist empires had kings/tsars/top priests/supreme rulers/whatever at the top, how is this different from having a boss and a government above you, except for the ability to choose your career?

if everything is reset, how do you fairly assign people to jobs? i would like to have a cosy office job rather than work in a field harvesting food, but why would i be able to?

if i want to spend all my days creating a video game that no one will ever play, how is that fair to the dude in the field collecting food?

i do want to make clear that rich people can obviously fuck off. no one needs a hundred yachts, private jets and a vault with golden coins. but i dont see how this capitalism as an ultimate threat works, seeing that we have had some communist countries crash and burn spectacularly

Strange how most of the people arguing for this particular division of labor work in creative, office, and other jobs that don't involve laboring in the hot sun all day, shoveling shit or piss, etc. Sounds good, as long as you don't get reassigned. Oh, don't like your job? No carrots for you. Signed, the one who is more equal than the others.

 

Also, strange how the people that want to take over, manage, and control your labor are the ones that couldn't take a lick of effort to take ownership of their own lives and labor and acquire skills to increase the value of it.  What a crazy coincidence that the people that want to take away your freedom are the ones that did nothing with theirs.

[Pwnz]

Nep can posture as much as she likes but we all know not a day goes past when she doesn't think about Cerium's millions. Rent free in her head for the rest of her life.

See, that's different because it's used to buy goods, services, and entertainment. Not charity. Using capital for charity bad. Buying thousands of dollars of high end computing equipment and drinking lattes from beans harvested by children good.  From land to sea just decolonizing. Some Twitter opinion about trans people genocide.

Making sense yet?

I'm so tired

[Pwnz]

Lol the utopian economic beliefs she just responded with.

There's like one communist game, Tetris. And the dude moved to the US.

People do what's in their best interests and that's the undeniable strength of capitalism in that or allows the agency of the individual to weigh value.

All the shit they hate about capitalism is happen in China and Russia but worse.

The solution is better regulations so for example Texas state stops embezzling money for bribes and kickbacks for companies and instead lower taxes and allocate more to schools and roads.

If people aren't rewarded for innovation and hard work, they're going to continue to weight value and cost in decisions and it's going to be "well, if I'm not paid more I might as well as prioritize time with my kids and fucking off."

Have any of the few posters that escaped communism in Eastern Europe chimed in? Probably already banned anyone speaking from exp how shit it is.

[kaleidoscopium]

It was revealed at one point that Cerium paid certain mods in “gifts”, if I recall royalan was one of them and got their degree paid for by him. Slayven was homeless and they got him an apartment with the funds. Stuff like that. Don’t think nepenthe was on the receiving end of anything 😂

[Uncle]

Lol the utopian economic beliefs she just responded with.

There's like one communist game, Tetris. And the dude moved to the US.

"oh that's because the US intentionally crippled russia's economy so they were more focused on survival than entering a burgeoning entertainment market and blah blah pee pee poo poo"

[Pwnz]

It's an ego thing which is why it's a bad idea not to pay or simply reduce the level of moderation.

It attract always online people that want to push their views instead of moderating with humility.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rebirth-director-comments-on-the-pronunciation-of-cait-sith.798264/?post=116700252#post-116700252

User banned (2 weeks): Dismissive commentary

There's no way i'm calling something spelled "Cait Sith" Cat Shee. If they wanted it to be pronounced this way, they should have spelt it differently.

[Pwnz]

Lol the utopian economic beliefs she just responded with.

There's like one communist game, Tetris. And the dude moved to the US.

"oh that's because the US intentionally crippled russia's economy so they were more focused on survival than entering a burgeoning entertainment market and blah blah pee pee poo poo"

Spoiler: they ran out of the brain dump of WW2 German scientists.

[Pwnz]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rebirth-director-comments-on-the-pronunciation-of-cait-sith.798264/?post=116700252#post-116700252

User banned (2 weeks): Dismissive commentary

There's no way i'm calling something spelled "Cait Sith" Cat Shee. If they wanted it to be pronounced this way, they should have spelt it differently.

What frivolous moderation ROFL.

