Seems like the largest criticisms are that the Bloodborne inspiration is a little too obvious/heavy-handed and the usual discourse around soulsbonre difficulty, both of which can very much be positives depending on personal preference. Personally I'm very down for some spiritual successors since Sony hasn't been doing anything with Bloodborne, and the difficulty was perfect for me in the demo (and I have to give them credit for putting out a comprehensive 2+ hour demo, that was a real breath of fresh air). Glad it seems like they pretty much hit the mark on what they were going for.
AClassyGentleman
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Capitalism defines success as profits increasing at an ever-increasing rate. During the height of the pandemic, tech companies tended to fare better than other industries because they were better able to handle the switch to remote work (among other things). This wasn't lost on investors, who smelled money in the water, and went all in on tech. Like, seriously, colossal amounts of money, and they expect returns on those investments. Problem is, we've hit the point where the easy profit sources for these companies have more or less dried up, and now they're having to squeeze whatever they can out. This is why we've seen massive layoffs, quick money making schemes, and things like this that will be disastrous in the long run, but stand to make some short-term profits.
It's a boneheaded move, but when all you care about is pleasing the investors right now, it's the logical way to operate.
Genuinely struggling to tell if the intended moral is: "women smart men dumb," "twinks smart jocks dumb," or "eat slowly or you'll make yourself sick."
10000%. At the end of the day the law is "whatever you can get away with," and the people who make the laws can get away with a lot.
The McCarran International Security Act of 1950 is real, although the part referenced in the movie (that allows for the detention of people suspected of being security risks) was gutted the year this movie was released.
Much of it is still on the books though, and is used to harass left wing organizations. If memory serves, it's the reason citizenship tests still ask if you've ever been part of a communist organization.
Saw this in a local theater a few months back. Definitely well worth the watch. According to Watkins, the actors were picked based off of their political beliefs and ad-libbed much of the dialogue. It's much more slow and dialogue heavy than you might think with this sort of premise, but it has some incredible tension because of that. As one of those evil lefties myself, it was really interesting trying to figure out what political camps people were in and who I would've agreed with most.
Very good recommendation.
I personally joined Socialist Alternative. I think we do good work, lots of focus on movement-based politics, workplace organizing, that sort of thing. It was before I joined, but we won the first $15/hour minimum wage in the US, which I think is a pretty big achievement. Plus we have good, principled stances on the Russian and Chinese ruling classes, (just because the US ruling class is bad does not mean the ruling classes that oppose them are good, or bastions of left-politics) which is unfortunately a pretty divisive issue on the left.
Honestly the realization that capitalism is the root cause of our current systemic evils, and finding a good organization to fight back against it with did me a world of good mentally. Way better than agonizing over every tiny decision I made because I'd been tricked into thinking that climate change was my individual fault and responsibility to fix.
Peach guest staring in Mortal Kombat 3 was one of the most wild crossovers. The fatality with that chain chomp was gruesome.
I feel like rsync may genuinely be one of the best, most slept on tools out there. It even works over ssh.
To be brutally honest, this is fucking peanuts. A jobs training program for a measly 20k people, with nothing to indicate any steps against corporations that are actually responsible for climate change. This should be a slap in the face after (as the article even points out) Biden opened more federal land for drilling.
We need the energy industry to be taken in to public ownership, with direct accountability to the people (not corporate parties), significant investment into climate stabilization and climate change resistant infrastructure, and have workers (who by and large do not want to burn the planet to the ground) take more control over their workplaces. Biden wouldn't dare threaten corporate profits, so we're never going to see anything significant from him.