“I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way. Things should be explained to them as fully as possible. I was turned off by a person who did not want to talk to me because I was not important enough. Maurice just wanted to preach to the converted, who already agreed with him. I try to be cordial, because that way you win people over. You cannot win them over by drawing the line of demarcation, saying you are on this side and I am on the other; that shows a lack of consciousness. After the Black Panther Party was formed, I nearly fell into this error. I could not understand why people were blind to what I saw so clearly. Then I realized that their understanding had to be developed.”

― Huey P. Newton :huey-wut:

Huey Newton, born on the 17th of february in 1942, was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (‪1966 - 1982‬). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation. In the 1960s, under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, HIV support groups, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing co-ops, and their own ambulance service.

The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s. Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers. In 1967, he was involved in a shootout which led to the death of the police officer John Frey. Although arrested for the murder of Frey, the charges were eventually dismissed.

In 1970, after his release from prison, Newton received an invitation to visit the People's Republic of China. Newton made the trip in late September 1971 with fellow Panthers, Elaine Brown and Robert Bay, and stayed for 10 days. At every Chinese airport he landed in, Newton was greeted by thousands of people waving copies of the "Little Red Book" and displaying signs that said "we support the Black Panther Party, down with US imperialism" or "we support the American people but the Nixon imperialist regime must be overthrown."

By mid-decade, Newton faced more criminal charges when he was accused of murdering a 17-year-old sex worker and assaulting a tailor. To avoid prosecution, he fled to Cuba in 1974, but returned to the U.S. three years later. The murder case was eventually dismissed after two trials ended with deadlocked juries, while the tailor refused to testify in court in relation to assault charges.

Despite graduating from high school not knowing how to read, he taught himself literacy by reading Plato's Republic and earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program in 1980. In 1989, he was murdered in Oakland, California by Tyrone Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We will have to be driven out with a stick.”

― Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide :huey-wut:

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  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    9 months ago

    The success of Palworld is a testament to gamers being the dumbest simpletons alive and impressed by jingling car keys. A fucking cynical asset flip with about as much depth as Vaush's AI generated loli porn. The "Nintendo hire this man" people were right, you can literally just AI generate some 3D models, slap them between some store-bought Unity assets and gamers will cream themselves.

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      9 months ago

      I watched my friend play the game for a few hours after I heard so many people talking positively about it and good lord, never have I seen a game where the term "slop" applies as perfectly as Palworld. No effort, no soul, absolute drivel. Completely incoherent artistically and narratively, the people who made this game so clearly do not give a single shit, it's baffling. If I played this game I would be embarrassed, because the devs obviously think I'm an idiot for doing so.

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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        9 months ago

        Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the skinner box open world survival mechanics that make a lot of numbers go up can be fun for a while, unironically. Cookie clicker is an addictive game too, after all. I am not above slop, I play a gacha anime waifu simulator game.

        But if anyone seriously tries to tell me this is a good game in any way, I am judging you. I think you're a moron and you would probably clap for AI-generated Marvel movies.

        • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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          9 months ago

          Time to insert an OMORI suggestion here.

          Err...

          Play OMORI!

          (Actually, the good thing about gaming nowadays is that there's a lot of variety and lots to choose from, but it's bad if you have FOMO.)

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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        9 months ago

        People are playing because it's a fad and want to see what the fuss is about.

        • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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          9 months ago

          Tbh I think a lot of the hype comes from people trying to "stick it" to Nintendo, like a girl hooking up with the first dude she meets to make her ex jealous

          • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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            9 months ago

            Tbh, I do see a lot of that, and I've seen it before, especially with the Wii U years.

            Nintendo "deserves it" or "deserves to be taken down a peg." Nintendo fans "need to learn to get along." Nintendo fans are "just jealous" of the success of a Pokémon competitor.

            Talking-points like that.

    • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      someone's mad they didn't think of it first

      palworld is so successful because it scratches all the itches of valheim but without being attacked by a greydwarf every 7 seconds while you're looking for coal (instead it's pokemon, which people like) I am pretty sure it's 100% just that

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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        9 months ago

        someone's mad they didn't think of it first

        mate, it's an open world survival crafting game.

        hey, i get it, it scratches the itch. just like it scratches the itch for me when i get an SSR waifu in my gacha games. it's still dogshit.

          • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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            9 months ago

            i'm mad at this games success, yeah, and i think other games deserve it more

            but accusing me of being mad that i didn't "think of it first" is genuinely insulting, because every new call of duty, hell, every new fifa game has more creativity in it than this mockery of games as an art form

            • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]
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              9 months ago

              another reason it's popular: it has the ability to climb anything like genshin impact does. super cool and I don't have to play a waifu collector

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              9 months ago

              Coming from the time when all games were full price and it was impossible to demo themor even see video footage, learning to recognize when a game is probably trash by screenshots or shill magazine reviews where you gotta read between the lines, this reeked of cheap knockoff garbage the second I saw a picture of it. I can spot a shitty game from 12 feet away or more and this is a shittt game.

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Despite my protestations to the contrary of what you're saying here, I do admire and like seeing people (rightfully) complain about Palworld. @UmbraVivi@hexbear.net

      I mean, the whole trend is just... gross.

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I disagree.

      This is a result of the bourgeoisie, at the end of the day, and the capitalist market itself.

      We'd have Disco Elysium 2 and Palworld would be banned under AES.