[Bootsthecat]

Why doesn't Nepenthe start by socializing the decision-making and moderation on Resetera?  Why not allow a collective moderation system?  Why go straight to "degrowth" for world markets?  Start small, and test out your theories on the elements you can control and practice what you preach in your own little ecosystem - This seems like a no-brainer?

Why would any of them look for practical solutions to anything they despise? Resetera is a sounding board for people that hate themselves to vent, right? That's it. So, depriving them of that goal of hate fuel is silly.

It's about creating unsolvable problems, not solving anything

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Hachikoma is still banned. Maybe they upped it because she was shit talking moderation on Twitter.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-149?post=113882372#post-113882372

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rebirth-director-comments-on-the-pronunciation-of-cait-sith.798264/?post=116700252#post-116700252

User banned (2 weeks): Dismissive commentary

There's no way i'm calling something spelled "Cait Sith" Cat Shee. If they wanted it to be pronounced this way, they should have spelt it differently.

Dismissing... Pronunciation? Da fuck

Mods about to ban people for saying gif and not jif?

[Uncle]

it's another one of those multiple degrees of separation sins

saying ching chong bing bong is horrifically racist against asians -> disliking any "weird languages/pronunciation" belies a similar racist attitude -> cait sith is scottish language and mythology and if you didn't know that, that just shows even more of your bigoted ignorance -> it's wrong to think its original pronunciation sounds stupid

[Besticus Maximus]

Irish is white people language kids

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aquaman-and-the-lost-kingdom-review-thread.797772/page-5?post=116723988#post-116723988

I know everyone is entitled to their opinion, but all the "it wasn't that bad, I Had Fun, critics were harsh" takes on the DC subreddit are cracking me up.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-marvels-ot-furys-angels.780227/page-25?post=116824653#post-116824653

this. Like I fell into the hate hype and regret not going sooner. It's better than most mcu movies from this face and the most fun one up with iron man 1 and ragnarok for me. It's disgusting how much I don't agree with the reviews

 

[HaughtyFrank]

The VN part is described as "emotional", but then it just has sexual innuendos and perverted talk.

I feel it is just too far gone in that regards and that makes me sad that this kind of game is so sucessful.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-the-success-of-the-gacha-game-nikke-nsfw-nsfl.799161/

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/facing-a-dilemma-play-baldur’s-gate-3-now-or-wait.799050/?post=116811138#post-116811138

Waiting until kids are older so can have 100 hours free to play this game. So in like 2 years haha

I’m terrified of Wife Buyer with even more time on his hands

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I feel bad for his kids

[BisMarckie]

Capitalism is shit and we fast approaching the end of it thank god

Any day now, Marx had a dream about it so it must be true.

[Boredfrom]

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The VN part is described as "emotional", but then it just has sexual innuendos and perverted talk.

I feel it is just too far gone in that regards and that makes me sad that this kind of game is so sucessful.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-the-success-of-the-gacha-game-nikke-nsfw-nsfl.799161/

The game has decent writing and mechanics. The fan service alone would only carry it so far (even if it contributed it a lot).

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-all-this-about-americans-heating-water-in-the-microwave.799119/page-5?post=116825781#post-116825781

Microwave radiation induces water molecules to heat up and vibrate more and faster to heat up the temperature of the food surrounding it, microwaves are literally invented for moisture. That's why a wet food heats differently in a microwave than a dry food.

signed, your friendly neighborhood engineer

Microwaves were literally invented as an offshoot of radar technology.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mr-beast-gets-100-abandoned-dogs-adopted.798543/page-18?post=116826789#post-116826789\

I mean, if you want me to lock the thread I'd be happy to do so.

B-dubs really needs to yank the collar.

[Besticus Maximus]

She’s taking the absolute piss out of them this month. It’s been bad before but she knows she can do what she wants and is burning it to the ground for no real reason. Very odd that they just let her act the cunt.

[books]

NepNep is quiet quitting.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-all-this-about-americans-heating-water-in-the-microwave.799119/page-5?post=116825781#post-116825781

Microwave radiation induces water molecules to heat up and vibrate more and faster to heat up the temperature of the food surrounding it, microwaves are literally invented for moisture. That's why a wet food heats differently in a microwave than a dry food.

signed, your friendly neighborhood engineer

Microwaves were literally invented as an offshoot of radar technology.

Microwaves weren't invented my dudes.